How big were the systems you were in?

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Ok I haven't figured out how your perps are doin this trick 1au from the gate as your story states... but I have replicated it in my wh

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tldr OP does not know about grid fu and how bubbles work in relation to grids.

ignorance != proof of 'exploit'.

I am pretty sure that I read somewhere on the Eve forums a GM stating that manipulating the grid is an exploit, the OP should petition this.

I am pretty sure that I read somewhere on the Eve forums a GM stating that manipulating the grid is an exploit, the OP should petition this.

I'm "pretty sure" no such thing has been said in the last 5 years with the exception of two instances, both of which were POS related and clearly taking the ****.

Grid-fu is one of these things that, if Eve was starting from scratch would be banned.

However that's not going to happen as it happens by accident much of the time - big fights on gates/stations leave enough crap behind to seriously distort grids.

You initiated warp while a light dictor bubble was up at your destination. the dictor probe exploded and the bubble went down, but because you initiated warp while it was up, you stopped where the edge of the bubble would have been.
Not EVERYTHING the goons do is an exploit or a hack.

Grid fu has been used for half a decade without it ever being declared an 'exploit', stop shitposting.

Ok I haven't figured out how your perps are doin this trick 1au from the gate as your story states... but I have replicated it in my wh

I think this trick would fall under grid-fu.

This is what I did: (replace wh with gate)
1. Warped to wh. Aligned back to pos and burned off grid (~300 kms).
2. Dropped bubble off grid of wh.
3. This new grid squishes the wh grid down to ~120kms.
4. I dropped a bubble on the very edge of the wh grid so that the radius of the bubble extends into the next grid.
5. I then warped to the wh from my pos and landed offgrid of the wh what appeared to be empty grid save the first bubble that I dropped. And I dropped a third bubble where i landed. The second and third bubble in reality are probably like 5-6km from eachother but they are on 2 different grids.
6. Warp to wh again from pos and land in the middle of the third bubble.

What i understand happens here. The bubble on the wh grid will drag you like any normal bubble but you don't land on that grid since you land on the edge of that bubble. The edge of that bubble happens to be on a different grid because of how i positioned it giving you this 'magic' bubble effect. You land in an empty grid with no visual clue why warp was stopped early(or late).

The reason I landed in the middle of the third bubble and not on the edge is because that bubble isn't on the grid that I was initially warping to. So you still land on the edge of the bubble that is on grid with the wh which just happens to be right next to my third bubble.

The only way I can see these guys doing what you say they did is to expand the gate grid out to almost an AU away. Place a bubble on the very edge of the gate grid in line with other gate. Drop large bubble off grid of gate where you'd land in 'magic' bubble and drop decloaking garbage.

Cheers!

...As for exploits. Most of our methods have already been cleared with CCP. Given their nature we specifically petition, describe the methods, and have received confirmation that those methods were entirely within normal game dynamics. Some of our more recent methods have not been explicitly cleared GǪ the jury still being GÇÿoutGÇÖ as they say.

Edit: The OP decided not to petition, however I think it was in a post where a player asked what is allowed and what is not allowed, I tried to locate the post, but failed

I have still not seen the OP's video.

Please.