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![Alora Venoda Alora Venoda](https://images.evetech.net/characters/541570052/portrait?size=64)
Alora Venoda
GalTech Giant Space Amoeba
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Posted - 2008.06.11 17:15:00 -
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Originally by: Slanty McGarglefist You have the opportunity of forcing them out of the area for some time.
in 0.0, when you are shooting pilots of an enemy alliance, it makes a lot of sense to podkill them, compared to podkilling a hauler passing through a gate in lowsec that you are ganking as a pirate. ~~~~ ~~~~ ~~~~ Take away the risk and it would make flying around in space utterly pointless.
Take away the flying around part and you make EVE into a space themed spreadsheet application. |
![ZinderX500 ZinderX500](https://images.evetech.net/characters/369038188/portrait?size=64)
ZinderX500
RAZOR Alliance
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Posted - 2008.06.11 17:15:00 -
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Originally by: Viqtoria why have sex without an orgasm?
This ![Surprised](/images/icon_surprised.gif) _____________________ Shelley Godfrey: Have you lost your mind!? Baltar: That's an interesting question, and one I pose to myself on a regular basis. |
![Amastat Amastat](https://images.evetech.net/characters/975523299/portrait?size=64)
Amastat
Omegatech
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Posted - 2008.06.11 17:15:00 -
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They are cool because:
A) You potentially could cause someone to lose SP - which is the most ultimate way in which you can hurt your opponent. That's like playing other MMO's, and you can hit someone with a de-level mallet and cause them to drop a handful of levels, ouch. B) Your opponnent can have implants, sometimes incerdibly expensive ones - this potentially would be a bigger loss than 5 of his recently lost ships put together. C) You effectively hurl your opponent several lightyears away, to where they have their clone stored - you likely will not see them bother you/your mates anytime soon. D) In the event there is a bounty, you could make a lot of ISK potentially. E) In the event you podded someone, they lost SP, plus implants - depending on the integrity of the said person, they would quit the game. This is about as epic as it gets - you hit them so hard, they actually cancel their subscription.
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"All warfare is based on deception... we must seem unable...seem inactive...and crush him " - Sun Tzu |
![Resamo Resamo](https://images.evetech.net/characters/1591312778/portrait?size=64)
Resamo
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Posted - 2008.06.11 17:15:00 -
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I am not a bad person
But in i will pod kill when i get the chance and in faction wars i will be pod killing whenever possible. It comes down to 3 things
1. Its a war, best to inflict as much damage as possible to your enemy. 2. Its not a complete kill unless i get the pod i mean why dont we just shoot people to 10% structure and let them get away? 3. You would do the same to me.
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![Alora Venoda Alora Venoda](https://images.evetech.net/characters/541570052/portrait?size=64)
Alora Venoda
GalTech Giant Space Amoeba
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Posted - 2008.06.11 17:15:00 -
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Originally by: Slanty McGarglefist You have the opportunity of forcing them out of the area for some time.
in 0.0, when you are shooting pilots of an enemy alliance, it makes a lot of sense to podkill them, compared to podkilling a hauler passing through a gate in lowsec that you are ganking as a pirate. ~~~~ ~~~~ ~~~~ Take away the risk and it would make flying around in space utterly pointless.
Take away the flying around part and you make EVE into a space themed spreadsheet application. |
![ZinderX500 ZinderX500](https://images.evetech.net/characters/369038188/portrait?size=64)
ZinderX500
RAZOR Alliance
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Posted - 2008.06.11 17:15:00 -
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Originally by: Viqtoria why have sex without an orgasm?
This ![Surprised](/images/icon_surprised.gif) _____________________ Shelley Godfrey: Have you lost your mind!? Baltar: That's an interesting question, and one I pose to myself on a regular basis. |
![Amastat Amastat](https://images.evetech.net/characters/975523299/portrait?size=64)
Amastat
Omegatech
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Posted - 2008.06.11 17:15:00 -
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Edited by: Amastat on 11/06/2008 17:20:06 Edited by: Amastat on 11/06/2008 17:19:20 They are cool because:
A) You potentially could cause someone to lose SP - which is the most ultimate way in which you can hurt your opponent. That's like playing other MMO's, and you can hit someone with a de-level mallet and cause them to drop a handful of levels, ouch.
B) Your opponnent can have implants, sometimes incerdibly expensive ones - this potentially would be a bigger loss than 5 of his recently lost ships put together.
C) You effectively hurl your opponent several lightyears away, to where they have their clone stored - you likely will not see them bother you/your mates anytime soon.
D) In the event there is a bounty, you could make a lot of ISK potentially.
E) In the event you podded someone, they lost SP, plus implants - depending on the integrity of the said person, they would quit the game. This is about as epic as it gets - you hit them so hard, they actually cancel their subscription.
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All and all, podding can be awesome in both ways - oddly. A twisted, sadistic way - and a pratical, meaningful way.
It is twisted and saditistic when you do it just for the sake of ****ing someone off - to intentionally hurt them, and you get pleasure from it.
However, on the other hand.
It is pratical when it tosses someone back to their clone station - unable to quickly return to the battlefield to attack you and your comrades, again. It also could potentially financially ruin them - or hurt their SP Sheet, which would make your opponent unable to attack you/your friends again anytime soon - basically you have beaten them so hard into the ground, they are neutralized and no longer a threat, at least temporarily.
The most common example of why people are podded, and why its practical, is to send them to their clone-HQ - to remove them from the battlefield. This is a common, but good strategic move to make in PvP - this ensures your target will not return to attack your party over and over, hopefully.
Anyone who fights in 0.0 will pod if they have the chance, and they do it for this reason. ____________________
"All warfare is based on deception... we must seem unable...seem inactive...and crush him " - Sun Tzu |
![Resamo Resamo](https://images.evetech.net/characters/1591312778/portrait?size=64)
Resamo
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Posted - 2008.06.11 17:15:00 -
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I am not a bad person
But in i will pod kill when i get the chance and in faction wars i will be pod killing whenever possible. It comes down to 3 things
1. Its a war, best to inflict as much damage as possible to your enemy. 2. Its not a complete kill unless i get the pod i mean why dont we just shoot people to 10% structure and let them get away? 3. You would do the same to me.
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![Ecky X Ecky X](https://images.evetech.net/characters/958020705/portrait?size=64)
Ecky X
Universal Securities
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Posted - 2008.06.11 17:16:00 -
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There is no reason not for a pod to ever 'splode, unless it's caught in a bubble. You can always warp out before anything can lock you.
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![Ecky X Ecky X](https://images.evetech.net/characters/958020705/portrait?size=64)
Ecky X
Universal Securities
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Posted - 2008.06.11 17:16:00 -
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There is no reason not for a pod to ever 'splode, unless it's caught in a bubble. You can always warp out before anything can lock you.
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![Batolemaeus Batolemaeus](https://images.evetech.net/characters/202358876/portrait?size=64)
Batolemaeus
Free-Space-Ranger Morsus Mihi
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Posted - 2008.06.11 17:17:00 -
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Originally by: Xthril Ranger To remove the player from the local channel so you do not have to listen to his/her whining
This, basically. You can't send smack to local from a remote location, so you relocate the smacktard out of your system in the quickest way possible.
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![Viqtoria Viqtoria](https://images.evetech.net/characters/1305091429/portrait?size=64)
Viqtoria
Groping Hand Social Club
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Posted - 2008.06.11 17:20:00 -
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LOCK THE POD LOCK THE POD LOCK THE POD LOCK THE POD LOCK THE POD LOCK THE POD LOCK THE POD
*digitised screams*
YES!
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![Zev'Nar Zev'Nar](https://images.evetech.net/characters/983874856/portrait?size=64)
Zev'Nar
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Posted - 2008.06.11 17:24:00 -
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Edited by: Zev''Nar on 11/06/2008 17:24:27 There is a section of EVE players whose whole mentality is to hurt someone so badly they will quit the game.
Found the quote I was thinking of...
"The way that you win in EVE is you basically make life so miserable for someone else that they actually quit the game and don't come back." |
![Saladin Saladin](https://images.evetech.net/characters/147036729/portrait?size=64)
Saladin
Eternity INC. Project Alice.
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Posted - 2008.06.11 17:24:00 -
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Sadly, I gave this issue some thought and the only answer I can come up with is:
Killing the pod makes my sense of victory complete.
I don't normally pirate, but if I do kill someone in low sec I usually let the pod go because of the sec hit.
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![RuleoftheBone RuleoftheBone](https://images.evetech.net/characters/894511574/portrait?size=64)
RuleoftheBone
Ataraxia.
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Posted - 2008.06.11 17:26:00 -
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Originally by: Corwin Pendragon LOL. It really makes me wonder what these type of people are in RL.
I have let my little guy push the mouse button hovering over the gun mod about to squish the pod.
I smile.
He giggles.
Then I read him a story by Maurice Sendak for being a good lil Brutor .
Don't make RL assumptions. It's just a game.
Next time spam the "warp-to" button FFS.
"Lead Me..Follow Me..Or get the **** out of my way" General George Patton USA
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![Istvaan Shogaatsu Istvaan Shogaatsu](https://images.evetech.net/characters/873374907/portrait?size=64)
Istvaan Shogaatsu
Guiding Hand Social Club
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Posted - 2008.06.11 17:33:00 -
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Originally by: Corwin Pendragon LOL. It really makes me wonder what these type of people are in RL.
Oh, cutthroats and rapists, I assure you.
To people like us, another player is no different from a Goomba in Super Mario. Do you feel remorse after stomping on a goomba in a video game? Didn't think so, goomba.
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![Amarrian Cougar Amarrian Cougar](https://images.evetech.net/characters/1598081124/portrait?size=64)
Amarrian Cougar
TalCorp Enterprises Einherjar Alliance
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Posted - 2008.06.11 17:47:00 -
[47]
Originally by: Gwenvahar Edited by: Gwenvahar on 11/06/2008 17:05:53 Oh theres several reasons..
Griefing : Killing in the name of, because I can Corpse Collecting : Everyone likes a reminder of fun days past Hatred : When taking your ship is not enough, I'll have those shiny implants too
And more im sure but these are the basics
Can implants drop as loot off a player pod kill?
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![Le Skunk Le Skunk](https://images.evetech.net/characters/213021770/portrait?size=64)
Le Skunk
Low Sec Liberators
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Posted - 2008.06.11 17:53:00 -
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Originally by: Ecky X There is no reason not for a pod to ever 'splode, unless it's caught in a bubble. You can always warp out before anything can lock you.
so very, very , wrong
SKUNK
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![Viginti Viginti](https://images.evetech.net/characters/627217661/portrait?size=64)
Viginti
SniggWaffe
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Posted - 2008.06.11 18:04:00 -
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Edited by: Viginti on 11/06/2008 18:05:47
Quote: LOL. It really makes me wonder what these type of people are in RL.
The details of my life are quite inconsequential...
Very well, where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament.
My childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds- pretty standard really. At the age of twelve I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my *********. There really is nothing like a shorn *******... it's breathtaking... I highly suggest you try it.
![YARRRR!!](/images/icon_pirate.gif)
DesuSig |
![Haradgrim Haradgrim](https://images.evetech.net/characters/851792171/portrait?size=64)
Haradgrim
Tyrell Corp INTERDICTION
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Posted - 2008.06.11 18:23:00 -
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Pod-killing is fun in a primal fashion because it puts one in a position of power over another, most people (and especially any male with an alpha personality) will enjoy this provided it does not cause harm to the other person (a mentally healty human being generally does not enjoy causing lasting harm to another).
That being said, there are a number of reasons within the games mechanics to pod-kill someone (i.e. war of attrition against your enemies (implants are expensive), removing them from local, etc)
Taking the viewpoint that a combat based action (that has no lasting consequence, but I digress, thats another debate) is morally wrong or somehow inherently malicious when your playing a PVP game is akin to believing that watching war movies makes you want to commit acts of violence, and personally; the only thing I wanted to do after watching "Bridge Over the River Kwai" was whitsle |
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![Ecky X Ecky X](https://images.evetech.net/characters/958020705/portrait?size=64)
Ecky X
Universal Securities
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Posted - 2008.06.11 18:23:00 -
[51]
Originally by: Le Skunk
Originally by: Ecky X There is no reason not for a pod to ever 'splode, unless it's caught in a bubble. You can always warp out before anything can lock you.
so very, very , wrong
SKUNK
Oh my.
Turn off your wallet and mail blink, and you shouldn't have any problem. |
![Le Skunk Le Skunk](https://images.evetech.net/characters/213021770/portrait?size=64)
Le Skunk
Low Sec Liberators
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Posted - 2008.06.11 18:29:00 -
[52]
Originally by: Ecky X
Originally by: Le Skunk
Originally by: Ecky X There is no reason not for a pod to ever 'splode, unless it's caught in a bubble. You can always warp out before anything can lock you.
so very, very , wrong
SKUNK
Oh my.
Turn off your wallet and mail blink, and you shouldn't have any problem.
Tell that to the 862 people ive podded without the use of a bubble.
SKUNK
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![Kublai Khaan Kublai Khaan](https://images.evetech.net/characters/947093213/portrait?size=64)
Kublai Khaan
Garoun Investment Bank
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Posted - 2008.06.11 18:33:00 -
[53]
Quote: ...well, just malicious...
Says it all,really...
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![Doc Fury Doc Fury](https://images.evetech.net/characters/1004636318/portrait?size=64)
Doc Fury
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Posted - 2008.06.11 18:40:00 -
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I always thought that players podded each other just to hear the squishy sound.
It's so safe to play along, little soldiers in a row Falling in and out of love, with something sweet to throw away. I want something good to DIE for...to make it beautiful to live. |
![Stakhanov Stakhanov](https://images.evetech.net/characters/448803936/portrait?size=64)
Stakhanov
Metafarmers
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Posted - 2008.06.11 18:40:00 -
[55]
Number one reason to pod : the delicious squishy sound. Music to my ears ![YARRRR!!](/images/icon_pirate.gif)
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![Lysianna Lysianna](https://images.evetech.net/characters/393003156/portrait?size=64)
Lysianna
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Posted - 2008.06.11 18:49:00 -
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1.I pod my enemies to remind them that I am their enemie. 2.Depending on the system and region I am in. I will pod the pilot in order to ensure that: A: He doesnĘt come back with a bigger ship 5 minutes later.\ B: ItĘs a good way to keep local clean :P
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![Take Enemy Take Enemy](https://images.evetech.net/characters/1777519170/portrait?size=64)
Take Enemy
Dead Gnoll's Eye Socket
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Posted - 2008.06.11 18:51:00 -
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Originally by: Xthril Ranger To remove the player from the local channel so you do not have to listen to his/her whining
^^This. |
![MrTripps MrTripps](https://images.evetech.net/characters/811724349/portrait?size=64)
MrTripps
Blueprint Haus Intrepid Crossing
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Posted - 2008.06.11 18:54:00 -
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Cause that squish sound rawks, yo. |
![Akazaki Senkawa Akazaki Senkawa](https://images.evetech.net/characters/170415962/portrait?size=64)
Akazaki Senkawa
School of Applied Knowledge
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Posted - 2008.06.11 19:10:00 -
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Originally by: Viginti Edited by: Viginti on 11/06/2008 18:05:47
Quote: LOL. It really makes me wonder what these type of people are in RL.
The details of my life are quite inconsequential... <snip>
I think you just won the thread...! ![Razz](/images/icon_razz.gif) - - - - - - - -
<defense style="chewbacca"> But that does not make sense! </defense> |
![Hannobaal Hannobaal](https://images.evetech.net/characters/839306330/portrait?size=64)
Hannobaal
Shadow Forces Inc.
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Posted - 2008.06.11 19:16:00 -
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Edited by: Hannobaal on 11/06/2008 19:16:51
Originally by: Le Skunk
Originally by: Ecky X
Oh my.
Turn off your wallet and mail blink, and you shouldn't have any problem.
Tell that to the 862 people ive podded without the use of a bubble.
SKUNK
Battleship smartbombs ftw?
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