Lost Greybeard
Drunken Yordles
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Posted - 2013.07.03 14:18:00 -
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It's not really that complicated:
SAFE POINTS:
Truly random spot in space: take some missions in the system, save the spot in bookmarks when you get one nicely above or below the plane of the ecliptic and far from any celestials.
Slightly less random/safe: hitting "save location" halfway through warping between a couple celestials. You'll be in a general region where people can narrow it down faster, but they'll still have to use probes. You can do this multiple times to get a slightly less obvious position, but in all frankness you'll still be within the volume of the ecliptic and they'll have to use probes regardless so you gain little from the extra work.
Just off the grid: what it sounds like, go to a celestial or station, fly out until you don't see ships and so on anymore (1000 km +). Not terribly safe as such, but great for annoying people scanning you down because you'll show up as in the belt or whatever at a distance.
NOT "SAFE" BUT MAKES YOU A BIT SAFER:
Leaping out from a dock: exit dock, travel 200 to 1000 km, bookmark. Next time you undock, instantly tell your ship to warp there to "insta" away from the docking point. Note that this isn't as powerful as it once was: to mitigate the abuse of collision mechanics, CCP introduced a random trajectory factor, so there will still be some small delay while you align many times.
Avoiding drag bubbles in null-sec: Line up your view from the gate to all other gates/major celestials/etc. Fly 200km+ away from the gate in a direction that is at as close to a right angle from all of these directions as possible. When warping to this gate, use that point instead. You path on warp-in is now much less likely to drop you in a bubble position.
JUST GENERALLY BOOKMARKING THINGS:
If you have an established territory, especially if you're a scout for your 0.0 corp, it's good to just have random points that give you a good d-scan view of various celestials and so on bookmarked on general principle. If you're a miner, having a point 500km off in a random direction from the belts in low-sec so that you can check for bogeys before warping in is never a bad plan, if you're missioning then manually bookmarking so you can loot after the turn-in can be handy, and so on.
(The first, "random point in space", are what I usually call "deep safes" because they're the most annoying to track down. The term used to mean something else beyond even probe range in most cases, but that got nerfed by the developers so they aren't a thing anymore.) |