EVE New Citizens Q&A

Hi,

after some unpleasant encounters in low-sec combat sites I wanted to read up on the game mechanics
to plan some effective counter-measures against capsuleers trying to interrupt my plexing.

Could someone please confirm or correct my understanding so far:

Single Pocket Site without warpgate or while being at the first warp-gate:
- enemy can warp in to site the regular way, bookmark, site from ship scanner, scan down ship etc.
No real protection except monitoring local and d-scan

Site with warpgate, inside the deepspace pockets / rooms
- enemies can only enter by using the gate
- using a warpgate means decloak
- during warp the enemy can activate the cloak and arrive cloaked
- placing a can at the warp in location will decloak the arriving enemy

Scanning down a ship inside a deepspace pocket does not mean they can warp directly to ship, they land on warpgate entrance.
Protection: place Scout at gate, local Monitoring, d-scan, can at warp in, align to warp-target.

Is this correct? Anything I missed?

Thanks
Kind regards
Selv

You're still not protected from people probing the complex before you do, going there, and waiting there cloaked.

Interesting tidbit here: we found that logoff traps do not work in gated mission/anomaly pockets.
Regardless of which room you logoff in you will land on the first gate of the complex.

There is just one minor problem I see with your list.

This one has to be looked at from many points of view.
Cov-ops cloak or the other types is critical.
What follows is based on a ship using a cov-ops cloak.

Warp gate or acceleration gate the activation proximity is 2,500 meters.
The forced de-cloak range is 2,000 meters.
So it is theoretically possible to activate a gate without ever having to de-cloak or to be forcibly de-cloaked due to proximity.
Since you are asking in relation to your activities in low sec I will assume that you are asking about an acceleration gate into a site.

It is possible to activate the acceleration gate, warp and land inside the pocket and never de-cloak. In reality it is somewhat difficult since you have to be slow and careful in your approach to the gate to avoid the unintended force de-cloak because you got to close.

However it is very easy to set up, approach the gate, warp and then simply re-cloak if needed once you have initiated you jump. Even if you are de-cloaked this process would leave a ship exposed for between 5 and 10 seconds so your chances of spotting them are totally dependent on your d-scan frequency.


This is not entirely correct, each race has one recon ship that cannot be seen on d-scan and one that CAN FIT cov-ops cloaks.
The cov-ops capable variations are
Pilgrim - Amarr
Falcon - Caldari
Arazu - Gallente
Rapier - Minmatar

the immune to D-Scan ships are
Curse - Amarr
Rook - CAldari
Lachesis - Gallente
Huginn - Minmatar

Everything lands on the first gate.

there is like a 2 min timer where you will land in the pocket you logged off in, nice when you dc in the last pocket of a mission, not so good for doing a logoff trap though.

Not arguing with you just wondering which missions allow you to warp directly into a pocket even when there is an acceleration gate?

On the plus side cynos do not work in mission pockets AFAIK so at least no one can hot drop a carrier on you.

Warping straight back into the DS area after logging out (in my case one of my clients DCing) is confirmed and I've found that it "sometimes" doesn't work which will be based on a timer. I haven't bothered to figure out what that timer is.