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This is one of those 'should have changed years ago' things, which should have happened back then the EVEmail system was revamped, and killmails stopped being actual mails, but there's two things to remember here:

1. Existing players will call them 'killmails' by habit anyway, so that part of the culture won't go anywhere. See 'CNR', 'BCU', 'AF', 'HAC', and so on. The old name is safe, and both will be used side by side, probably with the text version still being referred to as a 'killmail'.

2. New players hear about killmails, and assume they are actually mails, when they aren't - its one of those odd barriers to entry which EVE still has a load of (like Medium Beam Lasers actually being frigate size, not cruiser) which doesn't affect the actual gameplay. Once you get used to them they're fine, but as it is it's complexity through obfuscation.

"Kill report" has to fight "Kill mail" for recognition as the new concept.

It has one extra syllable, it might inspire people to keep saying "Kill mail" for we try to save resources.

How about "Kill stats"?

I really hope there adding this with this new system, the whole supers self destructing crap needs to spawn a killmail if it has active damage from people within the last X time or since the last jump whatever

It's beautiful! I'm really looking forward to this.

Will pod kills include bounty payouts?

So if someone links a Kill Report in local, will other involved parties be able to click on it, and then be able to 'copy' the raw mail then, or will they only be able to view it? If they can copy, that will be awesome for... ahem... gangbangs.

Also, Can you please, please, please, please, please force a Kill Report to be generated when a player ship self destructs. Give it a threshold - maybe 66% of the ships EHP has to be taken down before a report will be generated. But something!!!

Thanks!

I lol'd at the names and corporations on the killmail.. Err - kill report. Robin and aquaman were pretty well done.

With this new system i would want to get all kill reports im on in my list and not only the ones i got last hit on.

Awesome! But srsly.... WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG?

When are you going to do the next logical step and create an official and unfakeable killboard to integrate with evegate?
With all the bells and whistles. Alliance startpages, corporation startpages, personal startpages.
Social functions like (eg. a MOCK-Button) to post this failmail on the forums... ?

So all the poor players working as KB admins for their corps and alliances will be spared of constant updating and restarting their PHP servers and updating DB dumps when module names get changed again and again.

Please!

but how would those people feel special then

I do think it would be interesting (although far from absolutely necessary) to have a line for any bounty that was claimed as a result of the kill.

It could certainly affect the total value of the kill in the case of pods.

I know this isn't about the nuts and bolts of how the market values will be calculated, but it would be interesting to have a dev blog that explains it in detail at some point. The only thing I'm curious about are items that are not yet on the market, and are not really built by the players to calculate their value from. Average value of the item sold via contracts over the last two weeks perhaps?

Also, I fully agree that the pertinent value is the one at the time of the kill. What that kill would be worth a year after the fact might be interesting, but really is'nt relevant to anything. If you must know, go out and kill another one.