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Stealth Bomber Seppuku: Small mercies - Thank you CCP
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Substantia Nigra
Polaris Rising
Goonswarm Federation
#1 - 2012-04-05 01:35:05 UTC  |  Edited by: Substantia Nigra
Last session I killed myself! I am not entirely sure how I managed this act of abject stupidity, but I launched the bomb and it was the bomb that killed me.

My intended victim and I laughed about if for quite a while afterwards, as I sheepishly piloted my pod out to hisec to get a new ship.

I waited, waited, and waited and now realize that self mutilation, if you do 100% of the damage to yourself, does not show up in your combat log or as a killmail. The death did show as a ship kill in the system’s API output but there’s no data anywhere (it seems) to remind the world of my PvP incompetence …except my owning up to it here.

Thank you CCP for whatever setting it is that prevents my stealth bomb seppuku from getting into the API feed. I very much appreciate that.


p.s. If it was not as intended, but a bug, please do not fix it.

I guess I am almost a 'vet' by now. Hopefully not too bitter and managing to help more than I hinder. I build and sell many things, including large collections of bookmarks.
Ajita al Tchar
Doomheim
#2 - 2012-04-05 04:03:19 UTC
Substantia Nigra wrote:
Last session I killed myself! I am not entirely sure how I managed this act of abject stupidity, but I launched the bomb and it was the bomb that killed me.

My intended victim and I laughed about if for quite a while afterwards, as I sheepishly piloted my pod out to hisec to get a new ship.

I waited, waited, and waited and now realize that self mutilation, if you do 100% of the damage to yourself, does not show up in your combat log or as a killmail. The death did show as a ship kill in the system’s API output but there’s no data anywhere (it seems) to remind the world of my PvP incompetence …except my owning up to it here.

Thank you CCP for whatever setting it is that prevents my stealth bomb seppuku from getting into the API feed. I very much appreciate that.


p.s. If it was not as intended, but a bug, please do not fix it.


lolz, nice! let me assure you that it's happened to others as well, i definitely recall forgetting to warp once myself P

however, i seem to remember having seen killmails where the victim and the winner were the same entity, by virtue of bombs. maybe i'm forgetting though and there were other entities on the KM. Almost tempted to experiment. Almost!
Substantia Nigra
Polaris Rising
Goonswarm Federation
#3 - 2012-04-05 04:05:42 UTC
yes, I have seen a few where the victim contributed to their own death ... usually via a bomb, but none where they were the only combatant contributing to their own fatal damage.

I guess I am almost a 'vet' by now. Hopefully not too bitter and managing to help more than I hinder. I build and sell many things, including large collections of bookmarks.
Dischordant
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#4 - 2012-04-05 04:47:29 UTC
We had someone eject from a drake, but the three of us in system couldn't fly drakes. We left it and called another corp member in to grab it, but the person who had ejected came back in another drake, and locked his old one and started firing, so our corp-mate couldn't get into it. He killed his old drake, and we killed his new one. Talking to him after the fact, he didn't get a killmail for drake #1. So it does seem like killing your own ships = no killmail.
Xuse Senna
Nocturnal Romance
Cynosural Field Theory.
#5 - 2012-04-05 07:12:46 UTC
I have a final blow with myself in a manticore for no dmg... So yeah.... confusing....

http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/7501/mindgamesceptionfinaldr.jpg
Woo Glin
State War Academy
Caldari State
#6 - 2012-04-05 12:42:15 UTC
Killmails are bugged in EVE Online, a good and well coded game by Crowd Control Productions.