EVE General Discussion

I don't think scuttling a ship renders much of it useless. Spiking the guns before scuttling will render those useless, somewhat. However, a ship is rather HUGE to completely - disappear? There's salvaging, of course, for metals, etc. Yet, so many of the component parts are recoverable. Scuttling was used mainly to block navigation ways, or access to or egress from ports. Scuttling a ship to prevent the enemy from capturing any part of it...not so much.

Was a time you could self-destruct a ship, depending on the ship, and get more money from insurance payout than you could by selling it on the market if you were wanting to sell it and had insurance on it anyway.

There is no advantage to self-destructing your ship. The only real time when it's a sensible option is when you want to collect an insurance payout on the ship, but you are too far from a trade hub or are somewhere like Wormhole Space/Nullsec where you cannot dock to sell the ship, or want the isk from the ship instantly as opposed to waiting for someone to purchase it from the market or selling it to lowball buy orders. The other situation could be when you are in a hopeless situation, like perma-jammed by a Falcon and instead of killing you, the hostiles are holding your ship, and you want to save yourself time.

For your pod, self destructing is a good method of "death-cloning or pod jumping" where you can kill yourself in order to move to your medical clone. Providing you have no implants or are willing to pay their cost, & your clone cost. It can be a fast and effective method or moving between two distant locations.

For some people there is nothing more terrifying than being on a loss mail.

Ha, we did scuttling drills a couple of times when I was in the Navy. What crap duty.... the guys who had to set the charges knew they weren't going to survive the experience.

I use self destruct to get to places quickly.