EVE Search - Nerf AFK cloakers

Hans Momaki wrote:

Mag's wrote:

Hans Momaki wrote:

Tippia wrote:

Generating false intel is not a reward, and either way, being AFK is unrelated to both.

Sorry, but erm.... AFK - cloaking is used as a strategic tool. It's generating a potential harm to dwellers in their system, which means in return, they lose their earned safety, and have to draw resources (i.e. manpower) from making money to defend against a "might be a cyno" to be safe again.

It wouldn't be a problem if a player got flagged afk, but at the moment, you can't spot a difference between afk or not, which means that you either have to stop your activity (especially as a miner) or you have to use your manpower to protect your system (which means you can't make money in the meantime). Due to this circumstances, the so called AFK-Cloaking is a threat you can do **** about.

Hope this helps understanding this issue.

Yes it's a tool, but here's the rub. Local intel is a guarantee, whereas the psychological effects from AFKing are not. Because for the effect to work, the persons the AFKer hopes to affect, need to act upon their fears.

Also cynos are unrelated, even though people like yourself try to include them in an AFK debate. If you have an issue with the cyno mechanic, then start a thread about it.

Hope that helps you understand this none issue.

Well, I will say it in the most dumb words I can find.

The moment you are invading hostile space, you do have an impact on system dwellers. It just doesn't matter if YOU ARE AFK after invading it, or IF YOU ARE NOT AFK, just because noone CAN MAKE SURE YOU ARE AFK for REAL.

ppl sitting afk the whole day shouldn't have influence on it.
AFK-cloaking is a tool, which is exploited over and over. Stop it. period.