Developers should implement a system of “rewards and punishments”, one that works and really punish you when you do things wrong, in a way that it hurts so much that you avoid doing it again.
remember the friendly fire jericho torpedoes? oh god…
FYI against skilled opponents mines are the worst choice, as they actually hurt you more than they hurt the opponent. I and many others use mines to both spot the frigate as well as do extra damage to the frigate when needed.
The key is just to hit reverse, wait until they’re closer, then drop the mines. It seems to work fine for me. Too many LRF’s sit in a minefield, it’s sad to see. If I have to drop mines, I kill him and get away from those mines. They’re like poison.
Oh yes there is ^.^ Just need to know how to hit them
Though when they are moving they are very hard to hit.
Singularity and missiles, those are your options. Shrapnel can take them out but it’s slower. Everything else sucks.
I went to the RU formus “Ask the Devs” section. Seems like next patch will do smth. with Sector battles… I hope its Corp-Wars.
The reticle will be “fixed” but customization won’t happen yet. Maybe it’ll just go back to what we had three weeks ago.
Are you all sure about the Torpedo killing off Friendly ships ?
I guess I may have to pay attention when by the beacon as one of those torpedo’s goes off…if its Friend or Foe. I know when its Foe… as my shield disappears or I am blown to bits…
You get hit by it? Anyway, friendly fire is off. Feel free to fire at friendly beacons. I have, the missile would get there before my guard.
I think friendly fire should be on once you hit Tier 3. You should also lose a LOT of points for killing a friendly. This “should” teach people to pay attention in battles. Also, it would stop a lot of the Torp spam on beacons when friendlies are there.
It would make double teaming a ship dangerous, since your ally could kill you just as easily as your enemy.
Well I personally prefer Friendly Fire in most games I play (those that offer it that is). It adds that extra heightened awareness to the game…gets your adrenaline pumping. It makes better pilots in general as you HAVE to pay attention, or you are going to lose money (and yes make it so you CAN go into the negative in a match if you kill too many friendlies). Maybe just add a Hardcore Mode that has this like a lot of games do. I would LOVE to play Realistic mode matches with Friendly Fire. It would make matches Epic in my opinion.
I wouldn’t mind friendly fire coming back somehow. I say somehow because there would need to be adjustments to some things, mainly warnings [though ever since the nuke became enemy dmg only, they never changed the warning pings to tell you if it’s allied or enemy :/]. As for punishments, I don’t think keeping people from playing would be a good idea, because you know how much it will happen anyhow, and… well, we need players.
Also, [going back] Luckyo’s comment about minefields: it’s true. But most of the pilots aren’t that smart, so I still use them to effect 
I don’t think I’ve ever actually seen a NASA member disconnect.
I don’t think I’ve ever actually seen a NASA member disconnect.
First time i got screwed by servers ( think it was 0.9.3) and i could not reconnect no matter what, i got reported by someone
First time i got screwed by servers ( think it was 0.9.3) and i could not reconnect no matter what, i got reported by someone
Hope that wasn’t me. There was this one time I was having a bad day, constant 2v2s and people throwing in white flags saying ‘oh we cant fight them, theyre corp members’.
Someone disconnected right at ship launch and I was very not happy. After I won [ha, I *can* be a good pilot], I reported, then realized maybe I shouldn’t have because ^.
What happens when you get reported anyways? Obviously you get some sort of message.
Hope that wasn’t me. There was this one time I was having a bad day, constant 2v2s and people throwing in white flags saying ‘oh we cant fight them, theyre corp members’.
Someone disconnected right at ship launch and I was very not happy. After I won [ha, I *can* be a good pilot], I reported, then realized maybe I shouldn’t have because ^.
What happens when you get reported anyways? Obviously you get some sort of message.
Yeah, but we sorted out, I provided logs and we figured it out that it was not my fault
What happens when you get reported anyways?
A GM sees the report, then handles according to game rules and/or how bad his mood is I think.
I got told that I’m getting reported for hacking once. Apparently no one told him that consistent hacking of his ship to pieces with weapons and missiles is something you’re supposed to counterplay, not tell GM to do something about.
I don’t think I’ve ever actually seen a NASA member disconnect.
Kipps gets DC’d on almost a daily basis. We had a few WPK members that actually suffered from the same fate, as well.
Thats a nice sollution.
But in real modes that wouldnt be enough, because if u kill someone with friendly fire you are not just causing dammage to that player, but to the entire team. Imagine that you are the one carrying the team , and some SoB blows his only int to oblivion, what would happen? most likely the team would lose. So the penalty should be MUCH higher in real mode.
And, to prevent that storm of torpedoes every game should be real mode, so when u kill a torpedoer or sniper, it stays dead, but if this mode is extended to all games just -100 points would be to low penalty.
But with both in place (friendly fire and real mode), games would be more about tactics, and skill rather than a crowd of inties going wild, slamming their faces everywhere. Squad composition would make a bigger diference, patience would be rewarded.
Also, that DSR crap should be removed from the game, cause ppl look to much that, and many ppl that have high DSR are bad players/teamplayers. They are only kill stealers and ppl who steal a few kills and then hide the rest of the fight to increase DSR…
Really, really support for this…I can’t believe how many times i’ve been focusing on targets like a beacons in domination etc…just to see that i’m the only one trying to get it…While some high DSR players (and ESB among them) just camp somewhere looking for easy kills, trying to not die (OMG OMG this will ruin my DSR…) Remove that stupid DSR form the game pls.
remember the friendly fire jericho torpedoes? oh god…
Yes, I do. FF on Torpedoes should NEVER EVER come back.
Think about griefers etc.
Also there are not only those LRF that just dont care if a mate is in the blast radius, sometimes you just cant see it. Like when an inty is following the Torpedo or happens to be on the other side of the target.
YOU WOULD NOT LOVE IT!
I also support removing DSR from the game. It encourages selfish play, kill stealing and rage.
One good thing it does, it teaches you to survive and finish off targets, if you want to work for it. Both is a good thing to learn, but it has just become an e-peen contest and should be removed from the game.
The only time it is “useful” is when you get DSR 900 teammates on your team, than you already know you cannot depend on them. In some ways, it is good to have, but I can’t say I like the system. Maybe it would be for the better if it would be gone, perhaps game would be more fun oriented.
Same here - DSR should be removed.
Spent alot of time last night chasing a certain high DSR ranked player around the map - He did nothing what so ever to help his team, just ran like a girl to try and preseve his DSR
Exactly, this is the point where it gets a bit ridiculous.
Like I said in my previous post I would LOVE for a Hardcore option which is Realistic, with Friendly Fire. Make killing a friendly take away as many points as you get from killing an enemy. Yes this could have griefer, but the few that would be there wouldn’t matter to me. Besides the bad players would probably avoid Hardcore mode anyways. I REALLY want this option. I would leave mine on Hardcore all the time.
Exactly, this is the point where it gets a bit ridiculous.
I even got called a n00b after killing him as well - Obviously he didnt like loosing his precise DSR !!! :lol: