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Why pod kill?

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Alistair Cononach
The Legion of Spoon
Curatores Veritatis Alliance
#81 - 2014-04-03 17:31:35 UTC
1. A Podded Pilot often cannot quickly reship and return to the fight, especially if they're away from their home base or in your space.

2. A Podded Pilot loses their implants, often millions or billions is value they then have to replace.

3. Killboard Stat Whoring/Isk War Winning.

4. I Have Corpses of Notorious players from guys I podded in 2006. They are some of my most prized posessions.
Varg Altol
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#82 - 2014-04-03 17:33:23 UTC
KB stats, more tears, threads like this.
Pew Terror
All of it
#83 - 2014-04-03 18:03:54 UTC
why do you kill anything here? because:

videogame, videoGAME, VIDEOGAME!

This is a stupid thread, why do you shoot people in an FPS? Why do you jump on the backs of cute little turtles?
Jenn aSide
Soul Machines
The Initiative.
#84 - 2014-04-03 18:12:00 UTC
Pew Terror wrote:
why do you kill anything here? because:

videogame, videoGAME, VIDEOGAME!

This is a stupid thread, why do you shoot people in an FPS? Why do you jump on the backs of cute little turtles?



Exactly
admiral root
Red Galaxy
#85 - 2014-04-03 18:12:08 UTC
I don't understand the question.

No, your rights end in optimal+2*falloff
Commander Spurty
#86 - 2014-04-03 18:15:50 UTC
Solecist Project wrote:
Anyhow, to properly respond...

Because they deserve it. If you manage to pod somebody, it was his fault he got caught.


Curiously, this is not really a 'reason' is it. Its an excuse.

Anyway for 'reasons' we pod:

- Inflicts medical costs on them (optional I know, but if they opt out, see the next reason).
- If they optted out of insurance or forgot their medical, sets them back some skill points.
- Sends them away from the 'fun' place they were at when they left their ship.
- Forces implants to be lost, therefore creating a 'market' for them.
- Stops them talking rubbish in local (good reason to have local mute).

Hell, now I can just 'pay isk' to fix a low sec status, tempted to trawl highsec in a thrasher and pop every pod I see.

There are good ships,

And wood ships,

And ships that sail the sea

But the best ships are Spaceships

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Zack Korth
Livid CO.
#87 - 2014-04-03 18:18:36 UTC
killboards
Lugia3
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#88 - 2014-04-03 19:21:07 UTC
I pod because I'm already next to -10. Why not? He might have a slave set.

And I'm still waiting for the day I can chain the bodies of fallen enemies to my wingy bits and spikes. Think Reavers.

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KnowUsByTheDead
Sunlight...Through The Blight.
#89 - 2014-04-03 19:24:05 UTC
Jonah Gravenstein wrote:
Why pod kill? Why not?


This is the more appropriate question.

I think this is the new thread topic.

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Mr Epeen
It's All About Me
#90 - 2014-04-03 19:45:36 UTC
Doireen Kaundur wrote:
Seriously.
So why do you do it?


The memories.

Mr Epeen Cool
Batelle
Federal Navy Academy
#91 - 2014-04-03 19:54:47 UTC
Doireen Kaundur wrote:
Seriously. You got the ship and the loot, so now you look at popping the pod which gets you....nothing. Well, maybe a worthless corpse.

It is the insult following the injury.

So why do you do it?


why do you post the thread if you've answered the question in your OP?

Also, there are legitimate reasons to pod people beyond adding insult to injury or even just inflicting additional damage to the target.

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Rich Uncle PennyBags
EVE Online Monopoly
#92 - 2014-04-03 20:01:48 UTC
Especially important in wormholes.

Podding can remove a person from the fight entirely. No risk of reshipping at all.
Marie Hartinez
Aries Munitions and Defense
#93 - 2014-04-03 20:58:54 UTC
Podding someone is a matter of course. It's expected.

If you blow up my ship, I expect you to pod me as well. Though, I will do everything I can to escape. After all, isn't it called an "escape pod" for a reason?

Surrender is still your slightly less painful option.
Serene Repose
#94 - 2014-04-03 21:11:23 UTC
Doireen Kaundur wrote:
Seriously. You got the ship and the loot, so now you look at popping the pod which gets you....nothing. Well, maybe a worthless corpse.

It is the insult following the injury.

So why do you do it?
This is like asking, "Since you have the knife in, do you really have to TWIST IT?"
The reply to that is invariably, "Yes. Why do you think I stuck it in in the first place?"

We must accommodate the idiocracy.
Kaarous Aldurald
Black Hydra Consortium.
#95 - 2014-04-03 21:19:46 UTC
Xavier Holtzman wrote:
Kaarous Aldurald wrote:

It's actually the reverse of what you would claim. There is never a reason to not pod someone.



I agree with pretty much everything except this statement. There are, indeed, times when you DON'T want to pod someone. I've been in many fleet engagements where podding people would send them back to their station where they can reship and start traveling back to the fight, as opposed to leaving them in their pod and letting them manually jump back to their reshipping station which would take much more time.

But generally speaking, I always try to kill the pod. Twisted


Even then, I would argue that it's still best to get the pod.

Your supposition is that the fight is occurring fairly close to their home station, and that by podding them, they can reship faster, yes?

My thoughts are:

They still lose implants, which can be of use.

They lose any eyes they might have on my fleet from that person.

They lose, and this is critical, any warp in point they might get from that person.

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Hastatus Shmoof Marii
Resilience.
The Initiative.
#96 - 2014-04-03 21:22:31 UTC
Because the fleet commander told us to shoot it

Always follow orders
Derath Ellecon
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#97 - 2014-04-03 21:26:16 UTC
I figure since CCP went through all of the trouble to revamp the Pod death sequence, it was because people wanted to see it more often.
darmwand
Stay Frosty.
A Band Apart.
#98 - 2014-04-03 21:30:18 UTC
Unless ordered so by an FC, I never pod people without giving them a fair chance to get away by paying a modest ransom. Those who pay will get away alive, those who choose not to pay pretty much have to be podded, otherwise nobody would pay.

I.e. I pod people to make others pay ransoms.

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Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#99 - 2014-04-03 21:34:25 UTC
Doireen Kaundur wrote:
So podding is strictly ego stroking. Nevermind that you get nothing tangible out of it. If we could salavage implants, i would see the reason. But just for an e-peen erection..I dont.

not really true:
- person could have bounty and killing his pod you can get lots of ISK (thanks to expensive implants)
- in FW you get LP. And well filled implants give you a lot more LP than some dirt-cheap ship

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Beekeeper Bob
Beekeepers Anonymous
#100 - 2014-04-03 21:40:02 UTC
Doireen Kaundur wrote:
Seriously. You got the ship and the loot, so now you look at popping the pod which gets you....nothing. Well, maybe a worthless corpse.

It is the insult following the injury.

So why do you do it?


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