Paikis wrote:
This thread comes up on almost a weekly basis. In fact, Iād be surprised if there wasnāt a nerf cloaking thread in the first 2 pages on this forum section. Almost every single one of them goes like this:
1 - OP posts a post with a new (lol) idea that always boils down to some variation of the following:
āThereās a big meanie who is sitting in my system and not doing anything, but I donāt know where he is and I canāt ever just go next door. I canāt find said meanie and even though I know that heās probably at work and poses no threat at all, I wont do anything in my system that I absolutely canāt leave ever because he might not be at work and I might lose a ship. CCP please stop the meanie from being able to do nothing to me because heās probably at workā
2 - Thread gets trolled because its been done literally to death. This horse has been beaten so hard and so often that itās little more than a memory of a memory of a red smear on the grass, and yet it STILL WONT DIE! In fact itās been done so many times that this particular horse is now undead; even if it does die, it will still be remembered and parodied.
3 - Someone comes along and suggests that AFK cloakers canāt hurt you, because they are, by their very definition, AFK. No one ever lost a ship to someone who ISNāT PLAYING THE GAME.
4 - Someone else comes along and points out that while the cloaker might be AFK, he might not be, and so we have Schrodingerās Hot Dropper. The cyno pilot who might be AFK⦠but he might not be as well, and you will only know for sure when he decloaks, points and lights his candle. (Yes, I know this isnāt how the cat works)
5 - Someone else comes along and suggests that you use bait and setup a TARP. Or have a defence fleet on standby. Heaven forbid you have to actually fight to defend your space.
6 - A further person comes along and suggests that the problem isnāt cloaking AFK in your system that you canāt possibly leave ever, but that you KNOW that the person is AFK in your system⦠and perhaps local should be removed because free 100% accurate intel is probably not the best thing in the game and if you didnāt know that the big meanie was in your system, you wouldnāt be worried about leaving the undock/POS.
7 - Then another person pokes their head in and complains that local is 100% NEEDED because D-Scan and probing are such bad mechanics, and IF YOU TAKE MY LOCAL AWAY IM QUITTING FOREVER AND NO YOU CANāT HAVE MY STUFF!
8 - Someone asks if they can have 7ās stuff.
We end up with another thread which goes on for pages and pages between complains about local, defence fleets, inability to just go next door, people who arenāt playing the game but are playing the meta, lots of bickering and in the end nothing gets solved. CCP wont remove cloaking because it would mess with waaay too many things and it creates content (which is a good thing) by removing content (which is a bad thing) but they canāt really think of any way to do it without a complete overhaul of the local and scanning systems.
Now that Iāve had this entire threadās conversation, can we just let it die? Please?