Pilot Archive
Thread: What is a DogFight
It's why I also set up the hyper jump, I was actually at full shields and armour when the display shifted to the jump itself, then when I came out of it, shield gone, armour barely there.
PaceNebulon wrote:
yeah... if you're not moving 1200+ without boost don't bother running... you just die tired.
PaceNebulon wrote:
S-1-l2-H-C wrote:
killing someone unaware you are there is just no fun. better to send a warning tell so that they;
1. know your name
and
2. have time to become afriad before they die
I like that... time to set up a macro.
Already did that. I'd rather fight then win.
/tt (tell target) Works great. I usually shoot them a warning that they are in violation of Imperial law, pause 2, then ask that they leave immediatly, and that this is their only warning. Then I fly a circle around them. If they start flying towards me, or shoot their guns (at anything) I engage.
The World War I advice 'beware the Hun in the Sun' is clear cut advice to newbie pilots to beware the unseen attacker. So attacking from behind, from cover, from any kind of advantage is nothing new.
Most aces accured their large tallies from victims that failed to see them. Or were in targets such as bombers that just sat there and took the pounding.
Aerila combat is largely about getting the sucker from behind and is nothing to be ashamed of.
(Unless you shoot me from behind down of course in which case you're nothing but lowlife backstabbing cowardly scum....)
i was in deep space once camping outunder the isd, and a freelancer in a krayt jumped in. he saw me pretty quick, and ran for a pack of tier5 squints to hide. i guess he thought that blending in with the rest of the red dots would make me not notice hes there. it worked though, i was laughing so hard i couldnt bring myself to fly over and kill him.
Stuntie wrote:
The World War I advice 'beware the Hun in the Sun' is clear cut advice to newbie pilots to beware the unseen attacker. So attacking from behind, from cover, from any kind of advantage is nothing new.
Stuntie wrote:
The World War I advice 'beware the Hun in the Sun' is clear cut advice to newbie pilots to beware the unseen attacker. So attacking from behind, from cover, from any kind of advantage is nothing new.
Most aces accured their large tallies from victims that failed to see them. Or were in targets such as bombers that just sat there and took the pounding.
Aerila combat is largely about getting the sucker from behind and is nothing to be ashamed of.
(Unless you shoot me from behind down of course in which case you're nothing but lowlife backstabbing cowardly scum....)
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Now , that is funny. true and funny.. I thought you rebs were goodie two shoes and all was gave warning before fighting. The problem of being heros.
The only time I got smoked was when I was docking with Naboo space station. I saw read on my traspanet heads up while repairing. then the retrospec token came up when I tried to get out of repair. I saw the grivious fighter pass me has I blew up. No name, no battle record in combat. did not even tell me who killed me so I couild not go after them when I got back in space. What happen to good old revenge killings. LOL. It was a nice attack run. I just think it would have been better PVP if there was a heads up. But, I guess it also depends why the person is out , if he wants to PVP or just PVKill. LOL.
Gotta confess that the only pvp kill in DS I got (out of one!) was dropping in on someone who was too busy taking out the ISD to notice I was there. I wasn't even set up for good pvp - he outpaced me no end as my to speed was about 1k with EO3 compared to his 1200 plus and I had only got lvl 7 guns so he got a warning shot as it took me more than one shot to kill him. That being said, he didn't try to evade or anything.
I felt bad that I didn't announce myself but what can I say? I'm an Imp, he's taking out the ISD -what's a loyal follower of the Empire to do?
YarkenScoht wrote:
I actually had my first pvp experience yesterday accidentally. I was faction farming a duty mission in Yavin flying my Arc fighter. It was the the fifth wave of ties so there was around 8 or 9 of them zipping around. I calmly blasted them all to bits when I notice my rear shield is pretty well fragged (almost gone) so I cap to shields 4 and flip around onthe source of my misery(I didn't notice the mission had finished), he jukes and moves decently, but the I love the arc for its manueverability and get the upper hand and blast his ass into next week, it took me a second to realize that this wasn't just a random spawn, but some player, who starts trash talking me for shooting a defenseless fighter, it was hilarious!
You have to take steps to make yourself overt in space, so I say if you are, then you are a target. Go afk? Too bad, don't be overt.
wow, gunned down by and ARC!!! that guy needs to park it and stick to shuttles to get around.
YarkenScoht wrote:
I happen to like the look of the arc and I love the challenge, I am currently aquiring parts for my guild shipwright to re some nastyness for it. Some people fly for maximum effectiveness I fly for fun and style, the Arc and me just work.
/claps