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I can second that, since i was the one Bubbling and killing the poor lad. The Mechanic itself works as intended, as i had to target something so the tether drops, otherwise i wasen't allowed to drop the bubble.

The Big Question here is, how much "Safety" should one have, on both ends. By Design i would say the closer one chooses to engage at a Citadel, the More Dangerous it should get for the attacker. Titans and SUpers can already use that to good effect when on defence. A Titan can just DD and wait out the weapontimer to be safe again, which kinda helps a small defence fleet against larger attack fleets.

With the dictor it gets a bit to OP though, as one basicly hase a endless bubble potential, but that also requires for the fight to happen withing the Citadels tethering range. As stated above, a weaponstimer for bubbles could help here to defuse it a bit.

Btw. is it by design that the Citadel DD dosn't differ between Friend and Enemy?

i was not attacking the citadel and i was trying to warp away from combat and it was the closest object

To be honest I don't think there is anything wrong with this it's just an advantage the defenders have. Unlike hobo jamming it can't be used to keep ppl stuck in station as tether rights can be removed if that's what is happening

At the same time I can see why ccp would choose to remove it

tethered ships still can be bumped out of tether range to get killed

Can you please clarify?

You say you are taking the same approach, but your final sentence does not follow that logic.

Right now on TQ:

You undock and drop a bubble, the bubble lives unless you dock.

That logic should translate to:

You undock and are tethered to a citadel. You lock someone to break tether and drop a bubble. If you then allow yourself to be tethered, this would be the same as docking in the current mechanics. The bubble should then be destroyed.

The logic you stated in your final sentence:

You undock, untether, drop bubble, you basically get a timer to prevent tethering (but not docking).


The closest you could get to the current mechanics would be to prevent bubbles from being dropped inside the tether range of a citadel to simulate a POS shield currently. You would burn out, drop bubble, then burn back in before dying.

The equivalent to docking in a station is docking in a Citadel. In both cases, any dropped bubbles go away.

Tethering is a new mechanic, and they are handling that by disabling tethering for dictors while the dictor has active bubbles. This makes them vulnerable to combat. So after this changes, in Smuff Gallente's situation once he landed on the hostile Citadel and was bubbled by the hostile dictor, he would have two minutes in which he could engage that dictor. If the dictor docks, the bubble goes away and Smuff could warp off. If Smuff is in a ship that doesn't have enough DPS to take out the dictor within two minutes, he'd have to option to burn away from the Citadel far enough that the dictor would no longer be tethered, at which point Smuff would have all the time in the world to attack the dictor assuming that the dictor followed.