Warp bubbles, dictors, and hictors all make your idea redundant.

Boobles are fine. If your small fleet is having trouble going through a heavily boobled system (god forbid there are rats on the gate!!!), I would recommend something like a prop mod, either mwd or AB, and a bit of tank. Yeah even interceptors don't want to stay long at zero on a gate with rats pounding on them, but if you are dying to the rats you are really not doing it right..

I'm still trying to understand why the interceptors need survive 200km+ on each gate??? They can't be stopped by bubbles last I checked. Not to mention it's rare an interceptor can be hit by a gate rat. (Unless you are heading in a straight at or from them.) In a non inty gang you should be able to down quickly or tank the gate rats.

PS- Personally I think gate rats should shoot player structures in any case....

Ive been through hundreds of 0.0 jumps in the past few months... Ive very rarely run into these camps you speak of...

How about the next time you run into one of these ridiculous camps, you dont leeroy your way into the next system because you know you wont have fleet support?

Perhaps you should read your own posts before responding to constructive criticism.

Also perhaps if you put some thought into flying your interceptor you wouldnt have the problem YOU listed above.

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Or just don't allow them to be anchored closer than 60km away from gate.
This will still allow them to be used as a dragging bubbles.

More organized groups are still using light and heavy dictors to secure the gate.

The failure in your logic is you think warp bubbles last forever. Warp bubbles are very easy to pop, so if you're caught by a 200km stop bubble, simply have your fleet pop it and continue on. As said earlier, any decently organized fleet has the firepower to wipe the gate rats. If you don't have the dps to pop a gate rat, what makes you think you have the dps to pop anything else?

In my travels throughout New Eden the only place I've seen gates uber-bubbled has been dead-end systems and EC-. Most bubbled systems only have a handful of bubbles, and if you spend half as long shooting them as you spend trying to get bubbles nerfed on forums, they go away.

So long as the time is measured in days I don't have a problem with putting a timer on mobile disruptors. Currently, mobile disruptors are the only tool for filling the role of static warp denial. Hicters and dictors are dynamic forms that require far more training and a warm body to operate (they're also more useful in my opinion, but for different reasons).

As I said before. Bubbles have been int he game for a very long time. There are methods for dealing with them and I'm hardly an authority on the tactics for doing so, but they're not a afkwinallsnooze button you make them out to be.

Bubbles are not the reason you don't find targets in null. Granted they may slow you down, but any ratter/miner in null worth anything is watching intel and sees you coming from several systems away.

As far as generating zero content goes, your going out to hunt them is not considered zero content. You occasionally find one not paying attention to intel and get s kill, that is not zero content. The fact that they don't simply line up for you to kill is not a matter of game mechanics, but of their choice to avoid pvp.

Um, because POS mechanics and sov mechanics are measured in days not hours and I might as well just have a couple of hicter pilots at that point? I mean hypothetically I "could" camp a POS with them, but anyone who has actually done it will tell you you're completely high to think that's an ok alternative.

The only thing I would be in favor of is increasing the build cost of bubbles slightly, large bubbles especially.

That being said, if an alliance is willing to allow 200-300 million isk in bubbles to go poof undefended then I'm all for allowing them whatever marginal security that provides them from people like the OP who arent inventive enough to come up with a solution to that problem.

I don't know much, but that many bubbles is probably bordering (if not directly) exploit territory since it would take your client so much longer to load the grid when you jump.

Mobile warp bubbles are an excellent tool for small gang PvP'ers. I use bubbles to split response fleets up, allowing us to pick them off in small bite-sized morsels. Bubbles are easily circumvented by both inties and the use of bookmarks. I really don't understand this ire towards bubbles.

As for auto-expiring bubbles. I can cope with a 2 hr time limit on bubbles, IF their cost was significantly reduced.

Alternatively, I would rather have bubbles simply have less HP (especially large bubbles).

Remember, you might not like a bubble camped gate with 50 large bubbles. But that's 800m isk worth of bubbles that took an hour or two to setup. Furthermore, it often makes people feel "safe" in a system when an inty can come in and still tackle them with ease. Are they really a problem?