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Citadels on the in-gate can't aggress you unless you're silly enough to warp into their bubbles leaving the gate, and they can't shoot you as you jump in.

I think the bit of information you're missing here may be that Citadels have to be 1000km away from gates (and other Citadels, and a few other things)

Okay, my first issue with this is the following:

I hunt bots quite regularly in Null-sec then report them. In order to hunt them i have to not only contend with the new citadels being used to pop the bubbles i place to catch them. But also the threat of someone manning pos guns and shooting me on the pos traps i set too.

I personally feel like the distance should be at least 1000km to allow such maneuvers to be made.

Considering the Introduction of Citadels and Industrial arrays, it's become much harder to hunt people using pre-set traps and fast warp sabres. Due in most-part to the Threat of the Citadels 250km SCRAM and its (low) damage.

You are Trying to solve Issues with Citadels camping gates using bubbles and hurting every other profession that uses them in the Process......

Why don't you actually look at restricting how close you can anchor a Citadel to a gate

OR

at the very least give the hunters that you seem to despise so much, something else they can use to trap prey. Because this is getting beyond a joke.

You have introduced more than 8 Mechanics in the past year that adversely effect the ability to hunt in null-sec (Including the idea of a ship Decloaking array?!). You have not even suggested any kind of compensation mechanics for these new 'features'.

Can you please stop racing ahead before considering the effects on other professions.

Yes.... as stated i hunt bots. And whilst i DO anchor bubbles outside of the 350km scram range on Citadels, Bots have started using pilots to SIT IN THEM, and shoot anything within their enormous weapons range. Meaning you cant camp the Citadel with bubbles because it gets shot.

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Hey the decloak array is a great idea, if you own space you should be able to effectively control it (including locked gates (hackable) & taxed gates).

Alternatively cloaks should use fuel (heavy water) every 30-60 seconds or so (with new skills, duration per fuel and fuel per use). Want to stay cloaked, you need fuel, so even with max skills and full of fuel max (without reloading the cloak) cloak is 1 hour, that fixes the whole problem, activation equals fuel use as well.

This is incorrect, drag bubbles is an entirely intentional feature.

Just because you don't like something doesn't make it bad gameplay. Bubbles exist, learn to live with them.

To me, it feels like bubbles are a poorly designed game mechanic made purely for pirates which is entirely unrealistic. Considering the fact that in any real universe which had people capable of making space ships, probes, and drones there would be the ability to see these camps without putting yourself in harm's way, no one would ever get caught in a bubble without failing to look before leaping. Instead, we have to completely avoid them or send in a fleet to destroy them. How is that fun for anyone but gankers? Also, why can't we manually set destinations (not having to create bookmarks) instead of being forced to warp to a location within 100km?
I feel like this game heavily favors pirating and ganking, and that's a huge contributor to people avoiding this game. I understand that pirates are realistic, especially with the current state of society, but you should be able to realistically avoid them as well. If you spent more time putting things in your game for people to interact with & be rewarded by and less time on forced PVP & convoluted interfaces, your subscriber base would grow exponentially.

Not sure how the insta-locking before cloak thing happened. It used to be that if you had a sub 2.0 second align time you could not be locked and with cloak you could not be locked.

Now it does appear that even with both of the above, the lock can sneak in. Not sure how I feel about that, good in a way in that I think cloaking should not give 100% immunity but at the same time it creates major issues for cloakies + min / maxxers pushing limits.

I've been insta-locked and killed by Onyx's twice, both in Rancer, while in a hound. Given the hound is entirely reliant on cloak for defence its a bit much to remove that defence without the attacker needing a frigate sized ship and bubbles to do so

If the problem is scan resolution being buffed, its now quite easy to get a few k in scan res, theres probably a need to put a cap on scan res to avoid the issue otherwise its a waste of time flying paper thing cloakies and youre better off flying a cloaky regengu and just crashing the gate if you get locked.

Thats the other option so there are other options so whatever

That's not true, that's impossible!

Search your feelings Lugh, you know it to be true.