Apropos miscreants scanning down signatures instead of you. A nice potential wrench in the wheels of their sneaky approach is to jettison a can with a single round of ammo or some assorted trash at warp in - as soon as you exit warp when you go to a signature.

Apropos miscreants scanning down signatures instead of you.

Actually, I was puzzling over what the methodology is here. After all, the intended victim might be some distance from the signature warp-in point.

1) Warp to signature uncloaked, with weapons that can attack at very long range. Blast victim. This seems like the quickest approach, such that even if they hit the panic button and are already aligned you should connect with a salvo or two.
2) Warp to signature cloaked, with similar weapons. Uncloak. This seems clearly worse in that it provides more warning.
3) Warp to signature cloaked, slowboat over to target, blast them at point-blank range. That could take forever, and the target still gets an uncloak + lockon time to run away.
4) Warp to target uncloaked and blast them at point-blank range. Like #1 except with higher-damage guns, but does need target scanned down.

Apparently it's not #4, but I'm curious as to which of #1 #2 #3 it is, please?

I've been careful to keep analysis targets out of decloak range except when actually slurping up the contents, and to align the ship to a safe spot while analysing, intending that if someone turns up on overview I'll either cloak or warp depending on the range to them. Is this sensible, please?

Note: only stealth bombers have zero targeting delay after decloaking. All other cloakies have a minimum of 5 seconds iirc.

Seems like that would be sufficient time to warp out, even after being bumped, so I guess it's down to the usual business of trying to watch the rest of the screen while running analysis. Thanks.

(Although yesterday's discovery was, if you scan down a POS in lowsec don't go and take a look at it, it can blow you up from quite a long way away. Still, Magnates are cheap...)

Well, sometimes there is only 1 data/relic site in system and I can just go there and wait for you. And if there are 2 sites my alt will have to undock :)

But more often then not people react too slow to run away from my slasher or even thrasher. There has to be something magical in flashy red on overview that keeps them from hitting warp the moment I land at beacon :)

1) Warp to signature uncloaked, with weapons that can attack at very long range. Blast victim. This seems like the quickest approach, such that even if they hit the panic button and are already aligned you should connect with a salvo or two.
2) Warp to signature cloaked, with similar weapons. Uncloak. This seems clearly worse in that it provides more warning.
3) Warp to signature cloaked, slowboat over to target, blast them at point-blank range. That could take forever, and the target still gets an uncloak + lockon time to run away.
4) Warp to target uncloaked and blast them at point-blank range. Like #1 except with higher-damage guns, but does need target scanned down.

Well, sometimes there is only 1 data/relic site in system and I can just go there and wait for you. And if there are 2 sites my alt will have to undock :)

But more often then not people react too slow to run away from my slasher or even thrasher. There has to be something magical in flashy red on overview that keeps them from hitting warp the moment I land at beacon :)

They are probably very new at PvP, get an adrenaline rush, freeze up and get slow. Don't you remember what it was like when you first got pointed by an evil pirate? I sure do, I forgot which buttons fire up my weapons. :p

Mmm. I've run into one bubble so far (through sheer stupidity) and total paralysis ensued. First podding of my career. :-)

After looking at your loss: where is your ship? Killboard didn't update yet or you really are flying around null in your pod?

After looking at your loss: where is your ship? Killboard didn't update yet or you really are flying around null in your pod?

I checked zkillboard.com and there is only pod lost in null.

Normally:

5) Warp to signature at range cloaked. Bookmark hacking can next to explorer. Bounce to closest celestial and back to can cloaked. Uncloak and shoot.

^^What Cara said (not what I said).

Damn, this chick knows everything!

Anyway, if you are explorer your priority is get loot from sites and survive long enough to make ISK from it. Losing ships is natural part of this process so no need to be shy about it just try to learn and be better next time.

Oh, I realise that; it's all about odds. I don't set my eyes on a covops, because a Magnate - even with a cloak, etc - is dirt cheap, and I can afford to lose a lot of those. I went into lowsec a couple of times without the cloak because no Cloaking skill, and it turned out all right, but if I had been blown up, why would I care?

It's not about wormhole but about J system it leads to. So you would have to jump through wormhole and look around: what class it is, what kind of effects it has if any, how many planets/moons are there, are there any towers at moons and if yes, are they active and who is the owner, etc. Wormhole itself won't last long so buying it wouldn't make much sense although I guess that would make for hilarious story to tell around camp fire :)

That makes more sense, but since indeed the wormhole itself won't last long, what good does it do the buyer to know that at one point I could get to system J-such-and-such via this wormhole?