These forums have been archived and are now read-only.

The new forums are live and can be found at https://forums.eveonline.com/

EVE New Citizens Q&A

 
  • Topic is locked indefinitely.
Previous page12
 

Why blast the pod?
Author
Previous Topic Next Topic
Moonlit Raid
Doomheim
#21 - 2014-08-14 01:14:54 UTC
Charax Bouclier wrote:
I try to limit my Q&A to one thread per day, but I hope you indulge me with a second today.

When your ship gets destroyed, you obviously want to get your pod out of there ASAP (to save your implants and buying a replacement clone, from what I understand).

My question is: if you are the victor, you have your reward (a kill and a ship to salvage), so why go after the pod? Is it merely to be malicious, is it common to do so, and is there a gameplay reason for this (e.g., to make the defeated player spawn far away so he can't come back right away for revenge)?

The only trophy I want is the frozen corpse.

If brute force isn't working, you're just not using enough.

Please Note: Any advice given comes with the caveat that nothing will be suitable for every situation.
Baneken
Arctic Light Inc.
Arctic Light
#22 - 2014-08-14 08:58:01 UTC
Well I once ganked a miner and his buddies in WH, now those mining ships were cheap only 200mils or so but their heads were worth some 500mills each and one was as high as a billion IIRC.

So when in doubt pop the pod as well and the funny part they were all AFK mining in a WH; their home system from the looks of it but helloo ... Shocked
Marcus Gord
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#23 - 2014-08-14 09:37:30 UTC
sometimes when someone is hired to attack another person (read, merc contract) there's a bonus for podkilling and giving the client the corpse as a trophy of sorts.

got 50m for one before, the guy was disliked by someone that much, plus 100m for the ship kill.

In a few moments you will have an experience that will seem completely real. It will be the result of your subconscious fears transformed to your conscious awareness.

http://i.imgur.com/LM2NKUf.png
Feyd Rautha Harkonnen
Doomheim
#24 - 2014-08-14 18:02:40 UTC
Surely its time for the corpse launcher to be released? Drakes, yeah, Drakes with full racks of corpse launchers....

But surely some Ripard Tegian would object.

Oooo, I think I just coined a new player group moniker...Ripard Tegians, synonymous with pansies, but having no homophobic aftertaste...delicious...

I really do crack myself up.

F

Would you like to know more?
Brink Albosa
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#25 - 2014-08-14 20:34:36 UTC
Purely for the thrill.
Xuixien
Solar Winds Security Solutions
#26 - 2014-08-14 23:57:30 UTC
One of the rules of EVE Online is: If it move, shoot it!

Pods move, so shoot'em.

Epic Space Cat, Horsegirl, Philanthropist
Cara Forelli
State War Academy
Caldari State
#27 - 2014-08-15 18:22:43 UTC
One time I was watching a guy spinning ships in his POS in wormhole space. He then got in his pod and warped to the wormhole to go out to high-sec and pick up a ship - a wormhole where his corp had anchored a bubble to deter people from entering.

At that point it's just natural selection. Big smile

Want to talk? Join my channel in game: House Forelli

Titan's Lament
Li Quiao
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#28 - 2014-08-15 18:36:58 UTC
If you have a bounty on you (and most of us do) the podkiller will get 20% of the value of the implants he destroyed when he blew up your pod paid out of it. Not much, but, hey, pays for ammo, at least.
Major Trant
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#29 - 2014-08-16 15:26:57 UTC
Li Quiao wrote:
If you have a bounty on you (and most of us do) ...

PvPers rarely have a bounty on them. I lose 2 or 3 ships a day, no bounty survives more than a couple of days. Now my trading alt picked up a 100K bounty about 2 years ago while moving a Charon around high sec, still got that bounty.
Previous page12