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Elesentra
Gallente
Federal Navy Academy
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Posted - 2009.05.12 11:14:00 -
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Maybe there is a dumb obvious answer to this question, but I do wonder. What benefit is accrued from pod killing?
It keeps noobs out of lowsec. I'm only two months into EVE, I'm training as much as I can, I have spent money on a set of +3 implants, and I don't yet have the faction for jump clones. My implants are worth more than my ship! I'd happily risk my ship in lowsec, but not my implants, so, I shan't go to lowsec yet.
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EVIL SYNNs
Wrath of Fenris
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Posted - 2009.05.12 11:17:00 -
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Pirate just do that, its their thing. Once they know their a pirate there is not much effect killing pods.
Good pirates will ransom you, bad pirates will ransom you and pod you, anyone else likely will let your pod go. imho
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Klendaxor
Caldari
Project Mayhem
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Posted - 2009.05.12 11:26:00 -
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 Originally by: Elesentra
I have spent money on a set of +3 implants, and I don't yet have the faction for jump clones.
http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=939710
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Intigo
Amarr
Endemic Aggression
Exalted.
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Posted - 2009.05.12 12:23:00 -
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Originally by: Elesentra
Maybe there is a dumb obvious answer to this question, but I do wonder. What benefit is accrued from pod killing?
It keeps noobs out of lowsec. I'm only two months into EVE, I'm training as much as I can, I have spent money on a set of +3 implants, and I don't yet have the faction for jump clones. My implants are worth more than my ship! I'd happily risk my ship in lowsec, but not my implants, so, I shan't go to lowsec yet.
It's called spam warp on a celestial. Do it.
Your implants are safe in lowsec.
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Joshamee Gibbs
Gallente
Dark-Rising
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Posted - 2009.05.12 12:34:00 -
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For the corpses.
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Vaerah Vahrokha
Minmatar
Dark-Rising
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Posted - 2009.05.12 12:55:00 -
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Quote:
My implants are worth more than my ship! I'd happily risk my ship in lowsec, but not my implants, so, I shan't go to lowsec yet
Did you buy a BMW to learn to drive?
No, eh? Expensive and you want to learn the ropes in a cheap used car and then upgrade to the best you can affort, right?
So, why did you buy +3 implants before you learned to drive in low sec?
Because once you learned the ropes, it's damn hard to be podded there, you REALLY have to be unlucky.
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Snake O'Connor
Dark-Rising
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Posted - 2009.05.12 13:09:00 -
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Originally by: EVIL SYNNs
Pirate just do that, its their thing. Once they know their a pirate there is not much effect killing pods.
Good pirates will ransom you, bad pirates will ransom you and pod you, anyone else likely will let your pod go. imho
I love carebear tears. 
Our home system is full of nubs trying to run lvl4 missions in low-sec. So their pods with +5's generate good ransom.
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Rexthor Hammerfists
Rage of Inferno
Imperial Republic Of the North
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Posted - 2009.05.12 13:16:00 -
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Edited by: Rexthor Hammerfists on 12/05/2009 13:17:03
Elesentra, in lowsec only lag should be the reason to loose a pod.
If you know youll lose your ship, click on a planet gate station or any celestial object 150km away from you, so that it appears in your "selected items" box. When in low structure start hammering the warp to button in that box and youll be flying out immediately when your ship goes down.
Edit, why pirates kill pods? Eve is a game about competition, atleast for me, and killing someones pod is winning, which feels good ;)
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Jones Bones
Beyond Divinity Inc
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Posted - 2009.05.12 13:22:00 -
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It can have strategic purposes as well. A pilot in a pod is still a reporting scout.
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Jotobar
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Posted - 2009.05.12 13:23:00 -
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before you die press eject then mark a planet and spam warp. the rude people suggesting that you stick with things you can afford had a point but with some simple precautions you can lower your risk and push it a bit beyond what you can afford. 50mil is a very small disaster even if you've just played a few days.
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lollerwaffle
Sileo In Pacis
The Space P0lice
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Posted - 2009.05.12 13:30:00 -
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How would YOU feel if you ran out of meat for the BBQ 
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xero gravity
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Posted - 2009.05.12 13:40:00 -
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There are 2 major benefits to pirates from a pod kill:
1) they like to make you cry
2) they like to be flashy, and gaining negative sec status is most quickly done by killing pods
A minor benefit could be that it (most likely) removes you from local to prevent you quickly reappearing in another ship... real pirates may not think this is a good thing :P
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ThrashPower
Gallente
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Posted - 2009.05.12 13:56:00 -
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if you are flying frigate sized ships you can lose your ship+pod to smartbombs in lowsec, lost a cynofrig that way 
(and no it was not in Rancer, but it was my fault for not scouting the undock on the station  )
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Versipellis
Caldari
ETERNAL LUX
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Posted - 2009.05.12 14:02:00 -
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like my fellow folks already indicated.. as long as you are not stuck in a warp distrupting bubble and you start spamming "warp to" when your ship is nearly popped it's quite impossible for someone to pop you before you jet to the wonderland..
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Gunz Runner
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Posted - 2009.05.12 14:40:00 -
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1: Spite. Pay the man.
2: Fear. When half a gang dies to a dedicated pod killer the others start considering how much, if any, their implants are worth. Also related is reputation and demoralization.
3: As pointed out, a pod is still an intel. source.
4: Delayed reaction. A pod killed player will upgrade clone, has to get into a new ship, and has to fly it back towards a fight. downed roaming pilots wont be back too quickly.
5: Financial damage. Not every clone has implants, but those days when you knock a set of HG snakes or crystals or slaves out of some ones skull is awesome.
6: Spite. Again. Pay the man. Seriously.
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Neacail
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Posted - 2009.05.12 14:41:00 -
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The question you should be asking is "why doesn't everyone pod kill?". The answer is that if you care about your security status, killing pods is very counterproductive. People with a security status below -5, often labeled as 'pirates', don't have much to lose in that regard.
Take 0.0 for example, no security loss, pods are easy to catch. It doesn't matter if you're a goody two shoes or a maniac, you'll pod your enemies given the opportunity.
The truth is that if there was no penalty related to this in low sec, even FW types would pod everyone and everything they see - more so than pirates, as they are often interested in the ransom ISK.
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Elesentra
Gallente
Federal Navy Academy
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Posted - 2009.05.12 14:44:00 -
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Useful answers, ty.
Fwiw, I bought expensive Implants as I'm trying to learn skills fast. I don't see that's so bad. They were expensive cos I'm still only doing L2s and I can only play an hour or two a day, (but I can train 24...)
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Vistilantus
Caldari
You're Doing It Wrong
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Posted - 2009.05.12 15:17:00 -
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podded people cause less lag.
I also pod people so i don't have to listen to their smacktalk.
Also to keep the cloning services in opration.
I like to collect corpses.
Knowing you have to buy a new clone or risk loosing SP's.
most of all......
I do it for the hatemail.
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TraininVain
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Posted - 2009.05.12 15:24:00 -
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Edited by: TraininVain on 12/05/2009 15:25:25
For chuckles.
Also, I like collecting dead bodies.
No other MMO lets me kill people, take their stuff and then take their tiny frozen corpse as a grizzly trophy.
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Wensley
Minmatar
The Tuskers
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Posted - 2009.05.12 16:15:00 -
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I pod people so that there's an incentive for them to pay me not to. That and I'm building a throne out of corpses.
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Srioghal moDhream
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Posted - 2009.05.12 16:29:00 -
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Not true, in UO when you a killed a person they dropped everything, then you could cut up their corpse into pieces and do whatever you wanted with them. Even turn the head in for bounties.
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TraininVain
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Posted - 2009.05.12 16:32:00 -
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Is that true? Man. That sounds awesome. I never played UO. I wish some games around now had that. Ear necklaces would make WoW so much better.
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Merin Ryskin
Peregrine Industries
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Posted - 2009.05.12 17:30:00 -
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Simple: because they didn't pay the pod ransom. Don't want to die? Pay the ransom.
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Removal Tool
Eternal Perseverance
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Posted - 2009.05.12 17:39:00 -
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You don't have to inflate a corpse.
I've probably said too much
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Sun Clausewitz
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Posted - 2009.05.12 17:40:00 -
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fer teh lulz
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Anubis Xian
Reavers
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Posted - 2009.05.12 18:34:00 -
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Well to be fair, pirates don't podkill.
Those who kill everything aren't very good at being a pirate.
Originally by: CCP Oveur
The client handles no logic, it is simply a dumb terminal.
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RedSplat
Heretic Army
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Posted - 2009.05.12 18:50:00 -
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Originally by: Merin Ryskin
didn't pay the pod ransom. Don't want to die? Pay the ransom.
Originally by: CCP Mitnal
I don't sleep.
I am always here.
Watching.
Waiting.
Originally by: CCP Mitnal
it does get progressively longer.
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Gunner Cid
The Carebear Stare
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Posted - 2009.05.12 19:34:00 -
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Podding is the easiest way to remove the crybabies that smack incessantly in local.
Too many people will rant and rave in local mostly about how you suck in real life and how they have a 3 foot **** made out of gold and screw ****stars every other hour.
IMO people do that because it somehow gives them the feeling they "won", so by just podding their ass you deny them any way of feeling good about what just happened to them. |
Liquidium
Altruism.
Avarice.
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Posted - 2009.05.12 19:40:00 -
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You really have to go out of your way to get podded in lowsec.
Null sec is different. But in lowsec/empire, its insanely hard to pod someone.
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RedSplat
Heretic Army
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Posted - 2009.05.12 19:47:00 -
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Originally by: Liquidium
You really have to go out of your way to get podded in lowsec.
Null sec is different. But in lowsec/empire, its insanely hard to pod someone.
Mr. Smartbomb and his 7 friends disagree.
Originally by: CCP Mitnal
I don't sleep.
I am always here.
Watching.
Waiting.
Originally by: CCP Mitnal
it does get progressively longer.
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