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It gives supercap blobbers anal discomfort.

So i went on the test server and played around with warping my dictor and interceptor.

Fitted my sabre with 2xt2 warp rigs which gave it 12.5 au/s warp speed and parked my super in one of the combat areas. Since i'm -10, and have default overview it is for me to spot my sabre from my super's screen.

What I wanted to see is how fast the max warp speed sabre would appear on the nyx grid from the point of view of the super. To my amazement my dictor simply appeared. I did not see it warp in, it simply materialized at 0 on my super. Later i had a corp-mate log it to check if it did the same for him and it did. Even fully aligned he was not able to warp out of my bubble since well...i simply appeared and bubbled him, by the time he reacted to press warp it was already too late.

this perhaps has to do with limited capabilities of the test server of course but this seems really really broken, not just for supers but for everything in general. Fleets will be bubbled without ever seeing the dictor that warped on top of them and even have a chance to warp out.

yep, being told by maka he will warp to me when im fully aligned, i held my finger over the warp button, i told him to warp in so i even knew it was coming. He warped, materialized next to me litterly the second i saw his sabre on overview i hit warp, i even hit warp before the bubble showed on my screen but i then got the message and the bubble was there.

If this was a real combat situation, you would not know when they would be warping in, but that wouldn't matter anyways since even if you know and are fully aligned with your finger over your clicker on the warp button it apears and bubbles before u can hit warp....

this honestly hurts the little guys more than the big guys. Those people with 3-4 supers who are paranoid about anything and everything will suddenly find themselves caught whether they want to or not, just because they happened to have **** luck.

The big guys who get their supers caught will just drop more supers until it's either a super vs super megablob, also known as Asakai 2.0 which heck i'm all in favor of, or more like you will get enough capitals to blot out the sun, where eventually the other side will be forced to disengage, much like it is right now anyway. Granted however disengaging with these warp speed is going to be very very hard if someone is really determined to keep you on field.

People who can replace caps and supers will continue to use them, everyone else will wait for better days.

Also as for drive by DDs with a titan, yea those will be few and very far between, seeing how a dictor can literally be 2 jumps away and still get to you in time and bubble you before you wait out the 1 minute or so that it takes you to warp.

Everyone being happy that it might lead to planty of dead capitals and supercapitals fails to see that it will also completely kill any sort of Battleship warfare because the ability to disengage a battle is completely gone. Its either complete victory or complete whelp with this nothing in between.
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i too like to post with a no-name alt, god forbid I would troll with my main. Thank you for your input though, very relevant.

oh and just for the record corry didn't warp cause no warp order was given, i'm sure you would've warped like a coward however.

No warp order was given because there was no FC, thanks for clarifying that PL supers are helpless and incapable of thought if there is no FC.

Thanks to all for deailing the thread. GD is that way ----- >>>

THIS THREAD IS NOT ABOUT SUPERCAPS ( or whatever flavour of the month alliance is flying them )

The issue is that with the new warp speed mechanics an interdictor insta-appears on grid and bubbles before ANYBODY sees it or can do anything about it. It doesnt mater what youre flying - if youre in a sniping BS, youre f$&@ed, if youre in a ratting carrier, youre f$&@ed, if youre in a Retriever perfectly aligned at full speed, youre f$&@ed, ( although if youre in a retriever in 0.0 what did you expect ) if youre in a FRIGATE you dont have any time to deal with it.

If dictors could warp cloaked we would all be pretty unhappy about it. This effect is EXACTLY the same. The dictor arrives on grid unseen and can either bubble or cloak immediately before it even appears on your overview.