Warfare & Tactics

remote boosted ship (A) with scanres 5000mm (actually it is 4984) is sitting on undock.

pod (B) undocks, ship pilot starts to spam "lock".

pilot B presses "warp", pilot A starts to get locking. all modules are pre-heated.
after about 0.4 sec (what i've seen on screen) pod warps out.

just wanted to ask: what people call "instalock"? I've heard you can get it with 2800+ scanres?

Podding someone is usually possible if A. They're in a bubble, or B. Their ship has just been blown up. The change over from ship to pod usually causes lag, so the way to avoid this is to spam warp once your ship gets into structure. That way, when your ship dies, your pod will instantaneously warp away.

As for insta lock, it is what it says on the tin - a ship with so much sensor resolution that it can instantaneously lock whatever it is you're trying to catch. Usually, the object of desire isn't someone's pod (it can be) but is someone's ship, like a Cloaky Tengu as it cloaks and warps or a frigate trying to get away from a lowsec gate camp.

If a pilot has selected a celestial on their overview and is spamming the 'warp' hotkey, it is impossible to catch their pod. The only reason you can catch pods is through lag, bubbles, or the pilot not doing this.

personal reflexes usually don't matter as the server runs at 1 Hz and if you are unlucky your action will take place just after the last tick and you'll have to wait almost 1s until it is processed.

there is no such thing as insta lock. move on.

1500 is still not instant lock.

This is obviously can not be "stealth". People use this word for something non-visible, under the radars, etc... And you use it to your imaginary things like "tears" which are not exist

Eve really needs a server side action queue system. Spamming warp away, targeting, locking module on should be queued up server side and execute as soon as the action is allowable on the server. This would eliminate most of the lag in command issues.

Of course that would also eliminate the skill required when decided when to punch a cloak at a gate camp and other timing the lag based fighting issues. I guess managing lag in the interface properly is part of the skills required to be a good pilot in eve.

personally i think podding is just another stupid mechanic that adversely selects for those with lag issues. in theory it should not happen so long as your are spamming warp, just as catching a pod warping away from a gate camp is impossible. in practice it however it happens all the time.

that ccp would subject you, the paying customer, to something as silly, arbitrary, and uncontrollable, as losing your pod to lag caused by the change from your ship exploding, just goes to show how little the care about your experience.

podding after ship loss is literally ccp's biggest scam and where they show their least concern for the player base.

their basic attitude is, tough ****, it's the one place we count on lag to make money at your expense.