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To me this is another change for the people who cry all day every day because they can´t warp straight to gates anymore.
Sure, the grid changes with citadels and drag bubbles can be really nasty but than it´s the space of the people who are living in there, it should be nasty to pass through. I don´t like it at all and no, I am not sitting in a citadel or camping a gate at all. I simply like to feel "unsafe" when I fly through hostile space. It´s easy enough already with the local still available and easy to make bookmarks.

Since you asked on Twitter for comments, let's express some bitter comments I would have kept for myself if you hadn't.

Since warp bubbles & disruptors are mostly for NS, whatever CCP may want to do for them isn't of great importance, since the vast majority of Eve just don't mess with NS. For such matters, you might just ask the Council of Null-Sec Management, where you'll find lots of people having lots of great ideas for these specific gameplays. And I'm not even joking : cause you know, when these guys are unhappy, they burn things (elsewhere). So please, just make them happier every day.

But if you're seriously asking a question, here's mine : since nobody has any clue about what CCP's trying to achieve proposing these changes, how could anyone seriously answer ? In real life, changes proposals are motivated. Most of the time, after some evaluation period, metrics are made to see if the implemented changes had the expected effect.

This is exactly what CCP did recently with daily quests : trying things for some reason, getting a few metrics, and heading back to check the results. But of course, there's prolly no reason to resort to such serious methods for marginal gameplays like Null Sec's.

500km is an aweful change for reasons, that some already mentioned.

There are other options:

limited time on bubbles.
dragging range depending on bubble.
inaccuracy when dragging. ( d=0.0001 deviation on distance squared and 1000km dragged ---> 0.0001*1000^2=100km km off from normal spot in a random direction (yes, that means out of the bubble)....... on a 100km-drag thats just 1km.)
A hic bubble generator on citadels so it has to be manned AND vulnerable for these games.

Holocauster was a bit too good to start with. Good change. Now just put 48H life on bubles like on MTU and all legit with bubbles : )

What is wrong with it, is the same thing that's wrong with a lot of session changes and landing on/off grid related stuff:

TARGET IS INVULNERABLE.

There are similar situations, where for example you see a command destroyer break its cloak, spool up its jumpdrive and eventually sit 100km from you talking smack while you still haven't gotten the chance to lock the damn thing. Because :invulnerable:.

Between instawarping ceptors, nullified T3s, small craft glitching a few seconds of invulnerability on their side, what we don't need is a colossal structure pipebombing you without a chance to shoot back. And I don't mean going out of our way to back back around 5 AM for the rest of the week-- I mean at the exact same time it's shooting at us!

I like the idea. Bubbles were originally supposed to catch on-grid anyway, back when grids weren't thousands of km. Consider this a belated bugfix.

People recently out of sov are unsurprisingly upset that it's now slightly riskier to travel in sov. Also unsurprisingly, I prefer current mechanics.

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To my knowledge, all the things which work to avoid bubble ganks work to avoid citadel ganks: proper scouting; warping to popular destinations from uncommon positions; jump drives; hardening up; staying in Empire space. Nerfing bubble pull range is also nerfing the now-increased importance of the fleet scout (which saddens me, since I enjoy that role).

Citadels are such potent force multipliers that they increase the frequency with which one must employ the aforementioned tactics, and this is supposedly a problem. To my mind, this is a good thing. It's all the more reason to assemble spacefriends and divvy up roles and fight for valuable pipes (lowsec is still there for the more risk-averse of the lone wolves).

It's good that sovereign space is now riskier to move through. Even as a frequent explorer of other groups' sov null (in non-immune covops, no less) I still prefer the current mechanics. It means I'm slightly less efficient at exploration but I nonetheless find it more engaging since I have to be a touch warier.

This is a bad change:

1. Circumventing citadel bubbles is incredibly trivial. For any roaming gang all they need is a ceptor to scout ahead (something most fleets already do) or a ping on the gate.
2. The citadel bubbles literally give a forewarning since they are announced system wide. If one is on your out-gate, you should probably consider warping to a ping or come from a random direction. This is unlike normal bubble camps which you won't know until you are in dscan range, something not all gates offer.
3. The citadels must be manned, if noone is in local you are probably safe to warp anywhere.

This is catering to roaming gangs who want easy access to hostile space. I use citadels this way as well, but I also encounter them when roaming into e.g. Horde space where there many citadels on their gates. I don't complain when people have the homefield advantage, only if they use something OP. Drag-bubble citadels that can be countered by any ceptor or gate ping are not OP, they simply catch those with no foresight in checking their out gate before pressing warp in nullsec.

https://zkillboard.com/kill/54906382/

https://zkillboard.com/kill/54906342/

Nullified Tengu hunter warped past and failed to notice.

But hey, gotta cater to the least capable because this is a thing nowadays.

Why?

Where's the problem?

Where are the protests?

Who is abusing the 1000 limit and how?

What difference does changing it to 500 make?

Is this a needed thing or is this once again a favour for some invested party?