EVE New Citizens Q&A

Ok, So I know that the cloaking animation does not reflect the actual cloaking mechanic. Cloaking is instant, even though it takes about 3 seconds for the visual effect to occur.

Is there a similar thing happening with gates?

I was warping around in a travel fit inty and saw a svipul and sabre at a gate. I waited for them to move away, and went through. On the other side they followed me. I beat them to the next gate of course, went through, and started warping to station, found myself in a pod, and safey warped to station.

As I went through the gate, I was watching them decelerate towards the gate. On the other side, I clicked warp-to before the gate sounded off someone else entering system. So I thought I was in the clear. But I double click warp to, and the second click was in a pod. So the svipul one shot me, but I got my pod away before the sabre dropped a bubble.

Is the gate cycle sound and animation not indicative or did I just get lagged? I'm thinking I did everything right, but maybe I screwed up and just don't know it. Thank you.

edit- oops meant to post to GD.

Everything is "instant" +/- your internet ping time to the Iceland servers (typically 50-250ms), plugged into the server's 1-second clock ticks.

So you could push your button to warp, have that command take 1/4 of a second to get to the server, where the command gets added to the queue during the current 1-second tick, and gets processed and sent back to you the next tick.

They will only perceive that you're there once the server signals that you're uncloaked, and their command to lock you could also take the current tick or the next tick, depending on their lag and reaction time.

Basically, it's quantum time; things that appear simultaneous are not, things that were sequential appear simultaneous. For maximum safety you want your align time to be under 2 seconds; server ticks tend to round things up to that interval. It's why you see charts like this show everything longer than 2 seconds in red.

The servers are in London. Iceland got one undersee cable that is well known for it's unreliability. Getting spare parts to Iceland can take two weeks. Iceland is one of the last places one would build a datacenter.

Yea, I was in a travel fit inty. Align was under 1.8 according to EFT with my skills, etc. I sounds like it must have been lag.

If your align time in that ship is < 1.8 secs and you didn't screw anything up in any way then yes, it was lag. If everything was running "correctly" a ship that aligns in under 2 secs is unlockable.

Nothing in EVE is ever 100% certain (which adds to the fun of course) but I have to say that you were exceptionally unlucky. I live in null and am constantly jumping gate camps in a travel fit Ares with an align time of 1.67 secs. I have never been locked despite doing it on an almost daily basis.

Hrm, I had originally 3 IS IIs but someone told me to drop those for nanos, without mentioning the caveat that the nanos increase my align time. I should have checked it myself, but for some reason It seemed to me that 3 nanos + 2 SPEH would be enough to get under 2.

Plugging the correct values into pyfa confirms what you said, and interestingly, even if I swapped out the WCS for a 4th nano, my align would still be over 2.

Meh, thank you for the correction.

So 2 IEs with 2 SPEH = 1.99 align. Wondering the best way to utilize those two extra lows now. Damage resistance or speed.

Remote sebos do not suffer from diminishing returns. With a properly fit T3 booster friend you can get most ships cruiser and down to nearly insta lock anything.

Remote assistance mods suffer from stacking penalties if the attribute is stacking penalised. Scan resolution is, so the effect of ReSEBOs are stacking penalised. They are just more effective than local SEBOs so you can get a higher scan res.

Inertials till under 2s, then damage control, shield tank in mids (to be able to survive smart bombers at gates), hyperspatial T2 rigs. That's how my travel ceptors are fit.