Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Delete * from database where information equals killmails

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We need to get rid of killmails, if anything. Not add more to them. If it's available only to you, fine, but public killmails and killboards are a bad thing.

sorry you need something like this to feel validated. however in game kms are fine its the public api that needs to go

I like getting into fights. People refuse to engage because it might mess up their precious killboard. Get rid of killboards and we will have more decent fights.

Getting into fights and having fun in game is more important than the epeen from having a good killboard. A 90% and higher killboard simply tells me that person never has the fun of yolo-ing it into a fight they might lose. Saying "screw it, we're going to be annihilated" and going in anyway are some of the most fun fights you can have. Killboards prevent those from happening more often.

I disagree. There are a lot of people who care more about killboard stats than decent fights.

but do you really think making killmails only personal and not public will solve this? no it wont, people will just create a site like zkillboard but using a different way to store and display that data. people will just adapt to make them public.

And just because someone uses killboards for stats and you dont like that does not warrant its removal so you can get better fights, which probably wont happen, if someone isnt allowed to yolo or a corp wont let them the player has the choice to leave, and they will if they dont like that attitude.

My killboard is just me dieing to npcs and dieing to ganks a few times.

That said removing stats in any game is beneficial to the actual playing of a game.
Its true for all game whether it'd be eve or a first person shooter.
I used to play dust and even in dust kdr was a big thing when it shouldn't have been. You couldnt track isk lost or gained from actual matches where you fighting the other Mercs for profits but it was focused on kdr padding and everyone wass always butter or toxic for losing kill ratios even if we were all making ridiculous amounts of money a match. Having a big performance graph after eac battle did nothing but cause people to get egos.
Same can be said for battlefield or call of duty.

Once you stop carrying about stats or performance playing the actual game is much more enjoyable for the sake of playing and not performing. But Ive never been a big PvP guy in this game.

those are kill marks


they get bigger if you kill more things w/o dying


i like kill marks they can stay

except kd/ isk eff are generally irrelevant when comparing how good you are in eve not to mention the amount of free intel kms give

i have toons with green and red kill boards yet none are reflective of how much isk/influence i hold in the game.


the fact that you seem to think posting the km at the end of a session negates the Intel it gives shows how little you understand