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===Preventing ticks via | ===Preventing ticks via Bookmarks: Staying off the map, grid and primary=== | ||
As the server updates information in ticks, as opposed to real time, this means that ships warp a certain distance per tick, depending on their warp speed. The implications are that when making bookmarks in warp between 2 celestials, we may have them placed in the same spot as another pilot. This is unacceptable from a best practice viewpoint (a common phrase is that sharing bookmarks is like sharing underwear: only with someone you trust and don't mind being intimate with. Intimate can mean Antimatter M up the exhaust pipe, in this case). So, how can this be avoided? | As the server updates information in ticks, as opposed to real time, this means that ships warp a certain distance per tick, depending on their warp speed. The implications are that when making bookmarks in warp between 2 celestials, we may have them placed in the same spot as another pilot. This is unacceptable from a best practice viewpoint (a common phrase is that sharing bookmarks is like sharing underwear: only with someone you trust and don't mind being intimate with. Intimate can mean Antimatter M up the exhaust pipe, in this case). So, how can this be avoided? | ||
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*Best place for observation is outside transit routes | *Best place for observation is outside transit routes | ||
*Or just get within 100km of gate at 'look at' the gate | *Or just get within 100km of gate at 'look at' the gate | ||
http://www.evealtruist.com/2011/04/bookmarks-and-you.html | |||
http://www.agony-unleashed.com/wiki/index.php?title=Bookmarks | |||
http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Bookmarks | |||
===Why not to stay aligned=== | ===Why not to stay aligned=== | ||