EVE General Discussion

along with POS and sov fixes and a hole load of other crap we been waiting for years for. stoped holding my breath long time ago

This is my fear as well, however it just doesn't seem as big of a change as overhauling the whole of the sov mechanics would be. My reasoning is as follows:

1) You already have the ability to recognise that logistics is repping somebody with a flag (e.g. suspect) and transfer that flag to logi.
2) You have the ability to add ships to killmails who have not contributed damage directly.
3) You have the ability to recognise when a ship is on grid with another ship (because you show it on the overview)
Therefore, in theory you have the building blocks, code-wise to implement adding logistics to KMs.

This is why I'm curious to see if there is a technical hitch that makes this harder than it seems or if it just isn't a high enough priority at the moment.

Personally i don't see why anyone would remotely care if their logistic ship didn't get on the KM.

Shut up and rep me while i solo...

I don't get an easy way this can be done, at present, people appear on a killmail if they have performed an effect on the dead ship, this is something a Logi isn't doing, it is performing an action on a completely different ship. If you’re argueing that your effect on a ship involved in the killing should be inherited by the ship it killed, this creates a whole spaghetti mess of someone getting on killmail because they shot someone, who ecm’ed someone else, who shot someone, who died. And where do you stop? Maybe I should get on extra killmails for sensor dampening you, which means you repped less damage ships; but that would mean I would get on the killmails of my own side, since my effects are being inherited through you, whose repping ships that are shooting my side… but shouldn’t I be getting on the killmaills of the guys you didn’t rep, since that means I contributed to them dying? Any system that doesn’t involve yards of coding that will present a potential future trip-hazard for later game changes will ultimately result in everyone on grid getting on every killmail, which kinda negates half the point of killmails in the first place.

I agree that Logi pilots deserve accolades and recognition from their organisations, and good organisations should be finding ways to recognise the contributions of their Logi pilots, scouts, cynos, boosters, and all the non-line DPS pilots. But killmails just doesn’t work as an easy way to do this.

Logi pilots don't need to whore kill mails, kill mails don't make you good.

I think one of the ideas was to count the total rep the Logi applied to others on that KM as damage.

As a logistics pilot your drone bay should have T2 logi drones & always assigned to either a logi anchor or the FC.

If your fitting your ship with anything unrelated to your role, you should not get any reimbursement. Be content with a pap link & do your best to keep your buddies alive. If one day you apply for a corp, they may randomly check your killboard & you don't want to show up in a logi ship doing zero damage, they will think your a self serving douche.

What's a pap link

Your taking that statement out of context & twisting it to fit an argument that doesn't exist.
The bottom line is logistics pilots should not be focusing on killmails. CCP would be wasting their talent on something silly like this. Focus on repping!