EVE General Discussion

Whats the popular opinion on kill bords, and do they add to or take away from pvp?

On the one hand, kill bords give you highly detailed information on all the kills you've ever done. They allow players to brag and reminess about epic fights, and see at a glance just how well they are doing.

On the down side, haveing a perminate record of your losses can work against you as there are many corps that place a heavy emphasis on kill bord efficency.

The knolage that your loss is recorded forever causes some players to be more tactical and avoid loseing ships where ever they can. But does this allow for more stratigic pvp or does it infact hamper it by makeing some people skiddish about loseing something they could easly replace but dont want the bad record.

Personally Im some what neutral on the subject since I really dont care what I lose and who knows it. I see isk as useless unless its spent. However Iv been bared from a number of perspective corps because of my less than spectacular pvp record. Im curous as to what other people think of them however.

I don't personally have any use for them outside the free intel they provide and I would gladly opt out of them, but I get why some people want and even need them. I have no strong feelings either way though.

For someone who does a lot of solo pvp, killboards can tell a lot.

Does your potential opponent usually run in a gang or is he usually alone?
Does he do kity fits or does he brawl?
Is he any good at all?
and more.

Whether or not that's a good thing... depends on who you're asking.
Personally I like it.

KBs aren't much more than an activity monitor. Aside from that they're useless since everyone who shoots a ship is on the KM and that goes to their isk efficiency. It creates an ISK efficiency tracking situation where everyone who PVPs with any level of reasonable success has a good KB.

I also hate the amount of intel you can get on people with them.

Against it.

Coincidentally I use it on a daily basis when pvp-ing, and it saved my ass or gave me the upper hand on more than a few occasions.
But yeah..basically a free out of game intel tool. Makes absolutely no sense, especially with the new ingame kill logs.

IMO killboards, alongside dotlan and other similar out of game tools, take a lot away from EVE's mystery and wonder.

I know a lot of people put great stock on things like kill boards and kill/death ratios... they work well for those for whom the kill count itself has meaning, I guess. I've seen groups of these kill oriented folk rake in massive numbers of kills during wargames and open world PVP (other games than EVE, of course, I'm new around here)... and I've seen them lose badly all the same because they forgot about the actual victory conditions and objectives.

Personally, I prefer to be the one running away with the goodies, while the killers are otherwise occupied (preferably with something I arranged for them to be occupied with). There's something highly satisfactory about confused forum posts wondering 'how did that happen, we were winning' and 'where did out base go, I swear I paid the maintenance'.

I play to have fun and I have lots of fun without kills...

Oh wow. Has it been that long ago? Feeling old now.

Impossible.

Killboards are eve's score card in a way *shrug*
some people take them way too seriously though.