EVE General Discussion

Killboards are a pretty integral part of EVE. Honestly don't know why there isn't an official CCP one.

We have the crappiest killboard in the world. Not only does it not pull kills from anywhere, but it only seems to have information about our reimbursable ship losses.

It is the best killboard ever.

well, you have combat logs and you can see kills and losses on your corp. I don't think CCP needs to do anything else, since anything besides that is for gloating and chest-beating purposes, and it would probably make EVE a bit too much like COD or CS.

Oops, double post. Please delete this one admins, sorry!

The killboard used to be very important to me. Nowadays I hardly look at it anymore, except for the records of hostile pilots I meet, to gather intel about them.

I still like killmails... they are records of events. Sometimes I look at an old kill and still remember how the fight went. Sadly, most killmails do not tell the real story if you don't already know what happened. For a game where pvp is so important as it is in EVE, the devs do way too little to make killmails meaningful and accurate. Here are some major things that need to be fixed:
-show involved Logistics and Carriers
-show active booster ships
-make damage numbers and involved pilots persistent over session changes (like system jumps)
-remember what ship a pilot was in even if he dies during the fight so that we don't see people doing top damage in a capsule on killmails
-clear the damage received number on a ship after a while so that we don't see 200k damage from rats on kills only because the guy had been ratting for an hour without session change before he was attacked and killed
-automatically correct kill reports so that e.g. a friendly pilot who only used a web on the victim is not shown. I'd say people who were in the same fleet as the victim should not be shown. This will mess up awoxing kills but fix almost all others, I'd take that trade.

I like to be able to track my own record of ships ive used over certain months doing certain types of pvp.

I rarely use kill boards to judge others, however if somone is shooting their mouth off about being amazing i might check, but not to rub in their face.

I like killboards.

I don't like ADHD kids that worship said killboards.

If Eve was truly immersive, there would be no detailed killboards.

The Eve universe is a big big place. It has 7500 systems.
It is filled with thousands of disparate groups, many that have zero interest in letting others know who, or what they are killing.

To suggest that there should be an organized over-arching group that tracks every kill is ridiculous, and not immersive.
Yes, Concord is an over-arching group that sees all in this game, but it in any real world analogy, Concord would not be releasing specific data on ship fits, and value of fits.

Space fighter pilots should have general reputations that are built over time, with no true verifiable method parsing fact from hyperbole.

Billy the Kid may know specifically how many people he killed, but he would be the only one who knows with absolute certainty, and he sure never knew how much his victim's weapons were worth to the penny.

And in large wars, even in today's age of instant information, do countries give out public details about precisely what a casualty was wearing and what equipment he had on him? As far as I know, in the chaos of war, even a soldier's immediate superiors would not have that knowledge.

If organized groups in Eve (for sake of argument the equivalent of armies) want to keep track of generalized kills and losses, no problem. They can keep track of the general value of a kill, but not detailed on what dropped, what was destroyed, and not how much to the penny it was worth. And if said organizations want to release generalized data to the public, fine. But there should be no way for the public to confirm the veracity of it, with something like an API key.

So API specific detail is ridiculous and non-immersive, and completely unrealistic, even within the confines of the Eve universe.

Third option: never used with them; don't care.

They're pretty ghetto patchworks of PHP... and useful for intel.

Beyond that, meh. Pretty neutral.