EVE General Discussion

But I have no align time...that doesn't help?

This is what smartbomb Rokhs are for.

Nope. You're misunderstanding how aligning works. If you're starting from a complete standstill, as after a gate jump, your align time is identical no matter what direction you're going in. Your bookmarks are doing nothing for you.

Nope, still can't remember Jimmy513's crews name, just not a thang anymore...

The way your ship is "pointed" is purely a graphical thing, it's not represented in game mechanics at all.

So think of your ship as a perfectly spherical marble. When it's moving, it has momentum in a direction, and the game's graphics engine does it's best to keep the picture of the ship pointed in the direction of the marble's momentum. But when the marble is stopped, it can start rolling in any direction equally quickly. If you decide to start rolling that marble "backwards" relative to the way the ship appears to be pointed, that's just fine. The resulting graphics of your ship turning around is just an animation happening inside the marble. So you can get to warp speed in the same amount of time regardless of direction.

Now if the marble is moving already and you want to warp, that's a different story. your ship is still a marble, but it has momentum and direction (which the game will be attempting to closely follow with the graphics). If you want to warp "backwards" now, your ship has to first counteract its forward momentum before it can start warping the other way, and that takes time.

This is why insta-undocks on stations are important. Your marble rolls out of the station already at speed to enter warp. So if you warp in that direction, it is instantaneous. But if you try to warp in a different direction, it can actually take longer than it would have from a standstill.

You can't get a Medium MWD on a T1 hauler. Filling the lows with Warp Stabies isn't going to do a lot for you in high sec either as in most case you will be dead before you can go to warp and they will conflict with the need for cargohold mods.

The best you can do is sacrifice one low for a DC II, put the best shield tank in the mids and then keep your cargo low value.

@ OP: I guess you tried to learn from your 239M Tayra loss in 2010. At least you tried a few T1 tanking modules this time. But really anything over 50M being hauled by something that can be killed by a single 19M Vexor is asking for trouble. As a rule of thumb, half the mods/cargo drops, that includes both the ganked and ganker. So the ganker would have reckoned to get 8M + 78M - 19M (outlay) for an estimated profit of 67M and a leet Killmail. In reality, he got 4M from his Vexor, but only 1M of your cargo and mods, so a net loss of 14M and a sec hit. That is a terrible loot fairy result, but is still peanuts and may even be subsidised by his corp. Small wonder that gankers are still thriving.

"What is the current status of high-sec ganking?"

Don't know, I spend my play time somewhere in the 84% of New Eden that isn't high sec, where 'ganking' isn't really a thing, and where you don['t get punished for defending yourself.

lolwut?

Putting a 50MN on the tankier line of T1 haulers is entirely trivial, and is fairly easy to do with a fitting mod or two on the cargo-oriented ones.

Lies like this are the reason so many miners are still dying. Their blood is literally on your hands.

Whom are you quoting here? Can you link any sources for these egregious allegations?

No? So you made those quotes up out of whole cloth? Figured...

The truth is, New Order permits are in fact honored, it's just that highsec carebears are terrible at following the few simple rules that everyone else in the game routinely adhere to.