EVE General Discussion

Also that last picture even hurts to look at for me. It's too ******* bright.

It literally takes over 2 years to figure out that drag bubbles exist.

I'm not a big fan of bubbles either, but this thread has pretty much hit on all the ways to avoid them.

1) To have a chance at safely traveling through null in something that's not interdiction nullified, you need an interceptor scout. There is almost no way around this. No matter what precautions you take, you can never really know if the other side of the gate has a bubble set up. If you have nanos and an MWD fit, then it's usually possible to burn back to the gate, even in the case of a substantial gate camp. This doesn't do you much good if they manage to get both sides of the gate camped.

2) MWD + cloak. This is your friend. Google/YouTube it.

3) In some systems, determined trap-setters can make it so there's literally no angle you can approach a gate from. This can also be accomplished by just burying the gate in bubbles. In either case, bookmarks ~300km above or below the gate are the best way to counter this. Obviously, if the gate is buried in bubbles, you probably won't be able to go through that gate, but you won't get caught either.

4) Know when it's time to use the "Log off Safely" feature*

* The badass variation of this is to fit a core probe launcher for travel and slip out through a wormhole.

How do you surf the web? Most sites are white. Googles home page is 99% white. The game can't provide s whiter white than all the other things. It's slways $FFFFFF.

Just wondering.

I had no clue bubbles worked in this manner, and as such I do find it kind of goofy. I always imagined they worked as a "field" that if passed through or close to they would "drag" you out of warp, resulting in your being inside their warp scrambling range. This would mean placing a bubble anywhere in a mostly straight line between point A and point B would result in people being forced out of warp at that point with their relative position to the center of the "bubble" determined by how close their warp vector was to the center. A "drag bubble" was something I envisioned as an off center bubble designed to catch targets using a narrow D-Scan, forcing them out of warp at your chosen point of conflict. While what I've read so far shows the current mechanics aren't hard to avoid, they are a little confusing since there is no documentation on them, and the name doesn't imply that the bubble has a "drag" effect akin to a tractor beam. Perhaps it should be renamed to "Warp Navigation Disruption," as that would imply it does more than just stop you from warping while within it's range.

Warp from a gate in the direction of another gate, prepare to die and be podded.

There's even better tricks, like the one where you land offgrid inside a bubble.

There's a bunch of amusing things you can do with bubbles, indeed

Because setting good traps would be hard otherwise!!

Agreed, definitely not user friendly.

No matter how you look at em.

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OK, probably just a typo. I think you meant to say planets instead of moons since moons usually have hostile POS's anchored at them.

DMC