Cherri Minoa
IronPig Sev3rance
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Posted - 2016.08.31 14:42:41 -
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Major Trant wrote:There is no such thing as an Insta-lock, so in theory it should always be possible to escape the lock attempt when in Covert Cloaked ship.
The issue is that many pilots panic when they jump into such a camp and they tend to hit the re-cloak button too fast. The cloak attempt fails because the server still thinks the gate cloak is in effect, but the graphics and other feedback are so poor that it isn't obvious. Next second you are pointed and dying and it is commmon to assume that you got pointed between the two cloaks when in fact your ship never tried to re-cloak and the fast locker actually took 2 seconds to acquire the lock.
There are two things you need to do to maximise your chances.
1. When you first jump into the camp, wait out your gate cloak timer for at least 55 seconds. The timer is visible in the top left corner of your screen, but not visible to the gate camper. This serves several purposes. . The gate campers are overheating and their modules (SEBOs) are taking damage, so maximise that damage. . In low sec, assuming your sec status is above -5.0 and you're not at war with them. They are going to be taking gate guns as soon as they engage, thus they will be aligned to something and gradually burning away from the gate. . Doubt creeps into the gatecampers mind as to whether you actually jumped in. . It take intense concentration on the part of the fast locker and that starts to wane at 40 seconds or so. . Sometimes the cloak re-activation delay timer bugs and restarts after you have jumped.
The longer you wait, the more likely that when you do decloak, you'll do so at the same time the gatecamper is trying to stop his burn out, stop his overheating, checking his alts screen, asking questions of the scout or even just blinking and generally taking his eye and the mouse pointer off the bottom of the overview.
2. When you do hit align, mentally or loudly count "one thousand" then hit cloak. Simple.
Don't look for any visual notification message, don't look for changes in your cap, don't look for the cloak graphic. The feedback is unreliable, can take 2 or 3 seconds and then you have to react after that.
You could still be unlucky, but 99% of the time you won't have any problems.
As to your other question, the Falcon is a lousy ship for solo PvP. Assuming you are not classing double boxing two accounts as solo PvP.
As far as I am concerned this is the correct answer. Of course, lag, panic, clumsy fingers and pure bad luck can all play a part. But if everything goes right for you, and if there is no object within 2000m of you to prevent cloaking, your transition from gate cloak to ship cloak occurs before any ship, even a so called "insta-locker" can get a target lock on you.
As with all these things that require a cool head and correct timing, go somewhere quiet and practice it over and over and over again until it becomes automatic.
"If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service" - Horatio Nelson
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