Can I like an idea just based on the amount of screaming it would generate?
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I’ll vote for you if push this idea all the way to tranquility. And agitate others to do same.
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If I had to guess one reason for a deployable vs ship/module is to be able to restrict where it is used. I can applaud their attempt to fix this issue without breaking areas like WH space where cloaking works like I personally think it should.
Going back to when I started EVE over 10 years ago, I still remember the excitement that there were cloaking modules. I also remember after finally training them and using it the first time. I literally was like “wtf how is this covert if my name is still in local chat?”
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You’ll like every game-destroying idea, your ideas have broke the game on a number of occasions too, can you make us all a favor, leave, and never come back, please?
Bots will be bots.
You do not fight bots with gameplay mechanics, you report them and let CCP deal with them.
These Mobile Observatories are not aimed to combat bots, they’re to combat AFK regular players.
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Nope. Even if not elected I tend to stay.
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Could you maybe break up your ■■■■ talking in to smaller bites? You aren’t contractually obligated to reply to every post in a thread and definitely not in one massive catch all reply.
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Corrected.
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If you think mobile observatories are intended to catch active cloaked players, you are mistaken.
How does it feel, as a defender of the afk campers, to see such an item introduced?
My opionion might not matter much becuase I just unsubscribed my accounts due to the nullification patch going live, but do these things really need to ping the entire system? How about just the grid you are on?
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They would need to fix the grid first. And whats the point? The afk camper wont be on ur grid ever.
I’ve never been worried about AFK campers, they are AFK… what do I care. If they aren’t ever on my grid and AFK … I just don’t care. But then I come from wormholes where if you are ratting you baiting. Having said that, there are times when I’ve been in null and need to stay cloaked in hostile territory for a while.
If they were only to catch afk players they wouldn’t decloak active players or force them to warp off and recloak. Any input would suffice and the person wouldn’t decloak whatsoever.
But as you can see, active players must jump through hoops and have their play style ruined.
If we supposedly don’t code around bots then there is no need to ever decloak an active player. It’s so easy for CCP to keep active players immune but instead they force active players to warp off decloak and recloak. Meanwhile the bots can still afk cloak to their hearts content at a deep safe.
This update is bad and only affects active players. CCP csm etc saying otherwise is just them trying to sugar coat trash.
On top of that there is the free Intel of local with its only counter now removed.
So how do I feel? Sure afk cloaking is bad but so is the reason for afk cloaking: local. They need to fix both at the same time. I feel this game is going in the wrong direction. This is not the EVE I signed up for. If they profit from more krabs flooding the game then good for them and their corporate bottom line but that doesn’t mean I have to spend time or money on a product that has deviated from something I desire.
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I still remember that time when bot software of the cloaky camper that camped goons failed, and they had a field day squashing his bomber chars, they all logged in, and none went cloak.
Except ofc they all sat on POCO grids, as it turns out. Bot campers are too lazy to make safes.
Then send a carrier to whatever hole the gank came from, close it, and back to “baiting”. Wormholes are just way too safe…
Chill, miner.
This is not 2016 when krabs were “flooding the game”. Current krab cannot rat due to DBS and MESS, cannot mine because there’s nothing to mine in nullsec atm, and also overfarmed by ganktards because of how easy it is to hunt.
Krabs are effectively dead. Only bots do ratting nowadays, and nullsec mining is non-existent. We’re below blackout on indy numbers, and period average for logins is almost at 2006 values. There are no krabs anymore.
Though I bet that eve without krabs is indeed not the eve you signed up for…
sounds legit or why should they be risk imune?
Before observatory: report afk cloaker & CCP laughs at you.
With observatory: report botting cloaker and (if they actually are) CCP bans them.
Sounds like an improvement to me.
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You fail to understand how easy it is to make a macro thats undetectable
This is spot on
The nature of the game has changed over the years to maximise subscriptions. Older players from playstyles that have been nerfed out of existence just can’t identify with the game any longer. It feels like CCP are daring those players to conform or quit
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You’re talking 2013. Since then CCP did pretty much everything to deincentivize subscription, starting with the mother of all stupid things, the blackout.
They should just skip ahead to the part where the only pvp that takes place is in the proving grounds
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