EVE New Citizens Q&A

What happens if my internet connection is lost while in combat with another online player?

- Your ship will try to emergency warp 1 million kilometers away.

- if you are warp disrupted/scrambled then you will not warp away.

- as long as something is shooting your ship you will have an "engagement timer" that will keep your ship in space until it either...
--- dies
--- that "something" stops shooting you and leaves you alone for the duration of the timer (10 minutes I think).


Something to note too... EVE treats voluntarily exiting the game in the same way it treats internet outages. This is because CCP honestly cannot distinguish between the two and too many people were unplugging their computer to avoid getting killed.

Unless the problem is on CCP's end, you will not be reimbursed for a ship loss.

If you are warp scrambled as you disconnect, you're toast for sure. Ship and pod.

If you are not warp scrambled or disrupted, you will e-warp as stated. That isn't necessarily safe - a determined hunter will combat probe you down. Depending upon the nature of your engagement, they will have 15 minutes to find you, but may need to find you inside the first 5 for their continued attacks to be legal.

For example, if I dueled you in highsec, you hit me with ECM (turning my warp scrambler off) and then disconnected before I could reestablish scram, you'd e-warp. I'd have 15 minutes to find you before you log off (which is easy if I have the desire to do it, unless you are in a Prospect or similarly hard to scan ship, and even then it is very doable even with my bad scanning skills) but if I don't find you inside 5 minutes, our limited engagement would be up, leaving me the options of either suicide ganking you or letting you escape.

One important note - if you are piloting a Dreadnaught, Carrier or Marauder employing a siege/triage/bastion module, you will not even get the e-warp.

Thanks for the inputs.

I've recognized that my ship is e-warping the moment when I reconnect, so does it e-warp twice on both dis- and re-connect?

Except if you disconnect in deadspace.

In that case, in my experience strange things happen. You might warp back inside deadspace, or to the acceleration gate. Both things happened to me while I disco'd from inside Faction Warfare complexes (deadspace). No idea if there's a general rule I'm missing or if it's just random/buggy.

Good info, although I believe the LE timer to also be 15 minutes (then again, I've never really paid attention).

Just to reiterate, the NPC Logoff timer is 5 minutes, and does NOT refresh on continued aggression after you disconnect. The Capsuleer logoff timer is 15 minutes and continues to refresh on continued aggression after you log off.

NPCs never attack pods, so if your ship does go boom in a mission or what not while you were disconnected, you can at least be sure your pod is safe.

So yeah, basically if you lose connection in PvP you're probably screwed. If you lose connection during PvE, it kind of depends on how much trouble you were in at the time, and how quickly you can get back online. If you weren't warp scrambled you will probably be fine unless you were already close to exploding.