1) The first thing you should do, is read this Eve-Uni guide to tackling. This will tell you the important things, such as how to fit a web, scram, and mwd on your tackling frigate, what scan resolution is (makes you target faster) and that you should always turn on your scram before your web and why (web makes them warp sooner)
2) On your over-view, right click the [=] symbol next to the word "Overview" then "Load Default" and chose "Pvp" settings. (Unless you have your own pvp overview settings of course) Your overview should not be cluttered with wrecks, rocks, or anything you don't need to know about.
3) One way to target something quickly is to press Ctrl key and Click on the ship on overview.
4) Another way to tackle faster is to use the F1, F2, etc keys to activate your modules. To do this, group your weapons by pressing the "group" button that is just to the left of your high slots. Then drag all your mid-slot tackling gear to your high slot positions from where they are on the screen to where your guns usually are.
Your Afterburner/Microwarp drive, point, and web should be first in the row, this is to associate them with keys F1 through F3, your guns after that because you will not be killing things with your guns, you will be keeping them from warping away from local NPC police who will kill them for you.
You can now activate everything that is in your high slots by pressing F1 keys and onward.
5) Don't activate modules before targeting. If you click on a module before you target something, it will start blinking. Then when you do target something, it will automatically activate. You maybe tempted to do that with your tackling gear. DON'T. It's actually slower than activating them yourself with the F1 through F3 keys.
6) Don't forget to set your orbit distance to be appropriate to your frigate's guns (if you're confused, right click on the orbit button, and set it to 1000 meters)
7) Do not use cloaks unless you are in a covops frigate. Otherwise uncloaking takes too long. By the time you uncloak it's too late to target them.
to recap: ctrl-click on your overview to target. Click orbit. Press F1 through F3 to activate your tackling gear.
If you want to practice with a corp mate:
You first need to understand aligning. If you are sitting still or moving randomly it takes time for your ship to align(turn) to where it's going. If you align to where you're going (station, gate, planet, corp member in fleet) you warp much sooner. Hitting align button is called "active align." If you align to something then stop your ship, so it's pointing in the right direction but not moving, it's called "passive align."
To practice tackling with a corp member, have them start in larger ships (battlecruiser). Have them tell you what station or planet they are at, and try to tackle them before they warp away. They should not start warping away until they see you on their overview. Start un-aligned until you can catch them, then work your way to passive align and active align, and then move on to smaller ships, like Destroyers. You can also try tackling them as they come out of a gate and try to warp to another gate.
GrieferGeddon specific info:
If you are hunting pods at a gate, you need to be on the side of the gate they are warping out of to have a chance to catch them.
You can use bookmarks! Last GrieferGeddon, there was a battleship that was able to keep pace with an interceptor. He was warping between bookmarks to keep up with it.
Put more than one offensive module on your tackler. One guy in a stealth bomber got a lot of kill mails (and therefore points) by targetting many ships and then putting an Ecm on one ship, a target painter on another, guns on a third... you get the idea.
One thing I highly recommend, if you wish to avoid trouble, is to avoid smack talking. More high sec wars come from smack talk than any other cause. Shoot them, but don't let them bait / troll you in local chat, Please!
Some ways to find griefers during Hulkageddon:
- Look on your in-game map for most kills in high sec systems
- Look on Hulkageddon V killboard for their most active systems
- Look for ice systems, or for active mining spots that are near low sec
- Hang out in ice belts and on the high sec side of a low/sec high sec gate to catch them on their way in, or their pods on their way out.
- Use locator agents to find -5 sec status players that have kills on the hulkageddon kill board and hunt them.
- Use a bait hulk (these work best without an obvious remote repair hanging around)
- Spy! Go in their public chat channel.
You don't need to kill them if they are negative sec status. You just need to tackle them. The local police and/or concord will kill them while you keep them pinned and you get a kill mail for killing a battle cruiser in a t1 frigate.
