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Fondler wrote:
NOT A SINGLE PERSON I KNOW is willing to play space anymore so i can't do the mission for 4/4/3/3. I guess i'll never master. For all the things they did right in space, the 4 person group rquirement for these missions truely had blown the game for me. I can't for the life of me find more than one person to go up with me and try for this damn mission. VERY dumb decision guys. Nice.
I kind of agree with you if your on a low population server.....but for my server there's always someone to group with.....however, if you think where your at is bad and need a group.....to become a master you cannont do it alone and you will possibly need a group of at least 10......those master missions are a pain......
personally I don't like to depend on grouping even in a MMORPG simply because, not everyone plays at the same time periods during the day....for instance, a lot of my guild mates don't play at my times because i'm on the east coast and their on the west....so when I'm playing they are either at work/school or sleep....vice versa for me. Then when I try to find random people on the server to group with (other than solo hunting groups on dantooine), they are always doing their own thing....then those that are willing to help you usually do it on their own time periods due to having real life responsiblities......it's really painful when it's monday and you seek help with something and all the people who say they can help you say they won't be able to help until saturday....or can only play for an hour when you might possibly need 2 hours and that's just to get chemestry and understanding with the person helping you.....
For these reasons, I do everything by myself first.....I'll go solo on a mission 10 - 15 times before I ask for help....most of the time I can solo a mission within this time....after 10 tries, if i haven't learned from failng...then I need to be part of a permanent group of players to do missions.
For me I find the best time to group for JTL missions, the corvette and any other grouping missions in the game is saturday.....during the week, it's nearly impossible to find the kind of help you need......and I certainly hate those players that say they will help you but end up doing everything themselves while you basically spectate....then on top of that, they don't explain to you what they are doing, plan to do or what you need to do.....it's like your just grouped with them to watch them solo it.....that's not help in my book!
anyway, I understand where your coming from....I just say keep trying, keep trying, keep trying, keep trying.....if you don't have that kind of patience....join a guild and make a schedule for guild hunts....that's what my guild does....we get together and ask everyone in the guild if they need help with anything and we plan it for saturdays.
other than that, it's time you make some friends with a few powergamers that you know will be online 10 hours a day....LOL!
MillaMerani wrote:
I have the same problem. What is worse, I grouped with a friend to help him with his Master Mission (kinda suicidal, two against a Corvette and gunboats, but hell, I've seen worse things before), but after flying for 3 hours in Kessel space withno rebel corvette spawn (there was only anImperial corvette)we had enough and hypered out in frustration. What is worse, out of boredom, I tried to take out a rebel gunboat, and I sent in my bomber strike to soften up its defenses, but then.... it has simply despawned.
OMG! my first time taking on a imp gunboat...well, all I can say is how stupid of me....I didn't know they had almost 8 weapons.....that was the shortest battle in the history of JTL....litterally 10 seconds or so and I was nothing more than floating space debris....LOL
Then I accidently flew too close to the ravenger (imp corvette) and it was like I didn't even have any shields or armor....all I saw was EJECT....then a cloud of rubble and a big explosion......
I just might not even become a master pilot...I'll stay at 4-4-4-4 and be happy...besides, my x-wing and y-wing longprobe is enough...I don't need the a-wing nor the b-wing......
HardwiredXMan wrote:
MillaMerani wrote:
I have the same problem. What is worse, I grouped with a friend to help him with his Master Mission (kinda suicidal, two against a Corvette and gunboats, but hell, I've seen worse things before), but after flying for 3 hours in Kessel space withno rebel corvette spawn (there was only anImperial corvette)we had enough and hypered out in frustration. What is worse, out of boredom, I tried to take out a rebel gunboat, and I sent in my bomber strike to soften up its defenses, but then.... it has simply despawned.
OMG! my first time taking on a imp gunboat...well, all I can say is how stupid of me....I didn't know they had almost 8 weapons.....that was the shortest battle in the history of JTL....litterally 10 seconds or so and I was nothing more than floating space debris....LOL
Then I accidently flew too close to the ravenger (imp corvette) and it was like I didn't even have any shields or armor....all I saw was EJECT....then a cloud of rubble and a big explosion......
I just might not even become a master pilot...I'll stay at 4-4-4-4 and be happy...besides, my x-wing and y-wing longprobe is enough...I don't need the a-wing nor the b-wing......
If you come up from behind a gunboat and get 550 meters from it and match its speed you can hit it without getting hit yourself. Just watchout if it starts to change course.
From what I read the corvette spawns every 2 hours and it takes 45minutesfor it to go though the system before it hypers out. Ittook a coupletrips out there to find it but it wasn't to bad.
Hettar
That works really well on Rebel gunboats. They usually won't change course until all the rear guns are gone, so target the engine first, and once that's gone, you don't have to worry abut it changing course or hyperspace out. However, I'm not sure if the same tactics work on imp gunboats.
HettarII wrote:
HardwiredXMan wrote:
MillaMerani wrote:
I have the same problem. What is worse, I grouped with a friend to help him with his Master Mission (kinda suicidal, two against a Corvette and gunboats, but hell, I've seen worse things before), but after flying for 3 hours in Kessel space withno rebel corvette spawn (there was only anImperial corvette)we had enough and hypered out in frustration. What is worse, out of boredom, I tried to take out a rebel gunboat, and I sent in my bomber strike to soften up its defenses, but then.... it has simply despawned.
OMG! my first time taking on a imp gunboat...well, all I can say is how stupid of me....I didn't know they had almost 8 weapons.....that was the shortest battle in the history of JTL....litterally 10 seconds or so and I was nothing more than floating space debris....LOL
Then I accidently flew too close to the ravenger (imp corvette) and it was like I didn't even have any shields or armor....all I saw was EJECT....then a cloud of rubble and a big explosion......
I just might not even become a master pilot...I'll stay at 4-4-4-4 and be happy...besides, my x-wing and y-wing longprobe is enough...I don't need the a-wing nor the b-wing......
If you come up from behind a gunboat and get 550 meters from it and match its speed you can hit it without getting hit yourself. Just watchout if it starts to change course.
From what I read the corvette spawns every 2 hours and it takes 45minutesfor it to go though the system before it hypers out. Ittook a coupletrips out there to find it but it wasn't to bad.
Hettar
HettarII wrote:If you come up from behind a gunboat and get 550 meters from it and match its speed you can hit it without getting hit yourself. Just watchout if it starts to change course.From what I read the corvette spawns every 2 hours and it takes 45 minutes for it to go though the system before it hypers out. It took a couple trips out there to find it but it wasn't to bad.
Hettar
Nope, that won't work with Imperial Gunboats, they will shred you if you make any attempt at that. And just for your info, you can get to 530m before the Rebel GB will start to fire
ZypherBountyHunter wrote:
If you are a imp and on tempest I help out for ace, but ever since solo nerf I charge 50k per mission and 100k for a destroying a corvette.
Your an idiot. Why charge to help people? It's not like you can't make money in space without ripping people off. I made 500,000 credits tonight from just loot and duty missions and had a blast doing it. Sure, they nerfed solo missions but they added JtL and it is a whole new income bracket for me now.
If you had any honor you would help out your fellow imperials without screwing them over first.
I don't think he's an idiot. PowerLeveling is very common in other MMORPGs where people charge at an hourly rate or per kill. Also, mercenary guilds can be quite useful for those who are unguilded and want something done.
WookieIsshe wrote:
ZypherBountyHunter wrote:
If you are a imp and on tempest I help out for ace, but ever since solo nerf I charge 50k per mission and 100k for a destroying a corvette.
Your an idiot. Why charge to help people? It's not like you can't make money in space without ripping people off. I made 500,000 credits tonight from just loot and duty missions and had a blast doing it. Sure, they nerfed solo missions but they added JtL and it is a whole new income bracket for me now.
If you had any honor you would help out your fellow imperials without screwing them over first.