EVE New Citizens Q&A

HI

Can someone please tell me the way to get the smallest signature radius possible.

Also what is the way to get the highest agility possible.

I am using a frigate ship.

People say it's hard to lock a pod because they are so small and they "insta-warp", so I was wondering what I have to do to make my ship do that.

Or as close as possible to that.

Thank you!

Starting from a stop, most T1 frigates (unplated, anyway) are quick enough that, while perhaps not technically unlockable, realistically speaking, it's just not happening due to the way the server ticks work. If you've just jumped through a gate, you're cloaked, for instance. You hit warp, but you won't appear and start warping until the next server tick. They start targeting you, but that targeting process won't actually begin until the next server tick, and now you've been accelerating for a full second. When they get a lock, they still have to wait a tick for their modules to activate, etc.

While moving is another matter, since your alignment will generally take longer (unless you were already flying toward your warp target, in which case you can instantly warp).

That's my goal: getting my frigate to align and get into warp at least as fast as a shuttle!

That's not really feasible or useful, and you have more headroom than 1 second.

What are you trying to do with this fit that you need to be able to align with shuttle-like agility?

What about ECCM drones to break targeting?

Astrero with 4x Inertia Stabilizer II, 3x Small Low Friction Muzzle Joint II, a full Nomad set and a Eifyr and Co. 'Rogue' Evasive Maneuvering EM-706 will get you down to 0.974 sec align time. And yes I know that after the first rig there is minimal difference but he wanted the best possible.

Just the Astrero with 4x Inertia Stabilizer II will get you down to 1.45sec which slightly faster than a shuttle which has 1.5sec.

Now if you want really fast align time just take a pod, 0.06 sec without implants :-)

Oh. Uh... yeah, align time is almost a complete non-issue for anything that can pack a covert-ops cloak. When you warp off of a gate, you hit warp, you hit cloak, and you never have a chance of being targeted. With the Astero, you do have to be vaguely aware of your cloak reactivation timer, but that's the only hiccup there.

The only time it would really come into play is if someone busts in on you while you're in a site, but even then, you should have some warning if you're making prodigious use of your d-scan, which leaves the possibility of someone with a covops cloak warping in on you, but if that happens, if I recall correctly, most ships that can pack a covops cloak still have a short recalibration delay (5 seconds?) before they can target. And if it's a stealth bomber and you're in an astero, well... free kill for you.

There are a few edge cases, like just happening to have something too close to you when you land on the other side of a gate for you to cloak up, but even then, the base warp speed on an astero is probably plenty to get free.

Honestly, I wouldn't really worry about it.

The Prospect can do absurd signature tanking. A tracking-fitted Catalyst (electron blasters, tracking rigs) doesn't have an easy time hitting a Prospect with a Halo set and a skirmish link.

Ha! well, you don't have this problem with the Astero. Covert Ops Cloak the second someone lands on grid (or better, on dscan), or immediately after clicking warp at a gate.

There is no method by which a Ragnarok can enter a Class 6 Wolf Rayet, be built there, or otherwise find itself into that space without GM intervention.