Pilot Archive
Thread: Will you grind my pilot?
I REALLY have to differ here. I'm a Tier 4 Smuggler's Alliance freelancer. Last night I got two ALL of the experience required for my Tier 4 Ship Components box just by doing 3 duty missions (that I didn't even RUN full length). Am I getting some secret special XP Boost that no one else is getting, or something? I really don't see how Tier4 is so hard.. (and thus contributing to my lack of patience when someone wants me to grind them).
See? you get it. They do not get it. You get it though.
Late last night I was in Deep Space and I kept finding this guy in a Krayt. He was there "helping" someone in his gunner seat. I kept trying to tell him it wasn't ver productive xp grind since I sent him packing every 5minutes, and really a Duty mission, even one with 2 people, would have been far more efficient than splitting the xp you manage to snag before the crazy fish in the Xwing sends you back to check the condition of Dath Station again.
The conversation began after he started cussing at me for sending him my warning tell. I wouldn't have bothered with the warning tell, but the first time I saw him, and sent warning shots, he stopped, turned, and flew INTO them. I kid you not. I warned him by tell the next time, and he actually looked like he was gonna fly straight and level and hyper out. Then he turned.... ah well inevitable death #2. Then the smack talk began. 'you can only kill me when im busy' 'my droid programs weren't on' 'if we hadnt already been damaged' 'when im done ill com back with my fighter' I hope Dimmu sees this, he was there for the very beginning but missed all the really fun stuff later. After about 8 deaths total, 2 of them when he tried his darnedest to get me outright with rockets and all, he stopped jabbering and stopped coming back. I spent about an hour waiting for is return in his fighter, but no love.
Yeah, I'm really that much of a jerk, and not particularly sympathetic to foulmouth people who try to use the PvP zone for other things, and complain when someone kills them.
He sat in the top turret of my Nova Courier, and I flew us around in Kessel. Now, some might argue, but to me, as a POB enthusiast, I consider a trained gunner to be as much a godsend and a well practiced wingman. As long as he was sitting in the turret earning his keep (we managed to get enough xp for two skill boxes for him only the two of us aboard), I'm cool with helping people grind as a turret rider. No freebies, though, and no exit missions.
psikobunny wrote:
But it's not doing new pilots any favors to power them through tier1-2.
I'll definately agree with that. I did most of Tier 2 for the first time as a gunner in a YT. Not for the XP, but because the pilot was awesome, and I was having a lot of fun helping people get their 'vettes. But because of that, I was completely unprepared for Tier 3, and being in Storm Squadron made it even worse. While it is fun, I strongly recomend against that sort of grinding early on.
I alway's help if I have time. I don't just take them up though. I'll fly there wing and offer them 3 choices:
1) I'll fly your wing and cover your tail. This involved me keeping them alive while they kill. This also helps my wingman skills and helps teach me how to cover someone else and work as a team.
2) I'll disable everything I can and let them get the kills. Just helps my skills in general piloting.
3) I'll kill everything that comes our way. Just helps my skills and general piloting as well as providing some loot items I can RE.
I will not help a pilot through the entire pilot tree. I will teach the pilot about RE jobs, good components to use, and Droid Programs while flying thier wing. This will hopefully produce some more pilots with some decent skills that can eventually be opponents in Space PvP battles.
I figure the more people flying in space means more Space PvP battles and more people to go head to head with. This just means more fun in the long run........
I'm also teaching the new pilots how they can equip thier ships, grind thier pilot tree's and be a better all round pilot, IMHO, as I fly with them. As I've Aced only 2 squads and now working on my 3rd I am still learning myself.