POBs near mining fields

[Jack_Henderson]

If I'm not mistaken, the range for "pvp dead" when docking is within 15k of a hostile, so the miner is harming himself as well. All the pirate has to do is say 1 or 2 lines of RP while between 10k and 15k range and BAM the miner cant work for 2 hours.

Also any ship with a cloak and easily sneak right up on a miner and bam the miner is screwed anyway, no chance of docking.

You are mistaken.
An attack only happens when your shield is dropped.

At 9k (when the miner docks), it is pretty hard to drop shields to half.
Doing a demand at long range is not an attack.
You are not pvp dead from that.

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Cloaks should not be mandatory to be able to do piracy.
There are hardly any pirates on the server any more already, and making it really costly and even harder by suggesting "just get cloaks" is definitely not the way to get back an interesting enviroment of challenges and interaction.