Docking clearance // situational awareness

Safe to Warp

A pocket checklist for evaluating whether it's safe to warp or jump: bubbles, bookmarks, local spikes, and camp tells at a glance.

Rapid checklist

Grid-check

D-scan 360° / 14.3 AU for bubbles, probes, sabres.

Overview sanity

Hostiles on grid, drones out, wrecks, MTUs, ESS beacons.

Gate cloak

Hold cloak, pre-align destination, identify safe warp-outs.

Bubbles

Check for drag/stop bubbles and anchored mobile warp disruptors.

Bookmarks

Use perches/tacticals >150km off gates/stations; avoid warping zero.

Pods

Bounce with instas; avoid slow-align pods in bubble zones.

Local spike

Local rising? Expect response fleets and mobile dictors.

Recent kills

zKill: check last hour/24h for camp activity and ship types.

By space type

Watch for smartbombs on pipes; bounce with instas around trade hubs.

Suspect bait on gates and stations; tether games with citadels.

Faction police if criminal; avoid autopilot through war targets.

Movement patterns

Gate-to-gate

Use perches and downwind tacticals; never blind-warp a pipe.
Align before decloak; overheat prop mod through drag bubbles.
If camped, bounce safes repeatedly before re-approaching.

Station undock

Use insta-undocks >200km; re-dock if bumped and not aggressed.
Beware tether games; suspects can break tether and point quickly.
Smartbomb checks on undock vector; bounce if unknowns on grid.

Wormholes

Check mass status; rolling fleets may be active.
Bounce off-grid safes before polarizing both sides.
Expect cloaky sabres and logi off-hole; cloak + slowboat off.