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EmoPeanut
GSF Logistics and Posting Reserves
Goonswarm Federation
#1 - 2015-06-09 00:23:14 UTC  |  Edited by: EmoPeanut
Im trying to set up some drag bubbles and I cant get it to work just right. Most of the bubble I set up work just fine. But a few of them stop my ship right before it enters the bubble and not in the bubble itself. How can I correct this so the ships stop IN the bubbles?

As some extra info, im trying to set up bubble traps as close to my POS as I can. They fly in, get decloaked by abandond drones or something like that, and POS attacks them.
Aiwha
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#2 - 2015-06-09 00:41:54 UTC
I'm pretty sure its random exactly where on the bubble edge you come to a stop.

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Jenshae Chiroptera
#3 - 2015-06-09 00:50:52 UTC
Burn back a bit seems to help.

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Rowells
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#4 - 2015-06-09 01:46:29 UTC
If you are referring to the ~2500m area that lands around the edge of the bubble, that's the normal random landing point decided when a ship lands at the edge.
Eternus8lux8lucis
Guardians of the Gate
RAZOR Alliance
#5 - 2015-06-09 02:17:32 UTC
Bigger ships also tend to get stuck further into the bubble as they land in them it seems. But yeah like everyone else has said thats the way they work.

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Tau Cabalander
Retirement Retreat
Working Stiffs
#6 - 2015-06-09 06:16:43 UTC  |  Edited by: Tau Cabalander
I did a lot of testing with bubbles, and found that most of the time they work exactly as expected, but once in a while you anchor one that acts really weird.

Example:

1. I once had a bubble that would drag you any amount of distance on grid. It was not limited to 100 km from the destination. Nor did your path have to cross it to be caught in it, land anywhere on grid and it would suck you in. I re-anchored it many tens of times during testing, but stopped when I hit a drag of over 450 km, and hit the edge of the grid.

2. I once had 3 bubbles overlapping side-by-side OOO and the central one would never stop nor drag anything, but the other two always did. I tested with an alt directly behind the bubble, and could warp right through it.
Hemmo Paskiainen
#7 - 2015-06-09 09:59:45 UTC
Tau Cabalander wrote:
I did a lot of testing with bubbles, and found that most of the time they work exactly as expected, but once in a while you anchor one that acts really weird.

Example:

1. I once had a bubble that would drag you any amount of distance on grid. It was not limited to 100 km from the destination. Nor did your path have to cross it to be caught in it, land anywhere on grid and it would suck you in. I re-anchored it many tens of times during testing, but stopped when I hit a drag of over 450 km, and hit the edge of the grid.

2. I once had 3 bubbles overlapping side-by-side OOO and the central one would never stop nor drag anything, but the other two always did. I tested with an alt directly behind the bubble, and could warp right through it.



Drag bubbles works gridwide. If you strech the grid with some gridfuu, even 800+ is possible. It involves lots of accurate skills to make it work.

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Herzog Wolfhammer
Sigma Special Tactics Group
#8 - 2015-06-09 18:13:44 UTC
I've seen strange behavior in cases where the grid is spammed with bubbles.

Were it up to me only one bubble per grid would be possible.

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Delt0r Garsk
Shits N Giggles
#9 - 2015-06-10 10:53:40 UTC
Drag bubbles are set up typically to be closer than the 150km back to the gate to prevent warping for that very reason. You need to still catch hapless victims with a point.

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Frostys Virpio
State War Academy
Caldari State
#10 - 2015-06-10 14:39:12 UTC
Herzog Wolfhammer wrote:
I've seen strange behavior in cases where the grid is spammed with bubbles.

Were it up to me only one bubble per grid would be possible.


Problem is people would grid-fu their way to putting a bubble at the far ass end of the grid to make sure they can't be bubbled...