Because you could easily know by finding it out yourself. You frame it into something that isn’t the problem. the problem is that, despite other people being able to do it, there are people who claim that they can’t. 98% of the people who want afk cloaking to be gone usually use irrational arguments and appear to be delusional about the actual problem. example: when someone claims that the afk cloaker prevents him from undocking, then that person has bigger problems.
People simply have no ground to stand on. the problem exists in their way of thinking and not in the game itself, and this is proven by those who do not suffer when an afk cloaker is around.
Or, broken down to the fundamental logic:
Each and every afk cloaker is only an unconfirmed threat, until he becomes a confirmed threat. to confirm the threat, you have to get him to do something. being scared about an unconfirmed threat means being scared of an illusion. refusing to attempt to confirm that he is an actual threat is a problem of the player, not the game.
And this stands undefeated and undisputed. 9/10 people who complain about the afk cloaker do so out of the perspective of a victim, which means they have zero base for logical arguments. hell, most aren’t even behaving rationally.
I’ve looked at this extensively and there is a wealth of information on the forums, thanks to people mindlessly posting what’s going on inside of them.
95% of the people who complain about afk cloakers share several of these behavioural traits:
- victim complex.
- inferiority complex.
- lack of a concept of self responsibility.
- the inability to differentiate between game and reality, because
- they mistake their feelings as something outside their responsibility, which leads to
- an inability to understand rational arguments.
- passive aggressive behaviour.
Even your own last paragraph can easily be dismissed as misleading and tangent to the point. a proper response by someone who sums up the logic into the perspective of a mature, self responsible person, would be this short paragraph written from an in-Character perspective:
Why the ■■■■ should you know if he is atk without undocking and figuring it out yourself? Others do it as well! Why do you ask for special treatment? You people already hide behind remote intel, so how about you get wrecked instead of demanding even more protection?!
k. thx. die.
And that sums it up pretty well, I’d say.