EVE New Citizens Q&A

Last night, while roaming, I got into a huge fight and lost my frigate. Like a good little n00blet I opened my podsaver tab when my ship went into armor and mashed warp, picking a POCO and warping at 83 km (whenever I go out roaming, I always set my 'warp to distance' default to a random distance)

I see my pod fly away from the blob of orange and yellow, and scroll down my list and pick a random planet and start mashing "warp to" at 83. I'm still in warp, and start mashing warp to my bounce location. I land on grid with the poco from my first warp and hear "warp drive active" followed by my hull alarm, then am suddenly breathing vacuum instead of my own urine infused pod-goo.

After freaking out and probably getting muted by everyone on teamspeak, I calm down enough to read fleet chat, where someone wants to see my loss-mail, and see that I got blown up by a smartbombing proteus.

How do I avoid getting my pod killed?

You do not. This is a risk of the game.

I assume it was low sec? Warp to a safe instead of a celestial.

This.

Albeit the OP basically did this, but worth linking for nooblets.

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There is now with bookmarks in space!

Make sure your UI 'compass' has the blue personal bookmarks, it will now show in space. Right click that and mash warp (easier then scrollign through your right click menu)

You know I would love to here more about the pod saver tab, could have used something like it a few days ago. Is there a guide or other explanation of how to set up an "oh my god get me out of here" tab?

Thanks in advance ...

Ctrl B is the keyboard shortcut.

From the sounds of it you were caught in lowsec or null by a smartbomb after your pod ejected. The "effect" of seeing yourself warping out in your pod may have been the graphics just not caught up with what really happened. Never rely on the graphics for accuracy of your situation ;). Example, the cloaking effect. Cloaking occurs the moment you activate the module, and it's 100%. The graphics provide you an illusion that it's taking much longer to occur.

This is the kill in question: https://zkillboard.com/kill/42618808/

I'm thinking the Proteus was at the location where you lost your Breacher. Chances are it was this, and he knew you were going down so he timed his bombing. If not, then you were just unlucky to land where the Proteus was.

In either case, in a pod, you're not going to survive a smartbombing.

so there's no point in saving my pod then?

Ha ha, from the sound of some replies here someone hasn't been in low-sec in a while. It is very possible that what actually happened is exactly what "Celine Sophia Maricadie" described.

However, hunting pods and low ehp frigates doesn't work by staying cloaked at random POCO's or gates as some people seems to think. First of all, you(they) have a bunch of scouts for intel(both offensive and defensive). Second, the T3 fit is designed to follow the ship(pod) in warp and kill it once it lands. Most people either warp at 0 or 100 which makes the job so much easier(that's why the OP was asked if he didn't set up 83m instead of 83km; thinking about it 83 km is not the safest distance - is like 5km from instant death which isn't much considering the guy has all the time in the world to pulse mwd towards you).

If you don't pay extreme attention at what it happens around you you'll be probed in no time at all and killed, even if you managed to warp your pod at a safe. Bellow is a somehow standard fit of the (new) T3 smart bombing it is used these days.

https://zkillboard.com/kill/42649898/

As for the "get your pod away tab in low sec" is no rocket science really. Make a tab with no brackets, and add only moons in it. Another thing that helps(which one should do anyway when he's pvp'ing) is disable all the (nonsense) effects which make the game look pretty but get you killed because of the added lag(one that instantly comes to mind is ship explosions).