EVE New Citizens Q&A

Did you move? That drops the gate cloak.
Otherwise to my knowledge the gate cloak is absolute both in terms of invisibility and invulnerability.

Sounds like a lag spike to me.

While it's not possible (a bug notwithstanding), that you get insta killed straight after jumping through a gate and while still being cloaked from jumping, you might get lagged enough so that it seems like an insta kill after warping (if you got decloaked somehow).

If you check your killmails, you can see who killed you and with what. Your last death (that appeared on public killboards) was in Tama (and you should have known better than to fly through Tama - maybe get some information first, next time). Your ship was killed by three guys in Confessors (one of them just had a point on you, the second had Dual Light Beam Lasers II and the third weapon didn't register on public killboards). Your pod was killed one minute later by a fourth guy in a Machariel using a Smartbomb. I don't see anything fishy here. (And I checked your other losses, too.)

Probably just bad luck (if everything happened as you say).

Did you jump through the gate and got killed on the other side ... or ... were you approaching the out-gate and got killed before you could jump?

To be honest, that was my first thought as well ("I arrived at a camped gate"), but OP writes "after a jump" and knows about the 60 second timer (hell, even I had to look that up as to be sure not to confuse it with the 30 second undock timer) so he clearly means after jumping through.

Also no way in hell someone can possibly believe he has a 60 second cloak timer when warping to a gate (otherwise the connection of getting killed while approaching the Gate with the natural cloak after a jump makes no sense at all)!


Edit: OP, were you perchance flying on Autopilot?
That might explain instadecloaking without you touching keyboard or mouse...

Yes - kind of. Your pod was killed by a smartbombing Machariel. Smart bombs do area of effect damage and don't need to target you so they are great for catching pods.

From your killboard, your heron was nabbed by 3 confessors 1 minute (anywhere from 0-60 seconds) before your pod got smart bombed. I'm guessing you either unintentionally moved or let your 60 second timer expire, got alphaed by the confessors, and then the machariel cleaned up your pod immediately.

Most likely cases
-60 seconds expired (it's shorter than you think)
-You accidentally double clicked or hit a movement hotkey. My old mouse used to randomly double click all the time when I asked for single clicks and sometimes got me in a lot of trouble.

The gate cloak only works if it isn't invalidated either by you moving or by you being within 2000m of any object or ship in space. That means that if you had the misfortune to spawn too close to some object, you don't get a gate cloak at all. Such an occurrence is quite rare but not unheard of. Large and well prepared gatecamps can increase the odds of de-cloaking passers-by by jettisoning objects around the gate, or deploying all their drones and orbiting. The wreckage and corpses of previous victims also can decloak you.

I don't think that's true. You should be totally invulnerable during your 60 second timer.

Yeah, it's very true. you're only invulnerable while you are cloaked. If you get bumped you loose your cloak and can be locked up.

You can't be bumped while under gate cloak.

I've come though a gate in a freighter and landed on top of another freighter, and not moved. As soon as my gate cloak was gone, my ship suddenly was bumped.

Effectively your ship doesn't exist while under gate cloak.

Yes they do.

Before the mass-based spawning changes it used to be quite common to spawn within 2000 m of a wormhole, which would decloak you in any other situation. Drones and cans are used to prevent people from cloaking AFTER they break gate-cloak, not to break it in the first place.