DUST Search - Regarding the 300 million ISK PXRXO contracted last night.

Cat Merc wrote:

Veritas Vitae wrote:

It doesn't matter how good of mentors PRO has. At best they can teach people good skill setups, map layouts, and tactics on the maps. You can't teach someone reaction speed, precision, or hand-eye coordination, and you can only teach awareness to a certain degree. Those are natural traits that the truly good FPSers have. Mentors can help new players overcome the learning curve, but natural talent is what separates the above average from the truly skilled.

Just because I don't want to see stupid things like that here:
Many of those talents are given through just playing FPS's.
When I just started playing CS (my first FPS), it took me 0.8 seconds to react to someone, my hand eye coordination was bad, couldn't hit anyone moving and a goldfish was more aware than me.
Now see the above about how good I am at CS.
These things are learned, it isn't something you are born with as natural talent.
And its also proven scientifically that stuff like that improves over time with games, which is why they let people with disabilities in those areas play games to help them overcome the disability.

So yeah, total bullshit.

Cat Merc wrote:

Kreayshawn Coruscanti wrote:

Cat Merc wrote:

You assume that the mentors are bad.
This has been explained a gazillion times already so I won't bother to, but know this, we aren't lacking good players or mentors.

This is the same thing I've been hearing from PRO for 3+ years, yet I have never seen results. Personally I just want a good fight, should set some up with those good players like CBJ offered earlier :D

I like how you removed the part where I explained that if the bunnies were in the exact same situation as us, you would probably lose.


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Veritas Vitae Pink Fluffy Bounty Hunterz Noir. Mercenary Group 99	Posted - 2013.03.30 18:03:00 - [1] - Quote If you ever feel like making charitable donations to PFBHz again, we will gladly accept them.
Veritas Vitae Pink Fluffy Bounty Hunterz Noir. Mercenary Group 104	Posted - 2013.03.31 14:24:00 - [2] - Quote It doesn't matter how good of mentors PRO has. At best they can teach people good skill setups, map layouts, and tactics on the maps. You can't teach someone reaction speed, precision, or hand-eye coordination, and you can only teach awareness to a certain degree. Those are natural traits that the truly good FPSers have. Mentors can help new players overcome the learning curve, but natural talent is what separates the above average from the truly skilled.
Veritas Vitae Pink Fluffy Bounty Hunterz Noir. Mercenary Group 105	Posted - 2013.04.01 01:28:00 - [3] - Quote Cat Merc wrote: Veritas Vitae wrote: It doesn't matter how good of mentors PRO has. At best they can teach people good skill setups, map layouts, and tactics on the maps. You can't teach someone reaction speed, precision, or hand-eye coordination, and you can only teach awareness to a certain degree. Those are natural traits that the truly good FPSers have. Mentors can help new players overcome the learning curve, but natural talent is what separates the above average from the truly skilled. Just because I don't want to see stupid things like that here: Many of those talents are given through just playing FPS's. When I just started playing CS (my first FPS), it took me 0.8 seconds to react to someone, my hand eye coordination was bad, couldn't hit anyone moving and a goldfish was more aware than me. Now see the above about how good I am at CS. These things are learned, it isn't something you are born with as natural talent. And its also proven scientifically that stuff like that improves over time with games, which is why they let people with disabilities in those areas play games to help them overcome the disability. So yeah, total bullshit. Fight the truth all you want, but nothing you have said contradicts my statement, unless you think that skill growth is infinite. Leaving out how skill growth progression occurs may make your statement look like a contradiction but it's not a strong effort. Skill growth is a diminishing returns effect. I did no say people do not get better over time, I said that those with naturally high skills will consistently outperform and dominate players with lesser natural skill. People are not born equal; some are born better than others at certain things, with better natural traits for accomplishing certain tasks. Let's use a nice example of Joe Average and Natural Nathan and compare them. Joe has a natural skill rating of 40, and Nathan has a natural rating of 60. Joe gets a 2 month head-start on Nathan at playing GenericFPS, learning the maps, what skill and gear combos are most effective, etc. So he now has a learned skill of 20, and we will say he improved his natural skill through practice by 5 points to a 45, so his total is a 65. He is now better than Nathan at GenericFPS. Let's go 2 more months down the line. Joe has improved his natural skills another 7 points through hard work, and learned a few more secrets about the game, improving his learned skill to 25. Nathan has spent the last two months catching up in terms of learned skill, but he has slowly been improving his natural skills as well. Now he has a natural of 65 and a learned of 20. This puts Nathan at 85 points of skill versus Joe's 77 points. While this is a little abstract, it proves my point without me having to bother to make graphs. While the human brain has the capability to learn potentially infinite new things, human musculature and muscle memory have their limits of improving. People who are naturally more skilled at something and harness that skill will be superior to people who have average skill at something and harness their skill. Cat Merc wrote: Kreayshawn Coruscanti wrote: Cat Merc wrote: You assume that the mentors are bad. This has been explained a gazillion times already so I won't bother to, but know this, we aren't lacking good players or mentors. This is the same thing I've been hearing from PRO for 3+ years, yet I have never seen results. Personally I just want a good fight, should set some up with those good players like CBJ offered earlier :D I like how you removed the part where I explained that if the bunnies were in the exact same situation as us, you would probably lose. Except, we wouldn't, because as I stated, we pulled together a hit team in under 5 minutes, while you had 20 minutes of "oh ****" to get your best together. Try harder next time.
Veritas Vitae Pink Fluffy Bounty Hunterz Noir. Mercenary Group 106	Posted - 2013.04.01 15:59:00 - [4] - Quote Cat Merc wrote: Mavado V Noriega wrote: Cat Merc wrote: Bojo The Mighty wrote: Dusters Blog wrote: Story: http://tinyurl.com/blwntcn We have reached out to the PFBHz, TEST and PRO. But any comments from those involved would be appreciated. Dusters Blog, where we take three lines of news, and expand it into a whole page of nonsense. Apparently, to transfer ISK you need to use a cruiser. I guess we never heard of the word bank? well hes gotta stay "in character and in lore" to make it interesting whereas tbqh i rea EN24 for the fights i really dont wanna read made up fantasy roleplay bs but alas thats the direction loldusters chose for their way of reporting on battles our loss to STB was reported as our corp gettin robbed.......go figure........ I think they should write two pages for each event. One serious, where things are told as they are, and the second is where the role play stuff happens. I did both in a single paragraph of highlights in that GNN thread.
Veritas Vitae Pink Fluffy Bounty Hunterz Noir. Mercenary Group 106	Posted - 2013.04.01 18:56:00 - [5] - Quote Lorena Dxun wrote: Veritas Vitae wrote: I did both in a single paragraph of highlights in that GNN thread. Which is why you should write for us ;D I take VISA, Mastercard, and Discover. No, I don't take American Express.