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Most mission runners aren't going to give a damn about it. The NPC flag only affects disappearing in space on logoff/disconnect. Most mission runners won't see it.

Ratters used to use Ctrl+Q to escape people roaming, they're another matter.

Confirming that my main wasn't born around the time of EVE's first ever expansion, that I never attended any fanfests as a player, that I have never set a 4AM alarm clock just so I could switch a vital skill before the skill queue existed, that I never spent an entire weekend making instas for my corp before WTZ, that I never enjoyed life as a pirate or that I've ever ratted myself back up from -10, that I was never involved in 'legitimate' banking and investment schemes, that I've never driven hundreds of miles just to attend a player meet, that I never bought the original boxed version of EVE in a games store 9 years ago, that I never spent hours sniping at a POS in a tempest before dreadnoughts had been conceived, that I never missed on out winning two T2 BPOs at once because I was working away from home for a few weeks without the ability to log in and the agents then decided to give them to someone else instead because I didn't respond to their 'I've had a breakthrough' memos in time.

Nope, I definitely didn't do any of this before CCP hired me. And I'm definitely not still bitter about those agent offers.

My reading is that safe logoff is only possible with no flags active and no-one on grid. So if you warp to safe and log off with 5 minutes left on your NPC timer, your ship sits in space until that timer runs down. In those 5 minutes, someone can scan your ship down, shoot it, and put a 15 minute PVP timer on your ship, which will also prevent it from disappearing.

The idea is there's no more vanishing at the first sign of hostiles in system.

Iwant Urstuff: Mission runners will only notice this if their client crashes during a mission and their ship is warp scrambled at the time of the crash and their ship is incapable of perma-tanking the rats. That could be me, because I deliberately fly woefully non-cap-stable ships into missions just to make them more interesting, and my client has crashed in missions before, but I'm not really sweating this. Mass unsubscriptions are just not going to happen; if anything pisses off carebears, it'll be the change to the NPC AI. But I'm not really going to sweat that either; I've long since traded reliable DPS for incredibly conservative drone management. In missions, it's not that big a deal.

Me thinks that Masterplan is wee bit ironic in that post ;)

Too much to read so I hope someone will just answer this. (Yes I was lazy and did'nt read all of this and busy)

Anyhow... I blew up... in a pod... in high sec. And I learned that I should fly a ship always cause otherwise I will not get a kill right so I could go and get even.

Now the question. In the new system, will I get kill right if I'm podded or is this all still limited to ships and if I loose a ship?
And if this is all limited to ships again could a dev answer why in the !"#¤% it is only limited to ships?

The way I interpret this is that you will get a killright if your pod is attacked in highsec/lowsec while your pod is not a legal target, as that will give the attacker a Criminal flag.

Hey Masterplan,

You must be the exception that proves the rule?

What happens when you end up in your pod in your own (sov) system, do you still have to wait for the timers to run out to reship?

I just don't like waiting, 15 minutes is an eternity when your waiting. You should really think that over. 15 minutes of waiting is a lot of time to develop something called boredom. Or just say some will get bored of waiting 15 minutes since they can't shoot until that timer runs out.

Can I have urstuff?

Sweet...

You misread the blog....

The Re-ship timer is tied to the WEAPONS timer.... which is 60 seconds, NOT 15 minutes... Until recently, all session change timers were 30 seconds (meaning you couldn't docking/jumping/re-ship for 30 seconds), and we managed just fine... I'm pretty sure a 60 second timer is very manageable, and won't ruin your ability to reship and rejoing a decent sized fight.

The way this works is that for as long as you have a criminal/suspect timer, or are in a limited engagement, the system will remember which offenses you have been punished for. Once your criminal/suspect timer has cleared and you are no longer in any limited engagements, this record is cleared, and you will once again incur sec-status punishments.
The memory tracks who you've offended against, and the level of the offense (ship vs pod). Repeating an offense - ie attacking the same person, perhaps after your guns have reloaded or you've chased him to another location - will not incur a repeated sec-hit.

The history is also passed across jumps, so if you attack someone in one system (and suffer a sec hit), then jump through a gate and attack him again (as long as your timers haven't expired), then you'll be able to continue fighting the same target in a different without another sec hit.

Attacking a pod is a more severe offense than attacking a ship, so you'll still get two sec hits if you shoot his ship and then his pod.

Make sense?