Warfare & Tactics

How will this new mechanic of logging off with agression work surrounding pos's and downtime. Example a titan is sat in a pos when the enemy fleet enters system. They are able to drop some large disruptor bubbles on the pos to effectively catching the titan. It can log off but will remain in place due to agression mechanics. What will happen during downtime? Shall the agression continue or will that 30 minute downtime cause the titan to disappear and remain logged off.
If not the implication could be that with enough time and fleet member participation you would be able to reinforce the Pos shields and keep the titan there till you can destroy the Pos.
Obviously there will be calls for rescue parties to destroy the catching fleet and their bubbles and resqueing the trapped titan.
Or are super caps perfectly safe inside any properly passworded (spy proof) Pos with 24 hours worth of Strontium in them?

On the negative side if a downtime period will save super caps. I hope and trust you are ready for some groups to attempt to crash the server if a fight turns bad for them and they need to save some of their big shiny ships.

Thanks for clearing it up in advance.

I've been told that there are *no limit* to bubbles and that any such limit only applies to "other" items such as GSCs and jetcans.

This was the result of a petition for 150+ large bubbles anchored on a gate. Is this not true?

1) I am fairly sure that just sitting in a bubble and not attempting to warp off will not give you an agression timer. Whether it will extend an existing one, only CCP knows.

2) As far as I know, AoE weapons causing agression to ships inside a POS was fixed a while ago, and declared an exploit a long time before that.

3) There is no effective limit on the number of objects you can drop on a grid, as long as you can justify their existence, and that justification is not "to cause lag". If you decide you want a 100k x 100k x 100k unwarpable field around a POS, go for it.

Using past changes as a baseline the only thing we can be sure off is that there will be some extremely funny unintended consequences of the proposed changes, and most likely those unintended consequences will have been common knowledge on SISI for 1 month+ but still make it onto TQ because of ... *CCP*

Dunno that pos guns are really relevant to the situation, if you're raepcaging a pos, why wouldn't you have reinforced it and burned all the mods?

It's my understanding (not certainty) that logging out inside of a bubble reapcage like that would give the titan one 15 minute timer. Then, as he is no longer trying to emergency warp, unless reaggressed, he would disappear after that 15 minutes.

And as for downtime, it erases any and all aggression on everyone, so yes, he would disappear.

in theory if titan is inside shield and you buble whole pos titan sould not get any agro before log off, so it should be gone after 1 minute anyway.

This guy is really dumb. Really, really dumb. Where is the dislike butan when you need it?

**** caged POS = has no online guns because you raped them all before anchoring bubbles. It's like you missed the memo on how this works.

Resistar POS = When GENTS recently failcascaded an entire alliance while on deployment, all of our POS located in enemy territory were resistars. When Atlas burned through Geminate and half of Vale a few years ago, every one of their towers was also a resistar. They are convenient and it's a giant floating "**** you" in space, daring someone to attempt to come ref them.