EVE New Citizens Q&A

Your post seems a little all over and I'm not sure exactly what you are asking but I'll explain how people used to web big ships into warp. The mechanic has changed a little. It still works but I've heard not as well as it used to. I'll be honest I've not tried it in years but here is the explanation of the mechanics anyway.

So the prerequisites for entering warp are that you need to be aligned to your destination within ( I believe ) 5% and moving at least 75% of your current speed. I also believe that there is a maximum on that speed but am uncertain and since it does not pertain to this discussion won't mention it further.

So basically if you ship is aligned and you waiting for your speed to go up and then you web the ship it's current potential max speed will become about 60% less so you will likely enter warp immediately but at the very least faster.

Bumping is when you ram into a ship that is trying to enter warp in order to keep if from aligning thus preventing if from warping.

Pretty much, but seeing as a standard meta/t2 web has a range of 10km, it's preferable if you use a ship that has a bonus to web range, because you can end up de-cloaking further away then that more often then not... and that few seconds of having your escort get into range could make all the difference. Something like the Cruor, if you don't have the SP for a Huginn/Loki. Oh, and it's also best if you fit 2/3 webs, 1 alone won't get it into warp instantly.

In answer to aggression/weapon timers, just invite your escort to a duel; that particular timer lasts 5 minutes from the moment you stop agressing each-other, which should be long enough to cover each jump.

Hope that helps.

Hyena with double-webs - fully skilled in Electronic Attack Ships will net a 30km web range. When jumping between regions, you can end up ~60km from your freighter - will need to try to burn toward the freighter BEFORE giving the freighter the command to warp to the next gate, and maintain cloak until the webber is in range.

A targeting rig to shorten lock time even more doesn't hurt either.

edit: Also, wait for the freighter to hit warp velocity (the target lock will disappear) before sending the webber onward - it is possible to disengage the webs due to warping before the freighter goes into warp, leaving it vulnerable while the webber speeds away.

Webbing works because your ship is stopped and omni-aligned when it lands at a gate. If a freighter has a top speed of 100 m/s a 60% web will reduce that to 40 m/s and a second 60% web will reduce it to 16 m/s. You will warp at 75% of top speed or 12 m/s - practically instant, even with a freighter. Because you are omni-aligned after jumping, there is no wait while the ship aligns - you can warp sideways or even backwards.

If a freighter is already moving, this doesn't work - you need to wait while it aligns so you can't web after undocking or after you have been bumped.

If you are being bumped, first step is right click your ship in space and click "stop my ship".
Second step is adjust your camera so you are looking forward over the back of the ship.
If there is something dead ahead or a few degrees off your bow - right click it and warp. Because the bump will have you travelling at top speed, you should warp instantly. If you don't, stop your ship and try again after the next bump. There is a lot of junk in space - asteroid belts, anomalies, planets, etc... even a good bumper will eventually align you to something you can warp to.

Another option is to right click on your ship and select "log off safely". You will need to stop your ship and turn off any active modules first. As long as you don't have an aggression timer - and you shouldn't, bumping is not considered an aggressive act under the rules of the game, your ship will leave space in 30 seconds. Get a friend to scout the system before you log back in.

Edit: You need to be in the same corp with "Friendly fire" legal or the freighter pilot needs to invite the webber to a duel. Both will have timers but they will usually expire before you get to the next gate - webber may need to wait a few seconds. Hyena and Rapier are the best ships - any fast frigate i.e. Atron will do the job.

I think that the number is over 100%. It's like 105% or 125% but conceptually I think you are correct.

So I don't have to do the math again:
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=4922702#post4922702

Actually this seems like the best all around option, my escort can simply sit back and monitor the warp out. Are there any downsides? What if the bumpers friends show up and start to open fire, am I then a sitting duck? Can the bumper start the aggression timer by shooting at me? I'm not very savvy about this mechanic and I don;t want to learn at the expense f the ship :)

Also could my escort help by counter bumping the bumper?

Make sure your limited engagement hasn't expired if you are using duel requests to web a character in a different corp. It's best to leave your safety on at least yellow for this. I may/may not have experienced a hilarious (sad) Rapier loss to CONCORD a few months ago.

I'm not aware of having to slow-down to warp.

This would affect a lot of ships if it existed, and certainly be annoying, and widely hated.

Alignment (+/- 2 degrees) would be a more likely factor.

I don't think that 125% thing exists. 5 degrees is a very tiny cone, and if your ship is massive enough with a high enough inertia modifier, it will have an exceedingly difficult time turning while moving over max speed preventing the warp.