How to enjoy playing with complete morons in 8 easy steps

[Daft Loon]

1 - Undergo some kind of minor surgery

2 - Get some prescription painkillers on account of #1

3 - Log in and find some complete morons, this is the easy part, just sit there in the captain's spot and they will find you

4 - Ready up scrub

5 - Ignore the morons, just let them do whatever and assume everything will be just fine

6 - Don't care when everything is not fine, this is where #2 helps, just keep flying

7 - Play some of the most fun guns of Icarus you've had in quite a while

8 - Win anyway because one of your opponents manages to ram themselves to death on your spire repeatedly

Based on a true story

[Solidusbucket]

Honestly, this is what I do now.

Alliance will help this.

Put Alliance into normal or novice mode. Let people join. Tell them a gun or let them run free. Win.

It doesn't work too well with skirmish but it works fine with Alliance.

[Schwalbe]

Almost everytime I use matchmaker solo I end up with a video.

[Solidusbucket]

Almost everytime I use matchmaker solo I end up with a video.

This game isn't good for PvP without a solid base of players.

We have the solid base of players. We just don't have an avenue to get new ones in - despite the efforts of practice / novice match / fight a.i

Muse fucked up.

We shoulda been able to fight A.I since the beggining. Even vets would love this because it lets us experiment with silly builds.

They fucked up. Alliance is a fix. A huge fix.

huge edit

MUSE

PLEASE - make a skirmish style alliance mode

where we can play against skirmish ships that use the A.I as repair people.

please
 
please.

emailing now

i need to be able to test builds.

[Squidslinger Gilder]

Nah, the true secret of fun in GOIO, whether with morons or not is...

Fly with Zuka...the end.

[Richard LeMoon]

Well, we have PvE in Skirmish now. It is rarely used. The main problem might be that it is called Novice Deathmatch and you are fighting Practice Goldfish A. Scrubs don't want to do that. It looks like a tutorial. They want 'real' matches. Change the name to PvE Deathmatch, Challenge, or 'Exterminate!' and change the ship names to 'rekt', 'Your Mom', 'Ownt', etc, and have them spit out random chat things like "goin to rek u!" "hax!" and "reportin u!".

Scrubs will never leave.

[Solidusbucket]

Yea, but you are forced to do it with another ship. I would use it all the time if I could play by myself. Kinda irritating. Would also be nice if they could supply you with an A.I pilot.

[Richard LeMoon]

Ah, good point. Will pass solo PvE Skirmish on to the devs.