EVE General Discussion

I think the statistics on the killboards could be improved to give more meaningful stats.

As it stands a pilot who sits in a 100 man fleet gatecamping will have much better stats than a 2 or 3 man gang who take on battles that require more risk and skill.

I tried to think of ways that amount of damage done or number of final blows/most damage would be tracked but this would discredit the value of tackle and other non-dps warfare that often requires more skill. Other things would require numbers that are not already recorded by the game.

But at the very least it seem like it would be easy to generate a stat that took into account the number of pilots on the kill. So you would have an "adjusted" kill stat where if you were in a 100 man fleet you would get .01 kill and if you were in a 2 man fleet you would get .5 kill.

Or perhaps the isk ratio be based on this. If 100 ships kill a 100 million isk ship, the pilot gets credit for 1 million isk damage. As it stands a 90% isk efficiency is a stat entirely without meaning and can be achieved by the worst pilot in the game if he joins the right fleets. But this stat I suggest would be a much more reliable gauge of the success rate of the pilot.

Maybe other ideas that haven't occurred to me, just seems to me that the numbers are less meaningful than they could be.

Get rid of killboards.

I 100% agree with this statement.

nah, you can't get rid of killboards... they're one of the few signs of EVE's activity to the outside world.

risk aversion - uh, until recently we called this "intelligence"

kids these days

In a game where there is nothing lost but enjoyment, it's not intelligent, it's just dumb and boring.

Logi Pilots need love too 🚀‼️

Killboards are stupid. I have yet to play a game where they say anything about actual skill as a PVPer. Universally, you get people who pad their stats by killing their own alts, hunting low levels (who generally can't even hit a higher level), killing noncombattants or ganking small groups and solo players with large groups.

Gold stickers, get so many you get an award. Works on children to show they did something good....surprisingly the same mindset means that as an adult you are easily tricked with kill streaks and ratios like a 5 year old who made the bed or did their chores, means you didn't in fact grow up. Its an easy tactic for gaming companies (like FPS with kill streaks) to make money off idiots who are pulled in by "easy" awards to keep the player entertained. Said player forgets, its just a video game and needs something shiney to stay interested otherwise they just won't keep on playing....like a 5 year old who needs stickers and eventually a prize.

Don't know about you as I would rather enjoy just the game, killmails are stupid beyond player name and ship type (kill a cruiser in a frig for example)....any other stat is just something for mental masturbation material to distract you from enjoying the game to the point its just a job and a grind to be in the joe average above 50% percentile when in fact after awhile you realize you are just padding your score (like using isk) and beating down players that don't actually pose a challenge (at least in the sense of other games, EVE doesn't exactly have an honorable code of player combat )

There are better selections of API information to yield based on player activity. More thoughtful, even. Some type of playstyle reputation system perhaps(more granular and descriptive than security status).

Like, hmm... Pilot Rating: Dangerous

or

Lone Wolf

or

Gangbanger.

Knawmeen gurrah?