Lol wut?

Theres a bunch of posts from ppl defending the instant delete crap. I assume their hauling on beta. Risk goes both ways you know..

What about reward for the pirate?

They are also risking (in most cases) more valuable equipment and can end up with a few miner modules?!?

Why does this need explaining...

I am all for people not being allowed to destroy what they carry.  If you wanna blowup your cargo add a 2 min timer, and when you blow, you lose everything, but your wreck still drops equiped modules.  Like its done in EVE.

You could not insta-destroy your cargo in EVE.
You could only destroy things in station, and that mechanic really should be the same in this game.
You could self destruct your ship, which had a timer, but even then, your cargo was still up for possible drop.  I saw many a cap pilots self destruct simply for Killmail denial.

I think this thread needs more real world analogies to justify "right-click, destroy" magic.
Maybe try some WWII analogies....

I was originally going to just keep reading this thread to be entertained by the most humorous responses against destroying loot in your inventory. However, your comment seems to be the most ignorant and WRONG thus far. So, I've now been encouraged to say my piece.

What MMOs are you refering to that failed due to full looting upon death?

I can name two that havent, the still surviving Ultima Online and the ever growing Eve Online.

Despite two major MMO's, that seemed to have defied all odds, they still remain in existance with an ever growing player base. Yet you've failed to give examples of such games that attempted such a thing and "failed" because of it.

Also you seem to assume that pirates want "All loot to drop regardless of the circumstance". This logic is entirely false and quite unrealistic. So in what way is destroying a car, for example, mean that im guaranteed to salvage my $500 engine and $400 radio and have a guanantee that they will be like new when I take them out of the wreckage? There isnt one, so that's not what pirates ask for. What Pirates ask for is that someone hauling mods or bots to their Corp's homebase unprotected cant just delete them from his cargo like they were non-existant into, quite literally, non-existance. Pirates should have a chance, if their luck holds and the items werent destroyed, to take their spoils from a foolish corporation who were ignorant enough to believe they wouldnt be attacked.

The point of this is profit motive, what encourages me from approaching a hauler risking my very expensively fit Bot? just getting mods that may or may not sell well? or mods PLUS loot they've acquired elsewhere? No there shouldnt be a system where you get EVERYTHING, but there should be a system that allows me a chance to be rewarded for outwitting my victim by recieving loot other than just crappy mods.

Also, taunting him so as to "learn to gank"? Really? Are you not mature enough to add an ounce of productive feedback other than that?

If he's a pirate, his job is to gank. Keep your foolhardy comments to yourself unless you have something intelligent to add to this discussion.

seriously, how do you explain "their" stuff to simply disappear into thin air seconds before their robot is destroyed? Its kind of a lame thing to do, and it would be nice with a system to stop this lame exploit.

Which is why my suggestion works well for your situation.
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You can delete items, but they are saved in a 'recycle bin' of sorts for a period of time.  If you fill that space with new items, your old items will be deleted permanently.  This helps with 1) you cant mass delete items before death, 2) you can delete items if you want to loot other things, and 3) you cant carry more than your cargo capacity by deleting items then refilling your bot then just dying at your destination.

But your not giving up anything in exchange.

What I was suggesting was that by removing the ability for transport pilots to delete cargo, the PVP community is gaining guarnteed looting, but is losing nothing.

There are basically 3 professions, Combat, Gathering, and Industry. The ability to delete item is available to everyone, and is useful in situations other then just denying loot to pirates; option 2 of looting other items.

Changing the delete to a recycle bin helps only the combat profession when it allows them to recover looted items after destruction.

If there is going to be a balancing change, it should be offset with a negative. True some balance issues do not require an offset, but this really isn't a game breaking issue. There is nothing stopping a PVP bot from deleting those 2000 missles just before they die either (granted this probably doesn't happen as often as a Seq driver, but honestly before this post it never even occured to me to delete the cargo if I was being attacked).

I wasn't trolling when asking what you would give up for the ability, it was a real question. Would giving up the ability to cycle loot using delete be worth ensuring the occasional Seq kill dropped its full cargo?

We're losing the opportunity to be doing something else.  Who said this was some sort of trade off?  This deleting thing is just bad, not some sort of seesaw balancing act.  If you kill something you should get what it had.  Some of it gets destroyed in the explosion, but theres something left still.  The 50% drop rate is already deleting some of the items, and if you tried to destroy items IRL you'd still leave some wreckage of it behind to sift through, and here you leave no trace.  Regardless, I dont like comparing this to RL because it doesnt matter.
The Game
I would deny my killers their loot if I was able to, and I probably will if I get the chance, but I dont think I should be able to do this.  they killed me so they should get what I have on me.  If I was hauling kernals to sell or whatever, I shouldnt be allowed to deny them just because I was dumb enough to get myself killed with them on me.
The Game
You're out there with cargo for a reason.  IF you didnt have that cargo you probably wouldnt be where you were.  Why let them delete that cargo and any reason for being there just because they're gonna die?
The Game
To anyone saying to ransom them for their goods:  we cant stop you from moving completely, so negotiating with a moving target is hardly an option.  They will get away eventually, so typing up nice chat messages doesnt work when they're constantly edging their way to the nearest safe zone.

Fit cargo scanner and when you see that he destroyed his stuff just let it go

yeah.. you can kill ppl in wow too.. the difference is that in this kind of games there are true risks and rewards in pvp...or at least there should be..
no point being a pirate when your prey can destroy all the cargo instantaneously