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ReconSOC
Wed Nov 10, 2004 8:03 am
#1
A few days ago I was nearing my master mission and I came to these forums to look for some advice. All I found were the following:
"it's impossible, you'll get ganked by rebels!!"
"it's too freaking hard"
"Stop forcing PVP for master! It's not fair"
Well guess what... all these people are wrong. I gathered 10 people for this mission (4 who were going to Ace) because I thought it was going to be next to impossible to accomplish. We went in to Kessel, killed the 30 enemy fighters (NPCs) and then searched for the corvette. During that time we has minor skirmishes with rebel players, and we killed a dozen or so, but only because they were stupid enough to try to take on 10 imps at one time. Over the course of the night, we lost folks from our group because it was getting late. We had a rebel player show up on radar coming in at high speed, we all closed on his position and destroyed him. Immediately after, the Corvette spawned with 2 gunboats. We only had 5 left, 4 of whom were going for Ace, and we took out the Corvette in a grand battle. We all completed our mission and got Ace. Of those 5 people that were there for the corvette mission, I only knew one before that night. The rest I had only just met a few hours earlier at the Claw station in Endor. And guess what? I had fun that night. I had a hell of a time actually. While fighting in Kessel, you get a sort of adreniline rush knowing that if you engage something, a player could attack you from behind and you would never see it coming. Did that happen? No, but the fear was there.
Personally I think that having the mission in a PVP zone is perfect. It adds a degree of difficulty to the mission and it's NOT a huge loss if you die and fail your mission, you simply have to hyper to naboo, get the corvette mission again and come back. The corvette mission lasts so long, you could start the corvette fight, die, go get your new mission, and re-enter the fight before it dies.
I think MOST of the complainers are folks who haven't even tried the mission yet and are feeding off other posts on this board. The mission is not impossible, it is extremely fun. There are no rebel player gank squads, and if there is one grab some fokls and go kill them. It's pretty simple.
-Khan
Ace Pilot Kauri
meeuki
Wed Nov 10, 2004 8:16 am
#2
fantastic post. a lot will be lost with this coming change. at least you can consider yourself a real ace, after tuesday nobody else getting the box will be able to say that.
truewildman
Wed Nov 10, 2004 8:21 am
#3
Fantastic post indeed. There was actually some content there.
GreatWarrior
Wed Nov 10, 2004 9:08 am
#6
ReconSOC wrote:
Personally I think that having the mission in a PVP zone is perfect. It adds a degree of difficulty to the mission and it's NOT a huge loss if you die and fail your mission, you simply have to hyper to naboo, get the corvette mission again and come back. The corvette mission lasts so long, you could start the corvette fight, die, go get your new mission, and re-enter the fight before it dies.
Amen. It makes the Ace experience worth it. Its difficult enough to say "Hey. I met a lot of challenges but I finally did it!" Its something to be proud about that you were able to defeat a difficult situation.
Now Ace will be meaningless in difficulty, just another grinded profession.
GreatWarrior
Wed Nov 10, 2004 9:12 am
#8
meeuki wrote:
too bad the devs aren't listening.
Maybe we should cry, whine and jump up and down. Seems to get their attention better then organized arguments.
Message Edited by GreatWarrior on 11-10-2004 11:12 AM
zimike
Wed Nov 10, 2004 9:18 am
#10
I am 4 4 4 4 and the Guy at the reteat gives me a mission to escort over and over and over... Is this suppose to be the mission to Ace? or do I need to go else where now?
truewildman
Wed Nov 10, 2004 9:26 am
#11
GreatWarrior wrote:
meeuki wrote:
too bad the devs aren't listening.
Maybe we should cry, whine and jump up and down. Seems to get their attention better then organized arguments.
Message Edited by GreatWarrior on 11-10-2004 11:12 AM
I'd much rather go play a different game than stoop to their level like that.
meeuki
Wed Nov 10, 2004 9:35 am
#12
GreatWarrior wrote:
meeuki wrote:
too bad the devs aren't listening.Maybe we should cry, whine and jump up and down. Seems to get their attention better then organized arguments.Message Edited by GreatWarrior on 11-10-2004 11:12 AM
but that's exactly what is happening now, to an extent, but do we get a similar reaction? or even comment from the devs? no. why?
either
1. thunderheart has a core group of friends from whom he polls to get information about the game. for the most part they have no interest in pvp.
2. thunderheart doesn't stop to consider both sides of the issue, and just knee jerks when he see's enough PM's in his box. after the knee jerk he considers the issue resolved and moves on.
3. he actually considers the issues he brings to the devs, they discuss it intelligently, and then he does a horrible job of relating changes, and their possible far reaching effects, to the community.
the devs need to understand that the non pvp camp, with their egg shell egos, are in that camp because development and design has failed to give the GCW and player vs player conflict the nudge it needs to take off. all it would take is a few simple changes and tons of people would pvp, perhaps the mission would still need to be moved out of kessel, but you wouldn't be consistantly dealing the GCW setback after setback.
KyrYxus
Wed Nov 10, 2004 9:45 am
#13
meeuki wrote:
fantastic post. a lot will be lost with this coming change. at least you can consider yourself a real ace, after tuesday nobody else getting the box will be able to say that.
HUH?! NOOOO!!!!!!
I haven't been following this much (in fact haven't been in space much since beta ended). This is HORRIBLE! What are the new requirements going to be?
at least I made ace in beta right?
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