EVE General Discussion

I believe I have detected the problem: You care about your kb stats

Isk value should be calculated this way at the very least:
*Ship value* / *number of people on km*

for corps/alliance :
(*ship value* / *number of people on km*) x * number of people of corp/alliance on km*

Then again, killboard stats are stupid.

I imagined everything you told me to! Then, I got drunk to wipe the memory from my mind!
We don' need no steeeenkeeeng keeeel boardzzzzz!!

You can get a very approximate idea of a players experience and skill by glancing at ISK efficiency and KB stats, but it's just that. A summary of how much they've killed so far. KBs are a bit more accurate on the corp/alliance level, but even then they get messed up by people ninjaing on friendly supers as they go down etc.

If you want to know how good someone is, glance down the list of kills. Look at their favorite ships flown, how big the groups they PvP in are, how often they die and how big the gangs they're engaging are etc.

It's almost impossible to quantify a pilots skill via kill board statistics, battleclinic tried via their points system and failed horribly. No point trying to request CCP to do the same, especially when it adds nothing to the game. Gathering intel on a player isn't mean to be easy, just be thankful you have kill boards at all.

Killboards are the first sign of Blue Ball Syndrome, that ache in your manhood when you have to measure yourself up against someone else in EVE (where there is no actual end game, no real scoreboard, no nothing but what you have accomplished). BBL suffers also show signs of rage, ineptitude, and self denial as it was the other guy's fault when the cap ship destructed because somehow two minutes wasn't enough (yet, they know this fact) even though its easy to avoid that moment of being deprived by planning smarter in the future (Doctor's Recomendation: Bring another 2 DPS or a cap ship of our own on standby, then brag about it the next morning). BBL suffers also demand that the gods that be (CCP) fix their ineptitude of their own making, then shout out others to post with their main while hiding behind an alter ego to protect their real birth name (Read: WoW and almost releasing private info as an entire name) while flashing around a kill list that in affect does nothing in real life.

Just say no to Killboards and accomplish what you can, what you did, and do better to make it go high as possible while not stressing over it.