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To avoid people entering a site based on how long it takes them to align down the gate, all battleships in the fleet should pre-align down the gate in order to be ready to use the gate right away. This is very similar to how you pre-align in fleets while travelling.

The easy way to do this is to enable the tactical overlay as seen in the image to your right. The distance markers often line up with the direction of the gate, so you can just double-click in space at any of the distant markers to start aligning down the gate.

The easy way to do this is to enable the tactical overlay as seen in the image to your right. The distance markers often line up with the direction of the gate, so you can just double-click in space at any of the distant markers to start aligning down the gate. It might be tempting to just activate the gate to get started, but that can lead to you accidentally taking the gate and even if you don't the gate will flash and it'll give others on grid the impression that someone just tried to take the gate. Either way, never activate a gate unless you intend to take the gate, right then and there.

When you land on a gate your actual position next to the beacon, just like when you warp to a station, will be different for each member of the fleet. As such you sometimes land below, above, to the left or to the right of the beacon. To avoid potentially aligning straight into the gate, you could zoom in a little to see where you land, and simply sight down the gate like you would the barrel of a rifle, and double-click in space where your perceived sight ends up.

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 To avoid people entering a site based on how long it takes them to align down the gate, all battleships in the fleet should pre-align down the gate in order to be ready to use the gate right away. This is very similar to how you pre-align in fleets while travelling.
-The easy way to do this is to enable the tactical overlay as seen in the image to your right. The distance markers often line up with the direction of the gate, so you can just double-click in space at any of the distant markers to start aligning down the gate.
+The easy way to do this is to enable the tactical overlay as seen in the image to your right. The distance markers often line up with the direction of the gate, so you can just double-click in space at any of the distant markers to start aligning down the gate. It might be tempting to just activate the gate to get started, but that can lead to you accidentally taking the gate and even if you don't the gate will flash and it'll give others on grid the impression that someone just tried to take the gate. Either way, never activate a gate unless you intend to take the gate, right then and there.
 When you land on a gate your actual position next to the beacon, just like when you warp to a station, will be different for each member of the fleet. As such you sometimes land below, above, to the left or to the right of the beacon. To avoid potentially aligning straight into the gate, you could zoom in a little to see where you land, and simply sight down the gate like you would the barrel of a rifle, and double-click in space where your perceived sight ends up.