EVE General Discussion

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Since the Rubicon expansion I have lost several ships being locked and pointed on gate due to inability to cloak. One of those a prowler being flown by a hauling character. I did not seem to have this problem before the Rubicon expansion. I'm just curious if anyone else has been having this problem. Also low signature radius ships such as frigates being locked by an interdictor before warping off from a gate, I have noticed this several times.

It should be noted that my internet connection is garbage for the next few weeks before I move. I have not changed anything I have been doing, it seems that if you hit align or warp then immediately hit cloak the commands should be arriving at the server at the correct interval. I never had this problem before Rubicon.

The other thing that may be occurring is you are actually dropping gate cloak too fast and encountering the recloaking delay timer.

That makes sense. It is as I feared. When I moved in to this place I had told the landlord that I needed good internet to Skype for my aviation degree I am working on. Apparently his idea of good internet is using the neighbors "guest" connection. Between this and many other mis-communications I think this guy is candidate for an upper decker in every bathroom in the house when I move out in a few weeks.

Also Wyoming seems to have way better internet than most places around the country, I guess sheep don't use much bandwith. I'm coming baaaaack.

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This might not be a bug, this might be user error...

Keep in mind that you cannot cloak if you're locked or within 2.5 KM of anything! It is extremely easy for a Insta lock interceptor to lock anything. (If interceptor is fitted properly and has a good pilot, it takes less then a second to lock a POD.)

Even if you do get to cloak and press warp, its also easy (easier now with camera tracking) to just burn towards the general area where the target cloaked to and uncloak them.

Be aware of your surroundings when you jump into low or null sec.

Another thing to consider is that people are flying more super sebo'ed ships trying to catch the rash of interceptors that are around, and we do find that we catch more cloaky ships since we started doing that.

If only eve actually worked that way. But nope, one has to internalize a timer in order to navigate successfully. That timer includes the hop from your connection to CCP's servers, so is different for everyone, and changes depending on your internet connection.

Not really complaining, I internalized the cloak timing a long time ago, so now it mainly affects me by laughing at people who 'should never have been caught'. Just saying though, kinda freakin' silly that I have to press align, pause a quarter second, then shift-f1->f1->f2 (but don't press them too fast or the cloak command won't register) to get past a camp. Sure, it's do-able, but should I pause ever so slightly less (or more) than that quarter second, or should there be the slightest internet hiccup in that moment, I am ******.

Hardly news though, it's been this way since I started playing, at least.

Eve is not supposed to be a twitch game.

Wormholes. I can cross the galaxy without seeing a gate.

I know everybody's in a hurry.

There is still input lag, i have noticed this often. I am having to hit Fkeys multiple times for them to recognized in-game. It was only occasionally prior to the Odyssey since then it's constant, if i am doing something risky i click because it activates on the first click vs the possible/probable 2-3 button mashings on any keyboard i own. ( both USB and P2 keyboards. )