fenix this is why nobody in burgezz plays tankbush.

only exception is when bane puts me in one when I tell him not to.

You got Nyain Slammed. Get outta ambush to avoid it :)

If you MUST play ambush, I highly recommend using two complex dampeners to avoid Nyain Scans. Unfortunately if the 1.8 Gal Logi precision buff goes through, you'll need to scout up to avoid them.

And also, use remotes, as a straight up fight against Nyain San will likely result in your immediate death.

2 Questions: Why run solo in a team-based game? Why play ambush at all?

eh I always solo doms, I would solo skirms but the constant running around bores me, I enjoy the constant fights on the letter.

adapt and overcome. if they bring 6 people you just need to be better then 6 people. or bring 5 of them with you, also occasionally the blue dots aren't complete **** ups and can be useful =).

Use the squad finder. Solo players leave themselves at a huge disadvantage. You can still run around and pretend you are Rambo, but the chances are you will have at least 5 other guys on your team that get what Dust is about.

Every one has justifications for their behaviors, notice I didn't say reasons. If you reason it out you would be in a squad.

Rambo wouldn't be here crying that battle is too tough for him.

Read his posts, he is complaining that he cant be effective against squads by himself. He always has a reason he doesn't want to be in a squad. perhaps a different game would suit him. I am just giving advice to someone who clearly needs help.

Truth to tell, this never crosses my mind. I see red dots, I shoot. I play to win, not Play to cather to a lesser players needs. I takes a bit of an investment SP wise to go proto, and if I can afford to run it (I can) I do.

Why play with lesser toys, when the big shiny ones are on the table right next to them!!

Don't blame the players, blame the game! Players just play to win, isn't that the point to a ******* shoooter!!

Your opening sentence was about solo players. All your posts are about ambush and not being in squads. What conclusion were you hoping I would come to?

Were you here in open beta? That's how long I've been training new players. I have a corp made up of mostly casual players. Making it easy for the solo player is not the way to go. New guys get the shaft. It sucks.

I have always been there for any one who wants to learn. CCP doesn't really care about gear disparity or NPE. They never have. We as leaders must do that on our own. I am telling you and new players to use the squad finder. Read the descriptions. I know I run a training squad or Big Bad HQ most days. There is plenty of people and resources to bridge the gap.

A little advice. Be in your own squad. Make it public and call it something like "Ambush ISK and WP grind". Then every time you enter a match press "select", then select the option for "team chat" and scroll to all of the peeps without a squad and invite them. Then play the match. Then repeat for two or three matches. You'll have a full squad after 3 ambushes in most cases.

I have single handidly switched the tides of battle with an orbital and in really crazy games two. This is all with random peeps. When my corp is running (and they are sick) we typically crush it. Taking out 1 tank, an LAV, multiple uplinks and 8 clones in one shot of an orbital (3rd game this morning before work and before working with the corp) sky rocketing my WP through the roof.

After doing all of that, remember that Ambush is a nothing more than the quick game grind. If you average 6 minutes a game, 3 extra minutes for loading screen, and finding a game you are looking at about 13 games per two hours at an avg of 200k isk per battle. If you are running orbitals there is no excuse to not be at over 1k WP and in some cases over 2k WP. I stomp with an 8k ISK build daily with a team of newbs and sometimes I pick up people with their own tanks. When that happens I can av enemy tanks as support for squad tanks.

You cannot be successful in ambush without a squad. Unless you come in, get to the other end of the map, Pop down multiple uplinks and wait at 0/0 or something and when others are sick of losing clones they spawn with you and hide. But is 300 WP worth it to sit for more than 5 or 6 minutes? I submit that it's not.

All of that being said, I have my 0/5 or 0/7 days with 300 WP. It happens. But ambush is a grind of cluster f'n fun as far as I am concerned...now. I used to hate the tank spam but since I started doing the orbitals it doesn't bother me anymore at all.

My ambush fit is:

Basic MIN-Logi
2 militia enhanced armor
2 militia shields
Drop uplink
basic scanner
militia locus grenade
rail rifle


About 8 to 10k depending if I add a advanced uplink or not for extra WP or a nanite injector but I still take off a LS or HS module.

EDIT: I believe that an auto squading method should be implemented allowing a round robin for leader. Orbitals are single handedly one of the most powerful tools in the game. Not shooting for them or using them or not squading up "because I'm new and don't know how" is not an excuse. Again, I almost ALWAYS invite current players into a squad. I also do it as a charity to new players. Other times I get some sick players who stomp others AND we get the orbital.

Why do people always complain about pubstomping? if you dont like it just leave the match.

What I don't understand isGǪwhy all the metrics and math in matchmaking? If we don't have the player base for matchmaking to work, why use it? When we know it cannot work.

Maybe I'm just frustrated but at this point I'd settle for a simple squad sorter so that q-synced squads can't role together against dewberries.

Match making is purely pathetic, close to non existant. This here is soley the reason why the game will not ever gather more players( a decent amount), It's just over the top.
You get out of academy, with starter fits and a few MLT fits, and still no understanding of how the different weapons, roles, vehicles, gamemodes and dust514 in general works. Right into a battle with players with upto 3x the HP and a lot more damage, not only that but you have a MLT AR, they have prototype rail rifles, combat rifles, madrugars. You cannot hide because their radars scanning NON stop. If you do manage to hurt one he is sat in the middle of prototype triage hive, with a core fuckassed rep tool on him.
This is not a learning curve, this is a tedius process that in reality you will have to go through for months before starting to really stand upto these players.
Telling the people that the game needs to survive (new players/new customers) to get gud, HTFU, this is New Eden or even find a squad does not cut it. It's a major major downfall in the game design and in a way its the games death sentance. After all this is a game on the PS3, there are plenty of other shooters that offer a game that can be enjoyed from the get go, offer much fairer battles, and does not punish people for being new. People playing the playstation have much less patience for bullshit games.
The gaming community I hail from is 6000 members strong across various platforms, after reviews of the game came out only about 10 actually tried it, after they got to review it themselves only 1 survived. Meanwhile other games you have to pay for are jam packed with members.

In my opinion this situation and game modes must become a priority.
Matchmaking, needs to be there!!!
PVE, will help entertain newer players and retain current players and bring back some of those who left.
Game modes, there are only 2, deathmatch and hack. Skirmish and dom are the same thing in reality, FW is skirm, PC is skirm. No matter what you try in this game there is only 2 game modes.