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Posted - 2010.12.22 22:05:00 -
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Your trying to treat a symtom rather than the cause. As others and yourself have said, people dont like to lose ships. Why?
Ask yourself, why do you hate losing ships? Is it because your a bad loser? Is it because you dont have the time between work to get a replacement's? Is it getting the ships out where you need them that grinds your gears? Are you really that lazy?
Nope thought not, so why do most of us go into PVP wanting to solo and yet end up baiting, blobbing, hotdropping, kiting etc?
Most will hate the answer.
Its killmail's and killboards.
Every decent pvp corp ive been in or applied to checks me out on battleclinic to see if my kill death ratio is any good. Every corp insists i submit every killmail whilst i'm a member, even solo kills which have nothing to do with them. So many times i've seen good players in corps make a couple of daft mistakes, lose ships, and then get booted for spoiling the corp/alliances killboard ratio. Everyone seems obsessed with them.
And if that wasn't enough people see fit to try and publically humiliate others by posting "comedy/failfit" loss's on forums/local chat. Sometime's its smack sometimes its not.
And what do killboards really do anyhow? we all know they never tell the story of each fight, thus anyone can look an asshat or a hero at times. Remote repair anyone?
Imagine if WOW, SWG or any other mmorpg had a killmail system. Who wants a mail for every wizard you slapped senseless? Who gives a dam what he was wearing and how much damage i did, he died i didn't. You really think all those Warriors would be so keen to charge into clumps of other players if they were judged on how many times they died or what their "fit" is?
Can you imagine how sad you would look posting and lol'ing at some of the hundreds of dwarf kills you have?
Its pleasing and rather soothing to know that in about 2 months time every Pvp'er in the game will be beaten by a can flipper according to battleclinic, proving once and for all that killmails/killboards and all of the effort that goes into them is pointless and, i'd argue prohibitive to many pvp engagements.
So many times i've listened to FC's on vent who are able to work out the outcome of a 20v20 engagement before it happens and if its not in our favour, bottle it because it'll make the killboard look bad.
Honestly, how many times have you seen that happen for the reason discussed?
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