Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Assuming it's only going to be used when the player would otherwise already be self-destructing, this is not actually a drawback of using it.

if you paid attention to my post, i already put int a time requirement, in that it would take X amount of seconds from when a ship activates their self destruct to when they actually blow up, as such, someone who is about to die, simply won't be able to self destruct EVERY time they get attacked,

People, people. Do you even know what kind of game you are playing?

Shooting other players to take their stuff is one of the most fundamental and primal motivations for this game. Some players want their target to put up a fight, others don't care, but the desire to take resources from another player without their explicit consent is one of the central pillars of this game which gives the virtual items we acquire and build meaning. If you could not lose items, no one would want to buy the stuff you grind or make.

If you allowed players to 'opt-out' of losing their stuff to another player, where would be the motivation for piratical-minded players to go out and generate content? I know the OP didn't exactly propose that, but I hope you can now see why this proposal has exactly zero chance of ever being implemented. CCP is trying to put more reasons for us shoot one another into the game, not remove them, and letting players prevent the winner of a battle from profiting from their victory for no reason other that to allow them to indulge in some petulant spite, isn't going to happen. At a minimum you would have to make an argument how this would make the game better - add interesting complexity, generate content, get people to undock, or something that would make more things happen in this game to offset the obvious decrease in activity such a change would bring.

Practically all of Eve is engineered to put the players in direct conflict or competition. This idea does nothing but reduce the motivation for some players to go out and play the game. Why shoot someone if I get nothing from it? Sure, there are other reasons to shoot players, but certainly loot and killmails are two of the primary motivators.

Do you also have the habit of turning over the chess board when you are losing because "the tears" of your opponent "would be priceless"? Sorry, friend, you lost and you are not going to get such an ability to soothe your feelings of impotence. Time to grow up and give the player that beat you the customary 'gf' instead of indulging in childish fantasies. You win some, and you lose some, but if you want "tears" you are going to have to go out and earn them rather than begging CCP to give you an "I-win" button to stop those bad pirates.

What are you even talking about? This idea has no chance of ever being implemented. Players are always going to be able to act as pirates and take your stuff no matter how many times carebears come to these forums and whine and complain how unfair that is or that pirates are bad people for not wanting "a real challenge". You are intended by the game developer to be served up as content for these pirates (Build Your Dreams, Wreck Their Dreams remember?) so you better deal with it.

Your advice is good however for the OP and several of the other posters in this thread. That's life and tough luck: Eve Online is a non-consensual PvP sandbox in which piratical acts are not only allowed, but intended game play. That means that pirates are always going to get a chance to keep your stuff and send you a killmail. Accept that or go play something else because that is just the way Eve Online is.