Alternatively someone in their thrasher can just pop your bubble. I see it now - Thrasher bubble popping roams. It will be awesome. Bubble timers are almost irrelevant- The more significant changes that will change gameplay are killmails and shield rep.

The killmail generation seems to be an issue for me... When we usually set up a camp on a gate we use small ships with multiple bubles. If this means that we need to bail out when a few large ships come in and leave our bubbles unattended with reduced tank that's an issue... If I got 5 kills that night with my gang and gave away 3-4 killmails because of mobile bubbles than that's a gamechanger for me meaning I will not do it again... This means less content, less ships being destroyed etc...

Only reasonable way to change mobile bubble's is to make them act like Control Towers,
that even when shield sphere is turned off, still need to be shoot down,
at same time, make them run on liquid ozone,
in volume like 140k m3 per month for largest T2, and at same time let them hold month of fuel.
Reinforce them to level of Control Tower, or do not give killmail's for shooting them down.

That way it is win-win situation, as someone who had to spend shitload of time and effort to place them,
will be in similar situation as someone who come and shoot them, and for attacker benefit would be in volume of liquid ozone,
fuel in volume he will have to struggle same as did one who deploy them did.
Also I don't accept counter argument that pvp ships have no cargo to carry it, industry ships have no guns to shoot with pvp ships also, so make those pew pew guys field purpose ships for a change!

Asked you forum spammer to keep away, you do not know what you speak about, just spam whole day long.

Ok, let me describe how I use small bubbles. I'll roam in my frigate, carrying a small bubble or sometimes two. Occasionally I'll pick a system gate to place a stop bubble. As traffic flows through, once in a while a good target for me to fight will land in the bubble, but between these instances will be large and small gangs and larger solo ships I can't handle flowing through. I of course fly to a perch when I see something coming that I can't handle. As it stands now, they sometimes kill my bubble if they are annoyed enough, but more often they just ignore it and move on. They currently have no reason to kill it.

After this change, they will have a reason to kill it and they almost inevitably will. If you think people will not spend a minute to get a free km, regardless of how meaningless it really is, then we do not play the same game. If I am right about this then my entire paradigm will collapse. I am not in the majority in my play style, but I am certainly not alone in it either and certainly wouldn't characterize it as fringe play (is there anyone in null who has not run into someone who does this?)

My point is that if the goal of cleaning up bubble messes can be achieved without screwing with this and other similar play styles, why not just take the more limited approach?



(As an aside, why are KMs generated for anything at all that doesn't shoot back? /boggle)

Not going to repeat myself all over place, you are spammer on this forum, and as every spam, there is no point in reading it. Also if your behave insult you, then change it.

Only reasonable way to change mobile bubble's is to make them act like Control Towers,
that even when shield sphere is turned off, still need to be shoot down,
at same time, make them run on liquid ozone,
in volume like 140k m3 per month for largest T2, and at same time let them hold month of fuel.
Reinforce them to level of Control Tower, or do not give killmail's for shooting them down.

That way it is win-win situation, as someone who had to spend shitload of time and effort to place them,
will be in similar situation as someone who come and shoot them, and for attacker benefit would be in volume of liquid ozone,
fuel in volume he will have to struggle same as did one who deploy them did.
Also I don't accept counter argument that pvp ships have no cargo to carry it, industry ships have no guns to shoot with pvp ships also, so make those pew pew guys field purpose ships for a change!

That was a different forum alt/rage poster, though I suspect you're right and this person has a similar use case in mind...

J
They are at 12:13, minutes after server startup. Some basement dwelling nerds took their time to camp them before patch actually hit, tens of jumps away from their nearest dockable location, just to pad their pathetic killboards with something I, having a job and a life, had no chance in hell to save.