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A word on the Meta. (more like.. more than a word AMIRITE!!)

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vyew:
Since the meta changes with time, there is no point complaining about it now. Just be patient for an interesting shake-up to happen (and there will be one.)

macmacnick:
I, personally, want to see Harpoon-mine Pyra become the meta. (I'm a horrible person.)

Omniraptor:
Be the change you want to see. All you have to do is win with a ship a lot, and it becomes meta.

Skrimskraw:
meta to me is being predictable.
when something is so reliable and used a lot it becomes predictable.
This is why metabreaking exists.
Meta stops being meta when the reliability of it goes away.
as we see the junker lost its spot on the scene when more teams started using carronades.
Metamidion is slowly fading away against higher dps ships and will eventually not be worth it, since the flying style is predictably agressive. Every team knows that to break the metamidion you have to kill it faster than it can kill yourself.
ships that have had great success with this is:
junker, mobula and spire.

all 3 ships that are both harder to master, and 2 of them harder to survive with. However practice makes master. The most impressive setup this game has seen is not 2 metamidions, it is however the mandarins double junker setup. The mandarins forced a lot of teams to think diffrently, and in their end days of competitive it was discovered that disable and balloon popping was the way to fight them.

Metamidion is an easy ship to steer and doesnt require any particular greater skill to have security in, but when you do the math and learn to pilot and work together properly. You will see the benefits of bringing ships that require more skill, awareness and crew capability over ships that are considered most reliable.

All I can say to every player, every clan and team is that the metamidion is a false sense of security, start working on other ships and you will see a rise in both performance and individual skill of the players. I find it a bit disturbing that some of our best gunners, pilots and engineers in this game is forced to play on metamidions. These players are far beyond simple gat mortar and will perform so much better on more advanced guns and ships.

Hoja Lateralus:
Firstly I feel that seing that 60-70% of ships in Hephaestus Challenge was pyramidions makes me think about game ballance and stuff. It's a bit disturbing.

Then again I understand that metas come and go, I'm not long enough in GOIO to have seen it personally but in many other, older and more competetive games (say, Starcraft) it also came and go so it's something we'll have to accept.

But one thing has my complete support - making tournaments go away from regular DM to CP or even CK to increase the opportunities. Even the regular 3v3 DM tournament (which I think is happening now) gives much more possibilities for support ships and builds.
I'd love to see a tournament with growing possibilities after matches, so say 3v3 tournament with division DM's, Silver only CP's and Gold only CK's. This would be something.

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