EVE General Discussion

My alt lost a pod that narrowly missed the front page of eve-kill.net last night .

Stilleto was waiting for me to come out of warp, had me targed and pointed before I could warp off. This was all in spite of the fact that I was manically spamming warp to another celestial. I was under the impression that even an instalock inty can't pull this off and that the only way to lose a pod in low (provided you know how to spam warp) is to smartbombs.

Just so I know for the future, is there some inty fit that makes this possible, or was it network lag, or was I just wrong altogether about pod safety in low?

HTFU is what you say to people simply expressing butthurt. I'm asking a question about game mechanics which you didn't answer.

I didn't see anything about "HTFU." I saw him answering one of your questions. Apparently you didn't like the (correct) answer to one of your questions, and you got buttmad about it.

I would consider it nigh-impossible if you are coming out of a dead ship, since you can hit warp before you appear on their overview. Or if you're landing on a gate/station and become invulnerable upon activation/docking.

However if you're landing in space and trying to decelerate, then warp somewhere else, I am not very surprised to see that you got caught.

Remember than an inty can see where you are going and beat you there. So only fly to a BM or a cluster of celestials so the inty pilot can't tell which one you are flying to.

Using the right-click interface to get to a bm DOES take too long. When doing insta-undocks or other maneuvers that might require instant selection of bookmarks, have the people and places window already open. Current system bms will be green. So you can spam click them without the delay of the context-menu.

As far as I am aware, the align time for a capsule is several orders of magnitude too high for even a Claw to instalock. It's only lag that will get you killed in a capsule.

Having a 'Warpout' overview tab really helps. When you hear the hull alarm, swap tabs , select some random destination, and spam the 'warp to' button on the 'selected item' box.


Ive never lost an unbubbled pod.

Keep in mind that 90%+ of the playerbase sees every question as just an excuse wave their teeny little e-peens around. "HTFU" is just the most utterly pathetic way in which this is done. Feel free to ignore such people, as you are correct in that they have nothing to contribute to the discussion, the question, or life in general.



Pods catching is difficult, but can be done with very specialized ships/tools. Usually this involves a Slasher with 3 x Sensor Boosts and 1 x Warp Disruptor (I've done this myself) or a ship with numerous Remote Sensor Links feeding into a second ship, which then grabs you.

Outside of that, however, catching a pod is almost impossible without a interdiction bubble of some kind, smartbombs (as you said) or just plain horrible lag.

For extra safety many people keep bookmarks anywhere between 151km+ directly in front of a station's ejection port, allowing for (near) instant warp immediately after undocking, and letting you clear the range of any (normal) scramble attempts & buying to time to actually change direction to where you really want to warp off to. Again, there are some very specialized ships/tools that can be used to scramble someone from absurd distances (like 80km+) but even they can't reach to that kind of range.

Pods don't warp instantly.

Imagine a straight line. You're coming out of warp, looking forward.

You decellerate, but you're not at 0 velocity instantly.
Now imagine you spam warp to somewhere in the opposite direction ... that takes time!
You can shorten the timeframe between coming out of warp and entering warp again by warping somewhere that is in front of you. That way, you can use the fact that you're not at 0 velocity after exiting warp to your advantage.

All else ... implants to shorten aligntime might help.