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Eudoxus	Posted - 2006.01.18 00:32:00 - [1] Hi, I have noticed that I am not able to get safe spots much further than say 0.6 au away from something (gate, moon, planet). Most of the time it seems to be 0.1 or under as in 85000 km from something for example. I am hitting the add bookmark in warp between A and B. I have tried doing it immediately, while warping and see that 'A' is 1+ AU au away, while watching the scanner and see the ship blip somewhere away from everything. But whenever I go the safespot, the ship never shows up at the 'blip spot' in the middle of nowhere. So, uh, what am I missing here? Regards, Eudoxus
Wrayeth	Posted - 2006.01.18 00:36:00 - [2] The bookmark isn't made at the point where you pressed the "Add Bookmark" button; rather, it is made when you press "Okay" on the screen that comes up following. -Wrayeth
Rod Blaine	Posted - 2006.01.18 00:37:00 - [3] theres now a delay when you press that button. It actually makes the spot a second or two later depending on lag. So, press earlier. Using a slower wapring ship to make them helps too, or a pod. _______________________________________________ Power to the players !
Siigari Kitawa	Posted - 2006.01.18 00:46:00 - [4] Originally by: Wrayeth The bookmark isn't made at the point where you pressed the "Add Bookmark" button; rather, it is made when you press "Okay" on the screen that comes up following. This is not true. Note that when you hit the "Create Bookmark" button a set of coordinates shows up inside the window. That is where you hit the button, not when you hit OK. _________ roflfest 2006 - be there
Vegeir	Posted - 2006.01.18 00:50:00 - [5] Originally by: Siigari Kitawa Originally by: Wrayeth The bookmark isn't made at the point where you pressed the "Add Bookmark" button; rather, it is made when you press "Okay" on the screen that comes up following. This is not true. Note that when you hit the "Create Bookmark" button a set of coordinates shows up inside the window. That is where you hit the button, not when you hit OK. So you believe what you see? Test it. Go to Gate A and hit warp. Then start a book mark right there... finish it when you get to Gate B by hitting ok. Then warp to the BM and see where you end up. I'll bet on you seeing something like "approach BM" Originally by: Vegeir Experience exists in EVE, it just isn't measured in numbers.
Franky B	Posted - 2006.01.18 01:14:00 - [6] Originally by: Siigari Kitawa Originally by: Wrayeth The bookmark isn't made at the point where you pressed the "Add Bookmark" button; rather, it is made when you press "Okay" on the screen that comes up following. This is not true. Note that when you hit the "Create Bookmark" button a set of coordinates shows up inside the window. That is where you hit the button, not when you hit OK. Wrayeth is indeed correct, it is when you press ok, not when you open the window
Uther Doull	Posted - 2006.01.18 09:52:00 - [7] yup i've noted that's the way it is too pretty hard to make a ss while in an inty :P --------------------------- My opinions are my own and not nessecarily those of my corp or alliance.
Dahin	Posted - 2006.01.18 10:16:00 - [8] I can more than assure you that it's placed at the time you click "ok" and then add some random seconds of lag. This is SO **ing off the last few days with the lag. I wanna cut a 60au distance in the middle (or at least shave off a few au) and I can't do ** because of the lag. The instance I hear the sonic boom (which usually gives you 2-3au distance) I hit "ok" and the bm ends up to be created .4 au away from the point where I come out of warp
Epictetus	Posted - 2006.01.18 10:23:00 - [9] Just drain your cap and make a BM while standing still in the middle of nowhere.
Eudoxus	Posted - 2006.01.18 11:38:00 - [10] Well looks like I need to do some more trial and error but at least I am not the only one having some difficulty getting a good safe spot set. Thanks for the tips.

Darkdashing	Posted - 2006.01.18 11:40:00 - [11] Originally by: Franky B Originally by: Siigari Kitawa Originally by: Wrayeth The bookmark isn't made at the point where you pressed the "Add Bookmark" button; rather, it is made when you press "Okay" on the screen that comes up following. This is not true. Note that when you hit the "Create Bookmark" button a set of coordinates shows up inside the window. That is where you hit the button, not when you hit OK. Wrayeth is indeed correct, it is when you press ok, not when you open the window this is true, I wish we could manually edit our bookmarks! would that be a 'sploit? There is beauty in tension....
Foxstein	Posted - 2006.01.18 11:56:00 - [12] what I have done to get between jump points is drain the cap then jump. If timed right you will only warp half way to the destination. This makes for a great safe spot
Dahin	Posted - 2006.01.18 13:40:00 - [13] If you ever let me edit the coords of my bm's I will keep having one orgasm after the other...
James Lyrus	Posted - 2006.01.18 14:03:00 - [14] Observator probes make pretty good safespots too. Fire one, scan for a friend. Book mark, repeat. Warp to each of your BMs, and note where on the system map you end up. They have such a large variance on location that it's quite possible (by doing it twice) to end up so far out of system that you don't show on any scans. -- We are recruiting Carriers on sale
Cypherous	Posted - 2006.01.18 14:36:00 - [15] I miss the good old pre-exodus uber infinate AU BM's :( I still have 2 BM's that are about 100AU from the nearest object buuuuuuuuut they are in a region of space i'm not welcome in so bleh :(
Hohenheim OfLight	Posted - 2006.01.18 15:00:00 - [16] Dont know if this is true or not as i can not use scan probs, but one tecnic i have heard of is to use the scan prob with the biggest range. Its around 15 au from what i have heard, and jsut use one, this will give you a random point in spavce 15au away that you can warp to, make ss there, and no one can find you. as there is no way to put 3 probs around you. Providing the random point is out side the middle of the system. ------------------------------------------------- Contribute to the buy Hohenheim a carrier fund in game now!
SinBin	Posted - 2006.01.18 15:09:00 - [17] Originally by: Epictetus Just drain your cap and make a BM while standing still in the middle of nowhere. This is the best way I think, I used to bust safespots long before probes & covert using a merlin setup that gave me a 1au jump very nice but I cant seem to do it so well now probes have made me lazy. _______________________________________ Ill Shutup when CCP remove bookmarks
Kurren	Posted - 2006.01.18 15:15:00 - [18] Originally by: Franky B Originally by: Siigari Kitawa Originally by: Wrayeth The bookmark isn't made at the point where you pressed the "Add Bookmark" button; rather, it is made when you press "Okay" on the screen that comes up following. This is not true. Note that when you hit the "Create Bookmark" button a set of coordinates shows up inside the window. That is where you hit the button, not when you hit OK. Wrayeth is indeed correct, it is when you press ok, not when you open the window I'm not trying to steal the thread or anything, but Franky B... your sig kicks ass! Much ass! ************************************************* Sobakai Resources, here for you!
Eudoxus	Posted - 2006.01.18 15:39:00 - [19] One would like to think in the age of warp drives, laser beams, faster than light travel that since one can use a scanner to see a simulated top down view of a system and a known distance to those points from the overview........ That we could click on a point in space and the computer to warp to it and hence let us put a book mark where ever we want on the plane of the system. Now that indeed might give people geekgasms
Kylania	Posted - 2006.01.18 15:45:00 - [20] Originally by: Vegeir So you believe what you see? Test it. Go to Gate A and hit warp. Then start a book mark right there... finish it when you get to Gate B by hitting ok. Then warp to the BM and see where you end up. I'll bet on you seeing something like "approach BM" Yeah, when I first got a Malediction (inteceptor) I thought it'd be great to make bookmarks with. So I hopped in, warped to a gate, hit MWD and clicked 'Create' right as I passed the sweet spot. Then I spent a few seconds thinking up a nice name for the bookmark, and typing it in all nice and pretty, finally clicked OK, and went on with my life. When I got in my fully loaded Iteron III and went to use the bookmark, I warped... and landed 96km past the gate!!!! It's placed when you click OK. :) -- Lil Miner

Kalixa Hihro	Posted - 2006.01.18 20:26:00 - [21] Originally by: Siigari Kitawa Originally by: Wrayeth The bookmark isn't made at the point where you pressed the "Add Bookmark" button; rather, it is made when you press "Okay" on the screen that comes up following. This is not true. Note that when you hit the "Create Bookmark" button a set of coordinates shows up inside the window. That is where you hit the button, not when you hit OK. Things are not always as they appear, grasshopper. Wrayeth is right. Trust me, I've made a lot of midwarps.
Kalixa Hihro	Posted - 2006.01.18 20:28:00 - [22] Originally by: Kylania Originally by: Vegeir So you believe what you see? Test it. Go to Gate A and hit warp. Then start a book mark right there... finish it when you get to Gate B by hitting ok. Then warp to the BM and see where you end up. I'll bet on you seeing something like "approach BM" Yeah, when I first got a Malediction (inteceptor) I thought it'd be great to make bookmarks with. So I hopped in, warped to a gate, hit MWD and clicked 'Create' right as I passed the sweet spot. Then I spent a few seconds thinking up a nice name for the bookmark, and typing it in all nice and pretty, finally clicked OK, and went on with my life. When I got in my fully loaded Iteron III and went to use the bookmark, I warped... and landed 96km past the gate!!!! It's placed when you click OK. :) The only way to make accurate gate instas is by sitting still at your sweet spot ; )


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