I know there’s always the meat wall option, but what do I do when it’s just me or there’s no fleets/support in the area? I need a viable solo option to compliment the corp supported juiced option
You’d have no other option but to reduce risk any way you can. The most drastic reduction is by doing something different for the time you have no backup. I don’t know what your projects entail, but perhaps they have less risky activities you can do in the mean time ?
If you have access to a group of accounts, as you indicated, and you still want to do mining without backup, I’d scout the whole system, and put eyes on every hole. As soon as sth comes in, you warp your miners to safety. Just don’t put all your pilots into a mining fleet, that’s suicide. You’d also have to keep a close eye on new cosmic sigs popping up and identify them immediately. If possible and applicable, roll holes as well.
P.S. There’s videos on YT about organizing your clients while multiboxing.
TBH I feel there is no practical option for this style of solo mining in WH space. Even all the various suggestions from people only somewhat increase your chances of not getting completely nuked.
The primary issue is hanging a visible mining fleet for a substantial amount of time at known locations in aggressively hunted space. No matter what tricks you try, they’re only going to work once and the attacker fleet will be ready for it next time. If they don’t outmaneuver you first, as in this case.
I think you’d have more luck trying other options. Boxing 5 ships for Homefront Operations might be more feasible, and probably net you 400 mill per hour in high sec, maybe more. You could probably even be more sustainable in WHs with a smaller and more nimble gas huffing fleet that isn’t hanging around so long with a giant bullseye on them.
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It’s a mixture of solo kills, F1 monkey in fleets, and ganking. Primarily fleets, and primarily cases where people could and did fight back. On one occasion I lost 3 ships all within half an hour, in a wormhole. So quite a mixture. I’ve done ganking, but I don’t particularly enjoy it…I much prefer cruising around solo looking for people with suspect status.
You mention ‘fair’ fights. To me that is the wrong way of seeing it. The ‘fair’ in Eve comes from the fact that everyone is perfectly free to partake in any activity. Nobody is forced to partake as prey for others. It is a choice they make. They could just as easily choose to be a predator themselves. That is the ‘fair’ in Eve.
Fair fights exist in rings and on playing fields. Absolutely nowhere else in life is anything fair.
As the saying here goes, if you ever find yourself in a fair fight, both sides f*cked up. 
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My simple answer to the op is experience. Anywhere you go where they can be deployed effetely, they will. I use them myself, or at least I used to. Their good sucker traps…
At least there aren’t bubbles in low-sec…
Bubbles in low would be hilarious. No one would ever get through Abhazon.
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This terminology is how to win votes!
Multiple pilots each with their own Omega status.
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What are you even talking about? There is no such thing as a slotless, AOE, infinite strength disruptor that doesn’t already have an online timer. The deployable bubbles take from 1 to 8 minutes to online.
How many 10 second delays do you need ? Your dscan should give you all the “delay” you need.
Why stop there ? Why not demand 10 second delays on all warp disrupting/scrambling modules ? Or 10 second timers on bombs at the end of their trajectory ?
Or you could get guud.
Slotless… what about the highslot that the launcher is fitted in?
Just so you know, I do mine in nullsec at times, I generally go for high value ore, ice and sometimes gas. What I do is use Prospects or Endurances, but some times mining barges or even Exhumers. I split my ships up so they are apart and can’t be bubbled by one ship. I get safe or cloak up as soon as anyone I don’t know comes in local. I have done this for a long time, and have not lost a ship.
I did once lose a Hulk in Stain, but that was a funny catalogue of errors which taught me a few things not to do.
If you want to go for cheaper ore use ships that are throw away, like T1 mining barges.
Another trick you might want to think about is having a command destroyer ready to boosh out your mining fleet if you do have them altogether. Anyway, don’t be dispirited, a lot of people gave you good advice here, good luck.
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Ah, sorry. I might be getting my equipment mixed up between the launcher and the deployable. My bad.
Even then your information is wrong. Deployable bubbles have an online timer ranging from 1 minute to 8 minutes, depending on size and tech level.
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