A freighter is locked within 1 tick regardless of scan res.
A webber can have lag, which happens regularly to me and which makes the locking process get stuck in the last split second for up to 3 seconds. Even without lag, the ideal scenario is still 5 ticks.
How am I supposed to get to my webber client? 2 monitors? Which means moving the mouse over to the other screen across 2 monitors? That surely takes less time than alt tabbing with the mouse cursor placed where my watch list is.
I am the only one on their overview as well because they have overviews that only show freighters.
click ‘warp to’ (or ‘jump’) to start the aligning process
immediately after, you activate your MWD and then immediately deactivate it
the MWD will run its full cycle, that is 10s, and at the end of this cycle shut off reducing your max speed, and your ship will immediately enter warp
This only works of course if you are not pointed or bumped out of alignment, or hit another object.
I could explain the reasons why this works (and is related to the reasons you can web a freighter into warp), but it is covered in this Eve Uni article:
A friend makes all the difference, of course. Because that friend is not subject to lag and it reduces the tick count maybe by 1 if you are really lucky, or increases the count because of not paying attention. Not to mention that escorting a freighter is such a fulfilling and enjoyable task. Good idea. Goes to show that you have very little insight into webbing.
If I scout with the webber, the freigther is in warp to the gate while the webber waits on the gate. Or do you maybe suggest I web the freigther to a station or citadel first? What a great idea, I have nothing better to do with my time.
And then what? Your freigther sits on the other side and if the webber finds something nasty on the other side, the freighter takes ages to warp off because jumping the webber back and insta webbing is not possible because of the freigther’s movement vector from the previous warp.
That’s how they generally work, but my experience with lag on my webber speaks conclusive, factual evidence against your assertions.
You are one to talk about “closed mindedness”.
Regardless of closed-mindedness, I am not going to expose a “friend” to the joys of freightering because it is an utterly unrewarding, unenjoyable under normal circumstances, and a devastating activity if something goes wrong. And since a friend cannot significantly or at all improve the above described and proved procedure of webbing, there is no need for it anyway.
2 computers for webbing? Please give me your meds, I want to experience these trips, too.
