A high K/D ratio will not get you a girlfriend nor laid.

Suppose someone does get a date, the moment you mention a 12.0 K/D for a game thats in open beta(or any game), you might as well go home.

Sexist.

My girlfriend's K/D is better than mine. Then again, I run Logi fits quite often, and the way I play tanks my K/D when I'm doing that.

Realist.
Those currently in a relationship do not apply.

If I die in a match, loss of ISK isn't my main concern since I can easily afford it. However loss of ISK and messing up my KDR is something that annoys the crap out of me.

Yes I know, KDR is meaningless blah blah blah. Well I care about it, and if I get a garbage KDR in a match I cease having fun (unless I am tank hunting and successfully cost some tanker hundreds of thousands, or millions, of ISK). Then I can accept my potentially crap KDR that match because it was well worth it.

Would be nice if I could stop caring about my KDR, but I am absolutely fixated on it, even dropping 0.02 ruins my entire night (unless I get a good match that brings it back up).


I've long awaited a online FPS game that does not show deaths anywhere in the game. Because while many of us won't admit it, KDR is important to a lot of FPS players. And because of such, I haven't experimented with as much as I would like to in Dust because of the potential hit to my KDR.

I probably would have had a lot more fun being a logi, since as a logi KDR is something they never have to worry about. Heck, a good logi can go 0-4 and still make 2x's the WP than a player going 25-0 on the other team. When I see a player like that I don't think "Wow, he got a crap KDR that match". I think, "wow, he didn't get a single kill yet out WP'ed my entire team and ranked first on his!"

I sometimes quit out of pure rage. I belie e that a bad match can't ruin your k/d assuming that a player in a pro suit has a few thousand kills.

I'm pretty sure they're just leaving because they're butthurt that somebody had enough skill to take them out in their all-powerful PRO suits.

Realist.
Those currently in a relationship do not apply.

People that live in glass houses probably shouldn't throw around ironic insults, Cyn.

If I die in a match, loss of ISK isn't my main concern since I can easily afford it. However loss of ISK and messing up my KDR is something that annoys the crap out of me.

Yes I know, KDR is meaningless blah blah blah. Well I care about it, and if I get a garbage KDR in a match I cease having fun (unless I am tank hunting and successfully cost some tanker hundreds of thousands, or millions, of ISK). Then I can accept my potentially crap KDR that match because it was well worth it.

Would be nice if I could stop caring about my KDR, but I am absolutely fixated on it, even dropping 0.02 ruins my entire night (unless I get a good match that brings it back up).


I've long awaited a online FPS game that does not show deaths anywhere in the game. Because while many of us won't admit it, KDR is important to a lot of FPS players. And because of such, I haven't experimented with as much as I would like to in Dust because of the potential hit to my KDR.

I probably would have had a lot more fun being a logi, since as a logi KDR is something they never have to worry about. Heck, a good logi can go 0-4 and still make 2x's the WP than a player going 25-0 on the other team. When I see a player like that I don't think "Wow, he got a crap KDR that match". I think, "wow, he didn't get a single kill yet out WP'ed my entire team and ranked first on his!"

+1 for honesty, never seen anyone yet admit to caring about KDR and not having fun when it's low - a fact I'm sure is true for way more people then admit to it. bravo

The thing is, your first comment was about people backing out when they see someone they are intimidated by, while your second comment was about people leaving because of rage, but the topic of this thread was people leaving to keep their K/DR high and dry.

A Freudian Slip, so to speak.

Oh no, is this an implication that I rage quit and back out of matches? Never backed out of any game mode, why would I?

idc about my stats or isk. Sooo... care to imply something else?

can back cyn up on this, i've seen him hit 6+ deaths in ambush games and he sticks it out

he's one of the people who actually hang around reagardless

god nova, on the other hand.........

1) In redline games, the bulk of the kills, especially the interesting kills come at the beginning of the match. Sure you can get a fair number of kills after the redlining, but they tend to be grindy and boring. We've all let the enemy take a point out of sheer boredom, or maybe in the hopes of cloning them faster.

2) I've heard people say that skirmish isn't reporting player stat correctly, but i'm clueless as to what the issue is - could it be related to this?

3) The best payout I've got in a skirmish is 500K, and the average is about 250K, and i'm not a proto player. Many proto players have big bank rolls. If a match looks like another 15 minutes of redline grinding, is it worth a few hundred thousand ISK to stay in? Why not just leave and queue up another skirmish? My memory is that we get paid for partial matches. Is that still true?

4) Do we get salvage if we leave the match before it ends?

I may have a solution for you. Ethernet cable instead of wireless. I used to get those load screens too and I even once feared doing anything to my fittings since it would infinite load - but switch my connection to wired - poof, went away.