Crime & Punishment

the thing is to not have horrid fits or no one will hire you

Battleclinic i'd look at K/D lifetime and check fits. Points don't matter to me as a high amount of kills and average point ratio shows fleet kills while a mediocre amount of kills but a high point ratio shows more of the solo/duo style. It's the high amount of kills and high point ratio i worry about if they're my target or i'm theirs

Eve Kill i look at enemy survival rate percentage and K/D. Efficiency means little other than how expensive a ship they will risk in order to kill (aside from if they have a terrible lossboard. If i see an effiency of say 30% for a month but they have a K/D ratio of 10 to 1 i say they just had bad luck and lost a shiny)

Efficiency is a ******** measure of Pvp quality..

I'm ******* terrible and i have like 97% this month.


The worst thing you can do in pvp is getting hung up on your efficiency or ratio.. I would go by the BC ranking as it rewards you for beating the odds (Killing big things with small things and so forth)

For example.. Noone would call Prom a bad pvper but his efficiency is god awful because he lacks the common sense not to solo in hac's all the time.

Oh hey... look at that. According to BC I am ranked 790. Does not even have all my kills.

I need coffee...

Both boards have thier strengths and weaknesses.

After any patch or expansion, Battleclinic is retardedly slow in updating thier database and many kills dont get posted as a result. Even when you do register your API and the database is working correctly, it still misses kills for whatever reason. The site is not too bad for fits however, there are a lot of troll fits out there and the site lacks any creative way to analyse what fits players are really using in battle. The point system is nice however since the board isnt that reliable, the point system is not that meaningful.

Eve-kill is probably the one board that most people look at as it gives you information that is easier to navigate and usually has little problems with new changes CCP brings out. It doesnt have the Kill/Death ratio like Battleclinic however it does reveal a persons efficiency if thats what is important to you. Seeing Big Kills/Cap Kills and other types of kills are really what makes that board popular, something Battlecinic doesnt do.

If you really want to look at how good the pilot is at pvp, you have to look at both boards carefully and dig deep. Even then, don't rely on the boards to tell the true picture of how good of a pvpr a person is. I've seen a pilot that is top ranked on Battleclinic (Top 1k range) with excellent efficiency ratings on Eve-kill and all the guy does is gank peoples pods in high sec. Neither board shows how many ships were lost from Concord and as a result, he has a distorted rank/efficiency.

I am kind of surprised that CCP doesnt have an in-game mechanic that keeps track of all this as its obviously apparent that the players are interested in it. If CCP did something like what Battleclinic and Eve Kill are doing, then I think the players would place more validity in it rather than what BC or EveKill are showing. Of course, those sites would probably die off and Im sure there is some sort of revenue generation going on thats in CCP's favor so don't hold your breath waiting for CCP to do this. You will never see it.

I look at the cleavage.

Penis size.
Obviously.

Efficiency is massively inflated by flying with other people/corps.

Imagine two gangs. Gang A is composed entirely of Corp1. They have 4 drakes.
Gang B is composed of Corp2, Corp3, Corp4, Corp5. They also have 4 drakes.

Now lets say gang A loses 2 drakes and kills all 4 drakes in gang B.

Each corp/person in gang B has positive k/d and positive efficiency (since they got 2 drake kills in exchange for 1 drake loss), but they obviously got smashed in that fight.

Quality

Every dumbo can press F12345 when his master tells him to do, but only the good people are the master. You can tell by long history of kills & losses.