Scenario your camping a bubbled gate, bubbled with 60+ bubbles covering the full grid.

You kill a guy jumping through in his Drake. boom (8 second lock time)

The guy's pod is effectively dead already... but CCP forces you to go through a 32 second lock time to get his pod.

Waste of gameplay and really not helping anyone.

Suggestion: Have bubbles do "pulsating" damage to pods, so after 3 or 4 second they explode while in bubble, granting a kill mail to the folks who killed their ship.


Another alterantive would be to greatly increased the sig radius of pods, they are insanely small, 400m sigrad would solve the problem and not really affect the pod's survival much at all.

Finally, it takes lots of effort to anchor 60 bubbles on every gate you camp, and too much effort to take it down every time.

I suggest buffing the T2 Large Disruption bubbles to cover the full 250km radius so one could cover the whole grid.

I agree with OP and bubbles should also drop a plex or 2 every 30 sec. T2 could spawn officer fit nightmare every 5min?

You don't speak for me OP.

Poasting in a "I feel entitled to free KMs" thread.

This thread is making me pulsate. Not much admittedly but hey....better than nothing.

No. Fly a better ship.

Do you mean "more suited for the purpose of catching pods"?

That's what GǣbetterGǥ always means in EVEGǪ

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Scenario your camping a bubbled gate, bubbled with 60+ bubbles covering the full grid.

You kill a guy jumping through in his Drake. boom (8 second lock time)

The guy's pod is effectively dead already... but CCP forces you to go through a 32 second lock time to get his pod.

Waste of gameplay and really not helping anyone.

This makes me wonder.


How long does it take an instacane to lock a pod?


Also, is there a cap for how long it takes? We know that the granularity for anything in Eve is 1 second, but the longest lock time I have seen for say a case where a gimped BC (having a cloak) takes 30 seconds to lock a drone, could there be a longer lock time?

had hoped this was a thread about Battleships. Instead its whine and cheese night again.

This makes me wonder.


How long does it take an instacane to lock a pod?

Nah, to old and spoiled for that. It's more like vinegar and mould at this point.

90% of the work in a game-camp is setting up the bubbles, so yes when I've done 90% of the work I do feel entitled.

Scenario your camping...

Lock times are stupidly long on battleships, regardless of troll thread or not.

So... good cheese.

Good cheese still has some dairy left in it GÇö when it's all reduced to nothing but mycelium, it's gone a bit far.

90% of the work in a game-camp is setting up the bubbles, so yes when I've done 90% of the work I do feel entitled.

No. Fly a better ship.

This thread is bad and you should feel bad for having made it.


I just want to roll up a newspaper and smack you with it...or grab you by the back of the neck and rub your nose in this thread so hopefully you wont do this again. I just don't think there is a cleaner that could take this stain out of the GD carpet.

Lock times are stupidly long on battleships, regardless of troll thread or not.

Scenario your camping a bubbled gate, bubbled with 60+ bubbles covering the full grid.

You kill a guy jumping through in his Drake. boom (8 second lock time)

The guy's pod is effectively dead already... but CCP forces you to go through a 32 second lock time to get his pod.

Waste of gameplay and really not helping anyone.

Suggestion: Have bubbles do "pulsating" damage to pods, so after 3 or 4 second they explode while in bubble, granting a kill mail to the folks who killed their ship.


Another alterantive would be to greatly increased the sig radius of pods, they are insanely small, 400m sigrad would solve the problem and not really affect the pod's survival much at all.

Finally, it takes lots of effort to anchor 60 bubbles on every gate you camp, and too much effort to take it down every time.

I suggest buffing the T2 Large Disruption bubbles to cover the full 250km radius so one could cover the whole grid.

EDIT- Why the hell are you putting 60+ bubbles on a gate to begin with holy hell.

It is our primary income stream, the bubbles ensure nothing can warp within 190 km of the gate.

It is our primary income stream, the bubbles ensure nothing can warp within 190 km of the gate.

Scenario your camping a bubbled gate, bubbled with 60+ bubbles covering the full grid.

You kill a guy jumping through in his Drake. boom (8 second lock time.

It is our primary income stream, the bubbles ensure nothing can warp within 190 km of the gate.

Scenario your camping a bubbled gate, bubbled with 60+ bubbles covering the full grid.

You kill a guy jumping through in his Drake. boom (8 second lock time)

The guy's pod is effectively dead already... but CCP forces you to go through a 32 second lock time to get his pod.

Waste of gameplay and really not helping anyone.

Suggestion: Have bubbles do "pulsating" damage to pods, so after 3 or 4 second they explode while in bubble, granting a kill mail to the folks who killed their ship.


Another alterantive would be to greatly increased the sig radius of pods, they are insanely small, 400m sigrad would solve the problem and not really affect the pod's survival much at all.

Finally, it takes lots of effort to anchor 60 bubbles on every gate you camp, and too much effort to take it down every time.

I suggest buffing the T2 Large Disruption bubbles to cover the full 250km radius so one could cover the whole grid.

Here's what you do:

(1) Get on voice
(2) Shout "Hold the pod!"
(3) Your fleet mates will rep the pod up if it's already damaged
(4) You can jump half way across Eve to get to the pod, taking say, 48 minutes 25 seconds
(5) Arrive at the pod
(6) Point it
(7) ???
(8) You're on the KM!

What's happens between step 6 and 8? :(

*MAGIC!*

What's happens between step 6 and 8? :(

Scenario your camping a bubbled gate, bubbled with 60+ bubbles covering the full grid.

You kill a guy jumping through in his Drake. boom (8 second lock time)

The guy's pod is effectively dead already... but CCP forces you to go through a 32 second lock time to get his pod.

Waste of gameplay and really not helping anyone.

Suggestion: Have bubbles do "pulsating" damage to pods, so after 3 or 4 second they explode while in bubble, granting a kill mail to the folks who killed their ship.


Another alterantive would be to greatly increased the sig radius of pods, they are insanely small, 400m sigrad would solve the problem and not really affect the pod's survival much at all.

Finally, it takes lots of effort to anchor 60 bubbles on every gate you camp, and too much effort to take it down every time.

I suggest buffing the T2 Large Disruption bubbles to cover the full 250km radius so one could cover the whole grid.

*quote* The guy's pod is effectively dead already... *quote*

Unless there is a killright on the pilot, or you are selling implants. Why bother killing the pods?

Because of the way it makes the other pilot feel, if I can make him feel loss, then I have done my part in the player driven community.

Null-Sec is all about losing, and making the ISK to cover your losses, if we don't extract as much ISK from potential enemies at all times we'll be effectively handing them ISK to buy blob fleets.

Nobody ever won a Sov war by handing their opponent a Nyx fleet.