Here let me break it down for you. This has happened to Black Legion multiple times just so you know.

Black Legion is staged in K3J in Venal lets say.

Pandemic Legion is hobojamming our station with a dictor.

Black Legion CAN NOT go hobojam Pandemic Legion because they live in a sov station.

Here is another example.

Black Legion is staged in X-7

Goonswarm is hobojamming the station.

Black Legion CAN NOT go hobojam Goonswarm because they live in a sov station.

Notice how the small group can not do the hobojamming on equal terms with the larger alliances?

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Now to make matters even worse (And this has happened before).

We are in K3J, we are being hobojammed. BUT we can use bombers to clear the undock for example meaning the situation is not horribly bad.

However, there is a Sniping Loki who keeps warping around station and popping bombers.

He is very very hard to catch, and also the dictor is invulnerable (from hobojamming tactics).

What do you do about this situation?

TO MAKE IT EVEN WORSE.

Same situation. You are now in X-7.

The dock radius on the station is so large you can't cloak your bombers when preparing to bomb the undock.

The sniper is now here.

The situation is ****** and two people are locking down your entire cap fleet.

What do you do?

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This is the kind of bullshit that smaller groups are dealing with in NPC null.

They used to get you on killmails and give you aggression. I doubt they just completely axed all the code that connected them to your ship back then.

Here let me break it down for you. This has happened to Black Legion multiple times just so you know.

Black Legion is staged in K3J in Venal lets say.

Pandemic Legion is hobojamming our station with a dictor.

Black Legion CAN NOT go hobojam Pandemic Legion because they live in a sov station.

Here is another example.

Black Legion is staged in X-7

Goonswarm is hobojamming the station.

Black Legion CAN NOT go hobojam Goonswarm because they live in a sov station.

Notice how the small group can not do the hobojamming on equal terms with the larger alliances?

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Now to make matters even worse (And this has happened before).

We are in K3J, we are being hobojammed. BUT we can use bombers to clear the undock for example meaning the situation is not horribly bad.

However, there is a Sniping Loki who keeps warping around station and popping bombers.

He is very very hard to catch, and also the dictor is invulnerable (from hobojamming tactics).

What do you do about this situation?

TO MAKE IT EVEN WORSE.

Same situation. You are now in X-7.

The dock radius on the station is so large you can't cloak your bombers when preparing to bomb the undock.

The sniper is now here.

The situation is ****** and two people are locking down your entire cap fleet.

What do you do?

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This is the kind of bullshit that smaller groups are dealing with in NPC null.

Won't people just adapt and do :

1- Undock
2- Bubble
3- Insta off station (they are nullified anyway with your change)
4- Warp to a serie of safe to always be in warp while the 1 minute timer expire
5- Warp at 0 on a docking BM to insta dock
6- Dock
7- **** up local
8- Go to 1

All you do is put a delay for the aggression timer to expire so they can re dock to start the cycle back again.

I just learned of this tactic and think it's hilarious (actually LoL'd) , yeah sounds like it needs to die in a fire.

Yes are probably correct. However in that time the undock can be bombed. So you say well you can do that now right?

People do this now:

1 Undock
2 Bubble
3 Repeat every 10 seconds.

A bomber can only launch bombs every 2 minutes. So as you can see there is quite a disparity.

So, the main issue from the last page I have read is a dictor doing the undock --> bubble --> dock

Wouldn't an insta lock something be able to just shoot the bubbles clear, instead of relying on a bomber that can do it every 2 minutes?

This would force the dictors to stay undocked, which would mean they would get turned into pod goo from the capitals they are camping in.

Just a thought on a simple solution.

Allowing Smartbombs next to Null Stations would also get rid of this issue.

Why is this not allowed anyways?

Just a thought on a simple solution.

Allowing Smartbombs next to Null Stations would also get rid of this issue.

Why is this not allowed anyways?

What hobojamming is for capital fleets, this would be for pods, frigates, etc. Only worse, because even in a station with a huge dock radius, you'd have no chance to re-dock.

You can't lock the bubbles. You need an AOE weapon. And smartbombs don't work on a station.