Hey there, welcome to the game and the server! There's a pretty good post over on the SWTOR-RP community forum which details most of the major currently-active RP guilds on The Progenitor here: http://www.swtor-rp.com/progenitor/page/1/m/3305111/viewthread/11106710-guild-status Rather than recommend any one single specific guild, I'd say maybe give that a browse and see if anything jumps out at you, then get in touch with them. :-) Feel free to give me a holla if you'd ever like to RP with a crusty old starfighter pilot though!

Unlikely to prove performance-enhancing, but suddenly I'm intensely curious what GSF would be like experienced with lysergic acid diethylamide.

Having played a wee bit on EH in the past, on Imp side (IGN: "Valladeen") I had some fun matches and met some good people. Nem and Eclipse Squadron inparticular are great guys. However, I've got to say, I too found some of the attitudes in the Imperial /GSF channel off-putting, and as a result ending up drifting away from it all and returning to my far friendlier native habitat on The Progenitor, where at least if rivalries in GSF occur, they're based on the pew-pew, not the chat channel. However, reading this thread makes me want to give it another a go and lend a hand. If I'm around EH primetimes, I'll start making an effort to pop my head in and do a few matches. Maybe Eclipse Squadron will even forgive me for abandoning them and let me back in! See you in the stars (or the skies of Kuat) o7

Leeroy!

In the cozy little goldfish bowl of the Progenitor GSF scene, I'd say I respect/fear/hate (they're all the same thing): Gope, Silverhaze, Firedemon, Nymika, Miriya, Morthag, Lindemann, Coris. Basically anybody with a <Mandalorian Hunters> tag. There are lots of other good players, but those are the ones that if I make a single mistake against, they'll punish me hard for it. I see just one of those names come up in a match, and my body-waste-output-orifice instantly clenches up, knowing that I'm going to have to spend the whole game basically tussling with them for dominance over each other's scrubs/pugs. Unfortunately -- I rarely see just one of their names, but usually three or four or more of their names altogether. ;-) That's usually the point at which I have no choice but to quit solo'ing and scramble to put together a premade of my own. It's a bit harder to say who I respect on the Rep side simply because Rep vs. Rep matches are so relatively rare, and fighting against somebody feels to me like the the best way to get the fullest measure of somebody's skills. For the simple virtue of them being my guildmates, I'd of course list names like Morrigan, Valhein, Junn, Dx'one'te, Saraani, Arriette and Eolair. Outside of that little circle of friendship, though: Rosy, Urteon, Moganas (though he's gotten a little rusty lately, too much Jedi meditation ), Ilkurok, Bluron-pair, Fiona, and Ni'ss are all people I regard as well-established, reliable, or up-and-coming Republic "aces". And dare I say it ... Kam'ma? Being hated has its psychological usefulness, and as I say, it's really just another form of respect IMO. I know that in my case, it's a matter of hate from a lot of players, as much as love or respect, and sometimes I perversely like to encourage that. After all, what's more satisfying than landing a tough kill on somebody you really, really, REALLY dislike? That feeling of "Boo-yah! Take that!" just adds to the thrill of PvP, and if hating me means people have more fun and satisfaction when they fight me and kill me, then I'm all in favour of it. I guess that's what this thread comes down to: no matter why a name in GSF stands out in your mind, their presence in matches makes those games more interesting and compelling by embuing them with a real sense of rivalry and reputation being at stake. It just adds a whole new layer of fun on top of proceedings, and that's what I think is great about it. So to all my Progenitor comrades, Imperial or Republic, whether you respect me or hate me, whether I love you or despise you: thank you for enriching my GSF with your presence and skills, you ARE what makes pew-pew on the server so much fun. <3

You keep using that word, but I do not think you understand what it means.

For American GSF players: Ebon Hawk, definitely. Great level of average skill, competitive scene, healthy queues, and some real gentleman knights of the sky. Downside is that said community can be a bit cliquey and elitist, but guess that's the price you pay. For European GSF players: The Progenitor, more gloves-off and a lot of intense rivalry between the factions, as a result of both possessing pretty awesome teams of regular players who are always happy to bring new people into groups. When the matchmaker allows those premades to line up against each other, you get some truly Gudfites (spectacular 1000-995 Doms, 50-49 TDMs, etc.)

It's never going to happen guys. Not for normal Warzones, let alone for GSF. Deal with it, get over it, move on. Find a coping mechanism.

"When you play the Game of GSF, you either win or you die. There is no middle ground." "GSF isn't a pit. GSF is a ladder. Many who try to climb it fail and never get to try again. The fall breaks them. And some are given a chance to climb, they cling to the faction or the devs or premades. Only the ladder is real. The climb is all there is." "Any man who must say 'I am an Ace' is no true Ace."

Let's add a Resolve system to GSF! lol

I think I'm one of the people on there Fortunately in a Strike, though :3 That is indeed a bit ridiculous though 5+ Bombers is taking the mickey, no matter who does it. I guess I hadn't paid as much attention to what my own team is flying. In future I will, and appropriately castigate those who overdo the Cheese like that. Even though they'll probably just ignore me, like everyone does Definitely wasn't an FEF premade though, we have to actually bully people into bringing Bombers or Gunships, just to have a single one of them to support the team. More than two or three together on a team, though? That's when the metagame of a match starts collapsing and implodes into a singularity of pure faceroll. Anybody who likes and wants Gudfites should want to avoid that. Sorry you had to suffer a game like that :-(

No, I'm suggesting it: the Clarion currently lacks a truly decent missile option. Giving them Interdiction Missiles would suit their buffer/debuffer/support role perfectly, IMO. But to be objective, might also make them potentially too good. Discuss in 1500 words or less.

If we all work at spreading the word in advance of next week, it's possible we could boost participation. FEF will certainly put together a Strike-only team for next Monday :-) However, I think it's also perhaps fair for us to agree that if more than 1/3rd to half of the opposing teams starts taking Gunships/Bombers, then at that point Strike Night goes out the window, and the gloves are off. There's no point trying to play fair and restrained against people who don't want to play fair and restrained, and I can sympathise entirely with Firedemon's frustrations. All that said, and Strikes or No Strikes, there were some really excellent games late last night between premade teams on either side! Tough, challenging, close games in which the upper hand seemed to constantly shift between both factions. Was fun! :-) ... perhaps rather than trying to artificially create some possibly futile balance ourselves where BioWare has failed, what we actually need to do to create "balanced" matches in a different way, is to organise not weekly "Strike Nights" but weekly "Premade Nights" where organisers on both factions form up 4, 8, or hell even 12 man teams on a certain night and attempt to get them into matches against each other. No restrictions on ship types: we all just embrace the meta, whatever it may be, and try to make equal teamwork & skill on both sides the factor that creates "balance". Thoughts?

Clarion/Imperium + Interdiction Missile = OP?

Not even half as amazed as I'd be if I saw your pals outside of a Gunship or a Bomber. Nor half as glad, because if I don't see a wall of Gunships, then I don't feel forced to bring out my Flashfire in order to counter them. ;-) Full credit to you personally though, Firedemon, I do often see you flying Strike Fighters, and IMO you fly them very well. You're somebody who can and will mix things up, rather than simply taking whatever's the most winning thing, and you acquit yourself excellently across a range of different ship types. You're always a threat no matter what you're flying. I have a ton of respect for that. o7