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Your FC might want to have a [[Safe spots#Rolling safe spots|rolling safe]] in which you keep burning at high speed in one direction and the fleet warps to you whenever you travel more than 150km away. This makes it significantly harder to get a good warp-in on the fleet by probing it down. Your role in a rolling safe is very simple: just burn at top speed in a consistent direction. Check with the FC whether they would like that direction to be aligned towards anything in particular.

In nullsec, wormholes, and Pochven, where [[Tackling#Warp_disruption_fields|bubbles]] can be used to suck people out of warp near their destination, "ping" bookmarks come in very handy. These are bookmarks on grid with key travel points such as gates, but far enough away that it's safe to warp to them, avoiding any catch or drag bubbles set up at the location. If roaming in an area where the group doesn't have these set up, you might be asked to create new ones using your high speed on grid. These are particularly important near any gate or other point of interest (e.g. a wormhole) which has nothing else within d-scan range, as without pings or off-grid scanning bookmarks it's impossible to get close to such a place and check whether it is dangerous.

Finally, bookmarks can play a role in short-term trickery. If you are hunting PvE ships, for example, and one gives you the slip, you might find it useful to bookmark where the target ''was'', which might mean bookmarking an [[Mobile structures#Mobile Tractor Unit|MTU]] or an asteroid. If you return to the system after a short pause (5 or 10 minutes), you can try warping straight to this bookmark; sometimes unwary targets let themselves get caught this way.

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 Your FC might want to have a [[Safe spots#Rolling safe spots|rolling safe]] in which you keep burning at high speed in one direction and the fleet warps to you whenever you travel more than 150km away. This makes it significantly harder to get a good warp-in on the fleet by probing it down. Your role in a rolling safe is very simple: just burn at top speed in a consistent direction. Check with the FC whether they would like that direction to be aligned towards anything in particular.
-In nullsec, wormholes, and Pochven, where [[Tackling#Warp_disruption_fields|bubbles]] can be used to suck people out of warp near their destination, "ping" bookmarks come in very handy. These are bookmarks on grid with key travel points such as gates, but far enough away that it's safe to warp to them, avoiding any catch or drag bubbles set up at the location. If roaming in an area where the group doesn't have these set up, you might be asked to create new ones using your high speed on grid. These are particularly important near any gate or other point of interest (e.g. a wormhole) which has nothing else within d-scan range, as without pings or off-grid scanning bookmarks it's impossible to get close to such a place and check whether it is dangerous.
 Finally, bookmarks can play a role in short-term trickery. If you are hunting PvE ships, for example, and one gives you the slip, you might find it useful to bookmark where the target ''was'', which might mean bookmarking an [[Mobile structures#Mobile Tractor Unit|MTU]] or an asteroid. If you return to the system after a short pause (5 or 10 minutes), you can try warping straight to this bookmark; sometimes unwary targets let themselves get caught this way.