No afk alarm.

The only time this would be useful is if you were Afk.

Also for those of you who thinks this has anything to do with going afk whilst cloaked; your an idiot. If your safe up and cloak no one is every going to be in proximity to you. Ever. You guys are crying n00b about this topic, but it is obvious to me, that it is you who are the n00bs.

Noob ? Maybe you moron.
Who talking about game mechanics ? This is crying from an AFK cloaker, who want to hear, when his ship uncloaked, when he not at his computer. Crocodile tears.

Fewer n00bs in topic.

Oh i forgot i killed you, so many times.

But i'm really, noob yes. :P

Not need AFK alarms for noob like you

What legitimate reason do you have for this feature OTHER THAN being afk and/or having your client minimized while cloaked? Go ahead, I can wait. There hasn't been a justifiable reason to have this feature written yet.

It would stand to reason that if you were at your keyboard, you would notice your ship decloaking.

I would support this if it were a visual alert instead of an audible one.
An audible alarm is a poorly disguised buff to afk cloaking.

There's only one.... as far as I'm concerned.

Dual Boxing/Multi Boxing...

But then most could wave that off as well.

Actually that's a pretty good reason. Didn't think of that. I can admit when I'm wrong and this would be one of those times. However this is also a major buff to afk cloakers and for that I can't support this.

Lets get this "It will help afk cloakies" rubbish sorted shall we?

No one really likes AFK cloakies. Even they themselves don't enjoy it. Would an audio notification of cloak failing help them? No, practically never. I hate to have to explain why, but here we go.

If they are truly AFK, the audio wont reach them. That's a pretty obvious one. If they are in a safe spot cloaked, no one will ever get near them, so their cloak will never fail, so no help for them there.

So lets take a situation where it (on the face of things) appears as if it may aid them in their AFKness.

So.. Idiot in a cloak is sitting 50km off a station AFK, because for some reason he thought that would be a good idea. He is alt tabbed and doing something else. His alarm goes off, he hears that he has been uncloaked and so he alt tabs back to his client to save his ship. Alt tabbing takes a while, and he stumbles to find something to warp to on his overview, aligning takes a while too of course, which is too bad because by that time they had blown up his pod some time ago.

I can personally think of no instances where it would help someone who is afk.

Now, a few of you are saying "Who needs it? Its easy to tell when you get uncloaked." If you find it so easy, you have no reason to post here. I know I will just get a load of "your a n00b" comments following my next few sentences, but oh well.

Good PvPers in general have their camera zoomed out to get a good idea of what the battlefield "landscape" is like, so you cant visually see if your cloaked anyway, your ship is too small most of the time. You can watch the cloaking mod, but frankly when im counting hostiles on overview and making sure I've got it right for reporting intel (and that im not too close to anyone), I have more important areas of the screen to look at. Never mind the whole host of situations where plain forgetfulness comes into it.

It should always be perfectly clear, even without looking at the subtle green flashing of that mod, whether your cloak is still intact.

I say again. If you don't have a problem with this, then you have no reason to complain that people might like an audio notification. If your worried about afk cloakies getting benefits, then your.... misinformed (to be polite). If your screaming "Ah, just don't be a n00b and it will be fine", well what if you actually are new? It would be nice for it to be more intuitive.

This is a clunky UI issue, and that is all it is.

Good PvPers in general have their camera zoomed out to get a good idea of what the battlefield "landscape" is like, so you cant visually see if your cloaked anyway, your ship is too small most of the time.

Oh dear god. Are you stupid?

This has NOTHING TO DO WITH AFK CLOAKIES!

I feel like im banging my head against a brick wall here. I see you trolling in every cloaky related thread. If your trying to prove a point, at least try and prove it intelligently. Your just making yourself look bad.

Oh dear god. Are you stupid?

This has NOTHING TO DO WITH AFK CLOAKIES!

I feel like im banging my head against a brick wall here. I see you trolling in every cloaky related thread. If your trying to prove a point, at least try and prove it intelligently. Your just making yourself look bad.

"Dont lie. Everyone see when the ship is not in cloak. That is not truth and just an "Camera zoomed out" alibi.
Everyone see it, when looks at it onto the cloak module. Active cloak module have green flashy effect.

You can watch the cloaking mod, but frankly when im counting hostiles on overview and making sure I've got it right for reporting intel (and that im not too close to anyone), I have more important areas of the screen to look at. Never mind the whole host of situations where plain forgetfulness comes into it.

It should always be perfectly clear, even without looking at the subtle green flashing of that mod, whether your cloak is still intact.

Supported. Cloaking devices should have disadvantages. Interface ambiguity about whether or not a cloaking device is currently functioning shouldn't be amongst those disadvantages.

I agree, somewhat:

Why only for cloaking, what about a sound for the end of session timers like aggression etc. or when your hold is full of ore; for when research is complete.

It would be great to be able to add sound alerts to events - a tool to select the sound and add it to the event would be a fine addition but it should be client side, like your overview setting.

A neat object oriented tool to add sound alerts, but why get so complex?

The game is so broad, you don't want to open the floodgates cluttering the GUI. Simply have an elegant tool with conditionals that filter the events only setting off an alert when the match is found.

Sink this crap idea.
No alarm for AFK cloakers.

You obviously didn't read the thread.

If you did read the thread, then your a drooling, uneducated, borderline-iliterate idiot.

As I should probably say something more constructive than this - Read the thread. It is quite clear that this will never help Afk cloakies. People have explained it enough already, nobody wants to do it again. Try using your brain before putting fingers to keyboard.

You obviously a fcking AFK cloaker f.a.g.
Sink this thread. No alarm for AFK cloaker noob, who can't check his screen.

No alarm for AFK cloaker noob

Agreed. Stop AFK cloaker whines.