What I would like to say about this game is to keep it on par with all other new games coming out.This is so that others don't have hand up keeping the features the saame as SFC2 or SFC3.This is like me vs players like say Dizzy on a server who have more exprience or Crim.It is why I can't compete no matter how much time I put in practicing they know the shiplist off by heart.
When I went over to play GW I was ona level playing field with others as it was a new game.
Niot true, compared to the old timers I'm a "n00b." My first D2 server was CW6: Storm Season. You can learn, you just have to grasp the fundamentals and listen.
Sure I played SFB and bought ton of book, read all the tactics, but I SUCKED!!!! My brothers used to kick my ass all the time. I think I'm like 1-37 in lifetime SFB games.
I learn how to fly by training with the 9th Fleet for one of the turn-based campaigns, reading Mu's SFC blog, and reading the 3rd Fleet's Bible on Starcaslting. Ghish was the master, as were Mu and Kruk and radically different styles.
I've also had a couple of epiphanies when flying on the frontline. I learned so much from watching Ghish fly an F-DNH against hoard of PFs. I learned when Madelf's killed my F-BCV while he was in a K-C7V. And I learned a hell of a lot from KBF-Saxxon from the multiple battles we fought on various servers.
Back in the day the FPF used to practice 6-10 hours a week. It worked, we got good. We flew ISC in a PBR cycle to learn plasma, that made us better at fighting against it because we learned it's limitations.