EVE New Citizens Q&A

Is this in low-sec or null-sec?


In low-sec... simply having the Covert-Ops cloak reduces risk by a VERY high margin. Provided you have had some practice and time the cloak to your warp drive correctly (hint: don't hit "cloak" until you hear the words/text "warp drive activated").

Warp Core Stabilizers are nice to have, but won't help you in certain situations in low-sec.
Example: if warp disrupted by a Heavy Interdictor, you are screwed. Their "infini-point" effectively negates all Warp Core Stabs and shuts down any Mircrowarpdrive you have fitted.


In Null-sec... euhhhhhhhh... I can only give you the basics as I am not expert running through that area. So someone else may want to chip in here.

Warp Disrption Bubbles (either anchored or from Interdictors and Heavy Interdictors) don't care how many Warp Core Stabs you have fitted. If you are inside one, your only recourse is to either get outside of it and warp or burn back to the gate you came from.
On the plus side, you can use your Microwarpdrive inside one.



Another thing to consider is that if your "align time" (the time between activation to warp from a "cold start" to actual warping) is less than 2 seconds then people will be unable to target lock you effectively (and thus apply warp disruption).
This doesn't really help when dealing with warp disruption bubbles in null sec... but in low-sec this is key.

The best way to get out of a gate camp is to never be in it in the first place. Having a scout alt is not always feasible for everyone and is not foolproof.

So we keep winding up with the best ship in Eve being friendship and avoiding gate camps is no exception to this. In null sec if you are part of a large Alliance or Coalition and have access to intel channels you can know about gate camps before you even head out to the system.

Of course cynoing or covert cynoing around all that stuff can help also.

TL;dr
best ship for avoiding gate camps is friendship.

FTFY.

With the MSE & resists, you can survive a smartbombing battleship.

Do you know, I haven't seen a smartbombing battleship in ages? But yes, if they are fashionable in your area, this is a good fit to use.

Equip Warp core scrams, scout, pay attention to what gates you are jumping through because some are popular places to camp. Warp as fast as you can. the faster you can jump into warp they harder it will be to get a lock on you unless they are in a insta-lock tackle ship and your just going to get pointed to death. Sometimes you cant avoid it but you can increase your chances by doing these things.

OP mentions intending to buy a Tengu. I'd suggest putting that off for a long while until you're more confident in dealing with situations like this. It's an expensive piece of gear, and although it's great, your needs are likely to be met with a cheaper ship. Remember that whatever you buy is going to get destroyed. You can count on that.

Shah is probably trying to avoid getting the black box of fail. Because of lag, the cloak will often not queue and just fail with the warning box if it registers before the ship decloaks. Even if the buttons were hit in the correct sequence.

Only ways I know to get around this is either to pause a bit longer between pressing warp and cloak, or rehit cloak after getting the black box of fail.

It fails during the first tick, because the gate cloak exit is not recognized yet. But the warp drive active message comes only after you already aligned and at 75% speed, this could be several ticks after you hit warp ... when flying a bomber I just hit warp, wait ~0,5s and hit cloak. If I would wait out the 10s align time, I would be dead multiple times ...

The audio isn't dependent on align time. It plays immediately, on the next tick, when you click warp, indicating one tick has passed and you should be able to cloak.

Try it in a slow battleship. It will play ages before you are actually aligned.

That's a myth actually. This guy killed me when I was travelling with a fit that aligned in 1.68 seconds. I had figured it was lag so I tried again. He killed me again. If you check his killboard you will see he has killed hundreds of ships with fits that align in under 2 seconds. The corp I was in at the time would issue warnings when he was gate camping, as there wasn't a way to skip buy him without either 3+ stabs or something large enough to scare him away.