Five Methods to Land in Jump Range of Drifter Hole

1. have all brackets showing and warp to a uni
2. imagine a straight line starting at the beacon running through the wormhole out into infinity (hereafter called the Line of Syzygy or LoS)
3. check for warpable objects on or near the LoS

Method 1: The Rare Jackpot Warpable

1. simply warp straight from it to the uni at 89 km and you'll land in jump range.
   • a jackpot warpable (click to show/hide video)
   • setting an arbitrary Warp to Within distance (click to show/hide video)

     Immediately reset the default "Warp to Within" range to 0 after warping to the hole!
     

Method 2: Adjust a Warpable

1. warp to it and then back to the uni and save several BMs in rapid succession as you near the uni
   • you're looking to get one that's just offgrid, which is right around 10000 km (anything between there and ~13k can work)
     • sometimes grids still get stretched and you need to go further, but this is rare
2. once you have a nearby offgrid BM, MWD from it toward the LoS
3. when you've gone ~500 km, drop another BM, warp back to the hole and judge how far and in what direction you have yet to burn to line up your BM
4. repeat #3 (and maybe burn more or less if you're good at judginge spatial distances visually) until you get a roughly straight line between beacon, wormhole and BM
   • a lined-up BM made by burning (click to show/hide video)

     Note the other 3 BMs made during the burning process, and the beacon from which the initial BM was made.

Method 3: Ping Between Warpables

1. look out towards the edges of the system for two warpables in front of the beacon and roughly on opposite sides of LoS
2. warp between them and drop BMs near the LoS as you cross it
3. warp from the BM nearest the LoS to the uni & use the above Adjust a Warpable method to get it closely aligned (if necessary)

Method 4: Just Burn It

1. get in something fast (e.g. a 10 km/s Punisher) and burn out along the LoS for ~25 minutes until you leave the grid

• you can be zapped by Drifters from 250 km
• Drifters chase you at silly speeds and can then hang around on the grid for longer than normal, becoming a nuisance
  • this can be used to your advantage, too

Method 5: Microjump (DANGEROUS)

1. in a covert or instawarp ship, warp to something behind the beacon then warp from it to the uni at nonzero distances until you land 103-96 km from the wormhole
   • if you're uncomfortable estimating ranges, you can drop a boomkark very close to the uni to avoid long warps back and forth
2. use your tested warpable & warp range to take your MJing ship to the uni, align, MJ, and enter the hole

• you need time to align to the hole and to spool the microjump (5-12 s depending on skills/module)
• you exit warp randomly placed on a 5 km-wide sphere centered on your warpin point
  • ergo, when warping to the beacon, your range to wormhole itself will randomly vary by ±0-2500 m
    • hence the 103 km max suggested landing range (you don't want to waste time slowboating closer)
• you maintain pre-MJ velocity post-MJ, therefore:
  • it's better to land on the long side of the viable range (hence the 96 km miminum recommendation vs, say, 89)
  • it's wise to manually set a low velocity during align (left-click in the Throttle zone close to the minus symbol)
  • it's sensible to enter the wormhole immediately after MJing so you don't slowboat out of range
• it's smart to be sure there are no wrecks, cans, etc. around the beacon in case you need to cloak
  • coming into the grid considerably off-angle helps too, because the beacon itself also prevents cloaking
• it's also non-dumb to use a scout on the uni grid so you don't needlessly warp in with Drifters
• you don't need to faff with this stuff, but fiddlefarting around on these grids is inadvisable!
  • when Drifters appear they can hit you with Lux Kontos/Xiphos in two server ticks
    • like these. risky! those are K-Space losses to the Drifter NPC corp of a billion ISK or more