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Squidslinger Gilder:
Not worth expending the time and energy to try and explain things when half the time they won't understand anyways till they experience it. So I change my ship to one I'm more confident with keeping alive without their help. Or one they can't screw up. Flamer/Mort Squid is a great example of this. You can't very much screw up a flame thrower and the mortar requires a target in front of it to get angle so they can't sit there on the gun doing nothing. Bout the only thing you need to talk to them about is if one of them takes something like buff, extinguish, chem.

SaintR.L.:

--- Quote from: Gilder Unfettered on July 21, 2014, 05:17:44 pm ---Not worth expending the time and energy to try and explain things when half the time they won't understand anyways till they experience it. So I change my ship to one I'm more confident with keeping alive without their help. Or one they can't screw up. Flamer/Mort Squid is a great example of this. You can't very much screw up a flame thrower and the mortar requires a target in front of it to get angle so they can't sit there on the gun doing nothing. Bout the only thing you need to talk to them about is if one of them takes something like buff, extinguish, chem.

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The moment you mentioned "squid" and "noob" together all I see disaster. What's that? You have hull armor? Nope, no one's on the hull!!! *ship explodes*

Squidslinger Gilder:
Noobs are fine on squids as long as the pilot doesn't fly stupid with it. If they aren't competent on it then you can simply just avoid combat till you have the advantage. In 2v2s it means letting your ally take the brunt of the assault. Which means your ally will hate you but theres not much you can do. If you engage you'll die faster and it will be a loss either way. If you take another ship and they can't handle it, same result. So in cases where the crew is extremely weak, just needs the pilot to make up for them. Only ship that can do that is the Squid and even then its not good enough.

obliviondoll:
I'm still a relatively new player myself (haven't hit level 4 in anything yet, but close in all roles).

That said, my usual routine is to ask in the lobby if any of my crew have mics, and to only use voice when someone I'm with is also doing the same. Also, at the beginning of a match, I tend to start with just a quick weapon overview and "any questions, feel free to ask. I don't know what I'm doing."

Piemanlives:
I'm surprised no one noticed I said:


--- Quote from: Piemanlives on July 21, 2014, 06:05:16 am ---ranting about why the howitzer is far better than the field gun etc. etc.

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