Maybe this isn’t an especially important concern, but just telling the OP to HTFU and deal with it is indulging in some of your own ego-stroking and it goes on too much on these forums. Many times in the past the CSM and CCP have decided kill mails should be more accurate. Yet, they come here and tell him he should just HTFU and deal with the game without giving a reason why the game is somehow better if people can pull implants and falsify the kill record. As you see above, plenty of otherwise rational people chime in in threads like this with ‘HTFU’ to the OP to what is in my opinion, a completely reasonable, if not especially pressing proposal. In case you missed it though the HTFU act I am doing is just to highlight how silly these forums can be some times. You are arguing that players should have the right to soothe their ego by pulling implants that they were using in a fight they lost. I am discussing a proposed change to game mechanics to improve the accuracy of killmails. I haven’t mentioned a specific event at all and could care less about some kill of the OP. Get over it people and HTFU - having an accurate record of your wins or losses saved for posterity changes nothing about your game. I find that it is usually those who obsess the most over killboard stats the ones shouting the loudest for their removal (or arguing for their right to cheese the historical record for that matter). Taking them away would have a massive chilling effect on the game and I see no benefit to do so other than to perhaps make a few people who can’t handle losing a PvP encounter with another human feel better about themselves. People who obsess over or give too much importance to kill mails deserve your derision, especially killboards which credit everyone with a kill, but only mark a single player with a loss, so everyone is killboard green, but in a sandbox game with so few actual conflict drivers, kill mails are a major motivator of player activity. I think though I would rather see Fozzie follow through on his intention to plug the self-destruct-under-tether-to-dodge-a-killmail loophole first. CCP spent much developer effort improving the accuracy of kill mails and I see no reason to change that general strategy even if what the OP describes is an edge-case of little real consequence. The CSM minutes show the community was overwhelmingly in favour of CCP both adding implants to kill mails, and preventing the practice of self-destructing ships to dodge kill mail generation. Well you are entitled to your opinion, but historically the consensus does not agree with you. If you’re somehow failing to insta-pop a pod fast enough to prevent implant destruction then too bad, you don’t get that value added to your killboard stats. And CCP should certainly not spend one minute pandering to the people who obsess over their killboard stats. No, killmails should be removed as a general design goal.
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