Subsecond Ships in EVE Online

Warp Mechanics in Specific Situations

1. they either activate a covert cloak in their decloak tick or correctly use the cloak-MWD trick on a hull and fitting which can actually do itsome fits cannot execute the cloak trick
   
   linked URL explains how check if any fit can
   • this could be disproven by a hyperlocker uncloaking an aligned ship & warping it away on one client and managing to lock it on another
   • anecdotally: I bypassed inveterate hyperlocker Yasaro ~20 times with a covert cloak, but they caught me twice in an instawarping interceptor (evidence of hyperlocking)
     • I never risked trying to avoid him via the cloak + MWD trick, though, so I don't have any anecdotal evidence about how that fares against hyperlockers
       • the cloak-MWD trick is more dangerous than a covert cloak for two reasons:
         1. there's timing involved and thus it's easier to fuck up
         2. hyperlockers are also very likely to successfully burn at cloak-tricking hulls & decloak them before they build up enough speed to escape
            • the best campers can also catch covert hulls this way, especially if they have > 4 s align times and are on small gates and/or wormholes
     • the reliability of cloaks in the face of hyperlockers is (anecdotal) evidence that gate and activated cloaks (and undock invuln, if unstopped) grant an extra tick of unlockability
   • note that ships can be prevented from activating their cloaks if crafty campers litter the spawn zone of a gate with drones, jetcans, etc. good reason to always use a scout

1. they warp from under jump cloak
2. they warp out of the tether provided by a structure
   • warping out of tether is completely safe in any ship, provided you don't break tether (by locking anything or activating an offensive module) or leave tether range while the ship aligns
3. they undock from a station and warp to a destination no more than ~15 degrees from their undock vector before their 30-second Location Change Timer expires
   • station undock warp-offs, if not too far off-angle from the randomized undock vector, and assuming you don't bump or get bumped, are, tmk, infallible in any ship, not just subsecond ones

1. they undock, stop their shipControl + Space, by default, come to a halt, then warp off (2014 evidence, 2022 evidence, discussion)
   • note: as discussed, stopping one's ship does not break undock invulnerability but does seem to remove the one extra tick of unlockability one gets if entering warp straight from invuln
2. they warp to a grid, slow to a halt, then warp off
3. they leave a ship—either in a subsecond frigate (from a battleship's Escape Bay) or in a podAKA capsule, the egg-shaped ship
   your pilot is in if not in a ship, either manually (via ejecting) or because it was destroyed—then warp off
   • pods and subsecond frigates emerging from destroyed ships may or may not have the extra tick of warp invuln, but I suspect not

1. they have no undock invulnerability but are doing 75% or more of max velocity and activate warp to a destination within 15 degrees of their current alignment
   • it's a question of timing: if the hyperlocker initiates lock at the earliest moment after the target has initiated warp, what happens? and how could this even be reliably demonstrated?
     • this is extremely academic, of course, but... in for a penny, I guess...