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Corpse Reprocessing
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watch yoself
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2014-04-24 06:47:20 UTC
As of now, corpses in EVE only serve as trophies and collectible items. They really serve no purpose and carry no real value beyond the sentimental value to the owner. When a ship is destroyed, part of everything inside of it is dropped. When a capsule with implants is destroyed nothing is dropped. Because capsules with implants often are quite valuable and can cost more than a capital ship, it would only make sense that at least some of the implants should be accessible to the killer. It would be great if players could reprocess corpses (eliminating them in the process) for some of the implants that they contain. The implants are physically inside of the corpses as it is. Corpse reprocessing would make pod kills even more valuable and add a degree of surprise to pvp.

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Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#2 - 2014-04-24 06:49:15 UTC
CCP Eris Discordia promised us WiS corpse display cases… Cry
Nakami Saans
Conclave of Independent Pilots
#3 - 2014-04-24 06:53:14 UTC
I thought you turned in corpses for bounties, should it's previous owner have one on their head.

I could be wrong though. I haven't played in a bit due to school and I was never a bounty hunter lol

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watch yoself
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#4 - 2014-04-24 06:55:50 UTC
Nakami Saans wrote:
I thought you turned in corpses for bounties, should it's previous owner have one on their head.

I could be wrong though. I haven't played in a bit due to school and I was never a bounty hunter lol


You can't turn them in for bounties.

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Jur Tissant
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#5 - 2014-04-24 07:04:29 UTC
The high value of corpse implants is precisely why they shouldn't be lootable/salvageable. Once you've got a ship down, is it really worth hundreds of millions of ISK to be able to lock a pod fast? That's hardly a proper challenge given the potential reward.
Salvos Rhoska
#6 - 2014-04-24 07:08:10 UTC  |  Edited by: Salvos Rhoska
Good idea.

1+

Not sure how to apply it best though.
Lootable corpse?
Skill that adds % chance to recover existing implants from corpse?
Require a cloning lab for extraction?

I suppose it would kill the implant market a bit, but meh, I figure pvp pilots could use a bit of extra potential profit from kills.

Running with the idea of corpses being useful, how about them being exchangeable for clone upgrades, depending on the level of the corpse clone?

Gets a bit complicated to implement, but I agree its a shame there is no concrete aftermarket for corpses.

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watch yoself
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#7 - 2014-04-24 07:09:46 UTC
Jur Tissant wrote:
The high value of corpse implants is precisely why they shouldn't be lootable/salvageable. Once you've got a ship down, is it really worth hundreds of millions of ISK to be able to lock a pod fast? That's hardly a proper challenge given the potential reward.


Challenge has nothing to do with whether or not implants should be able to be reprocessed. Every time you undock in eve you risk losing everything. That has nothing too do with whether or not items taken out of a station should be available to the killer. The high value of the implants could be countered by high reprocessing fees or the potential to get nothing from the reprocess.

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Chribba
Otherworld Enterprises
Otherworld Empire
#8 - 2014-04-24 07:10:15 UTC
Making corpses salvageable would help combating littering of space with these lost souls. Although there should only be a small chance of implants being salvageable imo (and the skill to increase the chance of course).

And any corpse to date should be implemented with full set of HG implants for obvious reasons Lol

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Divine Entervention
Doomheim
#9 - 2014-04-24 07:14:00 UTC
You should only be able to reprocess a corpse into the trade good Frozen Food.
Salvos Rhoska
#10 - 2014-04-24 07:15:13 UTC  |  Edited by: Salvos Rhoska
watch yoself wrote:
The high value of the implants could be countered by high reprocessing fees or the potential to get nothing from the reprocess.


The high value of implants would in part be directly countered and reduced by the introduction of recycled implants to the market.
Pod ransoming would take a hit, if thats even a thing.

Just had another disturving thought...
How about a Drug that requires corpses to produce?
Or a Jovian pirate faction who trades ISK or LP in exchange for clone corpses for their research?

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watch yoself
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#11 - 2014-04-24 07:23:17 UTC
There are probably less than a few hundred major corpse collectors. Most corpses are not picked up as it is. Even with a change many corpses will be missed. Most pods are empty, some have pretty cheap implants, and only a few have really good implants. Given that there would be a slight chance of reprocessing the implants at a significant isk cost, I do not think that this would effect the implant market that much.

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Abrazzar
Vardaugas Family
#12 - 2014-04-24 07:28:46 UTC
Attack the pod mail to the corpse, add a cybergenetics lab to pirate corporations anchorable only in low- and null-sec, reverse engineer a corpse with a chance to create a one run blueprint for a random implant in the corpse with skills increasing chance and the number of implants you can maximally gain from a corpse.

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Bunnie Hop
Bunny Knights
#13 - 2014-04-24 07:33:28 UTC
Tippia wrote:
CCP Eris Discordia promised us WiS corpse display cases… Cry


Ewwww. Shocked
Nalelmir Ahashion
Industrial Management and Engineering
Mouth Trumpet Cavalry
#14 - 2014-04-24 07:45:54 UTC
give corpses for standings!
Doireen Kaundur
Doomheim
#15 - 2014-04-24 08:09:11 UTC
Soylent Green™ ?

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leavemymomalone idiot
State War Academy
Caldari State
#16 - 2014-04-24 08:09:29 UTC
no

terrible idea.

when your pod gets breached the pod kills the clone so it can be transferred to the new medical clone. destroying all the implants in the clones head.

i strongly disagree with allowing destroyed implants back into the market system.

are you going to get CCP to add more skills to train?

corpse robbing level 1

brain surgery

implant retrieval




minus 1 wheres my dislike button.
Shederov Blood
Deadly Viper Kitten Mitten Sewing Company
#17 - 2014-04-24 08:10:52 UTC
Doireen Kaundur wrote:
Soylent Green™ ?
Hmm, new angle/lighting?

Who put the goat in there?
Doireen Kaundur
Doomheim
#18 - 2014-04-24 08:23:24 UTC
Shederov Blood wrote:
Doireen Kaundur wrote:
Soylent Green™ ?
Hmm, new angle/lighting?


experimenting. Wish it had better lighting control.

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Salvos Rhoska
#19 - 2014-04-24 09:08:26 UTC
New full leather ship skin for 1000 corpses.

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Futune Circinus
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#20 - 2014-04-24 09:30:30 UTC
We NEED to be able to strap corpses to the exteriour of our ships as a warning or signal of dominance.
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