EVE New Citizens Q&A

yes, you have to reactivate the cloak after every jump. fortunately, you can use hotkeys to make it a little more convenient. just select the right gate, hit the jump through hotkey, then the cloak hotkey. only a very skilled gate camp will be able to catch you. most will not even bother.

Warp and activate cloak. If you get error message, try activating cloak again.

I restrict myself to two activations, because if I try a third time I invariable deactivate by mistake.

The two activations are completely reflexive for me, so if a third is required, I re-evaluate the situation first.

You're not doing it wrong. You appear for a short bit before warping. Not a problem. Warp to a celestial (planet/moon usually) first before warping to your next gate (but not at 0 or 100) - or better yet to safespots you've made if possible - to approach the next gate in your route from an angle someone waiting for you doesn't expect. f11 brings up the solar system map bar on the side that can help you choose an approach. When you jump through a gate and you are still under the gate cloak everybody is under after going through a gate, align to a celestial or safespot first not to your next destination (angle again). Longer, yes, but watching people trying to find/kill you but getting away is kinda fun...until they do :) o/

edit: Oh, are you traveling in highsec? Then just burn direct from gate to gate. Don't worry about that second you're uncloaked right before warping off, np :)

Usually, I jump into system, select stargate, hit D, then immediately after hit F1

There's an aspect here that hasn't been mentioned, and is somewhat important.

You are concerned about that brief moment where your ship must decloak before re-cloaking at each gate. Well, as long as you are very quick about pressing the cloak button, your ship will never actually be target-able.

Here's a look at (a simplified version of) the communication between server and client in that moment. I'll assume a 200ms ping, which is actually quite low for eve:

Server sends to Client: Entering system

Client sends to Server: your Warp command (jump through stargate)

Client sends to Server: your Cloak command

Server receives: your Warp command (200ms after you sent it)

Server sends to Client(s!): Ship decloaking/entering warp

Server receives: your Cloak command (200ms after you sent it)

Server sends to Client(s!): Ship cloak activated

Client(s!) receive: "Ship decloaked/started warp"

Client(s!) receive: "Ship cloaked"



Provided there is no delay between your pressing of warp and cloak, there is actually zero chance for a 'ship being targeted' command to make it through to the server before you are cloaked.

SO! In just about any situation except an extreme ping discrepancy (someone living next to eve's server cluster vs. australia for example) you do not have to worry much about that brief moment of being decloaked. Unless you're in 0.0

What works for me is to hit the cloaking module as soon as the "Warp Drive Active" text appears. Haven't been caught so far.

There is no way to remained totally cloaked as that would be over powered (afk cloak warping would be rampant), so just make sure you hit that cloak button as soon as you click warp.

This is a matter of balance I think. nano's make you faster but also increase max speed. Warp is initiated on 75% of that max speed. I use Inertia + Warp Stabs when I expect that I'll get locked anyway, for example in a BattleCruiser. The idea is then to minimize the amount of time DPS can be applied while you warp off / burn back to the gate. I use nanos on ships with fast accelleration and align speed, to minimize the chance of getting locked on at all.