Undocking/Docking

The station is where most of your fights in hisec will happen. In these situations it is important to understand the mechanics behind docking and undocking. The first thing to understand is that you have a 30 second immunity when you undock so long as you do not do any action other than stopping your ship. If you change your direction, target another ship, click warp to, etc. an enemy waiting for you will be allowed to target you. If you can align and warp before they lock this is not an issue but for most ships you will have to either use an instawarp or redock to avoid being pointed. You can use your immunity after you undock to your advantage allowing you to pop out see whats waiting for you and redock to decide your best course of action. It is also possible to keep someone who is station camping entertained/distracted by undocking letting them reduce your shields to 75% and redocking. This will allow your corp mates to hopefully organize some kind of counter attack to kill them. Remember though if you engage the enemy you will recieve an aggression timer and will be unable to dock for 60 seconds. Also, if your ship is destroyed you will get a session change timer and must warp away in your pod. finally, if you are playing station games with an enemy be carefull of getting in fleet while undocked as the 30 second session change may be enough to get you killed before you can redock. You can practice these mechanics with any other corp member at a station just have them try to lock you when you undock.

Note: ctrl+space is the stop shortcut