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Thread: 'N00b pilots' who go overt read this..I'm serious [for once]
xwing X 10
nova X 3
YT X 1
A wing X 8
etc etc etc.
I even recorded my losses:
T/A X 3
T/I X 3
T/O X 1
etc etc
Later i stopped that and just put in " Kills 39 / deaths 7" .
later on i stopped counting alltogether. What was the point? Ok, so.. kill/death ratio. whoppiee... Now what did i accomplish? Nothing. Hence, nothing further is being added to the count. I dont count anymore. No point in it, at least not to me. It means nothing. Sometimes you get lucky. Other times the other guy gets luck. I had fun either way.
Thradd wrote:
I persoanlly think that anyone who flys and flys often and has a score of 20+:0 is full of it. No matter how good you are you will be shot down. It might be lag, it might be that damn token respec window, it be that it's 4am and you're not at your best, maybe you zigged when you should have zagged, maybe an NPC knocked something out and left you crippled, or maybe you just got bested. The point is that the law of averages says that you will be shot down. And if it happens it happens. It sucks and it hurts your ego but it happens and it doesn't mean you're a bad pilot. It just means there may be room for improvement. Unless of course your record is like 1:50...then you might be a bad pilot
Message Edited by Thradd on 06-29-2005 12:40 PM
Well, actually i have got about 40-50 kills to 0-1 deaths in the past month or so (I havent played much unfortunately). It gets boring REALLY quickly. Especially when all you are shooting down is Johnny Compos in their JSF armour hoping that because it is so unbalanced it will mitigate their laziness in actually bothering to learn how to fly.
CuchulainnDarklight wrote:
Thradd wrote:
I persoanlly think that anyone who flys and flys often and has a score of 20+:0 is full of it. No matter how good you are you will be shot down. It might be lag, it might be that damn token respec window, it be that it's 4am and you're not at your best, maybe you zigged when you should have zagged, maybe an NPC knocked something out and left you crippled, or maybe you just got bested. The point is that the law of averages says that you will be shot down. And if it happens it happens. It sucks and it hurts your ego but it happens and it doesn't mean you're a bad pilot. It just means there may be room for improvement. Unless of course your record is like 1:50...then you might be a bad pilot
Message Edited by Thradd on 06-29-2005 12:40 PM
Well, actually i have got about 40-50 kills to 0-1 deaths in the past month or so (I havent played much unfortunately). It gets boring REALLY quickly. Especially when all you are shooting down is Johnny Compos in their JSF armour hoping that because it is so unbalanced it will mitigate their laziness in actually bothering to learn how to fly.
Yeh, I regularly achieve +20:0 kill ratios and not that I count, but some nights I'm popping so many new pilots its just not fun so I don't count them.
Wha I do do though and heh...this maybe a little geeky, but hey I'm a geek so hawhaw etc, is take screenshots after I've had what I consider a good fight with someone. Even if I lose. I got a folder in my art folder on my computer with subfolders called "Leaph got toasted" and "Leaph did the Toasting". Thankfully I have more screenies in the latter but its just kind of to mark my respect for certain people I like flying with.
My future goal though is once I got more RAM in this piece of junk I call a computer, I'm going to see if I can run Fraps while dueling people occasionally and make a short film of my flying for all to see [if they're remotely interested].
Along with this, I also wish to make some 'how to fly' tuition videos. This random idea has arisen from the current lacking of anything else for me to do in JTLS so my head thought "well...if you run out of things to do...invent somthing". 
-Leaph [Plus I think a JTLS style tuition video/or in game duelign video would go pretty well to music like Intergalactic, by the Beastie Boys...erm..heh ]
PaceNebulon wrote:
I am going to whine a bit so get ready.
I wish that people would quit complaining about JSFs and other RoTW ships. Without these ships, my fellow neutral pilots and Iwould not have a viable dogfighting ship. Sure we can stack alot of guns on a krayt, but everyone knows that, so you last about 3 seconds as the true fighters (a-wings, x-wings, Advanceds, Interceptors etc.) attack you as soon as they see you. (ask the rebels we fought this weekend.) I fly a JSF in PvP and other than the optimal turning speed which give a slight advantage in a turning fight vs a similar engine, there is not that much difference than anyother dogfighter. Also, except for the smaller hitbox and second weapon slot, the heavy scyk is the better ship as it has more mass anda wider optimal turning speed range.(not sure about the new heavy rebel and Imp ships.)
Ya thats just common sense. Bit of a gamble doing otherwise.
Im still scared though.
Unless they're not very experienced and running crafted engines or something. Honestly ive been out of the PvP scene lately . WOrking on joining the 9 badge club. But i gotta tell ya that month break i took did some damage. I came back and that feeling of finesse i used to have was totally gone. Major reason why i decided to finish the other badges. Going back to flight school so to speak.
Ducimus wrote:
>>Did blew the oppy first ofcourse, missiles are annoying.
Ya thats just common sense. Bit of a gamble doing otherwise.
Im still scared though.
Man, even flying the RotW ships seems to have dulled my edge a bit. I mean, while I'm in a super-maneuverable ship like the Jedi Interceptor, I'm fine in PvP and whatnot. But when I switch back to my old X-wing, my advanced X-wing, my Firespray, etc, etc, etc, I don't have the finesse I did before. My shots are a bit sloppier, my maneuvering isn't as precise, and things feel too sluggish to be effective. I'm afraid if I encountered some gap in space/time that allowed the me pilot of pre-RotW flying my old X-wing encounter the post-RotW me in my Actis, the post-RotW me would lose...
Halyn wrote:
Ducimus wrote:
>>Did blew the oppy first ofcourse, missiles are annoying.
Ya thats just common sense. Bit of a gamble doing otherwise.
Im still scared though.
Man, even flying the RotW ships seems to have dulled my edge a bit. I mean, while I'm in a super-maneuverable ship like the Jedi Interceptor, I'm fine in PvP and whatnot. But when I switch back to my old X-wing, my advanced X-wing, my Firespray, etc, etc, etc, I don't have the finesse I did before. My shots are a bit sloppier, my maneuvering isn't as precise, and things feel too sluggish to be effective. I'm afraid if I encountered some gap in space/time that allowed the me pilot of pre-RotW flying my old X-wing encounter the post-RotW me in my Actis, the post-RotW me would lose...
Heh, I thought the same way, so I have been in my Opp most of the time, helping others and stuff. Jumped into my JSF the other day and...Wow!!! being used to the sluggish Opp, the JSF was a pure joy again.
Speaking of JSF, I went up against a reb who had one the other day, was interesting. I was in the RG Interceptor, with comparativly weak shields, we dogged for a bit, each got in a IR launch and I chaffed mine, he shunted his. End of the story, I managed to hit him once...course with that Cert 10 cannon I have strapped onto my Int... 
He was dead in the water. *giggle*
Never assume a lower mass ship with one gun does not have a large cannon
Was fun, but honestly, a pilot with better or equal skills to me should have had me. I have flow the JSF a lot, and against an RG Int equipped like mine is...I would slaughter it.
Oh wait.. i know...."Welcome to last month Rapax". right? heh.