EVE General Discussion

Another nail in the pvp coffin. Now we can't fly in highsec or lowsec with implants without risking an extremely expensive loss. Or alternatively we can fly with no implants in and lose training time.

ice ******* burn Malcanis shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit

Oh right, I forgot this was about point-scoring, not having a discussion.

Based on what Diagoras has posted it does seem like there has been a significant increase in the number of pods killed/pership kill after incarna. Based on the the thrid qen for 2010 In the month of june 2010, pods were caught about 28.5% of the time in pvp kills. I got that percent by taking the percent of total kills each section of space was getting based on diagoras's numbers in his post crucible dev blog.

Diagoras has posted that that pods account for about 25% of the total ship kills for the 2 weeks on either side of crucible going live. Now he didn't say that was only considering pvp kills so I am thinking that would include pve ship deaths as well. Pvp accounts for about 65% of the ship deaths. Since no rats or npc entities kill pods that means that this 25% is extemely high.

Now the question is where did this large increase in pod kills come from? Did everyone just forget how to warp their pods out? If we assume people weren't just suddenly struck dumb on how to warp pods out it seems the game changed.

Again this increase is especially significant if it came pretty much from low sec and high sec. Also if we consider that a certain amount of pod kills that happen in high and low sec are going to be due to people not even know how to warp their pod out, and we also assume that the percent of ignorrant pilots did not increase. (again why would it?) Then this number will likely demonstrate that even if you do what you are supposed to do you are still several times more likely to get your pod killed in empire after incarna.

CCP claims they have not done anything to effect this but I think the actual statistics demonstrate they have.

I play from Australia. Due to graphics lag, network lag and general latency, I usually get podded before my ship has finished losing structure.

My greatest complaint is the habit of the camera to reset to 0m range when the target the camera was previously focussed on is destroyed. At about the time my ship is in deep structure, I know I have been podded because the camera resets to 0m in preparation for playing the death explosion of my ship. The catch here is that my computer becomes entirely unresponsive for several seconds, so I can't click "warp to" even if I was able to pick exactly the right moment to do so. I just sit there watching the death explosion try to render itself using features my video card doesn't support at about two fames per second, with all the fans in the computer doing their est jet-on-takeoff impression.

About five seconds later the HUD starts blinking red and white due to the client apparently getting confused about whether the thing I am flying has hit points to not. About ten to twenty seconds into this experience, the game will busily be trying to render the hangar where my medical clone has been resuscitated while simultaneously trying to play the shield, armour and structure warnings from the pod being shot up, pop up the dialogue and voiceover from Aura telling me I have been podded and do I want to learn about clones, followed closely by my system shutting down from thermal overload.

All this because CCP decided that resetting the camera distance to 0 would be cool.

Of course someone might come along and suggest I need a new computer: this will happen in time (new iMac range due out in a month or so). My story relates to the past and contains a useful point for CCP to consider :P

Since nobody else has asked...what implants did you lose?

The server is running a simulation step once every second (since Bloodlines that is). Before we got TiDi movement commands got prioritised over any other command type. That means if you got your IP packet with your warp command to the server in the same second then the warp scram command, you warped off. That's not the case anymore.

There is no reason for whining tho. Before Bloodlines I was able to scram shuttles before they warped from a gate.

Your client usually pauses for a couple seconds when your ship 'splodes. Its loading the pod graphics/sounds/etc. Sometimes my disk thrashes for a few seconds and i end up in station instead of in warp.

Its been happening for a looong time, and even though i can play 2x clients on max graphics smoothly, it still locks up.

i agree you probably had a sec or 2 with lag that should be enough to lock a pod if you have 100-2000 scan ress

On SISI during Time Dialation testing, there was plenty of time to click away, etc. I noticed a lot more podding going on.

Since Kill Rights do not allow podding, I wonder why wars get away with it.