bug or exploit?

It's normal - I think they call it a drag bubble.

Maybe there is a better way.. hopefully someone will share it here

[quote=drdxie]
For these (if IGGVm flying a non-covops with a cloak) I just try to warp from an unusual direction, hoping not to land in a bundle of cans aimed to messup cloaking,

Stop warping gate to gate

you slowboat faster while cloaked.

Yep, its a drag bubble.. You need to try and get yourself a BM 300km ish of the gate not inline with the bubble, warp to it, then warp to the gate. There may be an easier way.. but this is sadly what I do.. it took me over 2hrs to get through taisy in an AF with a cloak warp to gate, get stuck in bubble...... cloak and slow boat out.
Maybe there is a better way.. hopefully someone will share it here

Now this really sucks. I got uncloaked by a load of mining drones which were deployed around 4 drag bubbles around a gate. There were 45 drones in total and im pretty sure they were not launched for combat purposes during a fight! Reported it but was told they wouldnt do anything unless the total number of drones was around 100! Still seems a bit over excessive to me!

In my opinion, drag bubbles as they function now are bad for Eve. They're primarily useful for catching those inexperienced enough to wander into them, like the OP. Their mechanics are almost entirely omitted from official documentation so that people who haven't been taught are forced to learn about them the hard way. Worse, there's not way to detect their effect until you land on them.

"But Floppie, you should have scouts!" Sure, if you have alt accounts or people willing to scout for you. But if you have those, you probably don't fall into the category of new/inexperienced. Noobs are going to die in nullsec often enough without having to figure out undocumented game mechanics like drag bubbles.

"Silly clown, use bookmarks!" CCP created warp-to-zero because it became such standard practice to own warp-to-zero bookmarks that they were a burden on system resources. They also created a very significant disadvantage for people who didn't have access to those bookmarks. I don't see a distinction here: lack of proper bookmarks shouldn't result in you being sucked into a bubble and pummeled by a gate camp.

If drag bubbles are going to exist, there should be some warning that they're going to pull you off-course when you initiate warp. This gives an attentive pilot time to stop warp and attempt a different approach.

In my opinion, drag bubbles as they function now are bad for Eve. They're primarily useful for catching those inexperienced enough to wander into them, like the OP. Their mechanics are almost entirely omitted from official documentation so that people who haven't been taught are forced to learn about them the hard way. Worse, there's not way to detect their effect until you land on them.

"But Floppie, you should have scouts!" Sure, if you have alt accounts or people willing to scout for you. But if you have those, you probably don't fall into the category of new/inexperienced. Noobs are going to die in nullsec often enough without having to figure out undocumented game mechanics like drag bubbles.

"Silly clown, use bookmarks!" CCP created warp-to-zero because it became such standard practice to own warp-to-zero bookmarks that they were a burden on system resources. They also created a very significant disadvantage for people who didn't have access to those bookmarks. I don't see a distinction here: lack of proper bookmarks shouldn't result in you being sucked into a bubble and pummeled by a gate camp.

If drag bubbles are going to exist, there should be some warning that they're going to pull you off-course when you initiate warp. This gives an attentive pilot time to stop warp and attempt a different approach.

8/10, almost bought it!

Lol at these posts... These bubles are alligned only to one specific route. Therefore all you have to do (if there is only the one bubble) is to identify this route (95% gate to gate for busiest route 4.9999% station to main exit gate 0.000001% something else when we are talking one bubble) and simply look at the system map (shocking I know) and find a celectial that is a good deal off (left right up down whatever) of this straight line between the two gates etc. Warp to that celectial and from there 0 to the gate.

Provided your sense of geometry was good enough to allow you to create a difference of more than 5-10% degrees then you will land squat on the gate and jump through just fine (what will happen on the other side with you in a pod is another matter altogether).

As to the guy wondering why these are put behind and not in front of the gate there are many small advantages:
(a) easier to allign if not warping to xxx urself but simply moving to position manually... you just allign visually the two dots (the two gates usually) and snipe urself right behind them.
(b) allows for less angle difference from celectials (miniscule)
(c) makes it more "ohshit" when people see the gate go by.
(d) allows hunter sitting on the incoming end in order to decloak cloaked would be victims, to have a shorter ride to the gate (sitting on the gate side of the bubble in this case) assisting with GFO doctrine.
(e) somehow it seems to provoke less (on a subliminal level) passers by to gank it if it is not between them and their destination (no sense just insticts)
-also a few sekrits :P -

As to the distance: usually it will be 70-90 kms from the gate to prevent friends of the victim sitting on the gate (or jumping through it or randoms) to warp to the fight for *****, giggles and finishing off profits...

: lack of proper bookmarks shouldn't result in you being sucked into a bubble and pummeled by a gate camp.

If drag bubbles are going to exist, there should be some warning that they're going to pull you off-course when you initiate warp. This gives an attentive pilot time to stop warp and attempt a different approach.

If drag bubbles are going to exist, there should be some warning that they're going to pull you off-course when you initiate warp. This gives an attentive pilot time to stop warp and attempt a different approach.

If drag bubbles are going to exist, there should be some warning that they're going to pull you off-course when you initiate warp. This gives an attentive pilot time to stop warp and attempt a different approach.

Fight your own battles and stop asking CCP to do it for you.