EVE New Citizens Q&A

if you find yourself pointed, you can just start spamming the warp button and your pod will instawarp after you explode. Then again, in a noobship you probably died instantly.

Capsules align instantly - it is literally impossible to catch a capsule that is going from gate cloak to warp. Shuttles don't quite warp instantly but it's so fast that I've never seen one get pointed coming off a gate. Shuttles have the advantage of warping at 6 AU/S rather than 3, so in general I prefer shuttles.


One think to be aware of is smartbomb camps. These are not very common at all for a number of reasons, but in certain high-traffic systems they do occasionally pop up. What will happen is that someone will fit up a BS with a bunch of smartbombs and position themselves near a gate people want to warp to in the direction of another gate. When someone comes to the gate they are camping, the camper will hit his smartbombs. This is one of the only ways you can be killed before you've even exited warp. Most ships will have the tank to withstand this and jump through anyway, but a shuttle, pod or noobship will not.

If I anticipate having to deal with this, I will either set up tacticals (BMs >150km away from the gate in question) and warp to them first, or use directional scan on the gate I'm warping to.

Pretty much exactly what Kahega said. I generally would hop into a newb ship due to it being free and readily accessible but sometimes would just pod home if it was through low traffic systems.

Yes. Noobships are about average as far as agility goes compared to other frigates, whereas shuttles are much faster and pods are virtually instant.

Until yesterday, I could have written this exact quote verbatim. A harsh lesson learned.

With all respect to E-Uni (my main is a student there and I love it), we're currently at war with a 6 person corp, I've flown all over the place without even seeing a WT in local. Faction Warfare is a different situation entirely, especially when traveling through the losec systems you need to plex, etc. There are WTs all over the place and their sole purpose in life is to see your lifeless body floating naked in space.

I'll be following Kehega's advice in emergencies from now on.

Welp you first need to find some friends to fly with (a corp of course) and then get your skills up to where you can either get through the gate camps with ease, or you and your friends can blap the gate camp yourselves.


Just a suggestion...Eve is "funner" with friends.


Out here!

Onyx Asablot
Legion of Patriots
CEO

I'm not sure what our current war situation is all about, it seems laughable, but anyway, that is neither here nor there. While pods are almost instant aligning, they can get caught, especially at gate camps. Any ship will give you some form of buffer from being podded. I agree with either a shuttle or a newb ship. I can't really agree with riding your pod out, when a quick dock up will make you safer.

If I understand correctly there really is no advantage in traveling in a pod. Shuttles are relatively inexpensive and you can resell them at your destination.

This, just spam align/warp at a random celestial as soon as you know its over, and your pod should be in warp before they do anything.

But OT, shuttle or noobship should be fine, anything fast that provides an extra layer between pod and angry men in space.