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The Pit / Re: Matchmaking is a complete disaster.

« on: June 14, 2015, 03:25:56 pm »

While I know the matches set up can be one sided, particularly in realm of experience among captains and crew, I feel that its important to have these sort of mixing so that the new folks can learn what does and does not work. I mean, if they only pit vets against vets and newbies against newbies, then you are going to have a significant disparity between skill in the community that would be very difficult to  correct otherwise.

I know it can be discouraging for newer captains and crews to get rolled over in a match, but its the aftermath that is important: will the winning team give helpful tips at the end for improving or gloat? Will the newer players rage quit or take note on what happened and adapt, learn, and seek out some advice? It's all dependent on the player(s) themselves and the over all community that we as a whole want to have in the game. 

I don't know what the nature of your team imbalance was, be it experience, lack of crew, or people quitting in the game, but I'd like to think that the general idea behind what matchmaking does is good at its core as an idea. Maybe they could put in something to allow for a certain number of level matched games for a crew/captain before just flipping to random as it does currently?


Hope you have better luck in the next game dude.

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Feedback and Suggestions / Lobby Speak Indicators.

« on: June 06, 2015, 12:11:52 am »

Hey Devs!

I have a suggestion for the lobby:

If you could have the "speaker" indicator that appears when someone does voice chat a different color to indicate "open chat" and "team only" chat, that would be great. I think it would be very helpful for people to make sure that they are not blabbering to the opposing side their plans orthat they are not just talking to their team when they are trying to address everyone in the match.

Thanks!

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The Gallery / Re: GOIO memes

« on: June 05, 2015, 11:59:40 pm »

Just to get us back on topic . . . .



Lol XD

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The Gallery / Re: GOIO memes

« on: June 05, 2015, 07:04:46 pm »

Keep in mind there is an asymmetry here. I had two bad experiences total with vet crew in my early days. Both were problems with communication. I have enough stories of novice pilots not listening to fill the Vatican Secret Archives, most of them are pilots who are told X is bad, X is easily avoidable, and they do X again, repeatedly. Usually I'm nice but sometimes I make my point more grumpily. Like the guy who was told ramming was a bad idea in a metamidion and went on to do it five more times getting us killed on four out of the five occasions. Or the guy who wouldn't turn impact bumpers off and couldn't understand why his ship couldn't bring guns to bear even after I explained it, three times. Or the guy who set up an ambush, on our enemies spawn, when both enemy ships were in the middle of the canyons over a kilometre away killing our ally, and I informed them politely for the second time, and so they rage quit. Or the guy who brought double flak pyra in spite of me telling them over and over that it is a weak build. Or the guy who wouldn't turn off hydrogen. And on, and on, and on. None of these things are difficult to avoid (the instruction 'press the one key and the balloon will stop taking damage' is about as simple as it gets). Making these mistakes once is fair enough, folks gotta learn, but so many players think they know better than the person with hundreds or thousands of games under their belt. And way to many people pilot without sufficient experience.

Vets who bash novices and back seat drive suck, but considering the crap we have to deal with this is, on the whole, an exceptionally tolerant community. Sounds like you had a crappy experience Major-Malice, and I'm sorry to hear about that. But keep in mind when you get terse comments from experienced pilots that they have virtually no means of controlling who they get paired with (there is no kick function), match maker frequently (perhaps more frequently) pairs them with very derpy folks, and you are the third person today who they have had to politely inform that hwacha galleons with mortars in the light guns aren't the best idea ever. Oh and the last two didn't change their guns even though they were given a careful explanation of the damage mechanics. Oh and one of them said they would, but changed their mind because Lion gun OP shut up 720 noscope pro mlg swag. Then they spent the next 15 minutes blaming said vet because without piercing damage said galleon couldn't get a kill. Also they kept ramming. The mountain. With moonshine. In reverse. And then they ate a puppy.

It's no big deal. I just posted that image because I thought other folks would be able to relate to dealing with back seat captains. I didn't mean for this to turn into "Vets/newbies gripe about their bad experiences with each other" XD. Evidently I shouldn't of posted it since it seems to have rankled some feathers.

Anyway, it was a bad experience and yes the community as a whole is very welcoming and kind, but every once and a while you'll get some jerk be it newbie or vet and that was the basis for the joke. Everyone just relax! Let's get back to the memes.

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The Gallery / Re: GOIO memes

« on: June 05, 2015, 02:38:12 pm »

As a newer player: That moment when the "helpful suggestions" by the veteran on your crew turn into an endless barrage of harsh criticism of you as a captain.



Gotta love back seat captains, right?

yeah well look at it from a vet's point of view. A vet is watching you slam straight into a wall at full throttle but it seems to be invisible to your noob eyes.

You warn against it but you just keep slamming into that wall and you're scratching your head. The vet is telling you why, but none of it goes in.

something like that understandably drives a person crazy.

Sounds like there's a personal story in that one.

It wasn't the dude's suggestions that were upsetting. I like suggestions, tips, tricks and as much help as possible from the vets! .  Its just when a vet (or I am sure some of you vets could agree: some crew member) is trying to take the "helm" from you as the captain and disregards what you are saying or asking completely. You know what I mean? Back seat driver sort of annoyance. :/

Lol, the pic just captured that sort of transition from welcoming and really valuing the vet's experience to "really dude, you're just going to micro manage and talk down to us all?"

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The Gallery / Re: GOIO memes

« on: June 05, 2015, 01:19:38 pm »

As a newer player: That moment when the "helpful suggestions" by the veteran on your crew turn into an endless barrage of harsh criticism of you as a captain.



Gotta love back seat captains, right?

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The Lounge / First Encounter with the [POSH] Clan

« on: June 04, 2015, 07:23:53 pm »

Played against them last weekend and to be honest this was what was going through my head the entire time they were playing it up in character:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qegdFrS-CwA

Lol. Maybe Professor Elemental and his ape man servant "Jeffrey" should be an Easter egg in the game?

Anyway, figure you folks would get a kick out of it!

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The Lounge / Re: Introductions!

« on: June 04, 2015, 07:17:45 pm »

Major-Malice here! Love the game so far, and am pleasantly surprised to find that there is an RP community in it!