EVE New Citizens Q&A

Your problem buddy is that it does not work with an Afterburner. Only a MWD.
The cloak slows you so much only a MWD will give you sufficient boost in one cycle to enter warp immediately.
Practice in HiSec before trying in low/nul.

Well in that case my friend, your answer is here: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=311022

This isn't really hard. Use only an improved cloak, hit the cloak first.

Pro tipyou can not turn on mods while cloaked so there for you press the mwd then turn on cloak wait for mwd to cycle turn off cloak and warp instantly if you aligned while mwd was cycling

The server runs on a one second tick where it processes events.

So if you engage mwd on "tick one" and your cloak doesn't engage on the same tick then you will be visible (with full mwd sig bloom, so very easy to lock) for one second. ie until the end of "tick two".

Statistically if you use both keyboard and mouse it'll usually* happen on the same tick but if you cloak first then the worst case scenario is your MWD won't engage but you are still cloaked. Only ever happened to me once (I'm 7ms ping from the server) but saved my arse as I managed to slowboat it back to gate.

So you ALWAYS cloak then mwd. Use KB shortcut for one, mouse for the other.

*if your latency (ping) to the server is highly variable then your chances decrease.

It is and by several you'd mean a maximum of just under two seconds (in theory).

The MWD-cloak trick is used in gate-camp situations, to try to escape.

In case you don't know what that is, you jump through a gate and arrive on the other side invisible, to give you time to look at what's going on and form a plan. As soon as you try to do something, the invisibility will disappear.

The gate campers will have interceptors to fly to your position as soon as you become visible. You, on the other hand, need to cloak up to become invisible again, and need to get away from that spot where you just were, so that that interceptor doesn't find you.

To get invisible, you activate your cloak. To get away, you're trying to get a little pulse from your MWD so you can drift away from that spot while you're cloaked. You need to activate the mwd and the cloak in the order that gives the best results for your ship and for your reaction times (which means, practice, don't wait until you're actually surrounded by enemies to get it right).

"Fast" ships are frigates.
Transport ships, cruisers, battlecruisers, battleships are definitely "slow". Even destroyer is probably slow.

The enemy interceptor is waiting by the gate, which means approx. 15km away from your random arrival position. An interceptor can cross 15km and be on top of you within a few seconds. Meanwhile, you need to drift at least 2.5km within the same few seconds, and typically frigates are the only ships that have the agility and speed to pull it off.

The MWD module gives your ship a 500% bonus to its listed speed. But the scenario starts with you being stationary, and you're trying to accelerate away with the MWD, but the cloaking device cuts off the MWD and all other modules when it goes on. So the only thing that you get from the MWD is a little push, so you can drift away while cloaked, hopefully more than 2.5 km away.

Activate cloak first or MWD first means just which buttons you push first. Your ship doesn't react instantly, because it has mass and agility stats, and also because there's lag between your computer and the game servers. You need to learn which buttons to push first, for the ship that you have, to achieve "a speed burst and invisibility" from your ship.

I can activate mine 3+ seconds after I activate cloak. I also live rather close to the main server, go try it then come back & tell me more