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Why pod kill?

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Raiz Nhell
State War Academy
Caldari State
#101 - 2014-04-03 23:31:20 UTC
Is it in space? Yes.

Do you have guns? Yes!

Can you target it? Yes!!

Can you open fire? DO IT ALREADY!!!!!!!

There is no such thing as overkill, there is only "Open Fire" & "I'm Reloading"

There is no such thing as a fair fight...

If your fighting fair you have automatically put yourself at a disadvantage.
Little Dragon Khamez
Guardians of the Underworld
#102 - 2014-04-04 08:11:09 UTC
Podding is often a mark of respect. There's nothing worse than slow boating home through 18 jumps of null in a pod.

Dumbing down of Eve Online will result in it's destruction...
Ramona McCandless
Silent Vale
LinkNet
#103 - 2014-04-04 08:14:23 UTC
Because Im a sicko and a sadist and I love doing it after a long day's torturing.

"Yea, some dude came in and was normal for first couple months, so I gave him director." - Sean Dunaway

"A singular character could be hired to penetrate another corps space... using gorilla like tactics..." - Chane Morgann
Jessica Duranin
Doomheim
#104 - 2014-04-04 08:50:49 UTC  |  Edited by: Jessica Duranin
I pod because I live in w-space and not doing so can bite you in the a*s, especially when you fight in someone's home system.
That retriever you just shot can turn into an archon very quickly if you don't pod him back to k-space. (not that I wouldn't like shooting his archon too - but you get the idea)
Aralyn Cormallen
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#105 - 2014-04-04 08:58:36 UTC
Also, I was told that 1 in every 100 contains a prize. Haven't found one yet, but damn it if I give up now, my lucks got to change!
JC Anderson
RED ROSE THORN
#106 - 2014-04-04 09:02:59 UTC  |  Edited by: JC Anderson
IMHO it really depends on who the person is.

If they happen to be part of a corp or alliance that you are trying to cause as much economic damage to as possible, then yeah of course there is reason for it. With one of the primary parts of that reasoning being the hope that they had expensive implants in at the time.

EDIT: Or anybody in a gold pod.. All gold pods must be annihilated whenever they are discovered.

Doireen Kaundur wrote:
So podding is strictly ego stroking. Nevermind that you get nothing tangible out of it. If we could salavage implants, i would see the reason. But just for an e-peen erection..I dont.


Those implants are more than enough reason to pod. It's no different than blowing up their ship if they were part of a corp that is enemy to your own. It's all asset denial and every little bit helps.

Aralyn Cormallen wrote:
As an aside, now we look to be getting ship skins one way or another, am I alone in saying I would pay serious money for a Cadburys Cream Egg skin for my pod?


Was eating one of those at the same moment as I read your post.
JC Anderson
RED ROSE THORN
#107 - 2014-04-04 09:12:40 UTC
Shederov Blood wrote:
It promotes a healthy implant market.

Sadly, the squish sound hasn't been around for quite a few years. Sadder still, almost no one noticed it was gone.


LOL around the same time, I used to swear you could hear a little scream as well. But whenever I mentioned it to somebody they would inform me that they hear no scream and that I am hallucinating.
Ramona McCandless
Silent Vale
LinkNet
#108 - 2014-04-04 09:22:32 UTC
JC Anderson wrote:
Shederov Blood wrote:
It promotes a healthy implant market.

Sadly, the squish sound hasn't been around for quite a few years. Sadder still, almost no one noticed it was gone.


LOL around the same time, I used to swear you could hear a little scream as well. But whenever I mentioned it to somebody they would inform me that they hear no scream and that I am hallucinating.


I hear a scream

But then

I hear a lot of screams

Fairly constantly

"Yea, some dude came in and was normal for first couple months, so I gave him director." - Sean Dunaway

"A singular character could be hired to penetrate another corps space... using gorilla like tactics..." - Chane Morgann
Jarod Garamonde
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#109 - 2014-04-04 09:24:41 UTC
Doireen Kaundur wrote:
Seriously. You got the ship and the loot, so now you look at popping the pod which gets you....nothing. Well, maybe a worthless corpse.

It is the insult following the injury.

So why do you do it?


Who cares why?
HTFU, update your clone, re-purchase your implants, and drive on.

That moment when you realize the crazy lady with all the cats was right...

    [#savethelance]
Balshem Rozenzweig
24th Imperial Crusade
Amarr Empire
#110 - 2014-04-04 09:46:55 UTC
pod kills are good kills. They can be expensive, they are relatively rate, and, well, a kill is a kill.

"NUTS!!!" - general McAuliffe
Unezka Turigahl
Det Som Engang Var
#111 - 2014-04-04 11:51:05 UTC
Potential further discouragement from hanging out in MY space. And by my space I mean Caldari hisec. Its mine.
Ramona McCandless
Silent Vale
LinkNet
#112 - 2014-04-04 11:53:32 UTC
Unezka Turigahl wrote:
MY space..



All the cool kids are on BeBo now

You need to Get Crucial

"Yea, some dude came in and was normal for first couple months, so I gave him director." - Sean Dunaway

"A singular character could be hired to penetrate another corps space... using gorilla like tactics..." - Chane Morgann
Cannibal Kane
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#113 - 2014-04-04 11:56:15 UTC  |  Edited by: Cannibal Kane
I have always tried to imagine somebody face that is afk being podded. That first confused look on his face when he gets back to his desk and finds himself in station and then the ultimate discovery that he just lost 1 Billion worth of implants.

That thought... keeps me podding.

I am aiming for that 4 Bill Pod.

"Kane is the End Boss of Highsec." -Psychotic Monk
Proletariat Tingtango
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#114 - 2014-04-04 12:04:36 UTC
You send them home. They're not going to reship in an npc station a few jumps away and begin harassing anew. You take their implants, if any, out of the game. That's more cost to them. This is about leveling the playing field. If you have billions in implants and a bling ship, removing both from the game is preferable. It reminds people that if you come flying in to **** in some part of the sandbox, that they'd better do so cheaply, or be ready to lose their investments, on top of a chunk of their time if they elect to come back for more. All of these are advantageous and not doing so due to some nonsense code of honor is really silly and an open weakness on your part.
knobber Jobbler
State War Academy
Caldari State
#115 - 2014-04-04 12:15:59 UTC
Aralyn Cormallen wrote:
Many reasons:

It removes a scout of the grid (a target caller can still call targets from a pod, and he can still be used for warp-ins), it sends someone (hopefully) a long way home to their clone bay to slow down their reship, perhaps to shut their whining up in local, to increase the cost of the loss by taking out implants and maybe an expensive pod in the case of a high-sp character, maybe they like collecting corpses, and of course, some people just like to hear the squish.


On the contrary, you may want to not pod people so it takes longer for them to get back and reship and get back into the fight. A pod stuck in a bubble in a big fleet fight is one less person to worry about coming back in a hurry.
Proletariat Tingtango
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#116 - 2014-04-04 12:22:28 UTC
knobber Jobbler wrote:
Aralyn Cormallen wrote:
Many reasons:

It removes a scout of the grid (a target caller can still call targets from a pod, and he can still be used for warp-ins), it sends someone (hopefully) a long way home to their clone bay to slow down their reship, perhaps to shut their whining up in local, to increase the cost of the loss by taking out implants and maybe an expensive pod in the case of a high-sp character, maybe they like collecting corpses, and of course, some people just like to hear the squish.


On the contrary, you may want to not pod people so it takes longer for them to get back and reship and get back into the fight. A pod stuck in a bubble in a big fleet fight is one less person to worry about coming back in a hurry.


I didn't have big fleets in mind but I'll give you that one. Although if you're anti-support and enemy supers are dying on field, popping super pods is a good idea. Everyone else should be focusing on killing things and subcap pods should be ignored.
Flybiere
F'n'F Inc
#117 - 2014-04-04 15:06:30 UTC  |  Edited by: Flybiere
Doireen Kaundur wrote:
Aralyn Cormallen wrote:
Many reasons:

It removes a scout of the grid (a target caller can still call targets from a pod, and he can still be used for warp-ins), it sends someone (hopefully) a long way home to their clone bay to slow down their reship, perhaps to shut their whining up in local, to increase the cost of the loss by taking out implants and maybe an expensive pod in the case of a high-sp character, maybe they like collecting corpses, and of course, some people just like to hear the squish.



best answer yet.

If you really want to make podding interesting, have it remove game time. When podded, you lose 12 hours of game time in your sub.


Once you've been in a position to kill a pod you'll know why.

Hell I took a huge sec drop the other day for killing 2 pods. I killed them because they, probably like you, sat there with thinking some sort of scallywag code would stay my hand (well F1 finger) and stop me killing them. They were wrong, and as much as I didn't need the sec hit and I wished no RL spite on the players in question, I popped them. They didn't complain. They probably learnt something.

https://zkillboard.com/detail/37773785/
https://zkillboard.com/detail/37773612/

Seriously, they both had skulls full of shiny and they sat there like a bunch of idiots. Shall not be doing that again I would bet. I'm an educator.
Aralyn Cormallen
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#118 - 2014-04-04 15:28:15 UTC
Also, there are times when I bag a pod that had ample time to escape, and it is both someone old enough to know better (ie: flying a T2 ship), and someone with expensive implants near enough to home that they aren't just getting a pod express, that I wonder if it's a multiboxer (since I assume someone multiboxing a logi, a falcon, and a dps ship might be a bit slow on the warp-out as they are still at the wheel of their other ships, compared to us single-account plebs who have nothing else to do but spam that warp button). In those cases, I consider it a fair tax against multiboxing.
Tam Althor
Commonwealth Industries
#119 - 2014-04-04 16:37:38 UTC
Kaarous Aldurald wrote:
If I see what implants they have (had), it helps me put together a better picture of the battle for my own personal after action reports.

Besides that, it sends them back to their medical station, which can help prevent them from reshipping nearby and ruining my day.

It's actually the reverse of what you would claim. There is never a reason to not pod someone.



I would say in deep PC 0.0 with bubbles everywhere, leaving them in a pod to try and fly home or pod themselves is a reason not to pod them. but getting the corpse for your collection is a better reason to pod them
Kiryen O'Bannon
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#120 - 2014-04-04 16:44:04 UTC
There's really onl one reason ( barring politics) to not pod: other enemy ships still engaging you.

Eternal Father, King of birth, /Who didst create the heaven and earth, /And bid the planets and the sun/ Their own appointed orbits run; /O hear us when we seek thy grace /For those who soar through outer space.