Originally by: Kai Lae

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I realize that this has been covered before, but I've just had an in game "experience" that has brought the question back big time. I speak of logging inside a interdictor bubble or warp bubble. I just had an engagement against a TCF dominix piloted by oth4l4 where after a fairly long chase I managed with a corp mate to catch him on the entry gate to 3A1P-N, where before he jumped in I dumped a bubble on the gate. When he jumped into system myself and the taranis grabbed him instantly and double webbed him making it so he couldn't go anywhere. As soon as the calvary shows up in system to finish him off he logs out, and warps away, because he's running fully stabbed and it's extremely difficult to stop a ship like this from normal means.

This is not unfortunately unusual these days, but what happened next took it to the extreme. In our gang jumping into the system was a cov ops and we then proceeded to probe him down. However, what he did was then to log in, and before the screen would load he'd log out again. This would then warp him to another, different safespot 1m km from the other spot he just logged in from. He then proceeded to repeat this about 30 more times, each time logging in and out before a scan result could be recieved. After 15 minutes his timer then expired and I'm sure he was laughing his posterior off as he then stayed logged out as his ship dissapeared from the scanner. My understanding had been doing this would cause you to reset your timer each time you log and therefore this would not work. I was unfortunately wrong.

The problem with this is that there is literally nothing that can be done to counter this lame tactic. It's a "I win" button in eve. All it takes is a individual with no personal honor or sense of sportsmanship and they can't be stopped. We of course petitioned this and the response from CCP was that this is a perfectly valid tactic that is allowed under the game's term of service.

The question I'd like to know, why is it possible to log out from a bubble and warp away, but not possible to escape scrambling? Aside from the totally disgusting personal behavior of this individual, why do game mechanics as currently constituted exist in this manner? The current situation actually encourages this behavior, because there is no consequences to it and it is 100% effective. CCP needs to address this because frankly it's causing an enormous amount of fustration in 0.0 combat as this becomes more and more common. The current situation is a sad state of affairs which places a black mark on the game of eve, where someone can use out of game "tactics" to counter superior, in game tactics. I sincerely hope that CCP will do something about this in the near future but I'm afraid it will require people insisting that CCP do something to actually address this issue.

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