Good to know, thank you!
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Your welcome. Combat probes are often a prelude to shenanigans.
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This was linked at least once before and mentioned several times before and you just ignore it every single time.
The answer was in my post like 10 posts up when I asked:
This is literally the first time anyone has mentioned something called higgs. When I align and stop ship, I stay aligned unless the station is under the game horizon, or the game randomly tells my ship to turn another direction.
When you stop ship you’re no longer aligned. By definition. Literally by the button you pressed: “stop ship”. Press the “align” button again to once more become aligned.
What can I say, I didn’t see it. That’s my bad.
Maybe I am misunderstanding the word and the mechanic. I am in line, aka aligned, to the destination. When a ship stops, it does not drastically change direction, so should be within the % degree mentioned before. I watch my ship and make sure the front is pointed at the station I intend to get to.
Please reread my definition above: it has both a speed and direction of travel requirement.
I am reading and working it into my fits and planned actions going forward. While I disagree with some things said and probably come off as a douche, I am learning.
But now I have a question. If I use that higgs rig, doesnt that counter the low friction rigs that increase to warp speed?
First of all it is not explained in-game but your ship facing is irrelevant when your ship doesn’t move, though for the subject that is not important just something of note you might check out.
Even if it meant anything the fact you have to accelerate to 75% speed means it takes time to reach the required speed to warp which means you can be caught, while if you fly 75% speed towards the point you will warp to to escape (pre-aligned) then you hit warp and enter warp immediately.
The higgs rig helps you stay near the roid for a long time thus still can pre-align (both direction and velocity) and escape easily if you are not afk while still stay in mining range for much longer than without the rig.
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Thank you for the break down. I’ve adjusted my fit and tactic. If you guys arent trolling me, then I thank you for the advice.
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Test it in-game and you’ll see if it works without risking only seeing it when the gankers are warping to you. You’ll see it works as described. 
If I do it and still die, I am filing paperwork with concord to sue you.
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Just call 555-CONCORD. 
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Btw a thing of note good advice that as you might know when you warp to something you arrive within a random direction within at most 2500 m from it (which can also include arriving right at the point) meaning if you warp to station you might end up at most 2500 m from it, and making that distance with a higgs rig could take quite a while thus (and even in general) best to have an instadock bookmark that is closer to the station so no matter the random factor you always land within the docking ring and can dock up immediately without having to slowboat to the docking ring.
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their posts saying exactly that should be though.
As I understand what he meant is people leaving who don’t like the game for what it is is not a loss as these people are not here to play this game, they would want the game to cater to their own wishes instead and turn it into something it isn’t and the devs never intended to, thus people leaving because of ganking is not killing the game as these people are not meant to play this game in the first place thus their absence has no influence whether this game is dying or not as were never the intended audience anyway.
Like baseball fans spectating a soccer match and leaving is no problem as they never would stay for the soccer thus are not killing it by leaving as soccer was never meant for their tastes.
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That does make sense, but that opens up the question as to who decided the targeted audience? It’s a sandbox game supposedly, but you’re all saying it’s not and should not be. How does that make sense? If you’re in it for space murder then cool. Being in it for the joy of building or socializing isnt less valid, is it?
The developers. Read the link I’ve posted earlier about CONCORD. CCP (the devs) clearly state in that support article what CONCORD is about. If they wanted people to be 100% safe in hisec they could easily achieve that. They deliberately did not, keeping risk even in hisec.
Edit: Here for easier access…