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We have a great GSF community on our EU server, Tomb of Freedon Nadd. There is a constant stream of new pilots, an ever growing armada of regulars plus several incredible aces. Both Imp and Rep factions are balanced in terms of numbers and skill levels plus a lot fly on both sides.

 

People usually queue solo or in small groups but each Sunday at 20:00 GMT both Stroke my Wookie and Outbreak pilots put a few hours aside to fly together. Most of our pilots have ships with both factions so it gives us a lot of flexibility with group setups.

 

I have invited a few of the ace pilots in other guilds to queue at the same time and we've been having some awesome group matches over the last few weeks. I would like to extend that invitation to you all, come make a character on our server and start flying with us. I will take it a step further, I throw down a challenge to the pilots everywhere, come fly with us and let's see what you've got. I think we have the best pilots in the world and I dare you to prove me wrong!

 

Tomb of Freedon Nadd Aces

In Stroke my Wookie we have a rank called "Alpha Company" for the very best at both PvP and GSF. This is a mark of distinction that only a few people are worthy of. These are players that can join a match as a lone wolf and turn the entire tide of war. The only way to join the Alphas is to prove yourself in combat and be invited by the current members.

 

To expand upon this idea I present the "Tomb of Freedon Nadd Aces", the best pilots across both factions on our server. I might of missed some true elites off the list so post a comment if you think that is you. I also have to fill in the guilds they represent and the rest of the video stream links but I'll do that over time as I keep updating the roster.

 

:sy_empire:The Tomb of Freedon Nadd Aces :sy_republic:



        Alterego-xv            Angelhell            [url=https://www.youtube.com/user/themidrashim/videos][color="White"]Aryano[/color][/url]               Aurellan                   Chobinica              Expert             Georgewhite  
          Red-Alert                 Aris                  [url="http://www.strokemywookie.com"]S.M.W[/url]        [url="https://www.facebook.com/groups/724216134276041"]Tangra's Legends[/url]              [url="http://www.strokemywookie.com"]S.M.W[/url]                                         [url="http://just-wipe-it.enjin.com"]Just Wipe It[/url]


          [url="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUoMzXdc2yMKg1e_z1nZLpw"][color="White"]Kalessian[/color][/url]                Mulvihill              Murinda              Neutrinos                 Nicksw             Penetrator'cz              Sevt
            [url="http://www.strokemywookie.com"]S.M.W[/url]         Wayne Enterprises       [url="http://www.strokemywookie.com"]S.M.W[/url]                 [url="http://www.strokemywookie.com"]S.M.W[/url]                                            [url="http://darklords.n-art.cz/forum/"]The Dark Lords[/url]


                                              Svilena                          Urg                          [url="http://www.twitch.tv/strokemywookie"][color="White"]UlaVii[/color][/url]                          [url="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx8hLNLhEFQ2IdJwDOU1beg"][color="White"]Vospirus[/color][/url]
                                            [url="http://www.outbreak-guild.shivtr.com"]Outbreak[/url]                     [url="http://www.outbreak-guild.shivtr.com"]Outbreak[/url]                    [url="http://www.strokemywookie.com"]S.M.W[/url]                    [url="https://www.facebook.com/groups/724216134276041"]Tangra's Legends[/url]

 

Tomb of Freedon Nadd GSF Queue Pops

Mon-Fri Daytime - up to 30 minutes (busier after daily reset)

Sat-Sun Daytime - up to 15 minutes

Mon-Sun 17:00-23:00 GMT - Busy time, usually pops in less than 15 minutes

Mon-Sun 23:00-00:00 GMT - Usually 30-60 minutes range

Mon-Sun 00:00-05:00 GMT - Can be waiting hours

Mon-Sun 05:00-08:00 GMT - Up to 30 minutes as people queue before work/school/hustling :)

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Or if you're such great and amazing pilots - you can roll new toons on:

 

The Bastion

The Ebon Hawk

The Harbinger

The Shadowlands

 

and show us what you've got in there.

 

Since you throw a challenge - feel free to drop by. Since you claim you're the best, you won't mind loosing a home advantage and mastered ships, right? What is a mastered ship to an ace? They can do well even with stocks and upgrade them fairly fast.

 

 

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Or why don't you throw a challenge on Jung Ma (rumored as a server without GSF) or some other Not-very-GSF-active-server and invite other aces there?

You will have better chances going against each other and determining who's better without anyone having a home advantage.

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Whoa, whoa, calm down. Reread his post, he doesn't claim to be the best across all servers or anything. He's organizing some cool stuff for his server, and trying to get some folks to stop by and join in. Edited by Verain
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Whoa, whoa, calm down. Reread his post, he doesn't claim to be the best across all servers or anything. He's organizing some cool stuff for his server, and trying to get some folks to stop by and join in.

 

I did read his post. And I also read the title of this thread. I highlighted that challenge part for you.

 

I have invited a few of the ace pilots in other guilds to queue at the same time and we've been having some awesome group matches over the last few weeks. I would like to extend that invitation to you all, come make a character on our server and start flying with us. I will take it a step further, I throw down a challenge to the pilots everywhere, come fly with us and let's see what you've got. I think we have the best pilots in the world and I dare you to prove me wrong!

 

Also I'm pretty calm, but I always find it silly when someone challenges pilots on other servers. It comes across as "come in your stock ships and let us show you how good we are with our full lineup of mastered ships"

 

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If I wanted to invite you Verain (or some other ace) to let's say JC or Pot5 or wherever, I'd organize a serious-stock-night and word it differently.

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I always find it silly when someone challenges pilots on other servers. It comes across as "come in your stock ships and let us show you how good we are with our full lineup of mastered ships"

 

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Since you throw a challenge - feel free to drop by. Since you claim you're the best, you won't mind loosing a home advantage and mastered ships, right? What is a mastered ship to an ace? They can do well even with stocks and upgrade them fairly fast.

An Ace would be excited about the challenge and the chance to play lots of matches with other skilled players. Leveling a new ship is just a small part of it, you're focusing on the wrong thing. For the record, yes I do quite well in new ships, unlocks are not everything although they sure do help :) I was expecting any pilots that did want to join us to level a new ship, it doesn't take that long if you're focused and working with a group. A lot of us are mastering our way through the last few ships now.

 

if you're such great and amazing pilots - you can roll new toons on:

 

The Bastion

The Ebon Hawk

The Harbinger

The Shadowlands

 

and show us what you've got in there.

I'm sorry, I didn't see people advertising regular weekly events on those servers. If you're so eager then why don't you do it and then later in time we can put our server teams against each other. The pilots on my server are not afraid of competition :rak_grin:

 

Or why don't you throw a challenge on Jung Ma (rumored as a server without GSF) or some other Not-very-GSF-active-server and invite other aces there?

You will have better chances going against each other and determining who's better without anyone having a home advantage.

You are missing the fact that it's an event I'm organising and have been running for weeks already. I'm extending the offer of joining us to people on other servers because I see nothing being coordinated there. As fighter pilots I thought it would be fun to make it a challenge to appeal to our attack nature.

 

If I wanted to invite you Verain (or some other ace) to let's say JC or Pot5 or wherever, I'd organize a serious-stock-night and word it differently.

You could, but you have not.

 

This is an event I'm already coordinating on my server between several guilds. For me the next step was naturally to open it to people on other servers. We already have an active GSF population on ToFN, I just want to give other people the opportunity to have the same. Several people have already joined our server after reading my post although I was a bit brief with them as I was in the middle of organising a Ravages x16 raid when the /w started arriving! I added you all to /f and I'll /w you next time we're on at the same time.

 

As the guild leader my goal is to provide the best environment and opportunities for my guild members and friends and a big part of that is the events I organise to bring them together to do the things they enjoy. Starfighter is my favorite thing in-game but I can't focus my attention on another server and run my guild as I need to so I'm afraid that suggestion defeats the point for me.

 

The challenge aspect was not supposed to send you into a rage, it was supposed to be seen as an opportunity to have some great teamwork matches with fantastic pilots. If you're not interested then cool, don't worry about it :)

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An Ace would be excited about the challenge and the chance to play lots of matches with other skilled players. Leveling a new ship is just a small part of it, you're focusing on the wrong thing. For the record, yes I do quite well in new ships, unlocks are not everything although they sure do help :) I was expecting any pilots that did want to join us to level a new ship, it doesn't take that long if you're focused and working with a group. A lot of us are mastering our way through the last few ships now.

 

So why don't you do the same? Not an ace?

 

I'm sorry, I didn't see people advertising regular weekly events on those servers. If you're so eager then why don't you do it and then later in time we can put our server teams against each other. The pilots on my server are not afraid of competition :rak_grin:

 

Look at the bottom of the post. And if pilots on your server aren't afraid - you're welcome to follow your own suggestion and join one of the events that are organized on other servers (and possibly learn on how to invite people to attend).

 

You are missing the fact that it's an event I'm organising and have been running for weeks already. I'm extending the offer of joining us to people on other servers because I see nothing being coordinated there. As fighter pilots I thought it would be fun to make it a challenge to appeal to our attack nature.

 

Extending an offer and throwing a gauntlet are two different things. Pick one, they don't mix well.

 

You could, but you have not.

 

This is relevant how? Considering there are events planned and posted on this forum? And the fact that I'm attending those?

 

This is an event I'm already coordinating on my server between several guilds. For me the next step was naturally to open it to people on other servers. We already have an active GSF population on ToFN, I just want to give other people the opportunity to have the same. Several people have already joined our server after reading my post although I was a bit brief with them as I was in the middle of organising a Ravages x16 raid when the /w started arriving! I added you all to /f and I'll /w you next time we're on at the same time.

 

It's good that you're doing it for your server, but again, the issue is not the fact that you're doing a recurring event, but the way you "invited" others to join by taunting and mildly insulting them. Some might like when others taunt them, I don't.

 

As the guild leader my goal is to provide the best environment and opportunities for my guild members and friends and a big part of that is the events I organise to bring them together to do the things they enjoy. Starfighter is my favorite thing in-game but I can't focus my attention on another server and run my guild as I need to so I'm afraid that suggestion defeats the point for me.

 

The challenge aspect was not supposed to send you into a rage, it was supposed to be seen as an opportunity to have some great teamwork matches with fantastic pilots. If you're not interested then cool, don't worry about it :)

 

As a guild leader you should demonstrate critical thinking and leadership qualities (if you want to be a good leader that is).

 

There are better ways to invite people. You don't taunt people and throw a gauntlet in their face just to have them come for a cup of tea and a conversation during your regular tea party.

 

Here are examples of people doing it right:

http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=794995

http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=786675

http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=786571

http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=786864

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I did read his post. And I also read the title of this thread. I highlighted that challenge part for you.

 

Apologies, I had actually missed that part.

 

Yea, it's a bit odd to say "we're super great, come fight us on our home turf". I think you went a bit attackyface, but your point is solid. If these guys are so great, we should see them on super serious night on Bastion, or a theme night on Ebon Hawk, or something. I have one or more mastered ships on four faction/server places, not just one, and a lot of us are like that.

 

 

Also I'm pretty calm, but I always find it silly when someone challenges pilots on other servers. It comes across as "come in your stock ships and let us show you how good we are with our full lineup of mastered ships"

 

I don't think mastered ships are everything, but teamwork and skill are, and a call like this is more strange because obviously a whole team isn't going to reroll constantly to whomever is saying anything. Calling people to a server where you have a team and they won't is, in my opinion, the more effed up part. If I go to a server where I fly into a premade, I expect to lose super hard, and not because I'm somehow worse than my competition.

 

@OP: I think the line about claiming to be the best anywhere is pretty incendiary (also the title). It's also kind of strange... I mean, we have plenty of players who already run on many servers in this forum. If you aren't doing that already, how would you... know?

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Apologies, I had actually missed that part.

 

Yea, it's a bit odd to say "we're super great, come fight us on our home turf". I think you went a bit attackyface, but your point is solid. If these guys are so great, we should see them on super serious night on Bastion, or a theme night on Ebon Hawk, or something. I have one or more mastered ships on four faction/server places, not just one, and a lot of us are like that.

 

I don't think mastered ships are everything, but teamwork and skill are, and a call like this is more strange because obviously a whole team isn't going to reroll constantly to whomever is saying anything. Calling people to a server where you have a team and they won't is, in my opinion, the more effed up part. If I go to a server where I fly into a premade, I expect to lose super hard, and not because I'm somehow worse than my competition.

 

@OP: I think the line about claiming to be the best anywhere is pretty incendiary (also the title). It's also kind of strange... I mean, we have plenty of players who already run on many servers in this forum. If you aren't doing that already, how would you... know?

 

I'm glad we agree on something here.

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Extending an offer and throwing a gauntlet are two different things. Pick one, they don't mix well.

It's extending an offer because I'm firing off a beacon to let people know that we have a good thriving EU Starfighter community on my server so if they want to join one then boom, here we are. Several people have already come there tonight to check things out.

 

It's throwing the gauntlet down as I'd also like more elite pilots to fly with/against in proper team matches so once they come over and get sorted we can organise specialised events. Sunday is just the night when we try and get as many people involved as possible. It's a good night to see a wide spectrum of the players on our server and because it's busy you get a lot of requisition from the frequent pops so it's a good time to level ships.

 

There are better ways to invite people. You don't taunt people and throw a gauntlet in their face just to have them come for a cup of tea and a conversation during your regular tea party.

Fine, you can take it as a gauntlet slap. I already told you the time and the place. Come at me bro :tran_grin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzWzo_pFhCk

 

As a guild leader you should demonstrate critical thinking and leadership qualities (if you want to be a good leader that is).

One thing I have learned as a leader is that when you try to do something positive for a large group of people then chances are you will get at least one person like you. It's good to see you are passionate about the game and Starfighter PvP but I wish you focused that energy in better ways instead of trying to spoil other peoples fun. I'm going to ignore you from now on so please have your final tirade and leave the thread alone.

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Calling people to a server where you have a team and they won't is, in my opinion, the more effed up part. If I go to a server where I fly into a premade, I expect to lose super hard, and not because I'm somehow worse than my competition.

We don't have fixed premades or a single big team. The people I rank as aces are the best on our server. You are correct in that I haven't created characters on other servers and maybe if some hotshots do come over they will faceroll all of us but I don't think that will happen. The point isn't to be "you lot" vs "us lot". It is to have more people that we can make bigger better teams with and all fight each other. You're really making too much of some illusion of "home team advantage". Somebody coming to our server to fly with us would just be like when we fly with/against somebody in another guild, it's not like we have cheerleaders screaming our names and fans spitting on the visitors :p

 

@OP: I think the line about claiming to be the best anywhere is pretty incendiary (also the title).

I was trying to appeal to the PvP aspect of it all :)

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Your suggestion about taking a team from my server on a tour of the other servers does sound exciting and is something I honestly had not considered before. This was initially an event for people on my server and even though I've invited people from other places to join us, at it's core it is still for my server.

 

I can't leave there on a long or regular basis as I run a very active guild. I am constantly working towards simplifying guild tasks and freeing up time so getting a team to server hop with me is definitely something I will work towards now you've stuck the idea in my head but for the moment I have to focus on the responsibilities I already have before embarking on new adventures.

 

I used to raid 4-5 nights a week but in the end decided to stop most of that so I could spend more time improving my guild. I just didn't have enough time to do everything that needed to be done when I was getting locked into a raid group for 2-3 hours each night. PvP and GSF are great for me as I can do my admin tasks and then take a break for 10-15 minutes to blast some bad-guys before replying to the backlog of /w and then getting onto the next thing.

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Guys it's pretty easy to tell that these people are a little new to the greater GSF community. Let's take it easy on them. At least on the forums :) It's pretty obvious we have a case of big fish little pond syndrome going on here. Since these upstarts are new I will throw them a bone.

 

One of the consensus best GSF players did in fact used to play on TOFN. His name was Scrab (PWNtech). His reason for leaving? "Small GSF community"

 

I think these TOFN people should show up to the Super Serious events on the Bastion. It would be interesting.

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Played a few games on Tomb today, everyone I talked to was really nice. The 3 games I did play were very one sided sadly. Got to play with one of the guys on your list he seemed pretty good, look forward to fighting more of you guys.

 

I played right in the middle of your busy time and there were about 1-2 games going most of the time, which meant if you didn't get into the game right after you left one you usually had to wait for it to be done before getting another. I sat in one 30 minute Queue and one 15 minute one. Not too bad but for a busy time felt like long waits, makes it hard for me to want to level yet another character here. I will however give it more of a chance. :)

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You all keep saying "come to XYZ US server" as a counter-argument to getting invited to their home turf. Basically, you're doing the same Ulavii did, just with different words.

 

Another problem with coming to Bastion for most EU players is the ping. I have a minimum of 250 and that really makes unplayable for me, especially for the high level playing that is expected on the super-serious night.

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The only way I see how challenges work is if the person who declares the challenge organises a time on a particular server.

 

People who wish to participate sign up like 3-4 days advance with a new toon. This time period gives them to unlock a particular ship they chose to fly and at least get enough req to get their desired components before the challenge starts, then have everyone team up and queue.

 

Awkward and clunky, but at least its a way for everyone to start on some sort of level playing field.

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You all keep saying "come to XYZ US server" as a counter-argument to getting invited to their home turf. Basically, you're doing the same Ulavii did, just with different words.

 

Another problem with coming to Bastion for most EU players is the ping. I have a minimum of 250 and that really makes unplayable for me, especially for the high level playing that is expected on the super-serious night.

 

Oh... and you think this is any different for any west coast US players coming over to EU servers? (BTW there are always east coast servers where everyone can meet.) Also it's not about not willing it's about the way he worded his "invitation" including the thread name. If someone is really good and claims to have the best pilots in the world, but they never attended any previously posted events even for stock night or weekly event on TEH (since he didn't even know such events existed) all it tells me that they are afraid of going off somewhere and loose advantage of home turf.

 

OP claims to be such a great leader and organizer, but he can't organize his team to create new characters on X server to participate in Y event to show everyone how good they are? And his best argument to me was "I'm going to ignore you now" because he failed to invite people in a normal way that others such as Dracolich did.

 

Clap clap clap...

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The only way I see how challenges work is if the person who declares the challenge organises a time on a particular server.

 

People who wish to participate sign up like 3-4 days advance with a new toon. This time period gives them to unlock a particular ship they chose to fly and at least get enough req to get their desired components before the challenge starts, then have everyone team up and queue.

 

Awkward and clunky, but at least its a way for everyone to start on some sort of level playing field.

 

What you described here is already covered by stock nights. All you need to participate with at the very least any one ship of your choice is lvl 10 character and completion of one GSF match to get 5k fleet requisition token. After that it's an even playing field for all participants.

 

At lvl 10 there is no such thing such as 2 shippers since you can have up to 4 ships unlocked just after one game.

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Or why don't you throw a challenge on Jung Ma (rumored as a server without GSF) or some other Not-very-GSF-active-server and invite other aces there?

 

Jung Ma has a decent pop rate during prime time and sometimes during the early afternoon - your information is incorrect. We have a multituide of Fleet Admirals on our small Server, thank you very much :eek:

 

You all keep saying "come to XYZ US server" as a counter-argument to getting invited to their home turf. Basically, you're doing the same Ulavii did, just with different words.

 

Another problem with coming to Bastion for most EU players is the ping. I have a minimum of 250 and that really makes unplayable for me, especially for the high level playing that is expected on the super-serious night.

 

Latency is a really big deal for GSF, I played on both both Jung Ma (yes, less players - still active during prime time, you can count the good players/aces on one hand -easy enough to turn a game around on your own) and ToFN and the difference between a latency of 120 and 50 is enough to make you lose missile locks on even bad pilots. Having worse connection then that, like Australians do with 300-500 is almost unplayable unless you like to hug nodes in a Bomber.

 

Another factor is the player count per Match, on Jung Ma you get 6v6 or 8v8 if you are lucky and on other servers full 12v12 all the time - a lot easier for ace pilots to "own" matches on low pop servers.

 

Honestly the best thing about Jung Ma always was that there were not many people flying around in FOTYear T2 scouts all the time, allowing you to fly other ships and still top the boards. True aces for me are the ones who don't claim to be the best for whatever "single" reason but can show it on a multitude of ships as well as turning matches around and not just rigging your numbers by leaving games.

 

And going with stock ships (without the right companions) against upgraded ships, no matter the skill - you will be at a disadvantage, even stock nights - you can't check the other players ships.

 

Only somewhat fair compromise would be, next time the PTS is up - pick a time that is fair for both US and EU and transfer your GSF chars over and fly at a the same time. EU players will still be severely handicapped with latency. Go stream that from both sides of the big pond. Then see what happens.

 

Only way to go around that would be everyone use a VPN connection that routes you through Australia first and see what latency really is, then call yourself an ace :p

 

In the end you won't be able to have a fair match at all, because of latency - another compromise would be to do a couple sets of matches on a European and a then on a US server afterwards.

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I won't get into discussions, I'll just let my game speak for me. Started a character @ The Bastion.

Please write your names or something so I can group up with you for GSF and say Hi ;). Looking forward to taste NA GSF spice.

 

 

 

 

--Kalessian aka Kale'smw (The Bastion)

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We have a great GSF community on our EU server, Tomb of Freedon Nadd.

 

Ynaxi was two weeks on TOFN and is back on TRE. During the day you wait there forever for a pop. In the evening it is ok so far, but here are TRE and T3-M4 also better.

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Played a couple more hours today you can see it here.

 

Had a good time I ran into Yallia which made for some interesting fights in a TDM. I got to fight vs Udivii too, although it was mostly just me playing really defensive to hold the nodes we had and attempting to burst the enemy bombers.

 

So far all the players I've run into on your list have been imperial. Are some of them republic and I just haven't run into them? Just curious if maybe I rolled on the wrong side, not that I want to restart yet again. I'm really getting tired of leveling stuff to 10. :p

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Jung Ma has a decent pop rate during prime time and sometimes during the early afternoon - your information is incorrect. We have a multituide of Fleet Admirals on our small Server, thank you very much :eek:

 

It's not my info. I just see too many people say to stay away from JM in terms of GSF due to low population. Number of Fleet Admirals is kind of irrelevant since it doesn't say how often the person plays after they get their 1000 games played across the legacy. (For all you know they could have lost all 1000 games and are worthless as a pilot)

 

Latency is a really big deal for GSF, I played on both both Jung Ma (yes, less players - still active during prime time, you can count the good players/aces on one hand -easy enough to turn a game around on your own) and ToFN and the difference between a latency of 120 and 50 is enough to make you lose missile locks on even bad pilots. Having worse connection then that, like Australians do with 300-500 is almost unplayable unless you like to hug nodes in a Bomber.

 

Another factor is the player count per Match, on Jung Ma you get 6v6 or 8v8 if you are lucky and on other servers full 12v12 all the time - a lot easier for ace pilots to "own" matches on low pop servers.

 

I'm yet to see a server where 12 vs 12 is happening often enough to be considered a usual thing.

 

Honestly the best thing about Jung Ma always was that there were not many people flying around in FOTYear T2 scouts all the time, allowing you to fly other ships and still top the boards. True aces for me are the ones who don't claim to be the best for whatever "single" reason but can show it on a multitude of ships as well as turning matches around and not just rigging your numbers by leaving games.

 

Lol... again a silly definition of an ace. Can't we all get over it already? A master of martial arts doesn't have to be good with every martial art there is, nor be proficient with every weapon known to men. A brilliant musician doesn't have to play every single musical instrument to be recognized as a brilliant musician. I would laugh if some idiot would say after listening to Luciano Pavarotti that that guy is not a good opera singer because he is not good as a baritone or bass. It is silly to go to a military ace that flies a specific ship type and is very effective and feared/respected for what he can do in that ship and tell him that he's not an ace because he can't be as effective in a helicopter or a passenger plane (or you assume so because you've never seen them doing that).

 

 

And going with stock ships (without the right companions) against upgraded ships, no matter the skill - you will be at a disadvantage, even stock nights - you can't check the other players ships.

 

Only somewhat fair compromise would be, next time the PTS is up - pick a time that is fair for both US and EU and transfer your GSF chars over and fly at a the same time. EU players will still be severely handicapped with latency. Go stream that from both sides of the big pond. Then see what happens.

 

Only way to go around that would be everyone use a VPN connection that routes you through Australia first and see what latency really is, then call yourself an ace :p

 

In the end you won't be able to have a fair match at all, because of latency - another compromise would be to do a couple sets of matches on a European and a then on a US server afterwards.

 

You can never have a fair match even with all fully mastered ships (every single component is mastered), because even within NA latency is different from region to region and the hardware people use is different (someone with a 2 button mouse without adjustable sensitivity and a keyboard made of wood on an outdated PC vs someone with gaming grade hardware and a state of the art machine). It's always a compromise and trust that the other person is playing by the rules.

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And going with stock ships (without the right companions) against upgraded ships, no matter the skill - you will be at a disadvantage, even stock nights - you can't check the other players ships.

 

Then why was Drakolich flying in a stock Rycer the past two days and wrecking people?
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So far all the players I've run into on your list have been imperial. Are some of them republic and I just haven't run into them?

 

Most of the dedicated pilots fly on both sides but the ones online tonight stuck to Imp as there were guild groups flying. I don't think there are any Rep guilds really pushing GSF as a guild group activity however there are some Rep only aces like Urg & Svilena but I didn't see them online. A few also decided to check out Bastion so while you were over here, they were over there :)

 

Some of us switched to our Rep ships later on but it was only for the last 4-5 matches. For the Sunday weekly event myself and the pilots in my guild usually stay on Imp side to encourage others in the guild to join in. The other days/nights we all just fly whichever side we feel like.

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