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To be "aligned" in EVE usually means travelling in a straight line towards a potential warp destination at 75% or more of your ship's maximum speed. When a ship is already aligned, it can warp near-instantly on command along its line of alignment. | To be "aligned" in EVE usually means travelling in a straight line towards a potential warp destination at 75% or more of your ship's maximum speed. When a ship is already aligned, it can warp near-instantly on command along its line of alignment. | ||
Revision as of 11:22, 9 July 2022
To be "aligned" in EVE usually means travelling in a straight line towards a potential warp destination at 75% or more of your ship's maximum speed. When a ship is already aligned, it can warp near-instantly on command along its line of alignment.
For mining ships which need to be able to make a quick getaway, it is useful to be able to mine while staying aligned. This page explains how.
What you will need
- A medium Higgs Anchor rig
- A fast ship
- Your Procurer
Preparation
- Install the Higgs Anchor rig on your barge. This will slow a Procurer down to 50 m/s max speed.
- In your fast ship, go to your instadock at the structure in which you are based.
- Find the rock you want to mine. It's best if you try to find two of the same type close to each other.
- Warp at 20km to the rock.
- Lock the rocks you want to mine so that you can easily see distances.
- Prepare to create Bookmark 1. Ctrl-b to bring it up and type in the name. Don’t press "ok" yet!
- Manually pilot to pass near to the rock, but not directly into it. (Double-click in space)
- Watch your distances. Once you’re just within your mining range, make your first bookmark.
- Prepare to create bookmark 2.
- Keep watching your distances. They will go down, then back up. Once you are close to your maximum mining range, drop Bookmark 2.
- Turn your propulsion module on. Keep burning until you are several hundred kilometres away; 400–500 km is good. (This is why you’re using a fast ship!)
- Create Bookmark 2 safe spot; call it something like "2 safe"
How to mine
- Warp at 0 to Bookmark 1, If you are too far off, approach Bookmark 1.
- Approach Bookmark 2
- Lock rocks and turn on strip miners
- Set speed to just over 75%. This still lets you instawarp if needed.
- When you get very close to Bookmark 2, approach Bookmark 1.
How to escape
- Have your view set so that you can see the safe bookmark you are going towards:
- "2 safe" when heading towards Bookmark “2”
- Instadock when heading towards Bookmark 1.
- When something shows up on grid, or d-scan (you are spamming it, correct?) right-click on your safe bookmark and warp at 0. You can then turn off your strip miners and recall your drones. (They might not make it.)
- You’re now either 400km away and can warp to an astrahaus, or you’re tethered and can dock easily.
