EVE New Citizens Q&A

Hey all,

I've been managing ok to avoid warp bubbles when moving around a system. Turns out it's quite easy to do when you take the required steps.

The ones i'm having the problem is - I check my map and the next system hasn't had any kill in the last hour and there hasn't been any pilots in the last hour.

I jump through the gate and find myself inside a warp bubble with various other ships waiting for my jump clock to finish.

I can't see how I would be able to escape. Soon as I de-cloak, i get insta-targetted and 2/3 hits later i'm dead.

I can fly a covert-ops soon - will this make any difference?

Regards
Teium

Confirming the above.

In the scenario you describe OP, your only option is to get back to the gate and jump through ASAP.

When you jump through, don't take time to pick a particular "warp to" point. Just click something and warp. You don't want to give your perusers time to jump after you and get enough of their bearings to be combat ready again.

Few questions -

When i've jumped through the gate i'm usually 10k away from it - so they'll target me and kill me before I can get to the gate

Second - How can I use a MWD inside a bubble?

Bubbles have no effect on prop mods, only warp scramblers and targeted hic infini points.
Crashing gates is a bit more doable in a cruiser but a good camp will try to have people in position to bump you off it before you pop

Once you have a covops capable ship i have found that when i get bubbled double clicking straight up or down to be safest when attempting to burn out of one.

MWD trick can work in a non-covops ship. Just without the covops your speed will be much lower once that mwd fails. But it still might get you far enough away that they can't get you, at least you're making them work for it. But they will also spend a lot more time trying,

Change direction based on what they are doing. If they go low, go high, etc. I like to have my tactical map on when evading gate camps. The lines make it easier to tell which directions everyone is going. A good gate camp will have everyone cover a different direction, but usually they all head directly to where you were and right above, and between your spawn and the vector to the next gate.

Sometimes they will be coming at you in a grid formation and you have to fly between the gaps in their formation. That gets the adrenaline pumping. A lot of the time the fast flyers will come and start skirting the inner wall of the bubble trapping me inside. Then I might end up turning around and slowboating all the way to the other side of the bubble.

If you're evading in a covops, then simply warp away when outside the bubble. Nice and calm.

If your flying a normal ship with a prototype cloak or improved, then you want to wait until you are well outside the range that they can point you, or close the gap and point you, Which is going to take a long time and patience, flying at 50m/sec you're probably shooting for something like 50km clearance, depending on your ship's align time. The bigger your ship the further away you need to be, a frigate could be closer, if they don't have an ewar bonused longpoint. Hopefully they will have given up, usually, someone else falls into their trap, and I fly away when they are occupied with the other victims.

If they're in a position to do damage you're ****** anyway, and an AB wouldn't be enough to avoid decloakers most times. The tip about sending a scout forward is helpful but only really worth it if you're flying something expensive.

You don't say what your requirements are, so I don't know if you need a ship that is combat capable, can carry cargo, or whatever.

However, if you simply need to move around freely, under current game mechanics you are best to train for interceptors. Nothing in EVE is 100% certain - a badly timed attack of lag can spoil the best plans - but interceptors are nullified against bubbles, and a "travel fit" inty that aligns in under 2 seconds is effectively impossible to lock.

This fit will get you through gate camps, give you speed to zoom around making bookmarks (but don't use the MWD when hostiles are near - sig radius bloom as mentioned above) and allow you to cloak up and take a break when you need.

ARES

[High]
Prototype or Improved Cloak

[Mid]
MWD

[Low]
4 x Inertial Stabilizer

[Rigs]
1 x Small Low Friction Nozzle Joints


You can add other stuff to suit in the spare slots, as long as you don't gimp your agility.

Just to add to what the folk are saying here - in null a mwd is usually a must as it allows you to crash a gate. When you jump into a bubble camp - take your time - look around and see what you are facing. How you act depends upon the nature of the campers and where they are in relation to you. In some instances, you may find that you have spawned very far from the campers. Other times they may be right on top of you. if you are close to the edge of the bubble but relatively far away from the campers you may want to just burn out of the bubble and try to warp off. Also if you are faster then the campers - you may try and just burn out and keep your transversal up. Finally, as long as you dont shoot back you can jump the gate. But if the campers shoot you they incur a weapons timer which prevents them from using the gate. As a result you can use aggression mechanics to split up a gate camp - either to allow you to kill them piecemeal or to assist in your get away.