EVE New Citizens Q&A

you want to learn the cloaky warp trick, click cloak and mwd as soon as your aligning to your gate, once your out of the bubble, warp, try to warp to planets before going to the out gate, incase of drag bubbles etc

fly safe

Right, I know where you're coming from there, explorer myself. Yes. Covops cloak will enable you to hit your prop mod then cloak immediately like the mwd trick just without the negative speed modifier. Best thing to avoid gate camps? Scout ahead. Otherwise burn away from the enemies and to the closest edge of the bubble. Astero has really good agility but a good hate camp will get you no matter what. When I see a gate camp you need to not panic, check solar map for bodies to warp to, know which one you're going to and don't spend more than one cycle uncloaked.

I would agree with everything above. Avoid gatecamps by traveling in via wormholes, which can be fun exploration all it's own. Learn to use your d-scan so that you can warp to a celestial close to your intended exit jump gate so you can see if there are bubbles set up there. Then when you're actively probing and hacking sites, decide how careful you want to go. For instance, if you're sitting in your safe spot all cloaked up scanning signatures down, consider pulling your probes in if someone jumps into the system (because obviously you aren't probing in an already inhabited system, right?)... because if you have an explorer hunter pop in and he sees core scan probes on his d-scan... well, he'll go to work on you. And of course, glance at local every 3 seconds or so when you are actively hacking a can!

Rule #1: fit MWD

Rule #2: if you can't fit a covops cloak then use the T2 one. NOT the prototype, just don't. No matter what people tell you

Rule #3: align (or double click in a direction in case of a bubble), cloak FIRST and THEN hit MWD. This shortens the time you're uncloaked. If you have covops cloak and aren't in a bubble don't use MWD, this will only lengthen your align time

Rule #4: if in a bubble take your time to figure out what exit vector you're going to use, gate cloak lasts 60 seconds and isn't broken by proximity so no need to rush a decision. Find an angle that seems clear of ships and isn't an obvious one which they'll expect

Rule #5: if you can't find a clear exit out of a bubble then cloak and burn back to the gate you jumped in from and jump out again. Then decide to simply go elsewhere or jump in again hoping for a better jump in location

Rule #6: 2 seconds after you hit cloak you disappear from other's overview (they can't target you anymore the second you clicked cloak but overview has a delay), when in a bubble use that to slightly change your escape vector once those 2 seconds have passed, this makes it more difficult for an interceptor to predict where you are/will be. Can be useful if you're in a bubble and you expect some inty to uncloak you

Fit look-unimportant tank.

T1 exploration frigates aren't very shiny.
If you "forget" to rename it, the guy who sees it on dscan would probably think you're a newbie and is less likely to try to pounce.

With an Astero, you stop looking unimportant and are more interesting to kill.

I tell you a basic rule I learned in wormholes.

When you enter a wormhole and scan the place, everyone in dscan range will see you are scanning, it leads to a simple consequence, when you warp to the relic or data site:

- Other players didn't scan the site yet----- if you are careful you will see their probes and decide if to risk your ship or not ( but better to run away....)

- Others already scanned the site and warped to it on a stealth combat ship to wait the good moment to kill you----- unless you are very quick to see when they appear on grid or if they are slow to target/scram/web etc, you are dead. Simply accept it, try to escape in the pod and don't whine on mail/local because none will have any mercy for you.

You can do some intel when you jump in a WH, using Zkills and so on but you can basically be a prey if someone lives there/was there before you.

No. First of all "dead stop" is hilarious, that would assume doing a 180 which no one implied and is just strawmanning.


More importantly, lets look at the facts:

- you can still activate a module 3 seconds after cloaking but that's dangerously close to what's possible, combine that with lag and the stress/pressure of imminent death and it's much safer to use 2 seconds instead of 3. But lets use worst case scenario here: 1 second after cloaking you hit MWD.

- as stated, 2 seconds after cloaking you disappear from overview, so 1 second into the MWD cycle you want to change direction. the direction change doesn't need to be huge, especially not because it still happens very early on so any, say, 30 degree change is going to result in a huge difference at the end of MWD cycle

- given that 30 degrees, lets assume it takes 1 second for the frigate to make that change which, given that it's still fairly early on and speed isn't that huge yet is realistic.

- that leaves 10 (full MWD cycle) -1 (cloak activatation) - 1 (2nd second to get removed from overview) -1 (realign time "wasted") = 7 second of MWD cycle left. Any slightly non-**** fit Heron (not exactly a fast one) with any decent skills is going to get to full speed just fine in those 7 seconds.

- that means that all that you've lost is a tidbit of acceleration in the middle of the mwd cycle and a bit time of full speed at the end. This all assumes you activated MWD 1 second after cloak which is sub par, if you do it 2 seconds after cloaking it's even less of a problem



Not the end of the world and not enough cause real trouble in that regard, it's certainly not a "dead stop" as you suggest. Well worth it if you suspect the inty pilot to be non-**** and predict your vector.

nvm, borked morning reading disabilities