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Thread: What sort of attitude do you adopt?
)Once the fight is on, all there is, is split second decisions and emotions you keep bottled up to one side.
But to me, fear is an ally. Keeps me on my toes, less i become complacent; and theres one thing that life has taught me, is that complacency kills. Granted this is just a game, but that thought is engrained into me and tends to stick in the back of my mind in just about everything i do. Old habits die hard i guess.
CuchulainnDarklight wrote:
Zotux wrote:
I don't have a particular school of thought on PVP. I basically turn off the whole thinking process and point and shoot at the red targets and hope I live through it. As soon as you try to think about the situation, your dead.
I don't claim to be the best, or evan near the top of the chart, but I find I do alot better if i don't think at all.
You mean, you calm your thoughts and emotions and use some other means to enable you to fight effectively in space?
HE IS USING FORCE POWERS IN SPACE - GET HIM!
LOL....thats funny. Non jedi on ground, but watch out once im in space, i suddenly have force powers.
Mabe thats how red squdron was so good. on the ground they were just a bunch of rebels, but were infused with thte force by some strange design of he ships they fly.
HewerofWood wrote:
If I was an Imp, and I saw a player attacking the ISD, I'd go and Kill him. He's in Space, he's a threat. He'sThe Primary Threat.Kill him. Eliminate the threat.
Can I nominate you for pilot of the month? That's how the game is supposed to be played. And you're post earlier about what was going through your mind was awesome!
Yeah, we make friends up there and get into friendly duels... but the bottom line is he's red to you, better watch out. Unless you know the person lol
I know for me, when i'm going in and afraid i'm going to lose, and fight like I could die at any moment then I fly my best. But if I go in thinking, oh i'm going to get this guy i'll slack off on a turn, or think he won't do that and then BOOM... quick trip back to the station for me.
Message Edited by xTekx on 08-01-2005 06:16 PM
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I go into a fight expecting to win.
If I lose, I pick out my error and go back to even the score.
If I lose again, and fail to find an error, I add the pilot's name to my "Omg Ph3ar" list (Which currently has three members) and go off and do something else for a while =).
Eh...I don't know. I've been told I'm pretty good (gotten compliments from a few of my foes), and I like to think that. On the other hand, I've visited the repair station too many times to have much pride left.
/curses IR2s
I just love to Hew. I don't brag about my Hewing, I just Hew. I like nothing better to see a good Pilot just Fly, the Hell with the talk, go ahead, Kill my Mark before I can, show me what you got.
Ducimus wrote:
As PvP goes i find theres two schools of attitude that im aware of.
1.) Think your good, beleive your the best, if you dont youve already lost the fight.
2.) The instant you think your good, you're not.
3.) other
I tend to subscribe to the second one. Reverse phsycology really. WHen i think im good, i get cocky and i make mistakes. When i think im up against someone who's probably better then me, i get a little nervous and scared, i never underestimate, and i tend to fly/fight that much harder.
Which do you subscribe to? Or do you subscribe to another mode of thought im not listing?
One of those, "im bored" posts
Edited for poor wording.
Message Edited by Ducimus on 08-01-2005 12:06 PM
Well my initial attitude was 'I am the best mwahaha!" back when I was a n00b...which you witnessed for yourself Rapax. From that meeting though I slowly changed and I knew I was good but I kind of subdued it a lot.
That was a good number of months ago.
These days my attitude is this:-
I know I'm good, but there is -always- somthing to learn and I've had people [even real respected pilots] tell me I'm the best they ever seen...which is nice but I -never- believe it and even though I been told I'm too modest it just isn't the truth and frankly I don't -want- to be the best because then there'd be nothing left to learn. In pvp, -nothing- can be taken for granted. I know my strong points and weak points and my aim is to improve so in summary...my attitude is this...
4. There is always room for improvement...Learn somthing from this regardless of the outcome and let myself have fun.
Going in with an open mind to each pvp encounter, I have found makes me fly better and keeps my 'ego' in check afterwards too whether I win or lose. If I win..it means I don't brag or anything and if I lose...the open mind and the will to learn makes me accept defeat and swallow it that much easier. I admit, I am not perfect, but I got enough self discipline to make myself abide by my own rules . Everyone has an ego afterall...so keeping it in check is the main thing I think.
I never patronise either with saying 'good fight' to someone even when it was a fight when I slaughtered them or vise versa...I say good fight when I mean it and I'll say 'wow you slaughtered me' when it happens...and then come back for another go. If I slaughter them..I keep quiet and react to my opponent's feedback [if any] appropriately whilst not sounding self righteous...and if they have the decency to accept and swallow a defeat, I'll give them tips and tell them how I got them so they may improve in future.
I never expect anything compliment wise from my opponents or friends and I don't fly for any 'quarter'...I really don't care what people think of my flying..in fact I feel a little uncomfortable when people compliment me. What I do care about is what people think of me as an opponent/friend and I love nothing more than to have an opponent who crushes me/gets crushed by me to be friends afterwards. Heh..I guess I'm a bit of a 'people's pilot' more than an 'uber combat ace'.
However..it doesn't keep me from being competitive...I won't ever tell an opponent 'oh watch out, you're about to get fried!" etc...thats just uncalled for imo and I know some people justs ay it for fun but one thing I do know is people are very good at taking things the wrong way so I keep silent before a match and even if I am confident..I'll supress it because confidence leads to takin your own abilities for granted which can lead to complacency and in my case..WOULD lead to complacency. You have that last pvp match between you and I Rapax as a good example of that. I'd taken you out three times before previously a few weeks earlier after a long period of time when you'd defeated me previously and I really wasn't sure on who'd win etc...so I flew better, but after winning gaainst you ..when I finally dueled your RG TIE..well as you said yourself and I acknowledged...I flew rather predictably and lost in the end...In fact, I was so complacent, I fell for a very obvious dupe when you 'retreated' and I followed IN A STRAIGHT LINE only to get a good collaring from your blasters when you doubled back on yourself.
But since I'm rambling on as I tend to do in responce of your 'I'm bored posts 
' I'll say this too. I'm never -ever- too judemental of anyone who portrays a bad attitude to me during/after/before pvp. This is due to my initial attitude to space and how I changed...so I try and get them to be more understanding in my own pragmatic way before I put them on ignore. I'll only shove them on ignore if they truly show no signs of changing their ways. I think the best analogy of my attitude with really arrogant pilots in my first few minutes of talking to them is the 'nod and smile' strategy.
Anyway..my post ends.........Now
-Leaph
p.s
Ok..now it does.
Message Edited by LeaphChausew on 08-01-2005 08:16 PM
