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About fucking time.

Pleased.

This just goes to show that if you whine and cry like little babies hard enough for a game-breaking mechanic to be installed, sooner or later you'll get your way.

This is a sad day for EVE Online.

While very pleased to see progress on the SD issue, I can understand people being concerned about the loot/scuttling aspect.

To maintain the balance of the loot issue and create a 'goal' for someone self-destructing, a sensible compromise might be:

- The rules as outlined, including mail
- No loot if self-destruct is successful but with:
- 5 minute SD timer for capitals
- 10 minute SD timer for supercapitals
- Once cancelled, self-destruct cannot be reactivated under aggression.

A 5 minute timer on a capital and 10 minutes on a supercapital would give someone an ambitious goal to reach toward by overheating everything in a final attempt to deny loot to the attacking party - whilst still giving some chance for smaller gangs to cut through the EHP in time.

Granted, this would still mean that if a larger group of capitals and/or supers all self-destruct, then a lot of groups aren't going to be able to cut through them in time. However, the 5 and 10 minute timers would represent some sort of balance for most situations - and you could argue it might even add the challenge of ship scanning a good primary for the loot you really want

In that situation, too, the inability to initiate a second self-destruct after a 'cancel' would elminate larger groups of capitals from making 'speculative' self-destructs if unsure whether they will get backup or turn the course of the fight.

Some might even go further and suggest removing the option to cancel at all - but then we'd need some significantly more prominent warnings and hurdles before pressing the big red button (or some mechanic preventing a cancel while constantly aggressed, yet allowing an 'accidental' activation to be cancelled in safety, etc etc.)

At any rate, the longer timers might provide a middle ground on the loot issue. Plus, it would vaguely fit the RP that it takes longer to properly scuttle a much larger ship.



It was odd to go through all the numbers, screenshots and logs and see the actual result on paper. More even than mails or loot or anything like that, you look at the figures and simply feel the loss of a lot of ship hulls being pounded, weapons being fired, etc. The stuff that ultimately makes the world of Eve go round.

I'm not an alt. And seconded. You're whining because you probably lose nine times out of ten. To those who win, this simply isn't a problem. For everyone else, it's a HUUUUGE problem. Clearly, you're in the latter group.

exellent change to self-destruct
drop more capitals in to the sacrificial fire for the wormhole gods!

One of the best changes CCP has ever made.
Thank you, finally.



You do realize you can still loot a scuttled ship right ?

Heck yes!

Couldn't you at least post with your non-goon alt and not make it completely obvious as to what you are up to?!