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Ingvar Angst
Amarr Omni Industrial Coalition
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Posted - 2011.03.21 14:09:00 -
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You know... there's a very simple real life analogy to this... hunting blinds. Hunters will set up a blind well outside of hunting season. Why? To get the local prey species used to it. They get used to it, they don't fear it. Meanwhile, for months even at a time, the hunter is "afk" (afb?) from the blind.
You are slowly letting yourselves get set up for the kills, it's that simple. If you fail to be smarter or to maintain your paranoia, don't blame the patient hunter that outsmarted you. Just collect your insurance, fit a new ship and bask in the warm glow of the lesson learned from your mistakes.
Now... if it's screwing up your botting, well too effing bad. Rewrite your bot to not warp off if someone is in local.
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Ingvar Angst
Amarr Omni Industrial Coalition
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Posted - 2011.03.21 14:18:00 -
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Originally by: Rubet Gold I too would like a change to AFK Cloaking! I want to AFK Cloak while my Strip miners are running!
I would support this many times over.
Oh yeah. Let this happen. Please. Nothing like big, glowing arrows pointing to where the afk cloaked ship is at...
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Ingvar Angst
Amarr Omni Industrial Coalition
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Posted - 2011.03.21 16:30:00 -
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Originally by: Cipher Jones
Originally by: Tippia
Originally by: Kaedama Katar So let me get this straight...
You guys are complaining because people are, in a sense, nullifying your 100% free threat alert a.k.a. local chat by dedicating an entire account to having a cloak-skilled and covops-fitted character online in the system?
That is exactly what they're doing.
They're very very unhappy that their 100% accurate intel tool has a tiiiiiiiiny counter to it that brings the reliability of that intel down toà ohà 95% or so (just to throw a number out there), and they want a counter to that counter.
Which of course can be increased back up to 100% by simply hitting dscan every 2500ms.
You mean, actually be at the computer?! Then what's the use having the bot in the first place?!
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Ingvar Angst
Amarr Omni Industrial Coalition
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Posted - 2011.03.21 17:44:00 -
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Originally by: Nova Fox
"Sir sonar picked up a ghost, we think its a sub!" "Leave the peir anyways its not going to get us!" 5 minutes later the carrier sank with six torpedoes into her hull.
Option "B"... carrier leaves with anti-submarine escort and all is well.
Stupid captain dead. Smart one vacationing in the Caribbean after the cruise.
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Ingvar Angst
Amarr Omni Industrial Coalition Talocan United
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Posted - 2011.03.22 12:58:00 -
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I wonder if the OP would support cloaked vessels disappearing from Local?
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Ingvar Angst
Amarr Omni Industrial Coalition Talocan United
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Posted - 2011.03.22 17:53:00 -
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Originally by: Ron Livingston First I'll just say that I have no problems with cloaking, afk or otherwise.
but to all the people who do, how about this for a potential change, add an additional mod that makes ships unscanable, and change the current cloak to make ships invisible. Scanning a cloaked ship would warp you to within like 30K or something. So then if you scan you can see what they're flying , if they move when you fly there, you get a chance to uncloak them. and fitting both a cloak and a antiscanner would gimp most ships if they wanted to be AFK the way they are now.
It's not really broken, therefore doesn't really need fixing. The real tears are flowing from people with bots that automatically warp to a station if someone shows up in local. No one cares about them.
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Ingvar Angst
Amarr Omni Industrial Coalition Talocan United
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Posted - 2011.03.22 18:51:00 -
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Originally by: Ron Livingston
Originally by: Ingvar Angst
Originally by: Ron Livingston First I'll just say that I have no problems with cloaking, afk or otherwise.
but to all the people who do, how about this for a potential change, add an additional mod that makes ships unscanable, and change the current cloak to make ships invisible. Scanning a cloaked ship would warp you to within like 30K or something. So then if you scan you can see what they're flying , if they move when you fly there, you get a chance to uncloak them. and fitting both a cloak and a antiscanner would gimp most ships if they wanted to be AFK the way they are now.
It's not really broken, therefore doesn't really need fixing. The real tears are flowing from people with bots that automatically warp to a station if someone shows up in local. No one cares about them.
I didn't say fix, I said change.
The only reason I suggested it is I'm a little afraid that CCP may eventually cave in to these wieners.
Your "change" appears to allow any ship to become unscannable with the mod added and pretty well breaks cloaking. Both ideas are bad and contribute mainly to bots. You should pod yourself for suggesting them.
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Ingvar Angst
Amarr Omni Industrial Coalition Talocan United
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Posted - 2011.03.23 13:08:00 -
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Originally by: Chesty McJubblies
Originally by: mrmooo game working as intended --if op and his corp/alliance cant figure out a counter to this then they should move back to hi sec
I wonder if op alliance/corp actually fought for their system or were given/renting it
The issue is they'd need to set the cloakers blue, which would leave themselves open to ****tage.
So what you're saying is that the afk-cloakers need a system in place where they regularly rotate through the different systems, thus keeping fresh pilots in each system on a regular basis. I like it.
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