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We sent in 3 Rifters to point that guy (he was just safed up in space). He neuted out one of them and jammed another one, easily killing the one he neuted out. If we had sent less than 3, he would have lived easily. We never ever spike local with more than 1 Rifter except on failops. This guy was unlucky but also a douchebag for trying to be a Falcon in a Myrm (no reps even wtf).

Insta-undocks:
Consider two things. Whenever you warp to a location, you have to align to it then be at 75% of your max speed. Also, whenever you undock from a station, you always are facing in ALMOST the exact same position.

Imagine you are being station camped by a bunch of angry people, and you want to escape the station. How do you get out?

The answer: an insta-undock. These are bookmarks about 200km and 600km away from station that are in an exact straight line out from the station, allowing you to get out of station safely in a station-camp.

Creating these are simple. In peaceful times (preferably), get in a fast ship with an MWD fitted. Dock up at the station you want to create insta-undocks for. Undock, and do NOT change your direction. Simply leave your ship flying out into space. Keep your MWD turned on as much as possible. When you are 200km out, add a bookmark, saving it something like 'Station 1 insta 200km'. Continue flying until you are 600km out, then add a second bookmark. Voila, you have just created an insta-undock for that station.

Next time you undock from that station, you will be already aligned to those two bookmarks, making it very quick for you to warp to the bookmark without getting pointed, and then you can warp to your next destination safely.

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Safe spots:
Say you are hiding in a system from a bunch of bad guys, and for some reason you are unable to jump into a neighbouring system (maybe you're GCC? Or there might be a gatecamp on the other side?) The best way to hide are safe spots. If you don't have safe spots, you might just keep warping between celestials and hope that you never run into the enemy, which is risky. Also, if you stay at a celestial for a longer period of time, they might be able to dscan you and warp to you.

A safe spot is simply a bookmark in the middle of space, not next to any celestials, making it a lot harder for people to warp to you. To make this, warp from random celestial x to random celestial y, and drop a bookmark midwarp. Tada, that bookmark is now a safe spot.

However, make sure you are constantly dscanning while you are at the Safe spot, as probes can still find you and will let them warp to you. Once you see a combat scanner probe of some form on dscan, it is advisable to warp to another safe spot.

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DScan means the Directional Scanner, and plays a large part in many situations. If you look to the left of your Hud, you will see five buttons, one being the Scanner. Click on that, then select the Directional Scan tab. This is the Dscan.

Make sure the 'use active overview settings' is checked, then type in 99999999999999999 (a lot of 9's) into Range and press enter. You should see it change to 2,147,483,647. This is the maximum range of the dscan. You should also set the angle to 360 degrees for starters.



The Dscan has a very simple principle. It will scan everything within range in the angle you have selected, from YOUR CAMERA's view. NOT the direction your ship is facing, but your CAMERA'S view. Remember this.

So how do you use it? Well, a lot of the time, ships will be at a celestial or station or asteroid belt of some sort. You can use the dscan to narrow down WHICH celestial/whatever they're currently at. Imagine I spot a target harbringer on dscan.



I change my angle to 180 and scan again.



He's not there. So I turn my camera around a full 180 degrees, and scan again.



Got him again! I narrow it down to 90, and check the stations in front.



Nope, nothing. I check the stations at the back.



Found him. As there are NO other celestials aside from these within 90 degrees of my scan, I jump a few levels and narrow it down straight to 5.



I know now that he is almost certainly at either the planet Ammold VI, or the asteroid belt. I take an educated guess and figure he must be at the belt (there is no reason for someone to be at a planet, whereas someone might be ratting at a belt............also I had told him to find a belt for this exercise) and warp to the belt.



Tada!

If you manage to narrow them down but they are not at the celestial you expected them to be at, they are probably at a safespot between you and that celestial. If you narrow them down and they are not next to any celestials, they are at a safespot in the middle of nowhere. For both of these situations, you will need probes to find their exact location. If they are next to a moon in lowsec, the are MOST LIKELY in a PoS (even more likely if you see random guns and towers on dscan where they are) and you should NOT go for them.

After you've got a ship seemingly in the middle of space, turn off your 'Use active overview settings'. This will show everything that the dscan can pick up in that direction. If wrecks suddenly appear on dscan with it, it is likely the ship is missioning. If a bunch of gun batteries and towers appear, it is pos'd up.

This whole process may scare you into thinking it's difficult. It's not, it all just comes with some practice. If you have nothing else to do, ask in corp chat if anyone can come into your system and play a few hide and seek games with you so you get some practice with the dscanner.