Posted - 2007.07.12 11:06:00 - [32]

 

people who fly in blob's arent allowed to qoute kill board stat's for themselves, unless you want to divide their stats by the number of people there are in their gang. its only really useful for looking at overall fleet stats, not individual's, flying in a blob a 2 week old character could have done multiple billions worth of damage for 500k worth of losses. Small consistent gang's and solo player's are allowed to qoute their forum stat's because they earned them.

sometimes you see people claiming hundred's of kills per loss, but if you just take a look you'll see his 20 man gang killed hundred's of solo player's before they all got killed by a bigger blob

Posted - 2007.07.12 11:19:00 - [34]

 

EPEENBOOST!!

Posted - 2007.07.12 13:18:00 - [36]

 

Originally by: Honestry Dax

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But there is a huge jump in logic when Individuals are really proud of their KB stats when they didn't really do anything. Claiming you killed hundreds of ships when in reality you just tagged along in a hundred gangs, seems strange.

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So Teamwork doesnt count...?

Originally by: Honestry Dax

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not to mention you can forge your killmail >.> <.<

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Could you be proud of something you didnt do? - i cant, but im proud of my killboard stats.

Posted - 2007.07.12 13:44:00 - [38]

 

Edited by: Dionisius on 12/07/2007 13:45:12

Originally by: Vyktor Abyss

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I got mine own kill board a while ago and I'm a carebear and a noob (or so people tell me).

The only interest I really have in my kill board is a quick way to sum my losses over time. It tells me roughly what I can expect to lose if I keep PVPing, and of course acts as an incentive to improve my PVP.

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U were a pain in the arse when i was in providence and i still want my 2 drones back!!!!!


Edit: I just use the kbs for 2 things, see if am dispensing enough misery on people, see what is used to pop and be poped.

Posted - 2007.07.12 13:57:00 - [40]

 

It's simple really, a killboard is a way to track a corps or alliances battles.

If the corp runs replacement ships the killboard helps them manage it.

It helps a pvp corp keep track of how active it's members are.

It helps a pvp or merc corp keep track of there progress.

It gives you a welth of stats about battles you have been engaged in, what weapons have been used, what modules have been fitted, what systems are most contested.

For solo players It gives them a way to keep a record of there kills and losses, once again plus the stats involved.

You can learn a hell of a lot from a killboard. Are they blobbing? Small roaming gangs? Players that like to solo? Do they have a T2 sniper fleet? Do they have capital ships? How to they organise the Ewar and tacklers? ect ect ect...

Killboards fill a lot of roles - for me at least waving my epeen around is not one of them. It sure is nice to look back at last year and be reminded of epic fights and old friends

Posted - 2007.07.12 15:02:00 - [42]

 

Originally by: Honestry Dax

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I've encounter quite a few people in Eve who seem to be so proud of their kill board stats especially how much Isk they have destroyed.

I wouldn't mind that normally, i was on a kill board when i played first person shooters. But it doesn't make sense on eve. There is no way to tell how much damage is dealt by you or how big of a role in a gang. I've seen first hand a bunch of corp members keeping ship lock down so they could invite as many people as people into the gang so they can get in on the kill mail. This is ridiculous, how can one be proud and boast about how much they have kill when half the time you are in a gang of 20 killing a single tech 1 BS and you barely get one shot off. Or you just sneak in in the last second with out doing any of the hard work.

begin the flames?

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Me thinks someone is ****ed because they got killed by a pirate.

You're right, sometimes you get killed 20 v 1, but that's a rarity. Usually, pirates rove in gangs of 3 to 5.

But that's not the point, you are complaining about killboards. Certainly, most pirates/players are not killboard ****** like say, Klepto, but that doesn't mean we don't like to see how we're doing.

Killboards lets us keep track of who we've fought, what they had fitted, who we've killed, and who we've lost to.

Its also important for corps that are Merc corps, because they use their efficiency rating to sell themselves as mercs...

Anyway, I'll stop now... you can't win with a thread like this.

-Karlemgne

Posted - 2007.07.12 19:30:00 - [44]

 

Eve is a game.

Killboards are fun.

I play Eve to have fun.

Think about all the stupid accomplishment **** you can do for games on XBOX Live. I don't have an xbox and never will but friends have them and I guess you can earn tokens or some **** that list what you have accomplished in different games.

Think of killboards like a high score board. Remember those old top down 2d space shooters like Raiden? Its fun to get onto the highscore list. Killboard is the Eve equivalent.

Stop sucking.

Posted - 2007.07.13 03:13:00 - [46]

 

I keep a personal board to track my own fun in this game. As this is a pvp based game, killmails are a major part of tracking and boasting. Again, its like a trophey wall, at least for me.

Posted - 2007.07.13 07:09:00 - [48]

 

I also dislike when people lead the killboards and talk crap when all their kills are with 20 other people. It's annoying. I use KBs myself though just so I can keep track of my own kills for myself (most are solo or with a friend anyway, so I can legitimately boast sometimes =D)...

There's a lot of good reasons to have them up, which I won't list because many above me said them already.