EVE General Discussion

Ummmm this is stupid. Did you forget carriers orcas and titans have ship maintenance bays so you can reship in battle also if your at a pos and want to eject from a ship to board another need a pod for that. or if some idiot ejects from his almost dead t3 you would need to eject into a pod to steal it. Just a few examples of their use.

Also a command ship pilot might not like losing his implants when his command ship is blown up without teh chance to escape or reship

Pods Needs GUNS !!

That would actually be an awesome idea, especially if you have lots of members in your corp :D

From a gameplay perspective:
- Pods give you a second chance to escape with your skills and implants intact, and without paying for a clone. It's not a guarantee, but it's a chance.
- Pods enable you to move ships around fairly easily (at least in high-sec and deep null where the gank chance is lower)

From an RP perspective:
- You wouldn't be a capsuleer without a pod. But then, I'm sure you wouldn't mind only being able to fight as effectively as an NPC rat.
- Pods are what enables cloning in the first place. Without a pod to transmit your mind, your clone would be...not very useful.

Edit: It's not an acronym, by the way. Pod not POD.
Edit 2: I am aware they are also capsules. "Pod" is just an alternate name. "POD", however, is not.

Thats how it used to be. But since incarna, even without bubbles, there is no reliable way to get a pod out AFAIK.

I don't see what this rant has to do with the op. The op is simply saying that the pod mechanics are no longer reliable (this is statistically verifiable) so having a pod explode after your ship no longer makes any sense.

Getting your pod out never WAS reliable, there was always the chance of loss. Nothing about getting your pod out has ever been certain.

The overview now updates more quickly than it used to, this means people trying to target your pod now have a chance to start targeting you about a second to 1.5 seconds faster than before. Apparently this is having an effect.

Pod losses are a part of EVE, just as ship losses are. Don't insert implants that you can't afford to lose.

Jump clones have purposes other than simple relocation, use them wisely.

I mean that what used to work for many people, no longer works. Many pilots in low sec have recognized this and I have recognized it myself. You are simply wrong to say nothing has changed.

Why this started happening is not clear. But if you are spamming warp then a broadsword should not catch your pod. (see the other thread on this same issue) Lag might account for .3 of a second but not 8.5 seconds. Even if it is sensor boosted its not going to catch somoene who is spamming warp unless there is some sort of bug or issue.

Diagoras has presented statistics that show the amount of pod kills per ship kill has gone up. I'll admit that I wish he would elaborate on that statistic so we could get a more clear picture and I have asked him to do that. But he hasn't so we are left to speculate why this is happening.

You can say don't fly what you can't afford to lose but you can't budget the losses when the game is unreliable. Lets say I can afford to lose a set of +5s every year every 200th time I lose a ship. And that is how it used to be.

But now all of a sudden that seems no longer to be the case and its impossible to assess the risk of losing a pod because we don't have the information to assess the risk.

Its like saying well you can fly that ship but every so often the game will bug out and it will explode for no discernable reason. Can you afford to fly it? Well maybe. How often is the game bugging out? If it bugs out and destroys that ship every day then perhaps I can't budget that ship. But if it only happens once a year then I can.

You know, I thought your political posts were painfully stupid, but this just puts it all in perspective.

If you add random implant damage you KILL small ship PvP and force everyone else to be a lot more careful and avoid fights. Right now you can fly a 20 million ISK frigate, invest in good implants, and fly your ship aggressively since you know that even when you get killed (as you frequently will) you'll still probably get your pod out. Or you can buy those shiny new pirate implants because you'll probably keep them long enough to justify the cost. Etc.

On the other hand, if we do it your way, you either never buy implants at all or you never get into a fight that you might lose. Forget suicide tackling in a Rifter, you'll be ship spinning your battleship because your clone jump timer still has 12 hours left when your CEO said "x up for roaming gang" and you're still in your clone with expensive implants.

End result: more people avoiding PvP, and an even greater gap between people with enough ISK to buy anything they want, and people who can no longer afford to use implants.



Sorry, but that's just completely wrong. Pods warp INSTANTLY. As soon as you hit the warp button, unless you're already scrambled, you're in warp and safe. As long as you keep calm enough to remember to spam the warp button as your ship goes down your pod is supposed to be warping out before even the fastest locking ship can catch it.

The ONLY reason that pods are getting caught (outside of bubbles) is because CCP still can't fix the lag on ship destruction that results in everyone else on the grid getting to start locking and killing your pod before your client is even notified of your ship's destruction and allowed to start sending "warp pod out" messages.