Mithridates Vl
Imperfects Public Relations
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Posted - 2013.05.21 11:26:00 -
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In response to the growing issue many are experiencing with a lack of anti-vehicle specialists amongst the mercenary population of New Eden and increasing frustration at LAVs flooding the battlefields, Imperfects Public Relations has undertaken a new initiative designed to educate new soldiers and educate them on proper use of AV equipment, as well as the necessity of teamwork in bringing down complicated vehicular adversaries.
Starting today, Imperfects Public Relations will be visiting Academy battles as guest educators. We will be starting from the same base as all other new players, and driving 9000 eHP Madrugars because we believe in the importance of simulating real world battle conditions to demonstrate the importance of contingencies for response to armoured vehicular assault.
As a result of this, observant readers will note that Mithridates VL is now tenth on the individual KDR leaderboard, while Imperfects Public Relations is ninth on the corporate equivalent. It is unavoidable that this initiative will inflate our KDR and we urge CCP to either deprecate this system or encourage alternative methods of tracking the efficiency of mercenaries. Early predictions are that with the number of alternate characters required to continue to support this training exercise for its anticipated life span, the top ten individual leaderboard spots may be rendered irrelevant and a recalibration of the leaderboard will be required to gain useful results. This, to us, is an acceptable consequence considering the great benefit that our free education will bring to New Eden.
Thank you for your attention,
Chief of Communications
Mithridates VL |
Mithridates Vl
Imperfects Public Relations
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Posted - 2013.05.21 21:40:00 -
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Arkena Wyrnspire wrote:Mith, what do you gain by being such a douchebag to newbies?
The perception that this initiative is fueled by a desire to harm new players is caused by a bias which I have no interest in working against. I am engaging in lengthy DUSTmail correspondence with many of the players who are involved in this program and have seen no evidence of players leaving because of it. Those claiming that we are driving new players away are guilty of the "silent witness" fallacy and are either misinformed or dishonest.
Bones McGavins wrote:Nobody is going to "learn" anything from that. Even if they DO spec into AV they will still get slaughtered by a squad of IMP tanks. What they will learn is "this game sucks, im going to play something else."
You are speaking from a position of ignorance unless you have engaged in these Academy battles in tanks yourself. The speed of improvement of the Academy students has been remarkable and I'm actually really proud of them. While I am tracking names over the course of many matches, some are showing such accelerated learning that it can be tracked within the match.
In the opening stages of the match, they are running about madly, figuring out what the buttons do. They get blapped a couple of times while doing this and learn to avoid the tank.
In the middle game, some have switched to swarm launcher, rarely there is an AV grenade or two flying about, but they're trying to solo the tank and figuring out that it has enough reppers to sit in front of a solo swarmer and do nothing.
In the end game, though, some of these guys are really becoming quite outstanding... and many are reaching this stage through repeated exposure to the tank over multiple matches. I was on Biomass, approaching the CRU next to Bravo. The enemy team sent our four assault players to fire on me and run back into the outpost. Getting cocky, I followed them in, not expecting any of these players to have quite figured out what to do yet.
Suddenly, six swarm launchers, hiding behind the wall, AMBUSH me and starting tearing hell out of my tank. All power to armour repair and my team swarm in to focus repair tools on me, after I explained to them on comms how these work.
I wouldn't have survived if it weren't for that and despite getting out with my tank, I feel that was a situation where luck prevailed. The kind of organisation required to pull that off betrayed the fact that the enemy team had started using comms between at least that group which engaged the tank, where there was no indication that they were playing as a team before this.
I made sure to send all of these guys congratulatory mails after the match.
I'm not a tanker. I'm not the best player in the game. It's disingenuous to suggest that we're dropping elite tankers onto Academy matches out of malice. |