Warfare & Tactics

Hello all.

I have never really paid much attention to it before, but when logging on after dinner today I actually read some of my new "war" notifications, and checked the kills they corresponded to.

I had previously assumed the LP payout was flatly based on the value of the kill, equal across tiers, but this seems not to be so. I have an example here in which I have anonomised the name out of respect.

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As you see the killmail shows that 26,585 LP was due to be paid out, yet I only received 6,646 LP instead.

My first thought was that the kill might have been effected by tier, Gallente are currently tier 1 so if that was the case I would only recieve 50% of the LP due which would be 13,292 or so. Evidently this isn't right, so I next considered the contested level of the system I killed my opponent in.

In the case of complexes payouts in friendly systems are something like (X * Tier modifier * contested percentage) of system. In this case nennamaila was around 10%. So if that were to follow I would expect 26585 * 0.5 * 0.1 which would be a pitiful 1,329 LP.

In any case neither of these numbers is in the ballpark of what I was paid from the total pay available, I have asked a few places in game but no conclusive answer was forthcoming. So, I turn to you good forum people to ejumacate me about FW payouts for kills, and put my mind to rest as to why I appear to be being fleeced of almost 80% of my earnings from PVP.

Thanks for any help understanding this, and please forgive the vaguery of my maths, although not precise I hope it illustrates that the payout received doesnt match the equivalent 'plex calculations, nor a flat payout.

26585 /2 = 13292

13292 /2 = 6646

I've no idea why it only gave you 25%.... though I know militia rank difference comes into it too.

I just spotted the numbers... Just call me Rainman.

As the numbers would suggest I recieved exactly half of the payout bienator and others have suggested I should have recieved, I cannot rule out that a friendly slipped into the plex (I was fighting outside) at the moment I killed the target. When fighting I use a tab that removes friendlies, and switch back to the full tab after the fight.

I never saw anyone else in space and I do fight zoomed out a lot, and I was flying solo - but for now it is the best explanation I can think of. I will ask around the people who were active at the time and see if it correlates and any of them got a random payout at that time. Thanks for the help. I will update the OP if I get confirmation.