Cloaky Camping Recommended Changes

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Into the already overstuffed economy.

There is an argument for putting some fear into Mr Krabbs.

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Itā€™s not about the state of the bucket, itā€™s about adding more to the bucket. Miners do, afk cloakers donā€™t. Unless of course the bucket holds tears, then itā€™s the other way around.

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Or make anomalies spawn where there are no NPC kills and at the same time where its more dangerous to krab.

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Stopping station botting would probably have greater results.

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There have been instances in the past of players developing bots that scan local and use that information to perform a number of functions, like activating an alarm when certain criteria are met (ex: when a certain pilotā€™s name or their affiliation enters local). You could basically leave that alt AFK until the alarm sounds. I would be utterly shocked if such tools werenā€™t still in use.

Of course, one could sit in a station and do the same thing. But cloaky camping allows you to do it in systems where there are no neutral/friendly dockable structures.

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Cloaky camping is like inability to ban and block anyone on those forums, you cant do anything about cloaky camper too. So in a way, people posting about cloaky camping are like cloaky campers themselves. :joy:

Its their sweet revenge.
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Oh agreed though I still say that the harder it gets to prevent enemy mining the worse the market will get.

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I think we have a winner!

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So you want to punish every cloak-user because some of them may or may not be botting? How about people who rely on similar bots to keep themselves safe while ratting? Intel-channels donā€™t update on their own you know.

If you want to attack botters and bottind, go do that, but donā€™t use it as an excuse to nerf cloaks.

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I am #8

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I suggested a cloaky-user need press a button every hour or two. No penalites or timers or any of that other crap people suggest. Just a single button press every couple hours in return for risk-free intimidation or scouting. Do you seriously consider that to be a punishment?

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Awww, I donā€™t care what this thread is about anymoreā€¦

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That IS a penalty.

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Welpā€¦if weā€™ve gotten to the point where the idea of pressing a button every few hours to maintain risk-free gameplay is anathema to campers, Iā€™m gonna have to say that Iā€™ve lost all sympathy. Thatā€™s pretty weak.

Ah well. Itā€™s not a gameplay style that I indulge in and itā€™s never really affected me, so thatā€™s all Iā€™ll say on the matter. I donā€™t have enough skin in the game to have a strong opinion against or in favor of maintaining the current mechanics.

Iā€™m actually kind of shocked that this thread hasnā€™t been locked yet for redundancy.

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I need a fox one, stat! :slight_smile:

ā€“:fox_face: Gadget :fox_face:

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Punishment or not, anything like that could be easily botted. Or heck, tape the return key down may circumvent this if not done right.

It would really have to be a random key press, with a popup that shifts location, and a warning timer with either a snooze or early entry to prevent botting and not interupt at a bad time.

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Thatā€™s a very good point. This espresso apparently hasnā€™t hit my bloodstream yet.

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Please keep all comments and suggestions on AFK cloaking to the main AFK cloaking thread:

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