How about instead of special/active bonus, why not add in a permanent attack.
Eg. Per Players Killed, you gain 1 permanent attack on your module. Permanent bonus won't be added on your previous kills, it only starts adding the permanent attack right after you install the module. Max permanent Bonus: 4k Attack ( 4k PvP Kills). Other than that ty for your contributions, more supporters, the better.

id like it either way, but the static attack would mean a very good payoff for the effort without overpowering later on.. 3% is fine when your low rank with low crew, but getting up there, 3% is quite a boost.

I like SirKillsALot's idea, but maybe instead of a constant 1:1 with a cap of 4000, it could be diminishing gains after a certain point.

Ex.
After installing the weapon, your first 1000 kills add 2 attack each.
Kills 1001-2500 add 1 attack each.
2501-5000 add .75 attack each.
5001-7500 add .5 each.
7501+ add .25 each.

Given the proper encouragement, I'm sure plenty of players will be able to reach 7500 kills. This way the bonuses don't stop dead again after 4000.

At 1000 Kills you would have +2000 attack.
At 2500 kills you would have +3500 attack.
At 5000 kills you would have +5375 attack.
At 7500 kills you would have +6625 attack, then gain 1 attack per 4 kills after that.

If 4 kills per attack isn't worth it, we could just make 5001+ .5 attack each so every 2 kills would be +1 attack after 7500 kills.

How is diminishing returns supposed to encourage people?

If anything they should be scaled the other way to encourage people to pvp further and further to get the rewards.

Possibly but then again by then you should have enough attack that the bonuses from PvP are too costly compared with NPCing, getting terraformers and upgrading some arti worlds so people would stop PvPing at some point anyway.

Contrary to your previous sentence this is a very good idea, in fact I'd go so far as to say this is an idea that the game really would benefit from.

the problem is pvp has no real reward any more if i spent 10k pvping i get some red badges for base scanning

If i used that 10k energy npcing i can get terraformers blade harvesters elites that drop ctp warp fuels caches the list goes on

Something needs to be done to give players incentive to pvp and getting a few medal points for 5k raids and 8k hacks isn't cutting it.

A reward for pvp that boosts your attack would be great because it would give people the reason to pvp.

THIS!
EDIT: NPC is the reason why I barely bother with PvPing. Npcing has better rewards, the module I requested should get a permanent attack(s) added into the module per kill, not a great reward but it's something that will reward PvPers other than Base scanning, and Dom Cannons/Upgrades.

What were looking for is something that bring Pvp so it's not just a waste of energy, with npcing i can make max toxics max arti planets maxed research planets i get ctp i great great xp energy ratio along with numerous modules for my ship

Pvp you get a few modules and after you have those your left with a red badge and a ok energy ratio.

That's why pvp is dead.

I will bump this post up for my last chance to make Dan see this, if he has already, even better.

I like the title "the Monster". Just do.
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Maybe medals for PvP that give you planet boosting artifacts would help as an incentive.
Ship attack is only one area of the game. Planets, on the other hand, have many more upgradable features.

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this thread is just taking on....."AND THIS NEW UBER AWESOME WEAPON!"....."YEAH, YEAH! AND THEN IT COULD HAVE THIS SUPER COOL % BONUS!"

I say that I would LOVE for there to be more pvp medals/title(s)

It would be really awesome....since people have to spend ALOT to get the raid/hack titles via TM's.

a new title would be the best....

also, I don't like it how if you want to get more powerful. instead of pvping....you have to npc to get better at pvp??!

the system of npc vs pvp is vastly unfair considering npcing is VERY boring and pvp is more interesting. to little for PvP as a whole. you need to NPC to be the best in the game tbh...an NPCer will maybe be more of a threat than a PvPer. simply because they gain awesome rewards for pot luck NPC finding...and most npcs take no effort/skill to take down.

we NEED more weapons....etc (maybe some little space things since PvPers don't have much space often.)

I doubt anything would ever be done about PVP. I doubt Dan has even read it.