EVE New Citizens Q&A

my best guess is that you had a lag spike and the jump was delayed. also, if for some strange reason you got out of warp father than 2000m away from the gate, you would have to travel the few meters difference, which would give your attackers a slim window of opportunity to kill you.

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Thanks for you reply much appreciated. I was reading all the forums and eveuni etc before i went into low sec so i thought i was fully prepared for anything, i even bought cheap probes just incase i was podded so i didnt lose as much isk, scanning with normal prob's a right pain much prefer SOE probes lol.

well the thing is every other gate id jumped to prior to that i did land between as you said 1 - 2.5km but it always only took me a few secs to hit the gate and jump out the system. this time i literally landed right on top of it, the gate took up my whole screen and i was facing the end of the gate (were you actually travel through) which has never happened before i usually warp into the side of the gate and than as i jump the gate swings round and i follow through. this time i just landed at the entrance to the gate at 0km than just stayed there till i died, there was like 0.5 secs between my ship exploding and my pod exploding didnt get chance to spam s on another celestial.

also if you've read my killmail you'll see my finds were not that much different from exploring in high sec, is low sec exploring actually worth doing and its just a matter of chance if you get a decent site. i think i was exploring low sec for a good few hours and scanned down quite a few sites, but the loot was at best on par with high sec. Just wondering if i should just stay exploring in high sec or give low sec another go or should i even try exploring nullsec?? im really enjoying the game and ive been podded a few times and i know you have to treat your ships lke plastic cutlery lol so all advice is appreciated

i was looking into exploring in WH space but apparently there are sleepers on those sites so you need a combat ship is that correct??

Check the lossmail you received in game for the type of weapon that was used to kill you. I suspect from what you stated that you were smartbombed on an outgate.

That is generally extreme bad luck and an unavoidable loss.

As for danger signs that your outgate might be smartbomb camped - 3 or more podkills in system in the last hour is the main one, as is a fair number of people in local that you cannot account for.

Actually iv noticed my ship will on occasion act as if I had just warped to the gate and not pressed jump on contact.
remember when the client would do this when you alt tab out? It's along those lines but without the alt tab bit, granted I play in windowed mode with two clients and iv noticed it with both of them .

i sort of knew what i was getting myself into because on local 8 people were flagged as criminals, so id assumed there was a gate camp up head, but id also been advised the safest ship for gate camps is co-ops (buzzard) for avoiding gate camps. So i was 50/50 about chancing it, but than thought if everyone has advised me that co-ops ships are fine against gate camps who am i to argue. so i kept my eyes peeled as i was warping towards the gate ready to click the jump(again) if anything went wrong. but i didn't seem to burn towards the gate. i literally landed right on top of the gate at 0km and than after a few seconds my ship exploded than about a second later my pod did. i know that your suppose to have a a few seconds after your ship has popped to get your pod out of there. But i didnt even seem to get the chance.

i believe there is another thread in this section were people are advising a new player that a co-ops ship with a cloak is fine against gate camps. so it looks like i was extremely unlucky and got hit by lag.

thankfully i do enjoy dying and learning, just wanted to clarify what happened so if it was something about my fit that i had got wrong i could rectify it.
but with online gaming there's not much that can be done with the lag monster lol

You could of hit the warp to 0 button instead of the jump button and it would of caused all of this.
Next time when u land, start hitting the jump button over and over for the gate when your worried, it can't hurt.

Confirming this has started happening to me as well, since Rhea was released and more often in cloaked ships than non-cloaked ships.

Sugar Smacks may also be correct though.

One of my favorite things to do when I am aware of a gate camp in an otherwise empty system is warp cloaked to some random safe spot and go have lunch and watch a movie.

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That's the exact same thing I noticed when I'm flying a covop's around. I think you're spot on about the solution. As for smart-bombers, best thing to do(as already mentioned in the thread) is to bounce(warping to gate from an unexpected angle).



Several people I know(me included) noticed that when you're using the selected item window buttons sometimes you hit jump - enter warp, arrive at the gate and the ship just stops and it doesn't do anything. It doesn't seem to happen at all when using the "right click in space menu". The same thing happens with the dock button on the selected item window. "We"call it a bug but to be honest "we" have no idea what's causing it. All I can say is that is for sure annoying as hell.



As already mentioned this is not correct. Recently(in Eve terms anyway), null-sec type data/relic sites were added to the C1-C3 wormoles. My suggestion is to use wormholes for more than just exploration(as in doing the sites). They can be very handy shortcuts helping you in your travels(i.e. you don't have to worry about gate-camps if you enter/exit null-sec or low-sec via wormholes).

By the way, if you like doing exploration you could take a look at this guide(written for new players, at least in my opinion, by a relatively new player ) - EVE Online Exploration Guide: Billions and Billions (of ISK)

Have fun.