Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 12:56 am
Just shooting my opinion here, but scouts can be the MOST fun of all the ships. First off, fun is a relative term, so what may be fun for you may not be fun for others.Moto wrote:QUOTE (Moto @ Aug 3 2010, 12:25 PM) Yeah, much of it was helpful. Although as a beginner, the last ship I want to fly is a scout. I understand they have a vital role and all, but honestly they are the least fun to fly at least from my perspective. Actually, I think I have acquired an unhealthy hatred of them.
It took me awhile to appreciate the scout when I first joined allegiance, so I do know what you're talking about. You want to jump in a ship and go Rambo style, guns a-blazing. But there-in lies the problem, as a newbie (no disrespect intended) we, the community, know that you will have a hard time learning how to fly. Flying in a straight line is hard enough, but add in advanced maneuver things like strafing, rolls, loops, shooting, firing missles, chaffs, probes, prox mines, and boosting-- hard becomes near impossible.
Most of the community stresses that newbies should learn to fly scouts before anything else. Here is my beliefs as to why: While you are experimenting with trying to roll, turn and fly where you want to go, you as a scout have a huge scan range (the best in the game of all ship types). The community expects you to fly circles in space as you're learning, you are also being a watchful eye in your area of space passively. For this aspect alone, your team and commanders will appreciate you that much more. I can't tell you you how many times I've heard players in-game state if that newbie wasn't in a scout and eyeballed my (bomber, heavy troop transport, miner) we could have ______! All of the rolls and turns that fighters and interceptors can do, scouts can do. The 1 thing that the scout lacks (generally speaking, not all factions' scouts) is boosting. You want to shoot straight, do it in a scout! You want to fly a loop around our home station, do it in a scout! You want to re-map your keyboard flight controls in real-time, do it in a scout!
Scouts are the most versatile ships in allegiance! You want to go from offense to defense? switch out your gat-1 with nanite-1 and repair our miner or friendly interceptor who just saved your neck out there! No other ship (except in the belter faction) can do that! You are a mobile repair unit. People love friendly nanites! People despise enemy nanites! On any given short term mission what is the biggest target? The nanite! The nanite is the scout that has a nanite 1 or 2 equipped and is keeping the mission's true target alive, whether it be an incoming enemy bomber or enemy miner on its way to dock. how many times during a game do you hear the voice chats "Attack Nanites!" or "Defend Scouts!"?
Scouts can be that Rambo style ship you want to fly in, once you know how to use them properly and have the proper equipment in cargo. For example, give fwiffo a scout full of dumbfire missles and chances are, you have 1 dead miner.
Fwiffo is a known and celebrated miner hunter. His ship of choice is the trusted scout. Mid-late games (some of them), Advanced and Heavy Scouts become available. Some of these ships are deadly especially in the hands of people willing to fly them. Two good examples are the Technoflux Heavy Scout which employs 3 gun mounts (Same amount of gun turrets available to Heavy Interceptors) and has a shield AND light-booster. The 2nd example is The Rixian Unity Heavy Scout which employs a gun that has an incredible range.
Finally, scouts are excellent utility ships. They can deploy those prox mines on alephs or when your being chased. Scouts can deploy probes which help find enemies. Late games, the scout class deploys teleport probes for coordinated attacks! (TP1 and TP2)
I consider myself to be a utility pilot most times. I'm usually in a scout. Hell, some games I play nothing but a scout. But again, fun is relative.
QUOTE Oh yeah, exactly what I wanted. Maybe include ways to contact them?[/quote]
You can contact any other allegiance member via the forum. If you look up at the top of the website, in your first blue horizontal bar, click My Controls. It leads to another site where you can Compose New Message.
