Main AFK cloaky thread

Only if you never decloak to attack, in which case there is zero reward and risk vs. reward is balanced. If you want to accomplish anything (other than forcing RMT bots to dock) you have to decloak and accept the normal risks of PvP.

This is not a valid point so a single person with multiple accounts can shut down a whole region .

Only against RMT botters and renter trash.

Against competent players a single AFK cloaker can do nothing. The competent players are farming in groups of PvP-capable ships and any attempt by the lone AFK cloaker to do anything to attack them results in the farmers pressing F1 and getting a killmail. And should the AFK cloaker be dumb enough to cyno in more lossmails the farmers have their own capitals on standby for a counter-drop and free capital kills. The AFK cloaker is either ignored and useless or providing the useful service of bringing killmails to an alliance’s home system and saving them the effort of having to go out roaming to get killmails.

Against RMT botters and renter trash with the collective ability of a RMT bot AFK cloakers are effective. RMTers and renter trash fly PvE-only ships, have zero ability to fight in PvP, and refuse to group up into an effective defense because anything but solo farming is producing less ISK per hour. Their only possible defense is to stay docked at any time a non-blue name is in local. And yet they feel entitled to the theoretical maximum ISK/hour their rented system can produce, because they have leveled up their Ravens enough to beat the NPCs. The fact that EVE is a PvP game is terrifying and rage-inducing to them, all PvP threats must be removed and local must provide a 100%-accurate ability to opt out of PvP by docking.

The question now is why you want to introduce gameplay changes that have no effect on competent players and only provide more safety for RMT botters. Are you a RMT botter yourself, or do you just fail to understand the effects of your changes?

As 1 you can’t make isk in the game at this point so the only way to replace ships is to by plex and spend money .

No, you can’t make ISK. The rest of us can make plenty of it.

And do you honestly not see how your theory is obviously wrong? If there is no ability to make ISK then how are people able to afford to buy the PLEX you RMTed? Where is the PLEX buyer’s ISK coming from? Clearly some people are able to make lots of ISK, even if you can’t.

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