Thanks March. I think that you're more or less confirming what I think.

I will just have to make sure that if I get zapped in 0.0 then it's by you.

a lot of people apply their RL moralities to eve... this is not right imo, this is a game - there is no real penalty to be a huge ****...

i tend to not play with my RL friends in eve for the sole reason that my moralities change a LOT when i'm playing eve...
in RL i have to walk around with a smile, and be a somewhat nice guy... in eve, i can be as big a **** as i want... if i've had a bad day at work/school and just want to murder everyone. I wait until i get home and then - i can go into a blood fury ;)


EVE is a place to be who you cannot (or are gonna have problems to) be in real life.. so if you feel like pod killing, just go for it - nobody's stopping you...

That is the question.

I've been wondering about why players seem to be so keen on podding other players after the ship has been destroyed.

My thought process is this.

First of all podding seems to give a massive security hit. Apart from bragging rights this doesn't offer anythign positive and, besies, a pilot with a large negative rating from destroying hundreds of ships and not podding is t be more feared than one who has destroyd fewer ships but tries to destroys the opponent's capsule.

If it were for loott and the pilot is in a better ship then it would make more sense to allow the defeated pilot to return quicker than waitig for him to crawl out the clone vats which could be a lot further away than the replacement ship. Besides, if one pods another player then he's less likely to want to return for another swing and, as a pirate, one would wish to have one's targets to return time and time again.

the only time when I can see podding as a valid strategem is when one is trying to clear out an area of New Eden but for the most part this in't going to be the situation.

So, my question is; what is the underlying rationale for podding shipwrecked victims? Is there one or is it simply a case that the game is now full of players who confuse Eve with a first peson shooter console game?

From a pirate's perspective, a pod is income. People are far more willing to pay a ransom for pods than their are (most) ships. Of course, if you don't pay I need to pod you to show you I that mean business; I may catch your pod in the future and you certainly aren't going to pay a ransom if I just let you go last time!

I will pod someone under the following conditions:

Has delicious delicious bounty on him.
Refuses to pay ransom
Has support inbound or we fought in crazy busy system.

I won't pod if:

I can extract a ransom
They offer to pay me
Someone interfere's

Also - I want MOAR security status hit :P

Good day, Myfanwy Heimdal:

Point pod, convo pilot, give pilot 30 seconds to pay a reasonable ransom. If they pay, let them go; if not, blow them up.

Thank you.

heh - It's been so long since I've flown with a fleet + FC that I forgot about that!

Suer if the FC says get the pod then I will om nom nom :P

[Bloody hell - "Drifting for Jesus" is now in the Tuskers?

/me boggles

Best of luck to you Mara, you just don't strike me as a Tusker :)

That is the question.

I've been wondering about why players seem to be so keen on podding other players after the ship has been destroyed.

My thought process is this.

First of all podding seems to give a massive security hit. Apart from bragging rights this doesn't offer anythign positive and, besies, a pilot with a large negative rating from destroying hundreds of ships and not podding is t be more feared than one who has destroyd fewer ships but tries to destroys the opponent's capsule.

If it were for loott and the pilot is in a better ship then it would make more sense to allow the defeated pilot to return quicker than waitig for him to crawl out the clone vats which could be a lot further away than the replacement ship. Besides, if one pods another player then he's less likely to want to return for another swing and, as a pirate, one would wish to have one's targets to return time and time again.

the only time when I can see podding as a valid strategem is when one is trying to clear out an area of New Eden but for the most part this in't going to be the situation.

So, my question is; what is the underlying rationale for podding shipwrecked victims? Is there one or is it simply a case that the game is now full of players who confuse Eve with a first peson shooter console game?

Oh and is this why you posted in the forums?

http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=13579354

Lost your first pod huh?

http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=13579355

Bloody hell - "Drifting for Jesus" is now in the Tuskers?

/me boggles

Best of luck to you Mara, you just don't strike me as a Tusker :)

This ^^^ Mara is so polite she probably asks them please to pay.. and apologizes for the podding

First of all podding seems to give a massive security hit. Apart from bragging rights this doesn't offer anythign positive and, besies, a pilot with a large negative rating from destroying hundreds of ships and not podding is t be more feared than one who has destroyd fewer ships but tries to destroys the opponent's capsule.

So, my question is; what is the underlying rationale for podding shipwrecked victims? Is there one or is it simply a case that the game is now full of players who confuse Eve with a first peson shooter console game?

Clearly, you've never pvped in 0.0. and do all your pvp in lowsec.........




To put it plainly, nothing gives me greater pleasure than podding someone knowing that i might have just killed their clone with a full crystal set, snake set, or talisman set, plus their +5 implants as well. Just think of all the isk you just destroyed. This is the "underlying rational."

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"Your Erebus is docked? How the frack did that happen?" "It took a lot of grease and pushing........."

To put it plainly, nothing gives me greater pleasure than podding someone knowing that i might have just killed their clone with a full crystal set, snake set, or talisman set, plus their +5 implants as well. Just think of all the isk you just destroyed. This is the "underlying rational."

Corpses for my corpse container \o/
Soon my tea party will be upgraded to a full on banquet of corpses all dressed up prim and proper like lords and ladies :D

If I attack someone and he fails to pay ransom then I pod. It specially helps reminding him about his clone loss by linking his corps in local, it shows him and others what happened if u don't pay

I often fly alone in low sec but I seems to be the only one some times so I pod because a pod can provide intel and more important a warp in for his friends, it also annoying to have pods on my overview as I need actually threats on there.

I pod because he might give fleet bonuses to fleet members that are about to warp in on me.

If I attack someone and he fails to pay ransom then I pod. It specially helps reminding him about his clone loss by linking his corps in local, it shows him and others what happened if u don't pay

I often fly alone in low sec but I seems to be the only one some times so I pod because a pod can provide intel and more important a warp in for his friends, it also annoying to have pods on my overview as I need actually threats on there.

I pod because he might give fleet bonuses to fleet members that are about to warp in on me.

Oh hey, Ferox guy! What are the odds.



I think wormhole dwellers have the most compelling reasons to pod people.

Look at this from the point of view of a playground bully. Do I want that little brat in the first form to give me his dinner money each week or do I want to give him a hell of a thrashng and humiliate him so much that he gives it me to once and he changes schools?