ZyndeII
Legio Prima Victrix
Imperius Legio Victrix
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Posted - 2011.07.04 17:27:00 -
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Alright so, the famous red button. This has already been mentioned several times before, but I'll go ahead and bring it up again anyways.
Which of you have experienced this before: as a small but decent roaming gang, you run into a carrier or any other cap. You take out the support fleet, keep tackle on it and right around the time where you realize that your RR is gonna hold and the carrier is inevitably going down, you see the message: "buttface123 has initiated self-destruct". You try your best, put all the neuts and dps you got on it, but the ehp is just too much to break in 120 seconds ... and poof it goes. Carrier down, victory. Victory ? Well ... maybe in spirit, knowing that you just cost someone else a capital ship, but hell, there isn't even any proof of it. No modules to loot, not even a killmail. Best case scenario, you get to show your friends a frozen corpse. Meh.
Now, I understand the concept of self-destructing. Also, being a hardcore Wormhole operative, I am well aware of the importance of that feature. But should it really be THAT easy for someone to deny someone else their rightful victory ? Imho, it's pure BS, and just on the same level as logoffski if not even worse !
I'll put 2 different suggestions out there:
1) Since it's mostly about Killmails, just make it so that if you self-destruct while having an aggression timer, a lossmail is generated for you in favor of the aggressing party, and a killmail for those he had an aggression timer on. So if he wants out the cheap way, he'll still do it, but not without at least marking it on the boards for everyone to see.
2) Extend the self-destruct timer to 900 seconds. It would then be similar to logoffski while having an aggression timer. And having 15 minutes to finish someone off will at least give them a halfway decent chance to do so.
I reckon this isn't asking for too much, and the changes regarding this would be minimal. It would however greatly increase the gaming experience of people who enjoy small scale roams.
Thanks for taking this under advisement,
ZyndeII
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