It was my understanding (and experience) that having an align time of under 2 seconds makes me safe when I'm flying my interceptors. Apparently not, or maybe I'm confused about how quick my ship really is (that might be more likely...).
I was moving a Stiletto back from high sec via a wormhole towards my base in Stain when I came on a Svipul sitting on a gate. No problem. I've been yellow boxed lots of times and never caught yet. So I picked the next gate and hit warp. Red Flashing Lights! Sirens! Explosions!
Death.
I chatted with Glorhs Semah afterwards and asked if I had done anything wrong. Apparently not - he's just quick to lock. Looking at his killboard, I see that I'm in good company (even another Signal Cartel corpmate right before me...).
Fortunately, it had been a good morning for relic sites, so the loss was covered several times over by the loot I had sold in Amarr an hour earlier.
Mr. Semah is now on my watchlist and I'll be more careful when I see he's around.
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Postscript: Noene Drops (the Signal Cartel pilot that was caught by Glorhs Semah an hour before me) pointed me to some interesting viewing and reading... Thanks!
Jack,
ReplyDeleteThere are a number of these Insta-lock Alpha Svipuls around.
Your stiletto might theoretically have less than a 2 sec align time, which according to the maths should see you right. But that maths relies on a fast ping speed. If your not sitting in London actually achieving the round trip communication speeds required to ensure "safe" warp before anyone can lock you is difficult.