Main AFK cloaky thread

And here again is the fallacy in your risk vs. reward nonsense. You’re only counting the stealth bomber on the gankers side despite them actually fielding billions of isk worth of ships. They’re probably putting more isk than you on the field. The stealth bomber isn’t ganking you solo and doesn’t represent the risk to the other side.

The problem is with them and their expectations and lack of willingness to engage. A complaint does not and never will legitimise itself. Get your of here with your argumentum ad populam nonsense.

No it’s not a question of if there’s an issue. The issue here is that you haven’t blown up the blops fleet despite having every opportunity to do so.

The issue here is you, not the game mechanic, which is easily countered.

A single AFK account is no threat. It is inactive. Unless somehow you think a single afk player can scan, position a cyno and simultaneously pilot an entire fleet.

Also how can you possibly suggest that using the exact same tactic as the enemy represents a disproportionate response? It’s a wholly equal response. But of course you’re selectively excluding the risk that doesn’t fit your dishonest narrative.

The enemy are almost certainly fielding more isk than you. The risk is in your favour. You’re selectively discounting the ships that actually do the ganking. Which you can destroy.

Yeah you might have to have a response fleet on standby. Just like every other defence fleet in the game. However a single defence fleet can effectively cover dozens of star systems and can be alts.

If you can’t defend your space it’s not your space. If your argument is that you can’t cooperate with other people to form a standing defence then guess what?

That’s got nothing to do with cloaky camping. You don’t control your own space. It’s not yours. You don’t deserve to be safe in it.

And that’s what this boils down to. You aren’t defending your space you’re just docking up. Local allows you to dock up in plenty of time when a roam is in the area. Cloaky campers bypass your early warning system and make you too scared to rat. But they are still only successful because you choose not to defend yourself. The cost of maintaining a standing fleet is the cost of operating in nullsec. Suck it up or go back to high sec.

Only because you’re dishonestly representing the risk on one side. The argument is wholly valid. You can meet that blops fleet in space. You choose not to. They’re only risk free flying the most expensive subcaps in the game because you choose not to defend your space.

Which we’ve established you’re misrepresenting by suggesting only the camping ship counts, and not the billion isk battleship and fleet that actually conduct the combat.

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