Rajere
No Trademark
Obsidian Empire
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Posted - 2008.09.03 09:16:00 -
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any bubble (mobile, warp disrupt probe, HIC bubble) only cares about two things, your warp destination, and whether your warp path intersects any part of the bubble or not. Your warp destination is the celestial or bookmark that you initiate warp to. Warping to something at 100km/70km/50km/etc is irrelevant, you are in fact warping to that object, just at range.
If your warp destination is within 100km of a bubble, you will get sucked into it as long as your warp path intersects (or would intersect, if it continued) any portion of the bubble. Therefore a bubble can be any distance up to 100km in front of or behind a gate and will pull ships to the edge of said bubble. Say there is a bubble 70km behind a gate in line with the gate you warp from, even if you warp to the gate "at 100km" you will still get pulled to the bubble past the gate, your warp destination was within 100km of the bubble. If you had a bookmark 100km in front of the gate and warped to it at 0, technically you shouldn't get pulled (though you can sometimes, the 100km of bubble rule is more a guideline than rule, it's flaky). A bookmark 150km in front of the gate will definitely not get pulled to a bubble setup past the gate.
If you are launching/anchoring/activating a bubble, the best way to ensure you are setting them up correctly is to click "look at" gate, then line up the icon for the gate you are at with the gate your targets will be warping from. With both icons overlapping you now have the warp path, make sure that warp path intersects your bubble, whether its in front of or behind the gate. You can use a single bubble to pull from multiple celestials/gates within a system, as long as any part of your bubble intersects with each warp path. These are easier to set up past the destination gate, typically if the destination gate is far away from all the other gates in system (hopefully its a gate without any celestials within scan range too, so alot of blind warps)
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