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Yeah these posts have a habit of being heated... still think I should be said though. However these reoccurring posts must mean something right? people don't complain about nothing?
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Right, here's the thing. I'man 80's kid. In my day, games were HARD. Like, hardly anyone ever finished them hard. Elite, which I first played on my Atari ST in about 89(?) was an absolute female dog. Docking, for starters... The first goal in Elite was a docking computer, that, right there, saved youmore deaths than any other single module. to date, the Coriolis station of 1984 is the grand daddy of all gankers. CMDR Potter will never reach that number of ganks. Ever. Next, was the escape pod. Because if you died in Elite, you died. An escape pod gave you a life. They weren't cheap, and I never did find a way to make 87m cr/hr. Just quietly, I'd love to see the concept of the escape pod brought back...
Basically, I'm accustomed to games making my life difficult. And yet, as a kid, my dream was to play Elite -with other people. Good, bad or ugly. I've been here since Beta 2.4, and I've been ganked twice. Once in the Beta, and once by a CMDR that is now infamous for dumb fire and in station ganks. And I went there on purpose - so it's on me.
That's it. Those two ganks taught me situational awareness. That you need to be one with your ship, and be capable of flying it under stress. That nothing is worse for your cr/hr than a re-buy screen.
Git Gud gives me a chuckle too, but it does have substance. It doesn't have to mean Git Gud at combat. It just means Git Gud at something that let's you survive. If that means engineering 8000pts for hull, so be it. Or keeping an eye on the scanner for hollow squares - especially the ones with hardpoints deployed (these are hollow triangles).
Git Gud at telling jokes so funny, CMDR Ganker will be laughing too hard to pull the trigger.
Perhaps it's having mad evasion skills. Super awesome stealth. I mean, Git Gud at pressing "Solo" or "Private Group, if that's what it takes. Just Git Gud at something.
Personally, I suck at PvP combat. I simply don't have the time to invest to really excel. But I'm damn good at being evasive. I keep an eye on my scanner, my builds are generally cold and fast, if lightly shielded and armoured. I favour stealth, speed and agility to save my butt, and it's worked out fine so far.
Perhaps it's just that I come from a time when you learned to take responsibility, because if a "slippery when wet" sign was not out, it didn't mean that you are immune to slipping and breaking an arm.
Regardless, does the current C&P seem inadequate? Yup, sure does. I also think "low sec Anarchy" and "Hi Sec Democracy" shouldn't feel like the same thing. The original Elite really let you know it when you jumped into an Anarchy system. Anyway, my point is, harping on about gankers is just feeding the troll. The tears are what they want, and here we are, giving them juicy salt filled tears.
But hey, you know what? Nothing is as tasty as ganker tears, because you got gud and got away.
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