Cloak vs detection

Cloaking is used, among other things, by players to step away from their keyboard when they are deep in hostile space. If they cannot be sure that they are safe, it kinda makes the module pretty worthless for this function.

How can you go for a bio-break while scouting your wormhole chain if someone can probe you out while you are away? How can you disrupt the PvE grinding of your opponent in nullsec if they can probe you out while you are AFK cloaking them to clear local so they are 100% safe? You can’t.

But it is your turn to explain. I see no reason why taking the ability of people to step away from their keyboard is a good idea. Someone shouldn’t be able to force me to undock. Someone shouldn’t be able to force me to login. So why should someone be able to force me to uncloak if I am not interacting with the greater universe? How is the game better for you to have the ability to pull someone who is AFK back into the universe so you can explode them at no risk? They can hurt you, nor are they influencing the shared universe in any way, and as soon as they try, they are vulnerable again. Just shoot them then.

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