Missions & Complexes

Hi, so I was doing a level 2 security mission in my destroyer, I know now level 2s need cruisers but that doesn't really matter here. I went out to the mission area and encountered the npcs and a stasis webifier tower which I most definitely destroyed and there was a web symbol over my capacitor display while it was alive. I fight through 2 or 3 waves of enemies before they start becoming too strong for my destroyer to handle and I decide to warp out. Except this entire time, even after I dispatched the tower, my speed was still being affected, stuck somewhere around 160m/s with afterburners on. And there was no web symbol over my capacitor anymore. I had checked all my tabs, added all possible objects, and there was no webifier tower left there. Anyway so I decide to warp out, the speedometer under my capacitor changes to warp and then the warp bar just sits there about 1/4 of the way full, where my 160m/s was before. My ship is aligned to target... and then nothing. It just bobs up and down in space till I get blown up. There was no web/scram symbol over my capacitor. I triplechecked. There were no other icons at all, like tracking disruptors. What gives?

So I go back in a second destroyer to loot my wreck, and again my speed is slowed as if I'm webbed, but there's no web icon on my screen. I warp out without problems, minus my loot, heal up and go a third time. Propulsion still being affected. I manage to loot my wreck and warp out. I finally go get my cruiser and go to the site. And my speed is fine, at max with afterburners, nothing affecting it.

What the hell was going on here? I lost maybe 2m, so I don't really care about that. I'm just really frustrated that I died when my ship had plenty of time to warp out, and my propulsion was being jammed despite me not being hit with a webifier or scrambler. It gets weirder that my cruiser was unaffected while my destroyers were, despite me not killing any enemy npcs that might have been jamming me between the time I lost my destroyer and the time I brought in my cruiser.

*Edit, sorry if this got posted twice, I lost internet as I hit post, although it doesn't look like it went through.

Has happened to me. Get stuck and WTF????? Meanwhile rats be shooting.

Confirming Elena is correct.

It is sometimes hard to tell you are stuck as the objects actual boundaries are not the same as what you visually see. When I am doing PVE, I have a tab that shows everything, so if warp is taking longer than it should I just switch over to that and see what I am stuck on, click on it with the camera tracking on so it faces the object then swing the camera around 180 degrees an head in that direction until you gain about 50% of your speed then re-initiate warp.

Being stuck on an object has that effect. Imagine a toy car running into a wall at a slight angle, it will still move but will be slowed down due to the wall not allowing it to move freely.

I can't say exactly what caused this, but I will say that in general it makes it take longer to warp if you leave your afterburner on while accelerating to warp. What speed you need to reach to go into warp is factored from your current top speed. Having the AB on raises that threshold. If you use the AB to get to a speed above your max speed without an AB, and then turn off the AB you will warp almost instantly as you are then suddenly above your top non-AB speed and thus going fast enough to warp. Actually being webbed with an actual web increases your warpout speed as it lowers the speed you need to reach to warp out by lowering your top speed. There are people who escort massive industrial ships that use webs on them to help them warp out a lot faster because of this.

If it wasn't for the fact that your second destroyer was slow too I would blame this on lag from poor internet or computer being slow, or other stuff etc. I've lost a battleship that I thought should have warped out in time but took forever and then popped. I later learned that what actually happened is I was dead before I knew it and lag made it seem like I was still alive and could warp out. I couldn't get to warp speed because on the server I was already dead and the game was trying to catch up on my end.

I'm pretty sure that when you dock/undock it resets that, so when he changed to a different ship it should not have had an affect.

PS, you can do lvl2's in a destroyer, you just need an OK fitting and good skills. You can even do some lvl4's in a frig (T2) if you really want but they take forever.

Definitely an LCO.

When you are bumping into a massive collidable, your ship will occasionally just start flying through it.
And when that happens, your ship is simultaneously trying to navigate away from the collisions, thus slowing you down.

Of course it was an LCO.