Frameshift inhibitor gravity bomb

[Anopheles]

I think we need some way to slow down people who flee interdiction, but I understand that it should not be a griefing tool.

My solution is a gravity bomb that affects a 30 km bubble. It would act as a factor 24 mass inhibitor slowing everybodies frameshift, including the bomber.

It could be on a timer, I reckon with a random element, say 180 secs + 10secs x r where r is a number between 1 and 12, making the bomb last between 3m 10secs and 5 mins.

Balancing points

Unfittable on anything smaller than a cobra
Costs 200k per bomb makes it uneconomic on individual small traders
Big, big fine for use near stations/on system authority ships
Cannot be used in an existing gravity bomb bubble
Double edged sword. You may have bitten off more you can chew.

Thoughts?

 

[Asp Explorer]

Sorry, can't agree there. If you want to prevent people escaping once interdicted, you'll just have to develop a strategy to do so - or pick targets that you know you can reliably mass-lock using your ships urm, mass.

Perhaps there could be room in the game for a specialist interdiction support ship though - to do pretty much what you suggest, but balance this out with the power draw required means it can't hold offensive weaponry. Teamwork possibilities there.