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Empty Pods - Why do they generate kill mails?

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Rune Starlancer
Doomheim
#1 - 2015-03-20 23:42:54 UTC
They are essentially worhless now and they add noise to killboards.
Unsuccessful At Everything
The Troll Bridge
#2 - 2015-03-20 23:45:09 UTC
Rune Starlancer wrote:
They are essentially worhless now and they add noise to killboards.


If it had a person in it, it wasn't empty!

And if you don't like 'em littering your boards, you don't have to shoot them.

Save them for me. Ill shoot them. Never not get the pod.

Since the cessation of their usefulness is imminent, may I appropriate your belongings?
ISD Dorrim Barstorlode
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
ISD Alliance
#3 - 2015-03-20 23:49:45 UTC
It is a record that someone met their end at the hands of someone else. Just because it may not have worth to you, does not mean someone else finds worth in the destruction of a pod.

ISD Dorrim Barstorlode

Senior Lead

Community Communication Liaisons (CCLs)

Interstellar Services Department
Paranoid Loyd
#4 - 2015-03-20 23:52:48 UTC
I love all my pod kills equally.

"There is only one authority in this game, and that my friend is violence. The supreme authority upon which all other authority is derived." ISD Max Trix

Fix the Prospect!
Ned Thomas
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#5 - 2015-03-20 23:53:14 UTC  |  Edited by: Ned Thomas
Wait, people kill pods for value? Not for the "I'm so much better than you, I managed to kill you twice at once" factor?

And everyone wants more corpses. Even Sleepers.
Zappity
New Eden Tank Testing Services
#6 - 2015-03-21 00:04:43 UTC
No ISK value doesn't equal no tactical value. Getting podded out of a wormhole, for instance.

Zappity's Adventures for a taste of lowsec and nullsec.
Pok Nibin
Doomheim
#7 - 2015-03-21 04:01:47 UTC
Ned Thomas wrote:
Wait, people kill pods for value? Not for the "I'm so much better than you, I managed to kill you twice at once" factor?
And everyone wants more corpses. Even Sleepers.
Wave the digital teabag!

The right to free speech doesn't automatically carry with it the right to be taken seriously.
Ned Thomas
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#8 - 2015-03-21 04:04:09 UTC
Pok Nibin wrote:
Ned Thomas wrote:
Wait, people kill pods for value? Not for the "I'm so much better than you, I managed to kill you twice at once" factor?
And everyone wants more corpses. Even Sleepers.
Wave the digital teabag!


Teabags are op Blink
Jenshae Chiroptera
#9 - 2015-03-21 04:12:00 UTC
Rune Starlancer wrote:
Why do they generate kill mails?
To keep a record of how successful gate camps are at bubbling up and keeping free scouts out.

CCP - Building ant hills and magnifying glasses for fat kids

Not even once

EVE is becoming shallow and puerile; it will satisfy neither the veteran nor the "WoW" type crowd in the transition.
Gimme Sake
State War Academy
Caldari State
#10 - 2015-03-21 05:06:05 UTC  |  Edited by: Gimme Sake
Which pods? Yours or theirs?

"Never not blob!" ~ Plato
Herzog Wolfhammer
Sigma Special Tactics Group
#11 - 2015-03-21 09:12:30 UTC
Ned Thomas wrote:
Wait, people kill pods for value? Not for the "I'm so much better than you, I managed to kill you twice at once" factor?

And everyone wants more corpses. Even Sleepers.




They kill pods for killboard stats. Ever see a maller on a gate around 10-11KM on a warp-in vector and no turrets? Scan one and you'll see what it's for.

A "Crystal egg" kill for the cost of losing a maller in a suicide gank would green up a killboard considerably.

Bring back DEEEEP Space!
Gully Alex Foyle
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#12 - 2015-03-21 09:22:25 UTC
Why do people want to complicate the simple things in life?

Something's on grid --> shoot it.

Oh look, it popped! --> get a killmail.

Make space glamorous! Is EVE dying or not? Ask the EVE-O Death-o-meter!
Adrie Atticus
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#13 - 2015-03-21 10:23:33 UTC
Corpses can fetch up to billions if proper match is found, yet this is not actually shown on the killboards either.
Daerrol
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#14 - 2015-03-21 13:39:27 UTC
If you need Killboard stats, get an alt with industrial, fill with cargo and kill repeatedly, scooping the cargo back up each time.
Hengle Teron
Red Sky Morning
The Amarr Militia.
#15 - 2015-03-21 18:16:50 UTC
because they were killed ?