EVE Technology Lab

I think in general I'd like a scoreboard. An official killboards, of sorts, even though I realize this is controversial. I don't know why it is, but everyone just tells me it is.

I'd like to look on the Eve website and see which top 100 or 1,000 individuals:

a) had the moth deathblows in a week
b) participated in the most kills
c) killed the most isk/lost the most isk
d) scored the most 'points' (although I'm still not sure how the killmails calculate points, whatever they are)
e) had the highest kill to loss ratio, isk killes to loss ratio

And for corporations and alliances:

a) Who killed the most, destroyed the most isk, etc.
b) Which corps killed the most per member. Which corps killed the least per member.
c) rankings for most sovereignty gained, lost or held

I want to phone my brother in law in the midwest and chest thump about how I dominated him in the previous week and his crappy corp blows.

That data is all there. Give us rankings!

p.s. I love the idea of a dps graph or timeline from beginning of engagement to the kill. Player A took 40,000 damage in 4 seconds by 20 players versus 40,000 damage against 20 players over 5 minutes are totally different fights.


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Pod's clone grade should be included in kill mail, and would give pod kills an actual value.

Most damage reps per hour logged in would be a great stat.... differentiating pve vs pvp damage of course.

Official Killboard, please.

API verification doesn't work when you're not the one getting the killing blow, which is often.

* Fixed damage numbers.
* Fixed involved parties in large fights (have 900 people bash a TCU, onlu 200 or so get on the mail).
* Fixed POS killmails (shoot all the POS structures, you only get on like half of them. Shoot the stick only, you get on all the mails.)
* Logistics on killmails.
* Scouts on killmails (yes, good luck).
* "Kill"mails for reinforcing structures.
* Involved parties persisting even after a jump.
* Killmails for selfdetructed ships. Selfdestruction should be noted on the killmail.
* Send killmails to more people. Currently if the victim and the last hitter both disappear, there is no killmail, even if 100 other people are involved. Send a mail to everybody who got on the kill.
* Get everybody involved in the fight on a mail, not just the three tards with two racks full of sebos.

* Ideally, replace the individual killmail system with a complex battle report system, which enumerates all the involved parties, kills, and losses on a fleet/alliance level, not individually.

The archetype 'healers' should get half the 'points' at least for a kill. They enable it to happen.

With that said, I still don't understand how the killboards assign points. Is it the ship killed or hte skill points of the player?? I don't understand.

I approve of fixing the "None"s and "Unknowns", damage values, verification, logis, and other weird quirks, but...

Killboards need less information, not more. Remove the fitting of the victim altogether. I don't know what it is about the giant fiery explosion of a ship that tells you about exactly what modules it had on it (even those that were destroyed) when you couldn't do the same when the ship was intact. In the same vein of thought, adding implants onto podmails was also wrong, despite how fun it is to laugh at the poor sop who just lost a +5 set. Ed: Showing the dropped mods is fine.

This change would remove efficiency grinding as a reason to PvP (and a motivation to blob), and promote more innovative fitting and more risk-taking.

(Ready for flames)

Maybe some way to assign roles (non-functional, purely information) in a fleet, so you can mark someone as a scout, or logi, so they get mentioned on any kill mail from that fleet?

From the work I have done on EDK over the years, here is a list of what I would like to see from the API.

Correct the unknown ship issues.
On occasion, when a pilot was involved in an attack and then killed, it appears on the kill mail as his capsule doing the damage! If he was also poded, it would show as unknown.

Fix the damage records.
Once I was attacked by a dread, I know I had taken over 10 minutes of abuse (Damn is siege, yay for triage!) and eventually died. It reported as me taking 800k damage. I knew this wasn't right as I was just under my maximum tank for 10 minutes (8k dps tank for 4 min(without overheat), so he was doing about 5-6k dps = 3.6 million damage for 10 min)

Fix the weapon field
Often it will say you used your ship, or a piece of ammunition to kill your enemy. What did they do? Hop out of the ship and beat them to death with a piece of titanium sabot! Did they ram their ship into them till he died? I want what turret they used! Why not have it so that it shows up at "weapon that causes damage : ammunition used". For weapons that use no ammo but damage or warp disrupt, just go straight up and say "warp disrupter II". I can elaborate more...

Fix the loot...
If they had a Secure container named "I hate you" I think it should be in the killmail, same with bookmarks.
Why not, for containers "I hate you : Giant Secure Container" and for bookmarks, "I hate you : Bookmark"


As I see it, the information the api gives on killmails are great, but they need to be made more accurate.
Fix what you have, then see about making something new!

On another note, I would love to have the IGB upgraded to use java and adobe flash!


Gary

chat me up on fanfest, i've a few ideas how to solve some of the problems i mentioned earlier.