Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Let's assume for a moment that a pirate kills someone that get's so upset that they place a billion isk bounty on that pirate. With your proposed change this pirate will have to get either a person in his alliance or an alt in a different corp to pod him to split the bounty. --You wanted a reason, this is a perfectly acceptable one.

I also believe that if you have someone in your corp that is an alt/spy and you figure it out, you should be able to kill this person without delay, but it's not my place to say who should be able to pod whom. Oh yeah, pod's almost insta-warp so it would take a well fit 'ceptor or an interdictor to catch one.

Hope this clears up your confused state of thinking.

This is a bit of a summary of the points brought up by previous replies however, you continue reject it as insufficient justification for podding someone. Allow me to paint a more complete picture of the dynamics involved.

First off, corporations don't often pod their members without a very justifiable reason (like say, you screwed some/all of them over) and if you or anyone you know is experiencing frequent corpmate-on-corpmate podding I suggest you/they seek new employment and/or stop making trouble for folks who are allowed to shoot you. This would only serve to protect those who have committed an act of screwing-over and limits like that aren't really what EVE is about.

The issue here is that the current system works quite well. If you have a problem with a member and they're not docked, it's necessary to pod them so they become docked. To alter the system to allow people to be removed from corp while in space would open up an ugly can of worms, to say the least. Imagine being in a fleet fight or out on a roam and suddenly becoming neutral. While this probably wouldn't (shouldn't) kick you from gang automatically and thus not be terribly noticable to others, you could be in a situation where you're working with another blue gang they would suddenly see you, a brand new neutral, on their overview and likely blow you away... pod too.

"Oh well that's just a 0.0 scenario and doesn't affect high-sec. I would be safe as soon as I'm kicked to noob corporation."

Not so. Imagine now that you're with your corporation in high-sec, in fleet and at war with an active group and you are kicked from corporation. If they opt not to kick you from the fleet, you remain a war target for your former enemies until you leave gang and could very well end up shipless and podded anyways.

Consider then how entertaining this might be to twisted folk (see: PvPers) and how easily it could be abused and you very well might start coming across corporations that hire pilots just to take your membership away at an "opportune" moment and then pod or have you podded you anyways. Does it really make a difference what corp you're in when they do it? No.

Then your argument reverts to a simple "I don't think people should be podded, it would seem to me the only reason to do so is to screw people over." Yeah, it is.

I'm giving you actual reason... they have the guns, you know so....

ok lets say you are flying a ship to a station and you jump a gate.
you see a corp member the other side you think nothing of it and then bang he
blows up your ship and pods you for no reason what so ever.

How can he get away with that. its just wrong.

if this does happen to you, you need to leave the corp as your CEO is ****.

I was in a corp for 2 months and the ceo at the time let in over 5 people that killed corp members for no reason.
this is just poor managment of the corporation

And, if we also leave the corp podding in place, you can make him leave right now.

You aren't getting this. Corp podding is a useful tool. The fact that you don't realise this only shows one thing:

You know nothing about being a CEO, and thus your opinion is irrelevant.

you can try to bash my character as much as you like, but your missing my point. I can clearly see the benefits and uses that you guys have grown accustome to in the years, and have explained quite well on this post. It is still a system that does not offer retrobution to the individual. so you join a corp and your supposed to benefit the many, but then get turned on and have no course of action?

something could be changed. tell me what you think of these two thoughts; first allow only the ceo of a corp to instigate a podding, second, implement some form of timed retrobution, possibly in the form of kill rights.

you say the system works, which is only half true. even if the benefits outway the negatives, there should be just cause for a podding.

Tell your CEO he podded you, and that you are going to pod him yourself as retribution..

Maybe you should get a kill right on him, to be able to retaliate in this case.