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I tried new interceptor with warp speed rigs, amazing acceleration and warp indeed.
Make sense that now an interceptor actually can " intercept " enemy few jumps ahead or enter in a system, warp to ice field and have a chance to tackle some bot that auto warp off as soon as neutral eneter in local.


But please consider the result of fitting a cyno


You can easily fit a cyno on a interceptor if you have cyno trained at least at 4 and just 1 expanded cargohold.
Let's take as E. the ares.
With cyno skill @ 4 you need 300 liquid ozone and with 3 inertia stabilizer + 1 cargohold + 2 warp speed rigs and interdiction nullified special role you actually end up with a cyno that can travel 20 jump in few minutes, can't be locked in time, can't be bubbled.
I'm not judging if it's a bad or good idea, but it will drastically change 0.0/low sec projection force.
You could allready force gatecamps with cyno covert ops or covert nullified t3, but the covert op isn't nullified and the t3 it's a ship the require some skills and a bit of isk.
As Rubicon hit we will have low cost, low sp interceptor that will travel over universe map faster then ever.

i agree, this must be looked into a little more, cyno jammers are an okay solution, but you must be able to stop them before they get in a system. I see this as a very easy way to infiltrate without any risk. With a t3 you risk 400-500mil + skill points, with a ceptor, a few milions and no skills, true that you can't hot drop with cov ops cyno but still a bit unbalanced in my opinion.

I'm curious of the effects of this on live servers if it won't be changed untill then.

So I guess people will have to learn to react quickly and scramble their own defense fleets in matter of seconds instead of hours.

Lol idiot, that's not the problem.
We are talking about dropping carriers on 3 rupture camping a gate because new overpowered force projection.
Also u have no clue of what happen in 0.0 from what u have written.

A Razor guy telling a GameOver. guy how it's done. The irony is strong here

QFT

Doesn't matter if you get dropped by 3 carriers, or 50 legions or even 6 supers... Cepters, indeed, are not the problem or cause of force projection.

intys will hit the gate timer each time now, so that is going to slow you down, slightly

That dude doesn't understand the concept of force projection.
Having a nullified ship able to travel over 3 systems / min that can fit a cyno and isn't targetable ( i dare u to target triple inertia ceptor ) is an epic change to force projection and this need more attention.

Regarding personal flame with that moron... bubbled system with ratting carrier is the wrong way to make money, i know safer and more profitable ways but i'm not going to tell u
But really, carrier are just bad... u can find them in drone regions but this has nothing to do with force projection.

Nullified ceptro will have the same strategic value of a t3 cloaky, nullified that cost 20 x and need more SP to fly.
Nullified ceptor is just a wallhack.
IAs i said in 1st post the warp acceleration proportional to warp speed is a good thing, making interceptor real interceptor but if u couple it with a cyno u will change all 0.0 mechanics.

So here's how I look at this, Chicken Little.

Yes, Interceptors will be able to ignore bubbles and warp directly to a gate. If a smart Interdictor pilot sees an Interceptor approaching on DSCAN, they won't bother bubbling. Most other gate camps are around drag bubbles set in line with gates, which the Interceptor will now ignore, and land on gate. The gate camp party will have lots of time to decide what to do as the Interceptor is burning towards them.

Normally you want to bait the gatecamp fleet into aggressing you before you light the cyno, as otherwise they will jump the gate or warp away once the cyno is lit.

Because Interceptors rely on their speed and signature tanking to survive, as soon as you light the cyno, you stop moving and can be one-shot. If the cyno pilot is destroyed before the fleet can bridge in, they'll get scattered randomly in the system, which just adds hilarity.

With the proposed mechanics, by the time you see an interceptor on d-scan, it will be too late. He will have tackle on you in less than 10 seconds. The only thing that will prevent this is a cyno jammer.

Cyno bubbles will be seeing a lot of use. But they can't do the job of a system-wide cyno jammer. And do you really think professional isk farmers (ie carrier ratters) will be anchoring dozens of cyno jammer bubbles in every anom just to prevent a hot-drop?

I am still concerned about bubble immunity on interceptors. Perhaps on a tech 3 frig some time in the future?