Main AFK cloaky thread

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U dun goofed.

S’arite :smiley:

Cool, then i know what to do if i am bored…

Bye bye.

There should be away to delcoak people using special probes. As balance delayed local should be introduced to null and low sec.

Ye gods another person bad at Eve…

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Haha, dream on. Do you really think if the AFK part would vanish that this threads would stop. Ops problem is not that they may be AFK, but that the may actually be at the keyboard.

Even if they remove the possibility to AFK camp there would be another thread within hours after the change with someone still complaining because they have neutrals in their system, now with even more reason to assume they are at the keyboard.

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It solves my issue with it!

All CCP has to do is put an AFK flag on anyone who has not interacted with their client for an hour, and if they do anything with their client like re-run D-scan etc, then the flag is removed. That simple change would make me very happy.

Of course I know that it can be gamed and I would be very happy if people did , because they would be at the keyboard.

The rest of your post is huff and puff, like those people whining about local being too hard…

Wut?

Local isn’t a problem in low sec. No one owns space there.

No afk tag, simply disconnect the client when the afk timer is hit like most other mmos. Won’t afk for long after your ships get left vulnerable in space a few times.

No, there is a good reason why you have to actively log off and be slightly vulnerable in doing so. You would ruin a lot of gameplay with that. The best example is people cloaking up safe in capitals, currently they can be probed down when they try to log, if you are a good prober you can get quite a few sub caps too…

While i love this quote i will point one not very clean suggestion:

Let’s say someone leaves his ship with drones out and set to aggressive. Then he goes AFK.
Me attacking his ship will get all wrath of drones and they kill me (yes, yes, i know).

Result: Me losing ship to AFK player.

So yeah, while this quote is true it needs to be slightly corrected: AFK player can hurt you (conditions apply). Cloaked player cannot.

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Yeah but an afk player can’t scram you, so I have to wonder, if you’re hanging around long enough to get killed by his drones, I have to wonder if the afk player is really responsible for your loss on that one. In fact, I don’t have to wonder at all. He’s not. You just dun goofed.

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Another example if you want: AFK ship with perma-smartbombs put on warpin to gates. Add drag-bubble to be sure.
Capsule warping in gets blown.

Different conditions, similar result.

And while one can say that it’s up to player to never travel in pod or never warp in straight to gates (use perches) it does not change the fact that it is totally possible to be killed by AFK player.

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Classic Dracvlad, whines about cloaky camping and then projects the tears in his eyes onto other people.

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I’m gonna be honest, I see the local issue as debatable, as there are good points on both sides. AFK cloaking, no, it’s not a problem for anyone but people who just don’t know how to deal with it, and don’t want to learn. I think people who belittle either one side or the other of a fairly debatable issue, though, without discussion, really only show their own true colours as a result.

For the record, I’m entirely w/h style local in non-empire space. What is local, anyway? I’ve never read any of the lore on it, only justified it to myself as basically the equivalent of an internet chat room in space, but someone has to provide the service, so why not the empires? And where the empires have no control… no local chat room in space.

The huff and puff I refer to was classic Ima Wreckyou, whining about people whining, you are in fact an even bigger whine merchant…

And people complaining about local will use any AFK cloaky camping thread to whine about local and their inability to be good at Eve. If it upsets you then don’t read it. :stuck_out_tongue:

But then again I am whining about people whining about local to try to disicredit a whine about afk cloaky camping, and you whine about that, this is fun!!!

im pretty sure theres plenty enough context to imply that we’re talking about a cloaked player which
(im sure you know but im saying it for the people in the cheap seats)
cannot connect to drones and are thus toothless.

Im not about to go amending the quote, its brilliant as is and we should all give thanks for Paikis for besting it upon us.

Well… There is some blah-blah about CONCORD maintaining gates and managing list of pilots in every system.
Questions about ā€œwhy i’m in local when i entered system through WHā€ are not answered for what i know. People mentioned some kind of ship computer broadcasts…

It’s basically the same questionable stuff like sovereignty bills, NPC bounties in 0.0, etc…
What about Interbus Customs Offices in WH tho? :ok_hand:
It was always funny for me that Interbus traveled all around cluster (including uncharted space - WH systems) and set up their Customs Offices everywhere for players pleasure.

Easily defeated by any hotkey background app capable of hitting d-scan for you every minute while you are AFK.

I could be at work all day and you’d think I was at the keyboard because the AFK flag never popped up by my name due to the d-scan being used every minute or so.