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HamsterIV:
Some times when I take the helm I am calm and collected, other times I am frothing mad. Last night for example I was assigned by match making to a novice pilot with a stupid build. He left the game after the first hwacha volley took out his engines, and stuck me and another engineer with his mess. After loosing the game the other team started bragging about how it was too easy. So I took the open captain's slot with a blender fish and some unkind thoughts running through my head.

With an AI crew and a fortunate mid-game gunner join I was able to eek out a 5-0 win. During the game yelling obscenities at the AI and defiantly flying angry. In some way I think the rage contributes to my piloting skill or in some instances the tone of my voice causes my crew to carry out my orders faster. On several occasions I have been told to "calm down it is just a game," but I propose that the rage fueled beast on the helm is part of the game. So long as it doesn't devolve into personal attacks or harassment putting some fury into your orders is a good thing.

I have flown with enough members of this community to know captains run the spectrum of calm to extremely pissed off, and that mood can even vary by the minute. What have been your experiences with anger on the helm? Is it helpful or harmful to your role as a captain?

RethBurn:
So when I started out in the game, I kept getting angry and doing bad choices, the rage fueling into my own folly. That was when the Flakfish was viable, and I was taught to calm myself and play collected. I started climbing levels and I started to understand just what it meant to actually play the game.

When close-range became a large part of the meta, I started ofcourse, delving with it too. In the start I didn't like it, it was too close to random. I felt it didn't matter if I was a good pilot, so I just got angry when flying and yelling at the enemy ships. Then I realized, that, when I put my emotion and channelled all of that energy into my piloting, I became better. I started thinking how to be relentless and realize that maybe close-range wasn't so random at all. I started feeling glad about my discoveries, and the rage turned into excitement. When I was flying with passion for the game, I flew better than without.

I think it depends on what I do. When I'm pissed off, I become a better squid pilot. If I'm calm, I can do sniping and precision flight. Frankly enough, I become a terrible pyra-pilot when angry.

Indreams:
I've gotten angry in games. Pretty recently too. Hamster knows. Btw, thank you for your sympathies.

On my bad days, I get on my pyramidion, moonshine, and ram everything until I feel better. My crew complains about Engine health and gun arcs, but I don't care.

If the game makes me mad, I take time off with books and stuff.

I've flown under a few captains and flown with variety of crews. Some are falling asleep on the gun, some are cracking jokes, some are just silent (the worst), and some are drunk (the best).

But I've yet to fly with a blatantly angry people.

sparklerfish:
Flying angry is too exhausting for me.  I can only do it for a couple matches then I have to stop piloting.  Mostly because me being angry while piloting is generally caused by crew who are ignoring me or trolling me or being rude, or are just frustratingly incompetent, and I can't take too many matches in a row of that.

Omniraptor:
Couple nights ago I had had a long day, wanted to unwind a bit/not deal with annoying coworkers. Got an engineer who insisted on bringing mallet/buff hammer/extinguisher despite loadout recommendation, yelled at them, still feel bad about it :( If you're out there reading this, I'm sorry..

It's just a game, attacking, saying someone is incompetent/can't do their job is not acceptable when they just want to have fun.

Regarding dq, IMO it's best when a captain sounds calm but has a tone like they care about what happens on the ship. Rage fueled beast on helm is definitely cool as long as they're a good pilot and don't berate crew directly/use slurs. Much better/more fun than a silent pilot.

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