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Major Trant
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Posted - 2017.01.30 16:43:51 -
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TLDR: Keep KMs but remove intel aspect, by not reporting what modules were destroyed or where anything was fitted. Just give total values in isk and a bland list of modules that dropped, including those in the cargo.
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I quite often see people suggesting that KMs should be removed from the game, but I believe them to be a huge content driver and their removal would ultimately kill the game.
However, I do think that they contain too much information that is irrelevant to the content driving benefit and abused as an intel gathering tool. Thus I suggest, removing the slot layout element of the KM and simply listing all modules that survived + a monatary figure for all that didn't. Thus a KM for a well fit Merlin might look like this:
Small Neutron Blaster II x 2 Caldari Navy Antimatter S x 565 Siege Missile Launcher I 100MN AB I Medium Shield Extender II Damage Control II Total Dropped = 4.4M Total Destroyed = 18.6M
Note: The Siege Missile Launcher and the 100MN AB were in the cargohold - or were they?
PvPers like their KB stats even the ones that claim they don't, but it is their overall stats that drive them to undock - kill to death ratio, total isk killed and lost, number of solo kills etc. The fact that pilot A had a civilian shield booster fitted might generate a good laugh, but people don't undock to get a specific killmail. Meanwhile the ability to, at a glance, see the fits of a potential opponant and decide whether (or not) to take a fight is a content removing aspect, or at the very least generate only poor content. While most people will gank, it is the close or potentially riskier fights that make the adranline pump.
With this suggestion, People would still race to wh*re on a tackled Rattlesnake or Keepstar takedown to get the multi billion isk stat and another kill on their killboard. But they wouldn't be able to look up a pilots killboard to see how he fits his Slicer that had just been spotted jumping into system and then fit the perfect counter or avoid the fight altogether.
You might be able to study several losses and piece together a likely fit, but that would take time and never be totally accurate, because you won't know the rigs. Someone who actually crafts together an exotic fit and tried to make some content, wouldn't have it undone the moment he lost the first one. Nor would a bunch of copycats jump straight on the bandwagon the moment a good fit was spotted.
This suggestion would create an element of uncertainty, reward people who switched fits and tried new things and make the use of the ship scanner a lot more relevant. Especially in the solo/small-medium gang arena. I believe it would generate more fights as there would be less blue balling because you don't have the perfect counter. People would actually go out and take on larger gangs because they have EFTed an odd spider tanking comp and get to use it more than once or can work out the kinks over several fights.
Some will argue that the risk adverse, will become even more risk adverse. But if a pilot/fleet will undock only if they are absolutely certain they can gank something down. Well they'll just have to stay docked a little more, that's no loss to the game in my books. |
Arthur Aihaken
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Posted - 2017.01.30 16:49:08 -
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Major Trant wrote:TLDR: Keep KMs but remove intel aspect, by not reporting what modules were destroyed or where anything was fitted. Just give total values in isk and a bland list of modules that dropped, including those in the cargo. I think that's half the appeal. Good luck with that!
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Serendipity Lost
Repo Industries
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Posted - 2017.01.30 16:50:13 -
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You could also remove the players names and the location of the conflict. Even the date/time of the kill isn't needed as that also gives intel on when the guy was where.
The ideal KM:
Lost - thorax Value - 9.3 million isk Value of dropped items - 1.4 million isk
This would also save a lot of data space that is currently being wasted on useless extra info. |
Van Doe
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Posted - 2017.01.30 16:58:58 -
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Serendipity Lost wrote:You could also remove the players names and the location of the conflict. Even the date/time of the kill isn't needed as that also gives intel on when the guy was where.
The ideal KM:
Lost - thorax Value - 9.3 million isk Value of dropped items - 1.4 million isk
This would also save a lot of data space that is currently being wasted on useless extra info. The even more ideal Km
1 Lost
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Major Trant
Mass Collapse It Must Be Jelly Cause Jam Don't Shake
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Posted - 2017.01.30 16:59:46 -
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Arthur Aihaken wrote:Major Trant wrote:TLDR: Keep KMs but remove intel aspect, by not reporting what modules were destroyed or where anything was fitted. Just give total values in isk and a bland list of modules that dropped, including those in the cargo. I think that's half the appeal. Good luck with that! That might be half the appeal to an FC, but it isn't for most pilots. |
Arthur Aihaken
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Posted - 2017.01.30 17:01:09 -
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Major Trant wrote:That might be half the appeal to an FC, but it isn't for most pilots. I would be down for getting rid of killmails altogether, but I'm probably in the minority.
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Serendipity Lost
Repo Industries
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Posted - 2017.01.30 17:07:53 -
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Van Doe wrote:Serendipity Lost wrote:You could also remove the players names and the location of the conflict. Even the date/time of the kill isn't needed as that also gives intel on when the guy was where.
The ideal KM:
Lost - thorax Value - 9.3 million isk Value of dropped items - 1.4 million isk
This would also save a lot of data space that is currently being wasted on useless extra info. The even more ideal Km 1 Lost
That would be super sweet. I'd be e-famous. My name on every km - wooot. |
Van Doe
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Posted - 2017.01.30 17:16:47 -
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Serendipity Lost wrote:Van Doe wrote:Serendipity Lost wrote:You could also remove the players names and the location of the conflict. Even the date/time of the kill isn't needed as that also gives intel on when the guy was where.
The ideal KM:
Lost - thorax Value - 9.3 million isk Value of dropped items - 1.4 million isk
This would also save a lot of data space that is currently being wasted on useless extra info. The even more ideal Km 1 Lost That would be super sweet. I'd be e-famous. My name on every km - wooot. You're welcome. I talk to my ccp contact to make it happen
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Major Trant
Mass Collapse It Must Be Jelly Cause Jam Don't Shake
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Posted - 2017.01.30 17:47:08 -
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I think people saying that KMs should be removed altogether, believe that doing so will end 'evil' ganking but the sov wars and other 'good' pvp will remain unaffected.
I think such views are unrealistic, if two groups of players come together that aren't balanced, a gank is going to occur. The FC of the stronger side might hold some of his people back to bait a bigger fight, but he isn't going to send half his people home to make it fair and risk losing the fight.
Conversely the null sec line members don't join their alliance and take part in the campaigns to capture a rich moon for the benefit of their CEOs. They join for the fights, ideally to be on the winning side of such fights and permanent records of those fights are huge drivers. They contribute to the lore and propaganda and are carried with the individual pilots when they move to another corp.
Suggesting removing the timestamp is unrealistic, I've been in many fleet fights and people want to see the KM immediately. They want to see what damage they did, whether they got top damage and who in similarly fit ships got better damage. They are not going to wait 24 hours or more otherwise people will lose interest, stop turning up for the fights and ultimately leave Eve. If the KMs are generated when needed, a third party Killboard is going to add a timestamp.
System information is perhaps not so important to the individual pilot, but while it is an intel tool, it is also a content driver. It falls into the catagory of be careful what you wish for.
As for removing the victims name - unrealistic, KM would still need to record loss values against a pilot otherwise kill-death, isk efficiency etc would lose it's meaning. Any changes to the KM system must be acceptable to the pilots who want them - the PvPers, not as a means to remove certain content and make PvE safer. |
Lugh Crow-Slave
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Posted - 2017.01.30 17:57:19 -
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keep kill mails as is just remove the api
the kill mail does not give free intel to the guy who got it it gives free intel to everyone else
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Frostys Virpio
Yet another corpdot.
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Posted - 2017.01.30 18:02:01 -
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Lugh Crow-Slave wrote:keep kill mails as is just remove the api
the kill mail does not give free intel to the guy who got it it gives free intel to everyone else
That would work. You would still get tryhard manually posting them on websites but everyone would stop using it for intel. You also get to keep all your fond memories of the kills you got if that's your fancy. |
Frostys Virpio
Yet another corpdot.
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Posted - 2017.01.30 18:05:21 -
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Major Trant wrote:
As for removing the victims name - unrealistic, KM would still need to record loss values against a pilot otherwise kill-death, isk efficiency etc would lose it's meaning. Any changes to the KM system must be acceptable to the pilots who want them - the PvPers, not as a means to remove certain content and make PvE safer.
Isk efficiency is already of no value on killboard anyway. If you want a good example, just look me up on zkill. I'm absolute trash at PvP and still got 98.6% ISK efficiency. |
Lugh Crow-Slave
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Posted - 2017.01.30 18:06:44 -
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Frostys Virpio wrote:Major Trant wrote:
As for removing the victims name - unrealistic, KM would still need to record loss values against a pilot otherwise kill-death, isk efficiency etc would lose it's meaning. Any changes to the KM system must be acceptable to the pilots who want them - the PvPers, not as a means to remove certain content and make PvE safer.
Isk efficiency is already of no value on killboard anyway. If you want a good example, just look me up on zkill. I'm absolute trash at PvP and still got 98.6% ISK efficiency. ^
all isk eff does is force players to avoid fights out of fear of being kicked from a group or not being let into a future group
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Lugh Crow-Slave
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Posted - 2017.01.30 18:24:10 -
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Major Trant wrote: PvPers like their KB stats even the ones that claim they don't, but it is their overall stats that drive them to undock
here i thought i didn't care. i thought i was undocking to fight for my alliance to keep my brothers alive even if it meant staining my KB with a 3b lose or more recently i thought i was undocking to teach newbros and show them how fun and possible pvp was even if they just finished making their toon an hour ago.
the people i fly with and for, they are the reason i undock. I have spent months on individuals who have had K/D isk eff all drilled into their heads trying to recondition them to have fun in fights again to welp into that VNI with a kestrel. because who knows you could win, you probably wont you will have fun though and most of the time you will learn something.
this idea that PvP is or should be driven by states has no place in eve thats the mentality for a MOBA or arena shooter. now if that motivates you that's fine. It's why i save leave KMs in the game just remove the api. people driven by states will put in the effort to post screenshots and the like but it will free players who are held down by the idea of getting a bad KB.
i was like this, i used to be so proud that i held a 97% eff. then i joined a group and they changed the way i looked at fights. The best CEO i eve had told me this "A fight you won can't show how good you are only how bad you aren't. It's only in fights you lose that will show you how far your skills will take you" took me forever to get my head around that but once i did and the chains of my KB were lifted i finally started to look for fun fights rather than sure fights.
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Bronson Hughes
The Knights of the Blessed Mother of Acceleration
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Posted - 2017.01.30 18:30:32 -
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Serendipity Lost wrote:Van Doe wrote:Serendipity Lost wrote:You could also remove the players names and the location of the conflict. Even the date/time of the kill isn't needed as that also gives intel on when the guy was where.
The ideal KM:
Lost - thorax Value - 9.3 million isk Value of dropped items - 1.4 million isk
This would also save a lot of data space that is currently being wasted on useless extra info. The even more ideal Km 1 Lost That would be super sweet. I'd be e-famous. My name on every km - wooot. On every killmail ever, I'd see the Thanatoses you owe me.
I'm not sure I could take that kind of emotional strain.
Back on topic: I could definitely get behind the streamlining of the current killmail system, but I think what got described in the quote above would be a bit far. At the very least, everyone involved on the kill should be included, or strip the "involved parties" altogether and send out a copy to each involved party. This latter idea may help with issues like massive killmails for structures, although having to send out that many abbreviated killmails may present issues of its own.
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elitatwo
Dicker Quick and Hyde Defense Attorneys O.U.Z.O. Alliance
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Posted - 2017.01.30 18:42:17 -
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Arthur Aihaken wrote:Major Trant wrote:That might be half the appeal to an FC, but it isn't for most pilots. I would be down for getting rid of killmails altogether, but I'm probably in the minority.
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Serendipity Lost
Repo Industries
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Posted - 2017.01.30 18:46:42 -
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INTEL on KM
Name Ship Flown Ship Fitting Time Place Involved Parties Cargo
Every item in a km is actionable intel. All of it (OK, so I throw in a slaver hound and you carry a dancer - cargo probably isn't actionable in most cases). I think it would be silly at the point (10+ years) to change them.
Ships flown and their fittings is important. When and were they fly is important. Who they normally fly with is important.
The intel is important on both sides of the km - for instance I learn who, when, where and with how many the winners hang with.
Let's call this one a draw and move on to other things.
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Van Doe
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Posted - 2017.01.30 18:49:45 -
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What bothers me most is the impact it might have on information gathering. To prove skill ot lack of such you could argue about it.
There are no information you could not get in some use.
And also its a why to give false information out there And distort them.
This is high level of gaming to gather information and put them in some use.
You could use km to predict behavior of solos/corps/alliances
And even more skill and awareness to counter this.
Even to know where someone is buying item x is useful info.
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Scipio Artelius
Savage Moon Society
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Posted - 2017.01.30 18:54:46 -
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Why is intel a bad thing? |
Van Doe
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Posted - 2017.01.30 18:58:00 -
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Scipio Artelius wrote:Why is intel a bad thing? Intel is a bad thing if you don't know how to counter it. But if you know good help them relies on intel
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Serendipity Lost
Repo Industries
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Posted - 2017.01.30 18:59:39 -
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Scipio Artelius wrote:Why is intel a bad thing?
I think it's because it's more difficult to win round 2 with the exact same ship/fit, and someone cares about that. |
Lugh Crow-Slave
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Posted - 2017.01.30 19:33:06 -
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Scipio Artelius wrote:Why is intel a bad thing?
intel isn't
free intel is
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Arthur Aihaken
CODE.d
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Posted - 2017.01.31 03:38:58 -
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Lugh Crow-Slave wrote:intel isn't free intel is But... but... Just kidding - I agree players can work for a bit of intel.
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Major Trant
Mass Collapse It Must Be Jelly Cause Jam Don't Shake
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Posted - 2017.01.31 10:16:21 -
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Lugh Crow-Slave wrote:...It's why i say leave KMs in the game just remove the api... It was actually your post (#24) in this thread https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=509286&p=2#24, where you specifically asked for the removal of all KMs. that motivated me to post this suggestion. |
Rivr Luzade
Kenshin. DARKNESS.
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Posted - 2017.01.31 13:34:44 -
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Lugh Crow-Slave wrote:Scipio Artelius wrote:Why is intel a bad thing? intel isn't free intel is Please tell me where I get this free intel. Speaking from experience here: I have to work to get my intel from a killboard. I have to search the char, check their history, check what they lose, try to judge whether they cyno drop, check what their gang size is; all that manually in a matter of seconds or minutes before I can decide whether to engage or not, whether I want to present myself as target or just run away because futile fight ahead. Do you have some kind of bot that does this for you so that you can call it "free intel"?
Furthermore, someone had do die to get this intel on the killboards in the first place, which means it's very far from "free".
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Donnachadh
United Allegiance of Undesirables
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Posted - 2017.01.31 14:35:25 -
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Major Trant wrote:I think people saying that KMs should be removed altogether, believe that doing so will end 'evil' ganking but the sov wars and other 'good' pvp will remain unaffected. Gankers I know do not gank for the kill mails so it is unlikely that removing kill mails would have any affect on them. Removing kill mails will have an affect on those elite war dec PvP players that simply kill to add to their kill boards.
Scipio Artelius wrote:Why is intel a bad thing? General Patton once stated that the only thing more important than gaining intel on your enemy is preventing your enemy from gaining intel on you. In essence intel is both good and bad, but giving it away in volumes as part of a system that as a player you cannot op out of is a little on the crazy side.
Rivr Luzade wrote:Please tell me where I get this free intel. Speaking from experience here: I have to work to get my intel from a killboard. I have to search the char, check their history, check what they lose, try to judge whether they cyno drop, check what their gang size is; all that manually in a matter of seconds or minutes before I can decide whether to engage or not, whether I want to present myself as target or just run away because futile fight ahead. Do you have some kind of bot that does this for you so that you can call it "free intel"?
Furthermore, someone had do die to get this intel on the killboards in the first place, which means it's very far from "free". By your logic, the corp name and char names are overpowered free intel as well because I can exactly predict what will happen if I see a certain character or corp/alliance get mentioned in intel chat because I know this character/corp/alliance. Not buying into this whole idea that intel via the kill boards is work. Some keystrokes and few mouse clicks and the entire kills / losses history for any character in EvE is on your monitor, on top of that you did not have to do anything actually in game to have access to that information. Maybe point of view but I not only call that free I also call it easy to get. The analysis that happens after you have the information is not relevant here because you would have to do that analysis no matter how you acquired the information.
Did YOU die collecting the information? if you did then there is some cost associated with that information. If you did not die then the costs are not relevant and the information if free to you.
Van Doe wrote:What bothers me most is the impact it might have on information gathering. To prove skill ot lack of such you could argue about it. Kill boards are a terrible way to judge skills of a person or the character. How many SP a character has and what has been trained does not show on a kill board. Nothing on a kill board can really tell you how good or how bad a player is. One could argue that a character with more losses than kills is a terrible player but is that really true? Could it be that they simply enjoy putting themselves on the very edge of their or their ships abilities? Someone losses a series of ships in low sec, does that really mean they are bad players, or does it indicate they were having a run of bad luck. At best kill boards can only give you the most elemental of information about a player, the rest you have to determine as time goes on and you fly with them.
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Rivr Luzade
Kenshin. DARKNESS.
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Posted - 2017.01.31 15:05:54 -
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Donnachadh wrote:Not buying into this whole idea that intel via the kill boards is work. Some keystrokes and few mouse clicks and the entire kills / losses history for any character in EvE is on your monitor, on top of that you did not have to do anything actually in game to have access to that information. Maybe point of view but I not only call that free I also call it easy to get. The analysis that happens after you have the information is not relevant here because you would have to do that analysis no matter how you acquired the information.
Did YOU die collecting the information? if you did then there is some cost associated with that information. If you did not die then the costs are not relevant and the information if free to you. A killmail without analysis is not worth anything and does not tell you anything at all, therefore the analysis of any killmail or character is integral part of the work that does not make looking at a killboard "free intel". Furthermore, I absolutely had to do things in EVE to get that information; most importantly of all, I had to pay attention to the game. Calling all the entire process "just a few keystrokes and mouse clicks" is an oversimplification just so that it suits your argument.
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Lugh Crow-Slave
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Posted - 2017.01.31 15:58:02 -
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lol yes you can find pleanty of places where i have said this or i have said remove api
while i have no issue with removing them out right I also have no issue with personnel kill mails and see no reason kill mails on that level are a problem. so if you need my actual stance it is simply to remove the kill mail API
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Lugh Crow-Slave
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Posted - 2017.01.31 16:00:34 -
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Rivr Luzade wrote:Donnachadh wrote:Not buying into this whole idea that intel via the kill boards is work. Some keystrokes and few mouse clicks and the entire kills / losses history for any character in EvE is on your monitor, on top of that you did not have to do anything actually in game to have access to that information. Maybe point of view but I not only call that free I also call it easy to get. The analysis that happens after you have the information is not relevant here because you would have to do that analysis no matter how you acquired the information.
Did YOU die collecting the information? if you did then there is some cost associated with that information. If you did not die then the costs are not relevant and the information if free to you. A killmail without analysis is not worth anything and does not tell you anything at all, therefore the analysis of any killmail or character is integral part of the work that does not make looking at a killboard "free intel". Furthermore, I absolutely had to do things in EVE to get that information; most importantly of all, I had to pay attention to the game. Calling all the entire process "just a few keystrokes and mouse clicks" is an oversimplification just so that it suits your argument.
all i have to do to gain a huge amount of intel on some one is
search their name
this will tell me how often they fly solo and how expensive they fit their ships
a quick scroll and i can find what groups he tends to affiliate with how he flies where he lives and how aggressive he is
I then only need to find ~2 loss mails of the ship he is currently in and i have a pretty good chance of knowing exactly how he is fit
yeah so much work
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Teckos Pech
The Executives Executive Outcomes
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Posted - 2017.01.31 18:36:48 -
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Lugh Crow-Slave wrote:Scipio Artelius wrote:Why is intel a bad thing? intel isn't free intel is
Yup, and so no to changing killmails until AFK cloaking is addressed.
Now before people lose their ****....
One way to counter AFK cloaking is go look at the guy's killboard to get an idea of when he is active. Removing killmails will be an indirect buff to AFK cloaking which I don't think needs to be buffed.
And technically I don't consider it "free" like local providing free intel. More like, very cheap intel.
And so as to not derail this thread into AFK cloaking nonsense...if you really want to argue it, please use the sticky AFK cloaking thread.
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