now if you do pod em in highsec.......well....suffer the consequences, podding is NOT legal under ANY circumstance in high sec, except for solid reds (-5 and below) or wt in regards of concord.

all this is weird.

with my main, who is a pirate, i do pod a LOT of ppl in lowsec, from any corp including NPC ones.

i remained around -10 for a while, but recently, i'm going up again, but i STILL kill pods

never saw such a big SS hit for a pod, -10% is the biggest i had from memory

for duels, think it work as intended, kill his ship, but if you pod him => consequence

Main thing is, there need to be a consequense, going after people in npc corps thats generally not into PvP shouldent be a get out of trouble free card, and as long as we have the standing system, those pilots are employed by corps belonging to the four empires, dont pod them, if you dont want the hit, simple as that ! or suggest a new better system that gives a equal consequence

So you think podding someone in the enemy FW militia NPC corp deserves a -75% standing hit while podding someone in a player corp does nothing?

Btw, if I would have KNOWN this before, I would have tried not to pod anyone, but it is documented nowhere.
And that some podkills are fine and others aren't - that is just silly.

Besides, I don't understand the politics of these FW NPC corps... kill all our ships, you're welcome, that is fine for us - but if you kill a single pod, we will hate you for EVER EVER EVER?!?!?

To some extent, if Podding is a crime, and you do it while fighting for lets say the Galante in the FW, not only loose standing with the corp pilot you pod, but with Gallante as well, since your doing a criminal action enlisted by Gallante

Anyone actually go through the trouble of bug reporting this? It's great to post it on the forums, but without a bug report, it's not likely to get looked at.

So you think podding someone in the enemy FW militia NPC corp deserves a -75% standing hit while podding someone in a player corp does nothing?

But you can go from +10.00 to -10.00 if they so decide.

But it has ZERO impact on you while NPC corporations own stations that make repairs and trading more expensive.

Grinding standing back to 6,67 or higher is easy with NPC corp. You can't grind your standing up with player corp.

Raising awareness.

You pod a member of an NPC corp and your standings with that corp drop? What's the issue? Seems pretty reasonable to me. Not sure how you can compare that with a PC run/owned corp, since those are actual players who get to make up their own mind how they feel about you.

It's not about the answer, it's about the fact that this is a new mechanic that wasn't included in any of the patchnotes

There is no answer that justifies privilege of NPC corp that additionally punishes those who legally kill people in limited engagments only because they are in NPC corp, no warnings displayed no information given.

Trial and error in your case.

That's a legitimate gripe I guess.


"Legally" just means CONCORD won't intervene. Do you get a standings hit on the ship kill, or just the pod kill? As far as I know, CCP has never encouraged pod killing in high sec. You can do it without CONCORD intervention under certain circumstances, but that doesn't mean there won't be other consequences. If you do it to a player in a player corporation, you'll earn that corporation's ire. If the player is in an NPC corporation, that's simulated by standings. Seems pretty reasonable (though yes, it probably should have been mentioned in patch notes if that's a substantial change from previous mechanics).

Only player corporations don't own indestructible stations that never change ownership.

If I earn some player corps ire I will burn that corp to the ground. NPC corps are a different matter.

Go be a devils advocate somewhere else carebear.

Hint: If you want to be taken seriously, engaging your critics goes a lot farther than namecalling.