Filament

Filaments are items which can instantly transport a ship or a small fleet. There are four types of filament, with quite different effects and uses:

• Abyssal filaments transport pilots to a randomly-chosen pocket of Abyssal Deadspace, where they will face difficult time-limited PvE combat challenges with potentially lucrative rewards.
• Needlejack filaments transport pilots to randomly-chosen parts of nullsec space (“Noise” filaments) or randomly-chosen parts of nullsec space with high capsuleer activity (“Signal” filaments).

• Pochven filaments transport pilots either to a randomly-chosen part of Pochven, or from Pochven into a randomly-chosen part of lowsec or highsec space.
• Proving grounds filaments transport players to the Abyssal Proving Grounds for PvP challenges against randomly-chosen opponents, with ship and equipment restrictions.

Although they differ considerably in their destinations, all types of filament are alike in including an element of randomness.

Spool-Up Timers

In the 2025-03-12.1 Patch a spool up mechanic was introduced with the following mechanics:

• A spool-up timer has been added to all travel filaments (Triglavian Space, Needlejack, and Ice Storm).
• A Filament Trace will appear next to the travel filament’s owner on activation:
  • Nearby fleet members without capsuleer log-off timers will become linked to the trace as it appears.
  • Characters will unlink from a trace if they cloak, change ship, or go beyond 30km of the trace.
    • A link cannot be reestablished once broken.
  • If the filament’s owner unlinks from the trace, it immediately closes.
  • Traces can be scanned with combat probes or d-scan.
• After the spool-up completes, the filament’s owner can jump all characters which remain linked to it:
  • Warp disrupted players will not be jumped.
    • Filament owners will be given a confirmation prompt if characters will be left behind.
  • Traces will close after 15 minutes have passed since it first appeared.
• Travel filaments can no longer be used on a deadspace grid.

Spool-Up Time

Filament	Spool-up Timer
Standard 1-character filaments	15 seconds
Standard 5-character filaments	30 seconds
Standard 15-character filaments	60 seconds
Standard 25-character filaments	90 seconds
Pochven ‘Extraction’ 5-character filaments	120 seconds
Pochven ‘Extraction’ 15-character filaments	180 seconds
Pochven ‘Devana' 1-character filaments	60 seconds
Pochven ‘Devana' 5-character filaments	90 seconds
Pochven ‘Devana' 15-character filaments	150 seconds