Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I don't want it removed completely, just a charge for people who wants to see it, maybe a fixed price of a few million or a personal set value just like eve-mail.

It's not way out of line i think, might give newer players a boost when its not instantly rightclick and see how old a player is to assess the situation.

Also works the other way around, when a 2011 character might not even consider shooting at a 2003 just because of the years put behind training.

Maybe its not as easy to set a charge for it, but i def. think some change would benefit the eve universe.

If you don't engage someone based on their character's age... you're doing it wrong.

Character age =/= more SP
(they might have let their sub lapse for a year or so)

More SP =/= better than less SP
(it depends on where your SP are applied, what ship you are in, and what your opponent is flying)

I remember looking at the opponent's character age (and usually deciding not to engage) when I first started with pvp...

this thread made me chuckle because when reading it I realized that I haven't done this in a very long time.

at some point I realized that there is only so much SP that applies to any given setup: whether you are facing a 2003 character or a specialized 2010 character doesn't really matter if the 2010 character is flying the setup he is trained for - and that's something you can't know before engaging him.

my main is a 2008 character with about 55m SP so I guess a newish player might be moderately scared of him - however, my main is good at a few things (general support & gunnery skills, amarr T1 ships & capitals) and terrible at pretty much everything else.

If I were to engage you in a stealthbomber you would probably just laugh at my lack of damage output as I only have Torpedoes III and CovOps IV along with generally mediocre missile skills.
If I were to attack you in a Pilgrim/Curse my fitting would be either very expensive or pretty gimped as I never got around to training Recon V - a skill that many pvp-oriented 20-30m SP characters do have.
I can't even sit in Gallente battleships much less use hybrid weapons or fly them effectively.
and the list goes on and on ....

Character age doesn't tell you anything useful - maybe you are dealing with an alt that hasn't trained any skills for 90% of his life, maybe you are dealing with a character that has most of his skills in Science/Industry, maybe the character was sold on the bazaar and the new owner has no clue how to use it, ..... or maybe you are dealing with a super specialized pilot that outperforms you despite having half your overall SP.

Looking at character age only makes you run from fights that you might win or feel bad for ganking newbies. You should engage based on ship types, tactical situation and chance of the other guy pulling backup out of his hat. Not based on character age. Getting to the point where you yourself realize that character age doesn't matter is an important step in "learning" EVE (that shouldn't be taken away).


Corp history can occasionally give you decent clues about a pilot's background and likely areas of expertise. But I don't think this is a problem.
Knowing that my main spent a lot of time in 0.0 some of which in large alliances but no time in low-sec/pirate corps would tell you a lot more about me than the character age or SP.

Corp history should have an option to be hidden period. Noone walks around with their résumé taped to their head.

Any CSPA charge would be either terrible or inconsequential, basically. Also, why should someone's employment info or corp's alliance info be hidden from others? Make choices, live with the consequences, work harder to convince others that repeated membership in decshield alliances doesn't mean you're total carebears.

I like to look at corp histories sometimes for multiple chars to see if any connection can potentially be made between them. Like say a group of people from corp [ABC] in one system, one person from corp {EFG} in another, but oh look, that person's previous corp was [ABC] and the people from [ABC] seem to be keenly aware of what's going on at the gate in the system where the [EFG] char is. Never 100%, but slowly webs form.

Free intel is delicious. Everyone should post all of their kills all the time, too, public killboards are invaluable for those who really like intel and have a good memory

Linkedin/Facebook/OldFriend beg to differ.