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Instajumps
Instajumps have become obsolete due to the Revelations
patch/expansion.This article explains what instajumps were good for and how they were made. If you just want to learn more about bookmarks, read BasicBookmarking and AdvancedBookmarking.
Before you read this article, you should learn about BasicMovement in EVE. If you know how to move your ship in space, navigate to other systems, use jumpgates and are familiar with the autopilot, read on. It's also useful to read about copying bookmarks once you know how to make instajumps.
What were instajumps?
Before the Revelations expansion, If you warped to something, you couldn't get closer than 15km. You had to fly the rest of the way to your destination. But you can bookmark any spot in space. So, if you put a bookmark 15km behind the object you wanted to warp to and then jumped to the bookmark, you would end up landing right on top of the object.Bookmarks that were set up to land you within range of an object were called instajumps. The name makes sense if you consider that landing on top of a gate means you can jump instantly after dropping out of warp, bypassing any camps and shortening your travel time considerably. But instajumps were just as useful for quick docking, or jumping to containers at belts or safespots.
After Revelations, you can simply choose to warp within 0km of the target or a bookmark, so the need for instajumps has been removed.
http://eve.grismar.net/guides/instajump.jpg
Note that a lot of the old instajump bookmarks were within 12km, instead of 15km. Why? Because a gate is actually very large and within a sphere of over 2km from its center, you'd be at 0m from the gate. So, if you would have bookmarked 15 km behind it, you would be instajumping too far, overshooting the gate if you were flying a ship with low agility. The 12km bookmark would drop you right on top of it, no matter what you were flying.
For large space stations and other objects that are 30km in diameter or more, you could make the bookmark in the exact center of the object (either directly above or below), and then instajump there from any spot in the system.
Related Topics: AdvancedBookmarking
Current EVE version (at time of writing): 2.14.28296 (Revelations 1.2)
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Insta's can also be purchased for whole regions, in the range of 10-35mil isk, depending on the number of g2g jumps. Check escrow for the sales.
-- c-71-198-120-137.hsd1.ca.comcast.net (2006-02-02 14:44:47)
Note: for Minmatar gates (those long, stick-shaped ones), make your bookmarks 5-8km from the gate instead of 12km --Arcturus Rex
-- ArcturusRex (2006-02-02 15:30:31)
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Bookmarks have a column that tells you what system they are made in.
Bookmarks have a column that tells you what system they are made in.
-- NoKarma (2006-04-01 10:56:07)
The best tip I saw for making gate instas is to equip a turret weapon that has a 15km range (or as close to it as you can get) on it. When you hover the mouse over the weapon with the tactical view on, the range sphere will appear. Warp to the gate and begin to fly past it. "Look" at the gate and watch for your range sphere to go thru the center of the gate. When it does, BM that spot. You'll be dead on every time.
Sometimes it's not a bad idea to bookmark a little bit short of the gate. Ideally if you can run into the gate and bounce off of it when your decelerating out of warp you'll be in range no matter what you're flying.
I occasionally have trouble marking the exact spot when flying past the gate, especially when I'm in low sec and paranoid. It's sometimes easier to fly past the 15km mark and then click "approach." This way you can approach more slowly for a more precise bookmark and ideally you're already aligned to warp back to from where ever you came if somebody jumps in while you're trying to make the mark.
A quick and easy station insta that works almost all of the time is to create the bookmark IMMEDIATELY upon exiting the station. The stations are so large that it almost always works, regardless from where you are coming.
Finally, when making a bookmark, I always add it and press enter immediately, even before naming it. Then view/edit it in P&P to give it all the detail you want. I have heard and it has been my experience that despite showing you the XYZ coordinates, the bookmark isn't actually made until you press enter for the first time.
Sometimes it's not a bad idea to bookmark a little bit short of the gate. Ideally if you can run into the gate and bounce off of it when your decelerating out of warp you'll be in range no matter what you're flying.
I occasionally have trouble marking the exact spot when flying past the gate, especially when I'm in low sec and paranoid. It's sometimes easier to fly past the 15km mark and then click "approach." This way you can approach more slowly for a more precise bookmark and ideally you're already aligned to warp back to from where ever you came if somebody jumps in while you're trying to make the mark.
A quick and easy station insta that works almost all of the time is to create the bookmark IMMEDIATELY upon exiting the station. The stations are so large that it almost always works, regardless from where you are coming.
Finally, when making a bookmark, I always add it and press enter immediately, even before naming it. Then view/edit it in P&P to give it all the detail you want. I have heard and it has been my experience that despite showing you the XYZ coordinates, the bookmark isn't actually made until you press enter for the first time.
-- ClaviusPhantom (2006-08-30 11:44:16)
'Insta-Warp' is the correct form to use.
Jump is used to indicate that you are leaving one system and entering another
Warp is used to indicate traveling within a system to get from one point to the next.
Just thought I would clarify that. ;) Good description though.
Jump is used to indicate that you are leaving one system and entering another
Warp is used to indicate traveling within a system to get from one point to the next.
Just thought I would clarify that. ;) Good description though.
-- SolarF (2006-10-31 09:46:08)