CELESTA AUNGM
Kang Lo Directorate
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2013.12.23 15:08:00 -
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Divu Aakmin wrote:So....yeah. Proto stomping. There are ridiculously wealthy corps running dedicated proto. It is impossible to enjoy matches where this is evident. My current solution is leaving battle. There has to be another. Any thoughts?
Hello there, Divu. It's been a long time since players like myself who started at Dust at the May release (or even earlier), "GROUND" our way out of the Battle Academy and into the wide-open battle options in the game.
At the time we were playing, you couldn't even unlock from the Battle Academy until you had earned over 10,000 WP (yes, ten THOUSAND).
There is an argument among us that CCP should re-instate the LONGER Battle Academy process in order that Newberrys can better learn how to defeat the "I've got a better weapon/shield than you!" harassment that intimidates new or advancing players. It takes a long while to figure out on your own that the easiest thing for whipping "one proto merc with lvl-5 HMG" is... FOUR Newberrys carrying broken bottles. 
No, I'm not crapping you... I'm serious. Now that at least seven months have passed, the reason why I will never feel "pub-stomped" in the game is because I (and a collection of players way better than me) make ISK every day by leaving our expensive proto-gear at home, and just running around assisting every nearby merc with ambushes, assisted-kills, and assisted-hacks. To this day I'm jumping into the matches with the same dropsuit/guns they gave us when we first started the game, and the only money-making plan I have is make sure "that blue merc over there whom you've never met" doesn't run across the map by himself. We should always accept the fact that if an HAV is coming, we have to run from it. But if it's a proto-heavy we bump into as we turn the corner, from HIM we don't run. We take him from more than one angle simultaneously, and peel him down with the right militia weapons.
A lot of the suggestions posted here to grab an HAV (because right now they are at discount-price, and amphetamine-laced) are, um... "okay" options.
Joining a really good squad or corp is VERY hard as an option, because it's like finding a good dentist... they don't have a track record you can check before you try them out.
But I think (in fact, I'm SURE) CCP wants to encourage you to use the method I and other seasoned players have learned....DO NOT OPERATE ALONE on the map, operate in impromptu groups.
More and more of us seasoned players TRIED (unsuccessfully) to use the CHAT CHANNELS and Warbarge lobbies to set up "Practice/learning Squads". Now we've been setting them up in the Factional Warfare section.
"Learning Coalition" is the chat channel that appears to be getting the best reputation. When one of us creates a squad on that channel, try it out. Different squadleaders have different specialties/vehicles, so try and you may find you're a natural at HAV turret-gunnery, etc. If that squad-leader isn't actively teaching/coaching/helping you in the fight, don't join his squad again... coaching and preserving Newberry lives is what the Learning Coalition channel is SUPPOSED to be about. Not a corp, not fanatical elite-ist squading, just "learning".
Myself, my specialty is dropship, so I run groups that want to learn how to use a DS as your back-up. Hope to see you players...! Especially if you're new. |