EVE General Discussion

Where are you losing all these pods? Unless you're in null-sec, you should very rarely lose a pod.

It removes enemy intelligence from local
It removes potential FC's from the field
Some pods are worth billions
Alot of people consider it a courtesy, especially after a long trip to find a fight, to take the express ride back home

Why not? I don't care about the amount of grinding you have to do, I'm not going to let the enemy have free intel on us, if I can help it and there is no telling how tasty that egg killreport will be unless you break it and take a look.

I've seen many comments in the past about being hooked on the squish sound they make when they go boom.

I agree, remove podkilling. Make it part of losing your ship. After all, how could that little ball survive in space at all?

You got it. Podding you means removing you from the field. One less opponent to deal with.
If I have you in your pod around it may mean you can jump nearby refit and get back in. By podding you, you end up in your med clone where ever that is and a lot of the time nowhere near the battlefield you got pk-ed.


What you can do is don't have such expensive implants in when you go where you can get podded.
- +3's are pretty cheap.
- Don't equip what you cannot afford to lose. I know that last one is old but still stands.
- Use jump clones, that is where they are for.
- use +5's for high sec, though these days if you are a miner...) When you think it's "safe".
- +3's for low and if you're in or going to null it depends if you have a foothold or not. If not, I went there (on my alt) just empty with a few cheap +3 weapon and agility implants.

You can make dying as expensive as you want in EVE. Not saying it can be prevented to be pod killed but you can do a lot to make the cost as low as possible if you anticipate on it.

For many PVPers, the killboard is king. For example, I'll blow up a ship everytime instead of offering a ransom, because the killmail is worth more to me than isk. Many PVPers like myself play to blow up ships, not make isk.

Of course this isn't true for everyone, there are people in my corporation who offer (and honor) ransoms to let ships and pods go.

Might not always be a good tactic, once in some fresh clone it takes about 10sec to insure it, take a new ship accordingly to fleet/gang needs and be back with a fresh ship ready to pownage.

Of course this depends how far the fight is and I'm about to bet in high sec people mostly stay docked or log off but in null I can tell you I'm the first to ask to pod me. The faster I get home the faster I'll be back with a new ship to harass you

tactical advantage

sometimes the advantage is in not killing the pods from a roaming gang, then they have a nice long trip before they can reship and be a problem on the field.

it really depends.

but really the only time you should EVER lose a pod is in null in a bubble
anywhere else and you fail as a pilot

if you sit there after your ship pops beating your keyboard and throwing your ramen noodles across the room instead of warping away that's your own damn fault for not using the mechanics to your full advantage.

if you're dead, you know it way before it happens, you should be spamming warp while you have a celestial in overview before your structure fails.

you can align and warp before most players can even ctl click you, there is no excuse for bubbleless pod kills
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Hehe yeah. Sorry, reply is just based upon the limit experience I have. But when I got send back 'home' on a few occasions from 0-high I had it for that day, not because I got pk-ed, I lost nothing I wasn't expecting to lose, but after 2-3 hours waiting for fleets to form up I usually have hit my 'EVE tax' of that day.

There's something called RL too you know?