Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Is the warp disruption bubble mechanic also finally getting tweaked?


The reason I ask is that currently the bubble mechanic only affect a warp parabola (the final landing point) if the bubble was in place BEFORE the ship initiated warp.

With the changes to warp speed time, will the mechanic be adjusted so that a ship is stopped on a bubble if the bubble was placed before the ship enters grid.

This would allow a fast moving interdictor to warp past a ship, land on grid, and force their final landing destination. Currently if you have a ship following in warp, drop a bubble, the ship ignores your bubble because their landing zone was calculated before the bubble was put in place.

Any remarks on this game mechanic ccp?

Meh. Changes are bad, but some ideas in this thread are awesome. Make it so!

Also, the reason we fly 10mn dictors is because their sig is too big with mwd, Identify the real problem and fix that instead of bandaiding stuff please.

Let's face it, if someone plays "it's too easy to avoid combat in EVE" card, not much you can argue with.

The fleet scythe is proof that it can work when done right. The Eris with a 4/4 layout is a perfect example of how to do it wrong. Also.. cap bonus to hybrids? What? I don't even understand where this suggestion came from.

Gallente masterrace.

Much like every other Gallente pilot -

WTF is with your fascination with a mixed weapon system on the Eris? Haven't you heard enough complaints over the years about this crap design feature? Hasn't enough abuse been heaped, and rightfully so, upon this ill-thought-out concept?

Second thing, WTF is up with you making everything except the Sabre dependent upon missiles? Much like split weapon systems, haven't we tried this? Give Caldari missiles, it's their forte! Let Amarr fit lasers, and let Gallente fit a FULL RACK of hybrids!

If these things are supposed to be able to catch and kill Interceptors, you've given everyone except for the Sabre (as usual) an exceptionally LOUSY platform with which to attempt it.

A T2-fit Catalyst would be more likely to scare an Inty pilot, and, even at that, not much. MAKE THE OTHER THREE AS CAPABLE AS THE SABRE IN ACTUAL COMBAT, NOT ON PAPER!!!

That a million times. THere is NOTHIGN that justifies minamtar having the LEAST agile ship. NO it doe snto matter what any other dreams .. its WRONG.. all WRONG. If you think that is right you guys should NOT be balancing ships for this game!

PLease CCP, your game balance peopel shoudl be people that understand the CONCEPTS OF THE RACES, FLAVORS and ROLES.

Confirming that there are uses for dictors in high sec too. You just have to dig deep to find them. Here's one example: I used the Eris for the longest of time as a loot&salvage ship, fast, eight hi slots and all those low slots, yummy.

yup, they are flown because a dictor is a necessity. everytime a pilot "surrenders" himself to dictor-duty he knows, when there is a fight, he goes back home in a pod.

I'm going to suggest again the thing I suggested in the interceptor thread: Make interdictors immune to their own bubbles.

Light Interdictors are essentially the "trapper" kinda class in eve. A trapper shouldn't get caught in his own traps. To balance this they would gain agression from bubbling again. On top of the essential stat changes that have been discussed in this thread I also support the idea of new kinds of interdiction probes. Maybe one that only has a 5km radius but stays up for 5 minutes instead of just 1? Like an instant temporary drag bubble.

How would this change the game?
Skilled cloaky interdictor pilots would be able to team tag tackle capitals with low risk, is this OP? No, it's not OP for the same reason that plex doesn't make eve pay to win: it requires alot of skill and good execution, essentially bringing back specialized tackling. Dictors can get caught in each others bubbles and can be in great peril if they try to reenter grid which they have to do sooner or later.

In gang warfare interdictors could stay behind the gang, bubble a gate and warp trapping a hostile chaser without having to sacrifice himself, it's a specialized trapping ship after all.

You might argue that this will make fast align shield interdictors the standard leaving armor dictors behind, how would you counter that? By giving armor dictors good enough (sig)tanking potential to be used in small gang armor doctrines. The high resist profile on the heretic does help that, but I feel like they need a general signature reduction and/or some kind of MWD signature reduction bonus since noone would think of AB fitting a dictor even in an armor doctrine.

As a solo pvper I think a change like this would also make me alot more motivated to fly light interdictors.