EVE New Citizens Q&A

What you describe is most commonly referred to as a safespot.

Basically, open People&Places, click Add Location, and then Confirm it. You will then have created a bookmark to where you were when you confirmed it, which can be mid-warp. A safespot in between two objects isn't all that safe, ideally you then want to warp to a third object and create a safespot between that third object and the first safespot.

When you open People&Places again, you can right-click on the bookmark and select "warp to".

The only problem is that it takes a bit more time to select it and right-click, vs to just select a planet/belt in your overview and mash "warp to", so most people panic-warp to a planet / belt and then to a safespot as soon as they land there.

Knowledge is power.

https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Safe_spot

However, you'll want to keep an eye on your directional scanner while at your "safe spot" and look out for combat scanner probes - there's really no place that is "safe" when you are undocked.

Advanced tactics: dock in your shiny ship, undock in a shuttle or capsule and burn out before anyone has the time to lock you.

Get to your safe spot and log off in space (ESC menu, safe logoff), go make a sandwich, log back in - more often then not the person hunting you will have grown bored and moved on.

*this*

A proper setup overview with a "GTFO" tab is something every single player should have.

if you lose a capsule outside of Nullsec, you screwed up badly and need to fix your overview / strategy. There is no reason you should ever take a pod loss outside of nullsec. A proper warpout tab and good situational awareness is key to this.

most of the answers above are true and helpful. i will try and add a few more general survival tips.
- if you warp to the station, you will often be able to dock right away, which means that any ambusher would have very little time to attack and kill you. it is not impossible but can be difficult, especially if your ship has more than ~12000 effective health (the alpha strike damage of an artillery tornado battlecruiser).
- sometimes warping to the station will leave you a few kilometers outside of docking range. this can be very dangerous, especially if your ship is big and slow. the best way to avoid this is taking your time to make a custom "docking bookmark" right next to the station (with the methods described in the posts above) and warp to that instead of to the station itself.
- for situations where you need to get out RIGHT NOW, I found it most useful to create an extra "GTFO" tab in my overlay which only shows customs offices. you can then quickly click on the tab and select a random customs office while mashing the 'warp to' hotkey.
- as has been stated before, even creating a safe spot will not make you 100% safe, because you can still be found with combat scanner probes. to be completely safe, you also can fit a cloaking device on your ship. sitting cloaked on an uncompromised personal safe spot is about as safe as you can be in space, although logging off or a disconnect will disable the cloak and thus make you vulnerable again.

Usually yes, they will try to kill your pod.*

However, as your pod can enter warp instantly, you should be able to save your pod by selecting a warpable object and spamming the "warp to" button when you see that your ship is close to exploding. Unless you hit an unfortunate lag-spike, you should almost always be able to save your pod in low-sec. You should only lose your pod to "bubbles", and they only exist in null-sec (and wormholes).

* A few people will shy away from pod kills in low-sec if you didn't fought back, as that would lower their security status by much more than just the attack. But most don't.

This counts mainly for stations and is an addition to the safespots mentioned above.

Insta-dock spots:

Some stations have such a weird boundary box and docking ring that you drop a little bit out of docking range when you select warp to 0 / dock command. In certain cases this can give the enemy enough time to lock and pop your ship. To prevent this you can set up insta-dock spots. This are bookmarks as close to the station that it will show on your overview as being at 0 m. This garantuees instant dock as soon as you hit the dock command.

Inta-undocks:

This are safespot(s) which are within a 5° deviation of the station undock vector.
Why do you want these, well say your enemy is camping you in the station. If you undock and first have to turn around to your destination they can already have you locked, pointed and shooting you. With enough damage they can even alpha you in 1 shot.

Why is a insta undock handy...well when you exit a station you are going at 100% of your velocity while warp threshold is 75. As you are already meet the vector part (your ships vector should be within 5% in the direction of the warp destination) your ship will instantly warp when you give the command.

How far should you set these things. Well at MINIMUM 151 km from the undock, especially with kick-out stations (thsese are stations with a really small docking ring and you will near instantly be out of docking range once you undock). But it is highly recommended to make them off grid (personally I aim for 500km or more). Why off grid when 151 can do. Well being on grid it doesnt take much braincells for the enemy to just look where you are and see how far you are from the station and once you leave your safe just make their own in roughly the exact same spot which negates the entire use of it.

Doesnt really matter anyway if the safespot is part way between celestials the only way they can find you in to scan you down with combat scanner probes.

the only other method i can think of is cap dumping and then trying to land on grid with them becuase you know what direction their safe is in.

but surely the chances of landing on grid with them using this method are slim?

If you know other methods pls do tell.

and of course when you land in a safe keep moving. pick any direction and get going as stated this will make u harder to catch.

Other option.

D-scan and overview and dump bookmarks along the way. If you have a very good scout, it aint hard.