Does it decrease the time needed to jump/align an afterburner/mwd?
Matt
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No it will infact increase the time taken to warp.
Reason behind this is, your agility is unmodified but your mass and top speed is higher.
i.e you will not turn or impulse any faster but you will have additional mass to accelerate. Therefore it will take longer to achieve 75% of top speed and by extension get into warp.
If you wish to prove this, set up an EFT or EVEHQ fit and then see what difference the align/warp time is with the mwd on or off.
Jumping will take no longer with the MWD on or off, but will use more mass in WH’s or on Jump Bridges. The difficulty with jumping in a ship like an interceptor when the mwd is on is making sure you click jump while still in jump range of the gate when covering 4km/s
P.S having it fitted but inactive will not increase your align/warp speed only having it online.
EDIT: There is a trick where you could warp faster with an MWD and a Cloak by taking advantage of the cloaking mechanic. Basically you jump into new system, click on outgate, then do all these in sequence as quickly but unrushed as possible.
Align; Cloak; Cycle MWD; when cycle is about to end; decloak and spam warp.
NN comments
Robert lightowler
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the mwd cloak trick still works and doesn’t use the cloaking mechanics.
to clarify you hit align, cloak, mwd, receive one cycle of your mwd under cloak then when your mwd turns of decloak and spam warp to whatever aligned to. Makes you close invulnerable in low/highsec.
Matt
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I’m sure CCP fixed this, prototype cloaks reduce your top speed to 10% decloaking after your mwd switches off forces you to accelerate back up, you can still sort of do this with Cruisers and below, but anything bigger and the speed dropped too fast. put it like this my alliance and I have no problems tackling targets on gates in low-sec anymore and I used to have issues pre apocrypha, if they haven’t fixed it they have at least made less potent.
Count Scary
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You are merely catching idiots. I have used this trick many many times post apoc and have not had any problems insta-warping.
Matt
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scary Fair enough, I suppose there must just be more idiots in eve these days lol. I don’t use the trick personally, never have. If I want to stay hidden in low-sec/Null-Sec I use a covert ops anyway. I must admit though if you truly are invincible like you were pre-apocrypha, where only lag could get you killed that must be borderline exploit. I have no problems with the mechanics or the people that do it, but I always thought the point was no one was uncatchable. Mind you I guess a good inty Pilot should still be able to decloak you even if you are almost in warp by that point. I will amend my post anyways :)
