Cloaky Camping on Multiple Accounts

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I use my alts to afk cloak just to mess with the botters and ratters, You know the ones who want to make billions with 0 risk :stuck_out_tongue:
Its actually quite fun to watch so many ratters dock up and hide instead of coming to fight. Its a 2 way street :rofl:

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Itā€™s a condition called Pixel Fear, and everyone in nullsec suffers from a terminal case of itā€¦

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Scared to death of the possibility of PvP in a PvP gameā€¦

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You know that a blops fleet can be counterdropped, right? A blops drop is not a one-way, dead-end street (like your alliance), but I guess this logic is lost to most null sec carebears that are afraid of a cloaked ship.

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On a max skill character, a single pass of combat probes is about 4.5 seconds. Assuming the target requires no align time, only half a second of time is left to warp to target and engage.

Superficially, Botters and the use of a macro easily defeat this mechanic.

Because nothing was done about it?

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The real tears start to flow when they do probe you down, but they still canā€™t warp to you because youā€™re sitting inside the sun, lol. Love doing thatā€¦

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Sounds like exploiting a flaw of the game to me?

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How is a limitation of the game engine an exploit? Anyone can fly inside of the sun or any other orbital body anywhere in the game. This has been possible since day oneā€¦

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While it has been possible for a long time, CCP messed up when they recently changed the game for it to be impossible to warp to those locations, but still allow players to fly there.

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Itā€™s not some sort of obvious misuse of obtuse game mechanics. Meaning that as long as CCP doesnā€™t state it to be an exploit, it isnā€™t one.

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Oh I agree.

I just think CCP should fix it already. If players cannot warp into planets and suns they shouldnā€™t be able to fly there either.

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Thatā€™s a valid stance. Personally Iā€™d say that CCP should just improve the whole planet/sun/moon situation to be less silly, but that would probably put it at the back of the queueā€¦ somewhere 2029.

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Like I said, itā€™s a limitation of the game engine. The sun and planets arenā€™t physically there. They are hollow spheres. What are they going to do? Put a ten million kilometer invisible hitbox around them?

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Yes?

Sounds like an easy fix.

They could add a nice ā€˜your ship crashed onto a planet/sunā€™ killmail too.

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Doubt it. Players have been whining about bumping for 20 years and thereā€™s nothing they can do about that eitherā€¦

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Bumping is a lot harder to fix without causing other gameplay issues than it is to make the interior of celestials off-limits.

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You still donā€™t quite seem to get the fact that this has been a thing for 22 years now. Itā€™s not gonna happenā€¦

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You didnā€™t realize that it only happened in the last couple of years that CCP made the interior of celestials un-warpable. Theyā€™ve made changes to the 22 years old engine and they too can make new changes to how celestials work.

I remember my newbie days, I made so many fun bookmarks in and next to planets that I could warp to.

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Yes and it took them 20 years to do that. I wouldnā€™t hold my breath if I were youā€¦

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I know itā€™s a minor change, doesnā€™t impact many players and thus unlikely to be fixed. But unlike you I do think itā€™s an easy straightforward fix.