HIC alts at lease have to pay a sub.

Yes bubbles are a perfect tool for small gangs and solo pilots who can shape grid by using them. In this case nothing is wrong with them and nothing will change after adding 2 hours limit.

You talking about time and money wasted to set up these defending structures. Trust me there is no effort. 800mln isk is no more than 1 hour of ratting for smartbombing bs'es (1 guy can easily do that). You gonna shoot lage bubble way longer than it needs to set up and anchore. Do you really want to spent entire evening on shooting them? So if you put enough bubbles you can be sure they are safe and you can just check once a week if everything is ok. There is no effort in this. And now add timer to bubbles. Can you see difference?

But imagine you want to roam in deep sov 0.0, with intel, eyes 3 jumps before pockets with people and of corse lots of bubbles on gates. Your scouts can go freely through gates and maybe fast enough to catch someone who is not watching intel. And now things started to very be complicated. Your main fleet to move all the way through bubbles to your scouts. I don't care (no one really cares) about this poor guy who was tackled, it's just tool to spawn bigger fight with locales. Other tool is ESS, but as long as you can put it on anomaly, locales can safely scope money before you move your main gang to system. These 2 tools (ESS and tackled ship) are the only things which can force them to defend thier systems. They can dock and wait until you move. They are safe.

This is not only small gangs, this is about eve.
Sorry , but nullsec should not be constant bubbles every 3-4 gates.

If you are not aware - putting large amount of objects on gate grid is prohibited - because this cause many issues.
Petitioning GM usually makes all of those objects removed - simply no one wants to bother GM each time he encounters 50 bubbles on gate.

I don't understand your point.

You can get fights now just fine, and the bubbles only serve to separate your scout tackle from your main gang. They create a nice obstacle in space where a fight might happen, where the defenders might counter attack. They serve as a purpose slowing down the reinforcements so the tackled pilot has a minute or three to kill the tacklers and get safe.

These are good things! I don't understand what the issue is?

NPCs shooting player owned structures/ deployables is a slippery slope to go down.

Mobile Warp Disruptors should be content generators, not tool for avoiding content.

Right now most of these are anchored in 0.0 on gates to prevent small pvp groups from moving fast trough space.

Devs gave us intreceptors but they won't survive long enough on rats fire when gang have to fly 200km+ to the gate and same distance on the other side of the gate.

My solution is simple: Mobile Warp Disruptors should use fuel, and has small fuelbay, for 1 max 2 hours. Or just explode after 1, 2 hours. Its fair for tactic pvp usage on grid, or setting up small camp.

You can still set up bubble on gate to your farming system, but not 50 like today.

What has Mobile Warp Disruptor to do with content? Today we have 2 oponents in sov war, Days with small local wars everywhere in galaxy are gone long ago. The only left content ganerate people from small gangs who roaming sov 0.0 systems, but current situation make this work really hard.

CCP changed rats agro (npc pirates should be more than happy that we want to kill thier Nemesis), added mjd. I hope devs don't chenged mind and this is still pvp game where small groups with high game skills can find something for theirself.

Fly Unsafe

Evasion is as legitimate in the sandbox as anything else.
Those bubbles are used for more than just giving sleepy ratters more buffer time to get away.

'you can just pop the bubbles' is a straw man argument and does nothing to address the fact that when you jump into a system and you are inside a bubble, you mathematically have zero chance of catching someone off guard with the SOLE exception of them being on grid with you..

Unless of course you are flying an interceptor or nullified T3.

Evasion implies some type of cleverness and that you are at risk in the first place.

Please, I'd like to know this reason why you would bubble a gate on a grid you are not present on (like for a camp) if not for the purpose of gaining an additional buffer of reaction time between seeing someone in local and getting safe.

So intys and nullified T3s should be the only mathematically possible roamers that can tackle someone reaping the rewards of being in null sec? Seems like the 'sandbox' just got awfully small.

tl; dr;

tl; dr; If you hit warp in a belt within ~5 seconds of someone jumping into system, there is mathematically no way you can be tackled and therefore, there is zero player-contributed risk in your activity.

I actually don't have any issue with the inability to tackle ratters if they are paying attention and putting in the same level of effort and attention that I do. My issue is with bubbles providing a huge modifier to the advantage, while taking zero risk, time, effort, or attention from the players it is protecting or the players tasked with defending the player in the belt/anom.

I would even go to say much of the stagnation currently experienced in null security/sov space is due to the fact that the landlord's of the space don't even need to provide any kind of protection for either their membership, or their tenants because through game mechanics such as the use of deployed bubbles on gates (and jump bridges and local-insta-perfect-intel chat too) the game is covering their six, providing them with enough crutches to walk from Jita to HED-GP without touching the ground..