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Top pilots
Dutch Vanya:
1: You can always try 100%, and if everyone did that pub games would be perfect, not the case but it's a nice sentiment anyway.
2: I just use the amount of steam hours i have as a reason for my passionate opinions.
2.5: This threads entire purpose is ego-stroking.
3: Clearly you don't play the game for the exact same social experience as I. That is all.
Patched Wizard is much better at writing down his points coherently. But if you really can't grasp why all this frustrates me, then i'll get started on my essay.
AbbyTheRat:
Hey, in my opinion the top pilots are, Spud Nick, GoldenGlade and more that my tired and unwell brain is struggling to come up with.
We should leave this thread for those who we think is a good pilot by our standard and celebrate that instead of debating whose method of judging who is the top pilot. Could open a new thread if you guys want to see if you could come up with a method of ranking pilots and leave this thread for praising our top pilot. (in our opinion)
ShadedExalt:
--- Quote from: AbbyTheRat on December 14, 2014, 05:28:17 pm ---Hey, in my opinion the top pilots are, Spud Nick, GoldenGlade and more that my tired and unwell brain is struggling to come up with.
We should leave this thread for those who we think is a good pilot by our standard and celebrate that instead of debating whose method of judging who is the top pilot. Could open a new thread if you guys want to see if you could come up with a method of ranking pilots and leave this thread for praising our top pilot. (in our opinion)
--- End quote ---
Thank you for beating me to the punch Abby. I was about to say the same thing.
Top pilots? Gotta go with Jub Jub.
Dementio:
Until one has flown with all the pilots in questions as ally and enemy for a considerable amount of time, no ranking is even slightly correct, as the pilot skill also includes communication between the entire team (crew and allies) and heavily depends on the position of your allies and wether they are doing well or not as well.
When it comes to raw flying skill in 1v1, I say, the top pilots are (in no particular order):
Lueosi, Melon, Queue Fox P., Thomas, LazyPandas, Jub Jub, with Heldigris showing potential.
When it comes to pilot coordination and positioning, dependent on ally, I say, the top pilots are (in no particular order):
Sammy and Frogger
Skrimskraw and Fiasco Total/Crafeksterty
LazyPanads and JubJub
Pilot communication in terms of micro management is also important (and slightly ship/build dependent), but seeing as everybody only has one and the same pilot when they crew or only clan related pilots when it comes to competitive crewing, there is little way of ranking that.
Regarding wether pub matches have anything to do with this subjective ranking, I would say "no". I too have played pub matches to a fair amount and learned a majority of tricks there, but public games felt like they had a limit. When I entered the competitive scene I felt like developing in whole new directions, increasing my own skill level further.
In public matches one can see an individual skill better than in competitive, but that is of no matter since the individual skill does not best the collective skill of an entire ship or team.
In competitive the crews know exactly what their job is, they can execute their job with nigh perfection, leaving the pilot with the ability to concentrate more on the game itself. In pub matches this is not possible, because maybe somebody is not listening, not telling important stuff, forgetting to get into the required position, forgetting what the required position was, and on and on. Random pub crews will (should) perform worse than the pilots own competitive crew in comparision.
Mix that together with the ally and enemy having the same problems or even having pilots with these problems and you get: A Pilot.
A pilot so general to all and everything else that determining a skill difference between multiple pilots is not that easy when they operate on a roughly similar level.
In competitive you can see every little detail and are able to judge upon that. As Vanya said, in competitive, pilots still do an impressive amount of silly mistakes, but because the crew is to be expected to not screw up it is only the pilots fault. In pub matches a damaged turning engine or different gunnery behaviour is a little bit outside the pilots control...
Honorable Mention to Crafeksterty for his continious effort to try and make the Spire work. That Flakspire is particularly awesome.
Kamoba:
Dutch, I don't think the thread is entirely here for stroking the ego's of competitive players, I think the problem is the majority of opinions which originate from the people who take part in and appreciate competitive players...
Back on track!
Captains I'd like to give kudo's to, Captain Silverst
Very controlled, very tactical and planned, always able to spot his own mistakes, always striving to better his own choices, while also trying to give hints and tips to his own crew and allies! Oh and he is incredibly aware of his surroundings at all times.
Captain Swiftpaw. I've only played with Swift a few times, but each time has been relaxed and friendly environment in pub matches, definitely one guy I need to fly with more often.
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