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hulls with kill counters
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Ariele Netiqulenne
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2015-01-21 03:24:25 UTC
Hi,

I wonder if it would be cool if we had kill counters on ship hulls something similar to StatTrak weapons from CounterStrike.

I see following benefits:
- this would add some individuality to ships, more thrill to keep ship with large number of kills alive
- special skins that show number of kills
- new market for such hulls could be created (or contracts?)

Best regards,
Ariele Netiqulenne
Noriko Mai
#2 - 2015-01-21 03:34:42 UTC  |  Edited by: Noriko Mai
. Big smile

"Meh.." - Albert Einstein
Maccian
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#3 - 2015-01-21 03:37:33 UTC
Interesting Idea. Not sure about the skins but I would like to know how many kills I've got with my current ships.
Rowells
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#4 - 2015-01-21 04:12:15 UTC
In leiu of graphics a rap sheet in the info panel would be cool.
Lugh Crow-Slave
#5 - 2015-01-21 05:24:23 UTC
pretty sure that once we are able to skin our own ships this will be doable so i'm not sure if its worth extra dev effort in the mean time

but if they can do it then +1

BLOPS Hauler
The 16.8km Bubble
Tusker Crazinski
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#6 - 2015-01-21 13:45:13 UTC
there simply is not enough flat hull for notches on RnKs Abbadons and Rohks. Cool
Arla Sarain
#7 - 2015-01-21 15:15:09 UTC
+1
Serendipity Lost
Repo Industries
#8 - 2015-01-21 15:58:29 UTC
It would ruin my bait covetor. This would force me to keep buying new ships that have no kills associated with them.

Also, I live in a wh. Our ships aren't exactly communal, but ther is some sharing of this and that AND I can just flat out give a ship to another dude or dudette - how will this be handled? Can I sell my enyo that has 100 kills on it's hull at a premium to some FW hoopydootie so he can look all tough?

There is the whole change of ownership thing that would totally devalue your idea.

Maybe just name your ship '100 useless FW kills' or 'null F1 monkey ship - 100kills I got, but didn't understand' or maybe 'Mr Super Peen - 83 kills'

I get the spirit of the idea, but it would be open to a lot of shinanigans unless you coded a patoot load of rules and regulations into it. It would force others such as myself to retire bait ships once they are successful.

+1 for the spirit of the idea
-100k (number of jerks in eve that would ruin it) for ability/need/desire to implement it
Kenrailae
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#9 - 2015-01-21 21:51:17 UTC
This idea has come up a few times. I like the general idea, but as has been asked of it in the past, is this restricted to the hull? To a certain fit on the hull? What counts as a kill? Being involved in one or final blow? You can get 60% of the damage on a kill and not get the final blow, does that count as your kill or no? You can change ships mid fight, which ship does the kill tally go on? This idea has, IIRC, in the past had quite a few votes of support, but there are alot of particulars to work out in there that are not quite so easy. Also worth considering, what graphics resolution do you have to play at to see this on someone else's ship, if at all?

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Zhilia Mann
Tide Way Out Productions
#10 - 2015-01-21 22:50:39 UTC
Don't unique items give the Eve database a ridiculous case of howling fantods of hamster death? I think that's the real issue here....