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Switch Ships?
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Donnan Hakaari
Eve Syndicate High
#1 - 2012-07-03 21:19:11 UTC
Is it possible to switch ships without going to a station?
Bridgette d'Iberville
Better Killing Through Chemistry
#2 - 2012-07-03 21:24:09 UTC
Sure. If you find an empty ship in space, you can eject from your ship and board the empty one (assuming you have the skills to fly it). It's generally advisable only for certain situations. To eject or board a ship, you should be able to right click on the appropriate ship and select the choice.

NOTE: There is a difference between an empty ship and a stationary ship. You may run into some missions/anomolies where you will find stationary ships. You can't board them (for some reason).

"I considered a career in griefing, but then realized that I would never achieve the level of tear generation that CCP manages to do each and every expansion."
Lost Greybeard
Drunken Yordles
#3 - 2012-07-03 21:27:36 UTC
Yes, there are two ways:

1: Certain capital ships have a ship bay where you can swap out ships and modules in a similar way to being in a station. This is why the Orca is a popular "alt spec" for people that prefer solo ganking and baiting new players to real PvP.

2: If you eject your pod from your ship, you can leave your old ship floating in space and board another ship that's floating in space. Assuming it's unoccupied, of course. This is used mostly at PoSes where you can't dock as such, and adds some hilarity when people eject from their T3 and you're fast on the trigger deactivating your guns.
Ano Regni
YOKELS
#4 - 2012-07-04 00:34:52 UTC
so you can hop into an abandoned ship? I didn’t know that.

But then again, who leaves their ship?

I am not a pirate, I work in private acquisition and redistribution dealing in personal assets
Tau Cabalander
Retirement Retreat
Working Stiffs
#5 - 2012-07-04 01:42:07 UTC
You don't even need to eject first. You can right-click board the other ship.

Leaving a ship in a POS force field is common. Although it is always "fun" to have an out-of-corp or out-of-alliance person leave a ship in the forcefield, then session change; the un-piloted ship gets ejected from the force field at very high speed, and the chase is on!
Zoe Athame
Don't Lose Your Way
#6 - 2012-07-04 04:01:43 UTC
Ano Regni wrote:
so you can hop into an abandoned ship? I didn’t know that.

But then again, who leaves their ship?


One common reason is the T3 Cruiser skill loss. When you get blown up, you lose one level from one of your subsystem skills. Ejecting before you get blown up negates this skill loss but gives your enemies a free T3 ^^