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 timer

All travel filaments (Triglavian Space, Needlejack, and Ice Storm) have a spool-up timer.

On activation of a filament a Filament Trace will appear next to the travel filament’s owner and the spool-up timer is started.

• 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.

A trace will close after 15 minutes have passed since it first appeared.

Travel filaments can not be used on a deadspace grid.

Spool-up timer duration

Filament type	Timer duration
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