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Kill counter on ships
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Detshni
ELPA Industries
#1 - 2012-12-03 02:37:26 UTC  |  Edited by: Detshni
(original post)

Would be a neat feature to see how many kills my ship has under its belt, before being destroyed.
This would be NPC as well as player ships. Neat for ratting, and ofc. pvp.

Just adds to the fleshing out of ships. Now the only unique thing we can do to a ship is type in a name.


Just a quick thought.

Post updated 30 of December 2012




I have decided to change my initial thoughts about kill counters to NPCs...
You guys are right. Getting NPC kills is easy, but it is player kills that drive the economy of Eve,
it is player PVP that is the ultimate endgame of Eve, and should be the ultimate goal.
And it is the possible chance of losing the one ship which you love that creates the ultimate adrenaline spike.
So the kill counter for PLAYER ships remains.
The only exception would be player pods as those aren't really ships.
Thank you for the great feedback guys.
Tell your friends, and happy new year.

Midnight Pheonix
The Corpening
#2 - 2012-12-03 02:43:21 UTC
+1 as long as you can make it public or private.
Alieana Padecain
Ronin LLC.
#3 - 2012-12-03 09:59:43 UTC
I was thinking about this as well, more in the form of stripes on the wing or across the Hull. Every Capsuleer kill was a Red stripe, every NPC kill was a green stripe, different colors for different NPC/Player factions.

+1 to this idea.
Vartan Sarkisian
Phoenix Connection
#4 - 2012-12-03 10:17:23 UTC
Midnight Pheonix wrote:
+1 as long as you can make it public or private.


+1 but with this caveat
Hakan MacTrew
Konrakas Forged
Solyaris Chtonium
#5 - 2012-12-03 11:35:54 UTC
+1 if it can be made public/private.

Wouldn't bother with rat kills, other than officer spawns. I don't want a neon green tengu.

Would also be nice for a small choice of kill marks; stripes, tallys, skulls, bombs, etc...

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Skippermonkey
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#6 - 2012-12-03 12:00:15 UTC
Alieana Padecain wrote:
I was thinking about this as well, more in the form of stripes on the wing or across the Hull. Every Capsuleer kill was a Red stripe, every NPC kill was a green stripe, different colors for different NPC/Player factions.

+1 to this idea.


I think you'd need 1 stripe for every 1000 npc kills, you'd run out of room on some ships

COME AT ME BRO

I'LL JUST BE DOCKED IN THIS STATION
Vayn Baxtor
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#7 - 2012-12-03 12:08:27 UTC
People tend to hate the killmail culture at times, but I like this idea.

Just a minor issue that comes in mind: What to do when you repackage the ship? Should the counter vanish?

Using tablet, typoes are common and I'm not going to fix them all.

Detshni
ELPA Industries
#8 - 2012-12-03 14:07:14 UTC  |  Edited by: Detshni
My thoughts on that is.. hmm, yeah. Repackaging a ship would reset the counter, but you'd get a warning first before repackaging, and the warning will tell you specifically about the counter.

I also see some of you have mentioned that you don't see the need for rat kills counted.. and I can live with that. But we defo need the pvp counter.. to motivate more pvp. More votes please... lets get ccp's attention.
John Nucleus
24th Imperial Crusade
Amarr Empire
#9 - 2012-12-03 14:21:36 UTC
+1

Meanwhile, the idea isn't from me but I took the habit of adding a roman number to my ships name everytime I destroy another ship. So in my hangar I've got a bunch of:

buzz IV
buzz III
buzz I
etc...
Solutio Letum
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#10 - 2012-12-03 20:14:33 UTC
so that would encourage the use of a 100MN AB fitted Tengu rigth?

+1 though, not a bad idea
Seranova Farreach
Biomass Negative
#11 - 2012-12-03 20:31:54 UTC
2 counters,
npc kills (expandable to see ship catagories) able to show/hide in your bio/info
PC kills (same as above and maybe ability to click on the ship classes to see the killmails associated with them)

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Harsh Mistress
Neverwinter Days
#12 - 2012-12-03 20:37:23 UTC
... only if you are counting fitted ships which were fighting back and not of "rookie ship" class. Otherwise I would not be surprised seeing someone smart-bombing ton of shuttles or noobship alts just for another stripe ...
Detshni
ELPA Industries
#13 - 2012-12-06 16:47:37 UTC
Rookie ships, shuttles, and the like would have to be excluded from the rule ofc. Any other thoughts?Roll
Detshni
ELPA Industries
#14 - 2012-12-08 10:56:31 UTC
bumping this topic up at least one more time for more votes. Who knows.. maybe ccp notices us?Question
Sigras
Conglomo
#15 - 2012-12-08 11:23:32 UTC
this is a great idea, it could be used to create a secondary market for "well known ships" like the USS Constitution or the HMS Victory, on the contract system.

This idea is fantastic provided that you can hide the stripes for both local and remote ships (IE i dont want everyone to always be able to see im flying my favorite ship and I dont want to have to load everyones kill history when I enter a fleet battle)
recruiter 500
shoot 'em up
#16 - 2012-12-10 14:16:28 UTC
Nice idea;) keep em coming
Detshni
ELPA Industries
#17 - 2012-12-14 18:16:41 UTC
need more votes. Come on people;) Roll
Detshni
ELPA Industries
#18 - 2012-12-22 06:41:09 UTC
Merry Christmas everybody:)
Seranova Farreach
Biomass Negative
#19 - 2012-12-22 08:53:11 UTC  |  Edited by: Seranova Farreach
Ships killed - #########
Pods killed - #########
Bounties claimed - #####
toggle [x] for show/hide and that will be that.

and no NPCs are not gonna count ;p

visual representation on the ships may be difficult because of the different colors on the ships BUT maybe it could work with roman numerals.

[red skull] XIV
[Black skull] IX

red for ships. black for bounties. also only the smarter people who know roman numerals will beable to understand it :P (shameless punt to the groin of WOW players for no reason other then i dislike them and their game)

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Seranova Farreach
Biomass Negative
#20 - 2012-12-22 08:58:14 UTC
Sigras wrote:
this is a great idea, it could be used to create a secondary market for "well known ships" like the USS Constitution or the HMS Victory, on the contract system.

This idea is fantastic provided that you can hide the stripes for both local and remote ships (IE i dont want everyone to always be able to see im flying my favorite ship and I dont want to have to load everyones kill history when I enter a fleet battle)



agree.. collectors would love this idea too.. i know alot of people would pay for a battle hardened ship just for the extra Epeen points .

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