Instawarp

Instawarp

Instawarp - is a technicue to avoid low sec gate camps and hi sec suicide gate camps using covert ops cloaking device on non covert ops ship (that is one, that can't actually warp cloaked). The following items a crucial for a trick to work:

• Improved cloaking device II
• Microwarpdrive
• Align time less than the cycle time of the Microwarpdrive

Instructions

A. When you activate gate and the session is changed you have 30 sec invisibility. Don't be in a hurry as miss-clicking can be lethal to your ship. B. Select the destination in the overview (that is usually next gate, or a station, be sure you select it only, not double click) C. Aling to the destination (press "A") D. Right after that activate a cloak. Be sure it's activated, as you have to go out from session change invisibility to be able to cloak a ship. If an error reports "Inheritance with ..." activate cloak again. Be sure not to deactivate it (because you an't activate it right after) E. Right after that activate Microwarpdrive F. Wait for a cycle of the Microwarpdrive is close to the end. It will deactivate itself as you are cloaked, but you should go to the next step before the end of the first cycle G. Deactivate cloak I. Right after that activate warp drive (press "S" or "D") Now you are in the warp. Congratulations you have just go through a gate camp.

Why it works?

Under normal circumstances you an't activate Microwarpdrive while cloaked, but you can during 2-3 seconds right after being cloaked. To enter warp instantly you need 75% of you max speed. Cloak reduces you max speed to 75% that is the reason you can't warp instantly from the cloak. Microwarpdrive increases you speed to 625% that is almost enough to overcome cloak's reduction.

Where you can use that?

The most useful implementation of this technique is to transform a T1 industrial ship into T2 blockade runner. As T2 industrials have low cargo capacity and are expensive one should consider replacing them with a T1 instawarp enabled ship. And that ship is an Iteron Mark V

Low slots: Reactor Control Unit II x3 (or Reactor Control Unit I x5) Mid slots: Experimental 10MN MicroWarpdrive I (or any other Microwarpdrive with power consumption 150 Wt) High slots: Improved Cloaking Device II

Skills required at V (to be able to fit a Microwarpdrive): Energy Grid Upgrdes Engineering

Skills recommended at V (to increase the cargo capacity): Navigation Warp drive operation

More complex loadout is available here [1]

Be aware of

• you can be targeted between steps C and D, but that is true for any ship, even there is very low chance for that (in case of the lag for example)
• you can be uncloaked with an object (another ship or drone) that is 2000 m or close to you. For that reason at the step A you want to sort overview by distance and be sure there is nothing 4000 m or closer to you and if there is, wait another 30 sec to go it away
• if you decloak during alinging you have to deactivate Microwarpdrive yourself, as it will continue second cycle (that would prevent instawarp). And if you are decloaked activate warp immediately
• you can use this technique even on Orca
• fit cloak for "F1" slot and Microwarpdrive for "F2" slot, because if you fit Microwarpdrive to "F1" and you want to activate it by pressing "ALT+F1" you can accidentally press "F1" instead and deactivate cloak
• if you have probe launcher on high "F2" slot put Microwarpdrive on "F3" as you can launch a probe by accident.
• you can use this technique for 0.0 sec gates (with a scout) but not camps as 0.0 sec camps use Mobile Warp Disruptors.
• Covert ops ships have a little advantage on 0.0 camps that is they don't uncloak when stopped by a Mobile Warp Disruptor unless there are plenty of drones in it. If you are stopped by a Mobile Warp Disruptur do not accelerate towards a gate and towards the outer part of the Mobile Warp Disruptur Bubble as camping dudes will guess you location there. Instead move to the center of the bubble and then warp out from the safe distance.
• This technique fail at undock from the station. Use undock sports instead to warp out instantly.

Undock spot

Undock spot is a spot located 500km away from station and directly opposite the undocking side. To make it use a fast ship with an Afterburner. Undock and don't press anything, wait for ~30 min to get far away so you are can't be targeted by ships camping on the station. Bookmark that spot and use it right after undocking with you normal ship. As your speed right after undock is even higher that max velocity of the ship you enter warp instantly.