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What is the best method for creating important system bookmarks?

If you fly into a new system that you don't have your suite of bookmarks for, what methods do you use to get a good selection of bookmarks quickly before you move on?

The really important bookmarks, such as 150->300km on-grid BMs, gate TACs (tactical BMs) and a sequence of safe spots, can only be made by using multiple warps between various places and BMs. Is there a quicker way to (e.g) get a bookmark about 5000km from a gate, or 250km from a gate with just one jump?

(My current method is to drop BMs in mid-warp and then warp back to them to find out exactly where I dropped it, then adjusting it by warping to it at different ranges, etc.)

mull [ Editor ] Aug 30, 2010 (Edited Aug 31, 2010)

In general there are four types of bookmarks I use.

Insta Warps

Use an inty or fast t1 frig with mwd. With some stations you will not always undock going exactly the same direction, for these try to get a good average.

300k off a gate

I get my cloaky alt to jump in sys, pulse mwd then cloak and orbit gate at 300k while I do other stuff. Bookmark every now and again

Pounce Spots

Spots 1-2 k km behind a gate in line with other gates in system (as many as possible)

Just use an inty

Random safes

Just warp round and drop a bm every now and again. With current probing mechanics it doesn't really matter where they are. Close to a pos with lots of unmanned ships is nice though

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