ITT, people overvalue their KDR.

Die twice? So fracking what? You get to keep your gear, and your team's clone count doesn't drop.

So I was playing a game, trying to go X amount of kills and 0 deaths. I died one time and got revived. At the end of the match it said I went 12 and 1. As I understand it if a clone is revived that clone is spared, suits weapon, etc. I also understand that I did technically die. What also make this bad, is when you get revived and die, revived and die, and so on, all those deaths count. I know of another game where a revive spared your death ratio. Now I know this is not that other game, it is Dust 514. So I post this to see if maybe it is a mistake/glitch, is it intentional? I also wanted to know if the community knows this and how do they feel about it?

Yes people should not care about their KDR and let scrub medics that can't do anything but hack and needle revive them under fire so they get 50wps and the reddot can farm the corpse till the medic gets killed by someone else, makes sense.

Yes people should not care about their KDR and let scrub medics that can't do anything but hack and needle revive them under fire so they get 50wps and the reddot can farm the corpse till the medic gets killed by someone else, makes sense.

League of Legends is the same way, people would rather lose with a decent KDR than win with a crappy one, that way they can blame the loss on their teammates that actually -tried- and lost due to the lack of team help.

Anyway, there should be separate stats for the amount of times "downed" and the amount of times killed. I propose that deaths count as "+1 death, +1 down" and revives count as "+0 death, +1 down", this would settle the issue quite easily, it wouldn't reflect on your KDR, and perhaps a new stat - DPL (Downs Per Life) - could be introduced. I've always thought that would be the best way to reflect revives vs. deaths.

I've noticed that the # of clones doesn't actually go down until you actually just let yourself die. So if you get revived you saved a clone but you're K/D is still affected it seems and your opponent still gets the kill. It's Weird.

So you're saying that you shouldn't get credited with a kill until the downed opponent bleeds out?

The fact that you're concerened about "scurbs" leads me to believe that you probably scream at your TV while playing this game, not to mention all the whining after that. Perhaps you should take a break, it is just a video game after all.

Surprise surprise all the people calling KDR a meaningless stat haven't got a KDR over 2, and one isn't even positive.

your death count is increased when you die. the team's clone count drops when you respawn.

It's really not surprising. No need to stat pad when you know the stat doesn't matter.

KDR matters for corp recruiting, a person with one over 4.0 can get recruited into top kill corps, i count that as a real factor as in the future background checks on applicants will become almost mandatory (as it is in EvE). don't underestimate its importance.

KDR matters for corp recruiting, a person with one over 4.0 can get recruited into top kill corps, i count that as a real factor as in the future background checks on applicants will become almost mandatory.

ISK efficiency > KDR

This will become the true measure for recruitment. This isn't saying that high KDR/ high IE are mutually exclusive, just you'll be able to tell who the real tryhards are once we can see IE as a stat.

High KDR with an IE that is 100's of millions in the red and you'll know that they only take AUR gear up against nubs.

Each AUR is worth 150,514.17 ISK (current as of 1653, using the Jita Buy order price for PLEX from http://eve-marketdata.com/price_check.php?type_id=29668 divided by 3500 which is how many AUR you get from converting a PLEX).

This means that the new NEO Dropsuit (costing 90 AUR on the market) is worth 13,546,275.3, yep, 13.5m ISK so each one of those that you lose, you need to kill a whole lot of blueberries in ISK gear to make up the difference just for the cost of the Dropsuit.

KDR < IE