You ever fly a freighter?

However right now gate camping blows nut sacks and usually leaves the victim with no escape options.

So now the target hits a gate camp and even it they make it into warp they're screwed? Seems legit.

Yes.

An inty warps about 12-18 times faster than a freighter. That's noticeable enough to make a difference when it comes to acceleration / slowdown within warp.

Compared to a battleship, an inty warps only between 3 and 4,5 times faster. Assuming they enter warp at the same time, the difference in time when they land on the next gate is barely noticeable for the average gate to gate distance. And for some of the rebalanced T1 haulers the difference is even smaller now, than before.

Part of the problem are distances between gates and the size of systems ofc.

It's weird regarding immersion and also I feel like I should be able to get ahead of slower warping bigger ships in a noticeable way, when I'm flying an interceptor. Even with the warp distances like they are atm.

CCP is aware of the issue, but it's very old code.

So you are complaining about something that is already built into the system...or that heavier ships should have a different rule than lighter ships?

Don't forget that a ship like a freighter has a lower max warp speed so even though it accelerates slower, it could hit its max warp at about the same time as the inty that has a higher max warp speed. So your complaint is invalid.

And if you are in an interceptor you should easily be able to get ahead of a freighter. An interceptors warp speed is over 10x that of a freighter.

you mean INTERDICTORS?

And is significantly faster than most other ships too. I personally think it would be very difficult to make a system to support such an idea that would work in the limited time it takes to travel across all but the largest of systems. You may only have a minute to catch the target get within "scram" range, and then hit them before they have already hit destination. Plus like mentioned before, if you hit them with a scram do they fall out of warp and you keep going? Do you fall out of warp instantly too? Also what would be the use of bubbles if you only had to have a fast ship on the outbound gate to catch them as they try to warp off?

Right now for small scale pvp the primary way of catching people for non consensual pvp is to camp a gate, unless they are not paying attention or stupid.

Gate camping sucks as most people will agree.

Here is what I propose as a new system of capturing other players and evading them:

• You should be able to catch up to a ship mid warp if your warp speed is faster than it and warp scramble it


• Ships should be able to stop mid warp and turn/pre plan their warp.


• Warping should require a constant use of capacitor that ticks per second, rather than one lump use of energy that works even if your capacitor is dry.


• When you warp it leaves a object on other players overviews that allows them to trace where you warped momentarily, requiring them to move quickly to follow and enter your warp tunnel.


• A new type of probe that covers a 32AU area and lets you detect warp tunnels, this means that even if you didn't see someone warp you can still intercept them from somewhere else in the system.


• Warp core stabilizers should have the added bonus of boosting your warp speed.


• All ships should have their warp speeds adjusted slightly, attack ships have faster warps speeds than combat ships, certain races have all around better warp cores, etc. Certain industrial ships should have high warp speeds, perhaps blockade runners could.


• All warp speeds should be decreased by 30% across the board.


• Stargates would also be made bigger

Some extra effects from this include supercaps no longer being capable of warping and being mostly safe, interceptors being extra valued over pirate ships, and warp speed rigs being much more useful.

Another thought is ships that have high sub warp speeds could have slow warp speeds, A Stabber could go 2.5au/s while a Rupture would go 3.5au/s. A Punisher would go 7au/s while a executioner would go 5au/s