Missions & Complexes

People Sitting on Gate without a Bubble: This one is pretty common and you can expect to see it often. Either they are scouting for something behind or in front of you and they are just there to scout the way for the ship, or they might just be arriving on gate and jumping back over. When you jump into a system you have 60 seconds to see what’s going on under cloak. Nothing can decloak you except yourself in that 60 seconds. Take this time to see what the ships are and if they could be a problem for you.

If there are no bubbles on gate, and there are no bubbles in front of you where you are about to warp to, as long as you have mastered the MWD/Cloak trick or have a Coverts Ops cloaking device, you’ll be just fine.

NOTE: Do not warp gate-to-gate in null security space if there is someone else in the system with you. Your maximum D-scan range is ~14AU and if there are a bunch of warp disruption bubbles on your next system’s gate, which is 75AU away from you, you will NOT see it. Always bounce to a planet closer to the gate, cloak up and recheck your D-scan. If you are uncomfortable with D-scanning, jump below to the next section and read about D-scanning, then come back up and continue on.

People Sitting on Gate with a Bubble:

The first thing you want to do is zoom out from your ship and see the shortest path to the outside of the bubble. Sometimes people place warp disruption bubbles so terribly that you may actually be near the edge and it’s as easy as double clicking behind you, cloaking up, waiting for a second or two to exit the bubble, then warping off. Other times you be right smack in the middle. If you are in the middle, you’re going to want to go in the opposite direction from where the ships that are waiting are at. And all you will do is simply double click into space away from those ships, pulse your MWD, activate cloak, and then hope that those ships don’t burn towards you. If anything gets within 2000 meters from you, you will be decloaked. This is what makes interceptor ships real popular for gatecamps because not only are they immune to warp disruption bubbles, but they are the fastest ships in the game and can drop on your position quick.

Here’s a tip on how to avoid this if you do see several interceptors on your bubble that you just jumped into. Double click towards the shortest distance as normal, MWD, activate cloak, and they will see where you’re headed. Now IMMEDIATELY change vectors and go laterally into a different direction. The interceptor will not be expecting it and if they do happen to burn to where you were going, they will miss you completely. Drop a o/ in Local and carry onward.

Dictor Sitting on Gate: Yeah, this one sucks. If you hesitate at all with this one you’re going down in flames. Let’s go ahead and familiarize ourselves with these ships so we can easily spot them when we jump into a system, because the faster we recognize these ships, the faster we can act, because with these ships, reaction time is our only defense since they will be right next to you on the gate and remaining cloaked is very, very difficult to do.

Phobos
Broadsword
Onyx
Devoter
Eris
Sabre
Flycatcher
Heretic

If you see any of these, IMMEDIATELY initiate warp to a planet, the sun, anywhere, just GTFO. The only thing you can hope for is that they’re not paying attention to their computer for a split moment and you can escape their bubble. Once you’re out, you’ll want to pay attention to your D-scan to see if they’re moving around and jumping to your possible next gate’s destination to chase you down. Things can get ugly real quick if you have an interdictor/heavy interdictor chasing you, and especially if they have interceptors with them like a horde of flying monkeys.

Lastly, let’s consider that you’ve jumped into a system where the entrance gate is empty, but your next gate in system may have a camp waiting for you.

Nice guide....

I think this sectino needs revision though: