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Having low tick rates for hour is beaten by having proper tick for 20 minutes and spinning ship for the rest of the hour.

PvE T3 has no chance against Thrasher. PvP T3 has no chance against rats. Pick your poison.

it is sort of surreal seeing all the completely plebian ratting arrangements being thrown out as typical or even desirable itt

Not really seeing a problem with bubbles as is.

Perceived protection, well that's about exactly what they are, perceived not real. They create resistance to passage and that's about it.

Bubbles are easily overcome by the following

- Interdiction Nullification
- Micro Jump Drive
- Micro Jump Field - Pops your whole subcap fleet out
- Cynosaural Fields for BLops, Capital and Titan Pushed fleets
- Cyno Beacons for friendly transit.

Worm holes still open behind/away from the pre-placed mass bubble fields allowing clear access to the entire system.

zKill is replete with Mining fleet losses behind these bubble walls due to capable PvP players.

I understand that a long time ago Anomaly belts were previously cosmic sigs that had to be scanned down. Enough complaining ensued that they were converted to Anomalies which made hunting miners easier. It is now very little effort for them to just warp to the Ice Belt or biggest anom belt. This bubble change seems like more of the same.

CCP, I see the attraction to doing this. It is in line with the current goal to create a fully destructible environment. PvP players love it as it will reduce their effort and risk while increasing their reward at the expense of PvE players.

Please consider some actual play balance in this change. Simply nerfing the bubbles increases imbalance.

Here are some play balance considerations
- - Cloaking - Eliminate all movement penalties to cloaking and replace with a duration timer of 10 minutes same as cyno with a cool down of 5 minutes reduced by skill or require fuel.
- - Bring back Cosmic Sig Belts. [Seriously, how hard is it to scan a Rorqual down? BTW its self pointed for 5 minutes at a time]
- - More damage inflicted by asteroid environment like we have with Mercoxit mining. Examples:
* Collision damage from asteroids [Would require a change to individual asteroid warp in for all, maybe 100m offset]
* Dust clouds that inflict damage at speed i.e. move faster than 100ms you suffer damage with exception to warping
- - Allow tractor beams to tractor ships without affecting warp [Factor in Mass to determine what pulls what]

I really think many miners would like a standup fight vs being blobbed on by someones big stick fleet with ridiculously lopsided combat advantages.

Make them use ozone!

If you gave up PvE and focused on PvP, you might make more isk

Then you could afford more bubbles

PvP is at the heart of all the most profitable enterprises in EvE.

Why do you think untold fleets of ships have been sacrificed to Bob at the foot of countless POSes? Hint: It wasn't for the good fights.

I know a fair few people who quite like using rorquals and getting tackled in them. With the panic mode they're a great content driver - they get tackled, call for support. Support comes in and kills/scares off attacker. Rorq carries on mining in happiness than the PvP guys in alliance love them :)

Sounds like your alliance has the wrong mentality tbh.

Literally 45 seconds of work

https://zkillboard.com/kill/49662844/

I like it !!!!

because i too don't know how this change will work out once it's deployed, i want to suggest that a longer lifetime, combined with a higher price and lesser hp might lead to the same vision of a bubblefree nullsec; though it might encourage more players to activly "hunt" bubbles.

nullification, btw, should not be removed, but a new (let's say t3) bubble type, and or dictor probe, should be introduced that targets nullified ships but not normal ones.