One man's opinion and nothing more:
If you have to color yourself blue, stand in the middle of your lawn naked, @#(! the probes directly from your ass, and do it while singing the theme song to Teletubbies in order to get a successful tp2 run *hands Jimen a can of blue body dye*
Being pissy and upset there Jimen is becoming a reoccuring theme with you. By this I mean that anger is going to burn you out, and expecting people will behave in a manner you find pleasing/correct is fraught with endless disappointment. It will drive you nuts at the very least and generally leads to an ealier exit to a promising career as a pilot. Make no mistake that after only six months of flying your already to the most posts are angry posts stage is a bad, bad sign that burned out I quit is next on the list. Stick around Ive come to like you... honest.
MrChaos
ps Phoenix you do need to work on this one btw, you been a pilot long enough now it should be a comic relief moment rather then the reason for a rant.
A commander is lucky when 80% of his figbee run knows when is the right time to undock, let alone rip to the correct tp2. Asking them to give themselves orders is pointless and in itself futile, especially when ONE pilot (who knows his/her stuff, mind you, because no way the tp2 scout is a newbie) can do the same for them in a second.
And running down a pilot in the gameplay forums just because he took the time and effort to make an attempt of educating the masses shows a serious lack of manners (I'm sure others will put this in a more blunt form for you, Jimen. After all, we failed badly in it with MrC ).
That was sweetness and light from end to end there Hermit....
Oh the tp2 drop episode in the squadgame how did you know? *looks down* damn skewered with my own sense of humor. fiddlesticks and oh poo!
Sincerely Jimen if it comes across as Im bitching at you I really truly am not, simply seen this happen/own all the t-shirts in the series comment is all. If you let the silliness of pick up games piss you off *sighs* it will make you go bug $#@! crazy
dunno what the problem w/ jimen is. giving attack orders is an excellent idea and i myself do it not only for tp2 drops but for miner o or anything in general.
you ever heard me say "if you are lost, press insert"? that's for all the 0's who have the best of intentions to help their team but alas, are too overwhelmed by all the stuff happening around them to know which direction to point their ship.
most of the time i get 2-3 newbies and a couple of vets hitting insert, and it gives me reassurance at least that someone is listening and will show up. it's one of the most important lessons i learned from flying under fufi, he gives lots of commands u can press insert to, its like playing on autopilot!
A Spathi's Axiom for Survival: "The only brave Spathi is a dead Spathi. RUN YOU FOOLS!"
I hate to say it, but I agree with P1. Make it easy for your team and the people who needs the help isn't reading the readmes if you get my meaning...
I decided to relive the days gone by in my new blog.
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Remember, what I say is IMO always. If I say that something sucks, it actually means "I think it sucks" OK?
iirc, the only way to choose which teleporter in a single sector to rip to is attack commands (or in the case of srs, need repairs), so Jimen, please stfu as it is good advice (I think...)
Can the tp2 dropped target himself, call the attack order and then have all the fbs rip to his tp2? Not sure why it wouldn't work for ships to so I assume it would...
I'm not contesting any of that crap. I'm taking issue with the fact that instead of teaching people how to ripcord, Phoenix of all people is instead taking it upon himself to try to teach the tp2 scouts (a job that is typically only given to vets, because voobs screw it up in the most hilarious ways). I know Fwiffo saw me a few times back when I still sucked and failed at tp2 rips even with an Insert order, because figuring out where to rip to was trivial compared to the fact that I had no idea what to load on my figbee, no idea when and where to launch, and only a vague idea of what I was supposed to do when I get there.
I'm a big believer in improved training for newbies, and the fact of the matter is that endgame strategies are hardly mentioned at all in AFS. Maybe they are in Cadet II, maybe they aren't. I don't know, just like I don't know when the next Cadet session is. But "where to rip" is hardly the biggest problem facing a newbie who's only seen a couple of tp2 figbee runs in his entire time playing, and even if you've done it correctly before, it's still really easy to screw up if you have no idea what you're doing. That's why, whether there's an insert order or not, there's almost always a # or two who launches too early from a forward base and gets eyed, launches too late and misses the opportunity to rip, rips to the wrong TP because they pressed the rip button too early, or tries to walk to the enemy base on autopilot, or doesn't mount cruise boost. Talking about the orders like they magically fix all problems is naive, and it gets on my nerves to see someone making a thread for educating people...but targeting it at vets and voobs instead of the people who actually need all the help they can get? I had to fail quite a few tp2 runs before I figured out how to do it right by learning from my mistakes.
Hell, I've long thought about writing an endgame strategies guide and submitting it to AFS or something myself...with the caveat that I can't really do it well, because I don't really have much experience or knowledge about any of them except the Sup endgame tactics, and I'm sure Training Zone guys would find some way to forget or mistplace a crappy "Guide to Galving and TP2s, by some random 5".
Last edited by Jimen on Thu Dec 24, 2009 5:13 pm, edited 1 time in total.
It is nearly impossible to teach every newbie you might have on your team how to give himself the correct orders. The easiest way to deal with it, is a commander who gives the orders to drop (telling everyone on the team we are starting), and a tp2 scout who gives an attack order when the probe comes online.
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