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I have premium account, more kills and assists than momo321 (he doesn’t have premium; i know because he’s my best friend and he would have told me if he had) and yet he has more points than me. So, the 1 million dollar question is: what’s the logic in that? How does the game distribute the points? Apparently it’s not about results because if it were, then I would have more points than momo321.
The last game we played together I had better results than his and I got 6060 points, while he, with worse results (kills and asts) got more than 6800 points!
For example: Turrets. If you kill a turret in PVE you get 50 points. When you kill an enemy ship (even a boss) you get 20 points. So basically saying, if someone kills 10 turrets, and you kill 15 ships you are falling miserably behind in points when in compariso to the turret killer.
Also, in blackwood for example, if you give the last shot on those navstations you get 150 points, if you assisted you get 50 points, and if im not mistaken also counts as only 1 kill. And if you only buff assisted you get even less than that. Each beacon capture earns 100 points, so, if you kill 15 adds (enemy ships) and your friend capture 3 beacons (gets the point for it) he will have the same score as you by only capturing the beacons. Basically that covers up for everithing.
*** 20 poins per kill is the same for ANY kind of ship, no matter if they are veterans, elite, boss, when they die they only give 20 points to the one that delivered the last hit, and a little bit less to the ones that assisted with dammage or buffs.
Well, I’ll say it like the Americans - I’ll cross that bridge when I get to it. For the moment I’m satisfied with the pve option - that way I won’t have to face 6 ranks higher and/or cheaters who never die and/or make crazy damage that wouldn’t make without a cheat.
Theres no “cheaters that never die” And no “Crazy dammage that wouldnt make without a cheat”. It is all about how you pilot your vessel, how you fit it, and how much hits you can actually land on the enemy.
“cheaters that never die” = PPL tend to use lazers to hurt them, tbh, pratically all good pilots stack a LOT of thermal resistance due to the fact that 99% of the newbies love to use lasers, and lasers do what? Thermal dammage, so they will really take long to die. Try to hit them with diferent elements (but beware those weapons are projectile weapons, so you must have a good aim to land the full hit on them). Also, ion emmiters for example, hit crap dammage on inties if you cant maintain an interrupted contact for at least 3 seconds (very hard to do against good ceptor pilots) Frig lazers hit like a fluffy rabbit being handled you by another bigger fluffy rabbit, and also requires constant contact to do any real dammage. Pulse lazers (ceptors thermal lazer wep) have spread, something ppl dont think that is bad, but it is, since you end up missing most of your shots due to high spread.
“Crazy dammage that wouldnt make without a cheat” = If your ship lacks the resistance to the element you are being hit, and lacks the hull/shield to withstand the dammage you will be brokent in two with a single shot. If someone has a very steady hand, he can do monstrous dammage to anything even ceptors using ion emmiter. Or a skilled pilot with low latency using singularity cannon can destroy you in 2 shots IF they crit and you have no resist against EM damage. If you are a interceptor pilot and keep flying in straight line, standing still, doing predictable maneuvers or maneuvering in the wrong axis which doesnt make a diference for the attacker. Its all about Your flying skills, Your ship fitting, Your hability to hit the enemy verus the enemy flying skills, the enemy ship fitting, and his ability to hit you. If the enemy is better than you, dont say they are using cheats, asume you need training, and go fly all the way from T1 so you learn the basics for PVP, then go moving up the tiers, and things will start to get hairy and hairy.
Ive seen gunships dying in 2 seconds against my gunship, and ive seen gunships that i alone couldnt break it before backup arives and trash me, so i had to run, also, where you are matters a lot, dont think that jumping in the middle of 15 enemy ships with a xxxx fed engie will let you alive.
If you ever DO get into PvP, do go at it from T1, don’t do like the rest of the Tier rushers and charge at it from T3+… You will fail miserably and force your more experienced team members to carry you in the match… which, more often than not, does NOT work.
As oryngton stated, do that way please, otherwise you WILL hate the PVP of this game your entire life, because you will fail miserably due to lack of knowledge and skill.
