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No such thing as insta-locking anymore. Any Interceptors immune.
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Tiberius Heth
Doomheim
#21 - 2015-10-09 06:34:06 UTC
Silver Charms wrote:
does this apply to undocking from a station and aligning to jump to a gate and still being unable to be locked and scrammed?


Nothing has changed game, balance or mechanics wise.
Soltys
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#22 - 2015-10-09 09:36:55 UTC  |  Edited by: Soltys
Matrea D wrote:
This has been a thing for quite some time. Server ticks are every second, so any ship with less than 2 seconds align time is practically impossible to lock. Rough breakdown:

3. You begin lock.
4. On the next server tick, ship will be locked.


https://www.themittani.com/features/understanding-eve-online-server-tick


That's not true according to CCP_Masterplan (here). Lock updates are asynchronous, so the person locking can (in theory) get the lock and notification in the same tick and then almost immediately issue commands from pre-activated modules (which will be acted upon receiving during the tick but with notification following on the next tick).

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BeBopAReBop RhubarbPie
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#23 - 2015-10-09 09:52:42 UTC
Lan Wang wrote:
i was told anything above 3400 scan res is pointless and has no extra benefit

Effectively true. At that scan res you have a one second lock on a pod.

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Amyclas Amatin
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Goonswarm Federation
#24 - 2015-10-10 02:49:13 UTC  |  Edited by: Amyclas Amatin
It can be a crapshoot, though it kind of averages out in larger scale gang fights.

10 tacklers try to catch 20 insta-ceptors. You might get 3-4 on each gate if you're lucky.

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Zifrian
The Frog Pond
Ribbit.
#25 - 2015-10-10 03:42:51 UTC
I can vouch for smartbombing the gate as working. I was warping freely and then after a gate jump...I'm decloaked, in pod...then corpse. I wasn't paying super close attention but I don't think it would have mattered, I spammed the hell out of the warp button and still got smoked.

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Plucky Adventurers
#26 - 2015-10-10 03:48:31 UTC
is normal
Tiberius Heth
Doomheim
#27 - 2015-10-10 14:22:18 UTC
Zifrian wrote:
I can vouch for smartbombing the gate as working. I was warping freely and then after a gate jump...I'm decloaked, in pod...then corpse. I wasn't paying super close attention but I don't think it would have mattered, I spammed the hell out of the warp button and still got smoked.


Nothing can force a gate decloak other than you starting to move or the 60 seconds running out.
Bumblefck
Kerensky Initiatives
#28 - 2015-10-11 03:07:49 UTC
Matrea D wrote:
This has been a thing for quite some time. Server ticks are every second, so any ship with less than 2 seconds align time is practically impossible to lock. Rough breakdown:

1. Ship you want to pew sends warp command and begins aligning.
2. On the next server tick, you see the pewable ship show up on grid.
3. You begin lock.
4. On the next server tick, ship will be locked.
5. Ship had 1.5 sec align time so the lock never made it.
6. Use smartbombs.


https://www.themittani.com/features/understanding-eve-online-server-tick



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