That is just plain unnecessary ■■■■ slinging. Why can’t you stop that?
A “timer” is not “an idea”. Its a CATEGORY of ideas, under which a million very different ideas could exist. If you are going to dismiss all ideas the second you learn its a “timer” type or other type that has been discussed and then keep saying things like “all the bad ideas that have been suggested and note that your idea is…one of them.” then you really ought to just leave the idea section and go be abusive someplace else.
Anyway, like it or not, giving a timer type idea a name such a ECS is an idea and its an original one. Even the package an idea comes in can be vital to its implementation. If you don’t believe me try giving all your Christmas presents in beat up old shoe boxes and see if you get less joy out of your gift giving than last year or not.
Giving something a unique name does not make it unique or new. Fundamentally when you get down to the base mechanics of the idea you have a timer, plain and simple. Eagles, crows, robins and sparrows are all unique, but ultimately they are all birds. A timer is a timer, and as a category of ideas the pros and cons have been thoroughly debated
Seems that CCP, on its compromise to incentivize a more attentive player experience that relies less on low or no attention gameplay, will be adressing the long-time postponed issue of the AFK cloakcamping soon.
Neither do I, its from reddit, it may be false but… That´s why I put “Seems”
Well, it would be something. If the camper depletes its “cloak fuel” then he needs to go out for more, or to have a friend bringing him more. Those are chances for hunting him down. Possibly that´s enough, I don´t think anyone ( in its mind ) wants to just “cancel” cloakcamping.
Adding a need to pay attention from time to time, to move, and to change system, opens a window to a counter that it really doesn´t exists now.
From what I can tell it’s from the “Fireside Chat” I’ve seen advertised when starting up Eve. The screenshot is posted on Reddit like @Pith_Hurdaa said. Fun discussion over there. Here are some of my faves:
“Or only put a fuel cost on a ship that has a cyno and a cloak fit.”
“Huh. They also mentioned cyno changes early next year”
“The thing nullblobs are really crying about isn’t really the cloaker, anyway, it’s the black ops hot drop. The correct thing to nerf here is not the cloak but the cyno/cloak combo, for example by adding a decloak delay before you can use a cyno.”
“Please god… let it use salt blocks…that are ground from corpses.”
“Out of all the problems in this game this is the very least worrisome, the fact this is getting any attention at all is hilarious. The era of whining is indeed in full flight.”
“Also, if you keep a ship docked for too long the structure will spit it out into space”
“if you make it so that cloaks require fuel it’ll just shift the meta to camping in a hauler to get max fuel (and you can still indy cyno in), it’s a dumb gimmick change and i hope CCP doesn’t take inspiration from you guys”
“The obvious fix is to remove skill extracting, cloaky camping only came a problem when the accounts became free to maintain”
Generally not the same individuals. People in null don’t all have just one mind, but in general the ones that whine about cloaky camping are the AFK ratters and botters, especially those who want ISK to RMT.
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