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1: Neutral repping
I have no gripes about bringing allies to fights, however in highsec a wardec should be required to give support to someone engaging a war target. The reason being that in order to scout properly you must first know who all is going to potentially rep them, set standing, etc. More importantly however it allows the neutral reps to engage only when they are ready, thus allowing them to decide in advance what range they turn red at, etc. With highsec mercs bringing 10+ neutral logi's these days, it's just getting pretty obviously exploitative.

Sure there's ways of dealing with it, I'm simply suggesting it's a bad game mechanic, neutral shooting isn't allowed, neutral repping shouldn't be either, let them declare war like the rest of the ship roles.

2: Capital self destructing to deny killmails
It's stupid and exploitative, some may argue that "killmails don't matter". To some, that may be true, however to those players I say: why do you care then? Most of the Eve player base cares about killmails, some corps even evaluate members based on such statistics. Small gangs (like basically all wh gangs) will take longer than 2.5 mins to kill a cap, and they deserve those killmails. Some friends of mine just killed 3 caps, 5 tengus, and a rapier, but the km makes it look like they just blobed a bunch of tengus because all the caps SD'ed.

Outside of combat I am not advocating the removal of self destructing, it's an important feature. However, like the exploitative logoff mechanics that were fixed this last expansion, this too must go. Subcaps generally can't get away with it, capitals shouldn't be able to either.

Neutral rep was maybe good back when 15 nerds wouldn't cross another 15 nerds before a month or two. Neutral rep is possible and the only thing you get is a flag allowing you to dock ( !!! ) and just disappears if you undock immediately.

Stupid mechanic made by some stupid guy for grieffer players. it's wasting a lot of players efforts, but doesn't matter, ships destroyed "show" the mechanic is good ....

Self destruction? -should be proportional to ships size and apply dmg on everything in a certain radius from that explosion accordingly to cargo ammo amount, gun type used on said ship, and players skills (the higher they are the bigger should be the explosion)

Why this? - refuse to grieffers the easy picking, eventually destroy them in the process and I'm almost sure I could safely say that would sign the definite end of blobs.

For all the tears I'd collect, to read all the ragequit posts from nerds. Almost that good than sex

Self destructing changes nothing as far as drops are concerned, ship blows up, some stuff drops, some stuff doesn't.


Dreads can kill subcaps quite well actually with help from webs and painters. Pretty much the whole point of carriers in wormhole engagements is triage, carriers are not generally fielded in a dps role.

That said, none of the above is even important, unless your going to advocate for reducing the SD timer on subcaps so that they also can self destruct to avoid generating killmails, then its hard to understand why you think capital ships should be treated differently. How about we just decrease the timer to 5 seconds for everything? By your logic that would be a good change wouldn't it? After all why waste time if you know your going to loose?

If so, then this was changed recently and I would like to see some patch note or dev confirmation to that effect, because if it's true we should lobby for them to reverse it. Do you have first hand experience with loot dropping from self-destructs?

Yeah, you should probably stop doing that before complaining about stuff you clearly know nothing about. This is the main reason why self-destruct is in fact not broken. There could be a case for looking over the timers, but the core mechanic of denying loot, and as a side bonus the killmail and enemy gratification, is a perfectly valid tactic.