Never spam any button you want to work. Tends to make the action not occur. This is a fact of working with computers, and the sooner you learn it the better.

DISCLAIMER: I am not a programmer or designer. My word is not law on this matter.

However: Spamming a button is never a feature and is never guaranteed to work. Spamming the warp button has never been a 100% guarantee escape and it was definitely not designed to be so. In fact, spamming any button can cause client side lag. It may help you get the perfect timing right, it is just as likely to drown the client or your connection and make things worse.

It is really explained by the word "spamming", which is never a good thing. Btw, this is true for almost all software. Even a simple text program will fall behind or filter out some commands when you mash your buttons fast enough, let alone a complex program like EVE.

My only advise is: do not fly what you cannot afford to lose. If your ship gets caught, your pod is in dire straights as well. It may get out, but it may go squish all the same if your attackers are paying attention.

+1

This game is about a lot of possible choices with a lot of possible consequences or not at all the moment you know what you're doing.

Loosing your ship must be something you consider has a NORMAL thing to happen, loosing your POD is something you have to consider something NORMAL to happen.

This said, you need to help yourself by educate yourself with game mechanics, tips from "scrubs" and "scum" also some of those requiring both named frequently "pirates" because it's easy to put a name on something. (most of those I've known from my beginning until now are the most incredible awesome/honourable people I've ever met in this game)

Yes it hurts when you loose your pod or ship whenever you get ganked at some belt, mission, or your pod by some insta lock arty trasher, sure it sucks and would make mad whoever is less hot head than me, but hey it's a game, you need to learn mechanics the hard way before you know how to deal with.

Even then, whenever you think you already know enough about, you'll always learn something from someone may it be some noob or some bitvet.

please take your fingers out of your eyes and stop spouting rubbish, read the thread before posting.

i agree that theres always more to learn,
i agree that you shouldnt fly what you cant afford ot lose.
i understand its just a game.

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This said, you need to help yourself by educate yourself with game mechanics, tips from "scrubs" and "scum" also some of those requiring both named frequently "pirates" because it's easy to put a name on something. (most of those I've known from my beginning until now are the most incredible awesome/honourable people I've ever met in this game)

Yes it hurts when you loose your pod or ship whenever you get ganked at some belt, mission, or your pod by some insta lock arty trasher, sure it sucks and would make mad whoever is less hot head than me, but hey it's a game, you need to learn mechanics the hard way before you know how to deal with.

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no. what we are discussing here is when you are unable to warp away for 5-9 seconds due to no fault of your own and no matter how much to try to escape when you normally should be able to under the circumstances. lossing a pod to an insta lock thrasher is a different story. please dont derail/change the subject. this is not about losing pods and hwo to deal with them this is about the game client being bugged.

read the thread before posting.

When MMOs first came out I didn't bother with them because it was understood that being good at them had more to do with your computer and internet connection than any actual game skill.

EVE suffers from this in the extreme when it comes to podkilling mechanics.

Your implants can be a very important part of your strategy/fit. Yet the actual mechanics of how you save your or lose your pod are almost completely out of a players control. I really think this is a weak point of the game that ccp should work on.

Either make the game work so players can get their pod out or they can't. But make the game actually work, and work reliably.

Right now you are supposed to spam warp because that is how you get your pod out. Its just that it is a crap shoot whether it will work or not.

Yet CCP even put more emphasis on this broken aspect of the game by showing implants. I know players wanted it so I don't blame them. But they should make this aspect of the game work reliably.

The problem with client side lag started with incarna it's not new to this release. It may be worse now I am not sure.

I'm sorry wich part of after your ship blows up, you are granted a 2nd chance to run away before truly die and be penalized (possible Sp loss/ buy a new clone)

The fact ppl was using a fairly odd/tricky mechanic to get an almost insta warp again before they could even get locked.
TBH if you await until your ship explode and then after the pod shows you warp the enemy only can catch you with faster than 1x sec lock tacklers or with Warp bubbles. (assuming having a decent Isp connection and not lagging badly.


TL;DR complain about not be able to use an insta warp when ship explode it's like complain about not be able to instawarp with any kind of ship after undock/use stargate. the only reason ppl ignored this with pods it's just because the pod has been ignored as something valuable aside the little grief/nuissance of get a new clone.

Actually, this is a fairly serious post. I'm from the UK too, but I currently live in Japan. I also have a fibre optic connection, but it is a 100MB line, for about the equivalent of -ú25/month. I was being a little facetious in my post but that was more to illustrate the paucity of BT's infrastructure

Anyway, sucks to lose your pod dude

See the disclaimer above.

All I said is: software breaks when you spam stuff. This is quite universal, especially where the internet is involved.

I also said that I am not a programmer and do not know how this works under the hood, but that I (and my colleague GMs) will keep our eye on this.

Then it is settled. For the next expansion CCP should fix the internet. No more excuses CCP!!!

/me cracks whip

Then it is settled. For the next expansion CCP should fix the internet. No more excuses CCP!!!

/me cracks whip

I had the same problem a few days ago. My blockade runner with double WCS (=4 warp strength) was scrambled by a single Rapier. When trying to warp away I got the error message, but it still said the warp drive was active. After a while I cancelled the warp, restarted it and warped away. Of course you don't have so much time in a pod.

A rather serious bug.

All I said is: software breaks when you spam stuff. This is quite universal, especially where the internet is involved.

I also said that I am not a programmer and do not know how this works under the hood, but that I (and my colleague GMs) will keep our eye on this.

Almost everyone in this thread didn't get what the OP was talking about. Or so I think. What happened was that the warp drive was supposedly active but the pod did not warp. Like I described in my own post:

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Now what happened here is that my ship was stuck in a zombie-state of the warp drive being active, and thus not accepting any commands that are not valid when in warp, but also not actually warping even long after the ship was aligned.

Yeah and my line is between 500-1000mbs

Then make a warp button that greys out after one click and is no longer spammable. The results (warp or not) are left entirely to the host after the single "warp away" command is received, instead of a constant stream of requests. This is absolutely trivial to program.

Almost everyone in this thread didn't get what the OP was talking about. Or so I think. What happened was that the warp drive was supposedly active but the pod did not warp. Like I described in my own post:

Yesterday while jumping around I too found a problem. In a couple systems, (we'll use bawilan for this) I got an error upon hitting the gate saying something along the lines of 'you cannot leave bawilan due to problems with the space time continuum'. Being in highsec, it wasn't too much of an issue, but if I was running from a gang in low I would have been dead on the gate, as it happened as many times as I pressed jump. I will file a bug report when I get back online. Figured this would fit in ops thread.

Sorry to disagree but ping does not and cannot represent speed in any form.

Please reference any documentation on ping and its elements and forget all interpretation. Speed is constant on any type of network at 186,282 miles per second. Fact. What you are referring to is the amount of information that can be carried AT THAT SPEED which is always variable and for ease of use is referred to as speed - but wrongly so.


And as a registered nerd, Zagdul - I will not shut up