Example:
Say a ship is accelerating to the 75% speed that is required to initiate a warp. While he has a speed of 50%, I use my warp disruptor on him. Will he still warp out or is the warp out sequence interrupted?
Thanks
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Tony Moore
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No you will stop him from warping if he has not reached 75% and aligned closely enough.
Paul
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Once a ship enters warp, they become untargetable (and break any locks on them). Up until that point, you can hit them with a scram and they will be stuck.
Melissa Blick
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Even if a ship is fully aligned, i.e at 100% speed towards the warp target, a disruptor will stop warp. I often fly ecm, and stay aligned to a celestial while jamming. If someone warp disrupts me, I cannot warp even though I am aligned.
So yes, a disruptor (or scram) will prevent warp out while aligning. This is really important for gate camps. Your lock time needs to be much shorter than the align time of your target (reason why heavy tacklers use sensor boosters). Also the reason why you always scram, then web. If you web an aligning target before scramming, they might instawarp because you just reduced the velocity they need to warp by 60%.
But if you will hit warp button a moment before your ship gets scrambled, you will warp or not?
Matt
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The cut off point you are looking for is when your ship speed jerks, any warp disruption initiated past this will not stop a ship from entering warp... if he is just aligning, you will get him.
Interestingly, I found this out the other day, if you drop a dictor bubble while a fleet is in warp towards a gate it doesn't seem to stop them.
So presumably once you are in warp it's predetermined whether or not you are going to be caught in a bubble.
Whether you get caught in a bubble or not is determined exactly when you enter warp. This makes it immaterial how many bubbles you put up once your targets are already in warp.