I suppose I'm preaching to the choir on this forum, but still, sorry for x-posting from General.
Apart from the occasional inability to find matches, for me, at least, CQC delivers.
Learning to fight with these tiny ships has been a rewarding challenge. A challenge which grows daily as I work my way slowly and methodically up the rankings.
I remember my first few weeks thinking that everyone must be using cheats: How could so and so take me down so quickly...?
And I remember the times I sat in frustration staring at the respawn screen, gritting my teeth or seething as my KTD ratio plummeted into the low 30s.
But gradually, as I played and learned the maps, and more importantly learned to appreciate the foibles of the four available, fragile ships I realised that it was my own rather humbling lack of skill that was leading to my repeated and rather abrupt destruction.
Then, I can't pinpoint the time exactly because the transition was so gentle and almost imperceptible, the frustration began to melt away, bit by bit, to at first a grudging acceptance and then, most recently to anticipated excitement.
I have learned the names, if not the faces of my almost daily adversaries and have watched them rank up some faster, some slower than me. I have started to gain respect for those whose skills impress and those whose strategies confound and yet also for those single digit ranked beginner players who sit at the bottom of the table game after prestige dominated game but NEVER EVER GIVE IN. I see them start to climb the ranks as I did a few months ago and hope that they are going to soon be having as much fun as I am.
I don't play much, just five hours a week or so, so I doubt I will ever become Elite, but as I head towards my first prestige and soon after Champion, I look back and think what a wonderful, learning experience it has been for me.
Learn to put aside your doubts, learn to stop blaming others, learn humility and respect for rather than envy of others' skills and, most of all, have a blast as you feel yourself become more competent day by day.
For those of you who are struggling at CQC... do not give up. It is perhaps one of the most rewarding yet under appreciated aspects of Elite dangerous -all but an afterthought, some might say- but one thing is for sure, CQC Delivers!
Apart from the occasional inability to find matches, for me, at least, CQC delivers.
Learning to fight with these tiny ships has been a rewarding challenge. A challenge which grows daily as I work my way slowly and methodically up the rankings.
I remember my first few weeks thinking that everyone must be using cheats: How could so and so take me down so quickly...?
And I remember the times I sat in frustration staring at the respawn screen, gritting my teeth or seething as my KTD ratio plummeted into the low 30s.
But gradually, as I played and learned the maps, and more importantly learned to appreciate the foibles of the four available, fragile ships I realised that it was my own rather humbling lack of skill that was leading to my repeated and rather abrupt destruction.
Then, I can't pinpoint the time exactly because the transition was so gentle and almost imperceptible, the frustration began to melt away, bit by bit, to at first a grudging acceptance and then, most recently to anticipated excitement.
I have learned the names, if not the faces of my almost daily adversaries and have watched them rank up some faster, some slower than me. I have started to gain respect for those whose skills impress and those whose strategies confound and yet also for those single digit ranked beginner players who sit at the bottom of the table game after prestige dominated game but NEVER EVER GIVE IN. I see them start to climb the ranks as I did a few months ago and hope that they are going to soon be having as much fun as I am.
I don't play much, just five hours a week or so, so I doubt I will ever become Elite, but as I head towards my first prestige and soon after Champion, I look back and think what a wonderful, learning experience it has been for me.
Learn to put aside your doubts, learn to stop blaming others, learn humility and respect for rather than envy of others' skills and, most of all, have a blast as you feel yourself become more competent day by day.
For those of you who are struggling at CQC... do not give up. It is perhaps one of the most rewarding yet under appreciated aspects of Elite dangerous -all but an afterthought, some might say- but one thing is for sure, CQC Delivers!
