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Neal Cassady
Shih Yang Tong
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Posted - 2007.03.27 15:28:00 -
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After about 5 months of playing in low-sec i only just figured this out. I feel like a total nub but I just wanted to share the knowledge as i hadn't seen this tip on the forums previously.
Your ship is going down. You're double webbed, damped, jammed, in structure and help is hemming and hawing in corp chat. Your ship is a goner but your pod aint, and here is how to save it (almost) every time.
1) Relax. Don't worry about your expensive ship or your expensive mods, theyre as good as gone. Do not get angry. Remain calm and concentrate on the task at hand: saving your pod.
2) When you hit structure get ready to get your pod out. This means right-clicking on the screen and get your mouse hovering over a warp to zero button. The best places to warp are a station or a safe spot. DO NOT CLICK THE BUTTON YET.
3) While hovering over the warp to zero button watch your combat messages closely. When you see "Ship is Out of Control" it is time to act. Click the warp to zero button you have been hovering over. It is essential to make this click after the "out of control" message but before the session change into your pod.
4) Congrats, your pod should insta-warp to safety as soon as the session change is complete.
This is much faster than waiting for the session change, then selecting the warp out option, which any decent frig or inty pilot will be able to interrupt. The only tricky part is the timing but after a few tries you should have it down. Perhaps you and a corpmate want to practice this with shuttles a few times before you go down to Amamake to rat or mine, but hey, it's your pod.
Now keep those implants!
-Neal
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Vasiliyan
PAX Interstellar Services
Freelancer Alliance
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Posted - 2007.03.27 15:56:00 -
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Good advice.
One random thing to note: if your ship gets destroyed near a gate, you can't jump your pod through the gate for 30 seconds after that because you're already in a "session change", even if your aggression timer has run out.
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Chigger Troutslayer
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Posted - 2007.03.27 17:13:00 -
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Thanks Neal, nice to get helpful advice from someone who has a big red "-" next to his name in local. Proof that pirates are really "bad" people just enjoy a different style of play. BTW I try not to rat or mine in Amamake, I only go there when I'm looking for trouble and its usually not hard to find. I may just take a cheap frigate and a non implant clone over and get a little practice  I never could get out with my pod intact but I never new when to press warp either!
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Asterisk Grat
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Posted - 2007.03.27 17:38:00 -
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Neal, I'll take this one from you. Eventhough you ratted me once.
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Shanur
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Posted - 2007.03.27 17:41:00 -
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Proof that real pirates just want your ship and loots. Good advice! |
Neal Cassady
Shih Yang Tong
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Posted - 2007.03.27 22:51:00 -
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fyi i still want your pod
i make a lot of isk from pod ransoms and if it comes to it i have a guy who buys corpses from me.
im also interested in raising the level of pvp for everyone, though, it can only improve the game.
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Kermis
Caldari
BIGGA DAKKA INDUSTREEZ
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Posted - 2007.03.27 23:03:00 -
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It's even easyer to select whatever you're trying to warp yo on your overview and keep spamming the "warp to" button. That way, you can't miss it. (Don't think this works for BM'd safespots though, since you can't have them on your overview.)
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Tkar vonBiggendorf
Gallente
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Posted - 2007.03.27 23:18:00 -
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Ctrl-Shift-T and Ctrl-Shift-E to disable turret and other effects. Helps reduce any graphics lag and gives you a better chance at getting away.
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Neal Cassady
Shih Yang Tong
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Posted - 2007.03.27 23:29:00 -
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 Originally by: Kermis
It's even easyer to select whatever you're trying to warp yo on your overview and keep spamming the "warp to" button. That way, you can't miss it. (Don't think this works for BM'd safespots though, since you can't have them on your overview.)
keep doing this and you will lose pods. the whole point of the post was to help people get the timing down so the pod warps as soon as it appears on your adversaries overview.
neal
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Vmir Gallahasen
Gallente
Captain Morgan Society
Privateer Alliance
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Posted - 2007.03.28 03:15:00 -
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Quote:
keep doing this and you will lose pods. the whole point of the post was to help people get the timing down so the pod warps as soon as it appears on your adversaries overview.
Did you misunderstand his explanation? Spamming the warp button is by far the fastest way to get a pod out of that situation.
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Neal Cassady
Shih Yang Tong
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Posted - 2007.03.28 04:42:00 -
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yes i did misunderstand. i thought he meant to right click on the item in overview and then select warp to. apologies for being a wise-ass.
this spamming tactic would not really work for me since i have everything except ships (and sometimes drones depending on the situation) disabled on my overview during combat. i suppose in my case you could simply select something in space and then use the warp to button, but then theres always the chance of accidentally selecting an asteroid or a ship or something like that.
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Dethis
Caldari
Vice Royals
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Posted - 2007.03.28 08:46:00 -
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Originally by: Neal Cassady
yes i did misunderstand. i thought he meant to right click on the item in overview and then select warp to. apologies for being a wise-ass.
this spamming tactic would not really work for me since i have everything except ships (and sometimes drones depending on the situation) disabled on my overview during combat. i suppose in my case you could simply select something in space and then use the warp to button, but then theres always the chance of accidentally selecting an asteroid or a ship or something like that.
I have an overview setting that shows planets only and i switch when im about to die
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Kill em all and let god sort em out
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Eleana Tomelac
Gallente
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Posted - 2007.03.28 09:28:00 -
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when you know the battle could be lost, right click in the background, find the stations, planets or something ou like and add it to overview, when the time comes, you have stuff in the overview to warp to.
Don't spam too much the warp button, spamming it too much seems no better. You can make it with like 3 clicks, one when your ship is not dead yet but close, on high latency, it will make you warp, your next click will be when you see your ship out of control (mostly when you think the structure hits the bottom because ship out of control makes lag), and the very last one is well, usually in the lag of the ship exploding, I'm not sure it ever allows you to click with the interface freezing...
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Gartel Reiman
Project F3
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Posted - 2007.03.28 12:50:00 -
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Originally by: Eleana Tomelac
when you know the battle could be lost, right click in the background, find the stations, planets or something ou like and add it to overview, when the time comes, you have stuff in the overview to warp to.
Or even better, do this ahead of time and save it as one of your overlay settings, so when your blood's pumping and you need to find celestial object quickly, you can bring it up quickly and it's always in the same place. Perhaps even add planets to your standard overview settings, for that reason.
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