Topic: GSA Games

[FPF-DieHard]

jUST HAD A CPL GREAT GAMES WITH dh. oops caps. Our GSA competition proved not to take a liking to rocks. Twice. <snicker>

Dizzy, let's have some fun tonight and fly nothing but Mirak!!!   

[Dizzy]

Me and DH are on... come join us!

[FPF-DieHard]

So we survived our first 427 ADV fight yesterday.  It ain't easy being cheesy.   Whoever designed these X-ships needs to have their head examined, they are WAY under BPVd and not even close to balanced accross the races.   Seriously, if I had paid attention (or cared) about this years ago I'm sure my getting banned on the Taldren boards would have happened much earlier.   

That said, it was still fun.  The good part about the X fights is they usually don't take that long so you can get back to a "real" fight soon enough.

[FPF-DieHard]

I think I'm finally a "real GSA player."   I got my first accusation of cheating last night!   After all this time, it's good to feel included 

[Roychipoqua_Mace]

Ah-ha! What happened?

I was P-O'd after dropping halfway through the asteroid 3v3 but we didn't have much chance on that one.

The 3v3 planet match with Tus in a KE and points at 150-175-200 was nasty fun too. The idea of having different BPVs is refreshing, almost like a fleet feel to it. Might be fun to try something like 100-200-100, and each side use only one race. Could be restrictive and not all players would like that, but if it were organized ahead of time with people who wouldn't mind all flying Fed, for example, it would be interesting.

[Dizzy]

Yeah, those stepped bpv fights were really cool. I thought about adding a traditional Alliance restriction to race choice, but thought better of it because of our current player group probably notr grasping that concept. I'll try it again tonight and we can try that. The players in GSA are so far a fairly flexible group of peeps.

[FPF-DieHard]

Ah-ha! What happened?

I was accused of having "magic shields" when a Klink X2 ship wasn't able to tear me apart at range through a 2 shift.  I found it quite entertaining.

The 3v3 planet match with Tus in a KE and points at 150-175-200 was nasty fun too. The idea of having different BPVs is refreshing, almost like a fleet feel to it. Might be fun to try something like 100-200-100, and each side use only one race. Could be restrictive and not all players would like that, but if it were organized ahead of time with people who wouldn't mind all flying Fed, for example, it would be interesting.

You would have loved PBR.  Team BPV and fleeting rules as close to S8 as possible within the context of a 3 ship fleet.   The Step-BPV approach works nice like this and is simple enough for people to do on the fly.

[KHH Jakle]

The annoying thing with PBR...even within the limits of that, everybody still took the best damn thing they could still get for the BPV.

Nobody takes a D6B over a D5, a DD+ over a DW, a CA+ over an NCA.

Anyway - the total BPV break-out was always fun, even without PBR.  Split 400 or whatever over 3 guys, but not locked into a set BPV for any one guy...

KHH used to always like the "2 + POS" approach - 2 good ships and then getting something ridiculous for the 3rd guy...like an E4 or something thing absolutely disposable.

What was funny, is the disposable ship could often get a couple decent licks in on a down shield, as it was ignored in favor of the good ships.

[FPF-DieHard]

Nobody takes a D6B over a D5, a DD+ over a DW, a CA+ over an NCA.

That's because of the era breakdowns being so broad.

[Dizzy]

With a decent group of gsa players, I've called games on stardate years. That's always fun too.

[Dizzy]

Ah-ha! What happened?

I was P-O'd after dropping halfway through the asteroid 3v3 but we didn't have much chance on that one.

The 3v3 planet match with Tus in a KE and points at 150-175-200 was nasty fun too. 

We were remarking on voice comms that you were a very competent player. Didnt know it was u, Mace...

[Dizzy]

Corbo and I are on GSA... come join us.

[Tus-XC]

Ah-ha! What happened?

I was P-O'd after dropping halfway through the asteroid 3v3 but we didn't have much chance on that one.

The 3v3 planet match with Tus in a KE and points at 150-175-200 was nasty fun too. The idea of having different BPVs is refreshing, almost like a fleet feel to it. Might be fun to try something like 100-200-100, and each side use only one race. Could be restrictive and not all players would like that, but if it were organized ahead of time with people who wouldn't mind all flying Fed, for example, it would be interesting.

That was an interesting one.... the only reason i survived as long as I did in the ship i had is cause i'm a cloaking bastard... what can I say

[Roychipoqua_Mace]

Thanks, Dizzy. After last night, I learned that the things I need to work on are flying more aggressively and winging better. A question: if a plasma ship is covering a striker (like a Klingon), does the Klingon move a little ahead of the plasma wingman or the other way around?

Tus's strategy was pretty cool, I've never seen it used before. Plasma can play keep-away with the other side, and the slow Romulan can cloak if the other team shoots torps at it.

[FPF-DieHard]

Thanks, Dizzy. After last night, I learned that the things I need to work on are flying more aggressively and winging better. A question: if a plasma ship is covering a striker (like a Klingon), does the Klingon move a little ahead of the plasma wingman or the other way around?

That depends on whether or not PPD is involved in the fight (which seems to always be the case unless we do 199 Late) and what they other ships are.  Last nights battle of the CCYs, you had to fly as the "Gunline" which means the Klink and Gorn should have been a bit ahead of my CCY on most battle passes.   When flying Eschelon the primary goal of the Gunline should be to set the "PPD" ship (Photon-buckets work as well, Fed+Gorm=ISC) up for it's shots.  Maneuverable plasma ships (I-CLZ, I-CW, G-BF, R-SUK) are best in this role but any can do the job if they have to.  The Gunline needs to be slightly ahead of the PPD ship in order to protect it and setup shots, the Gunline is expendable.

What was interesting about that 3v3 (besides my screaming at Dizzy for going "leroy jenkins" too early) was that we both had a CCY as a flagship.   There is no viable strategy for beating a PPD-based fleet that doesn't involve constant chasing of the PPD ship.  We pretty much both had to chase each other which is why it got so brutal and everyone was beat to hell before it was over.

Tus's strategy was pretty cool, I've never seen it used before. Plasma can play keep-away with the other side, and the slow Romulan can cloak if the other team shoots torps at it.

Tus is a master of the duck-and-cover, I think he beat me 5of6 fights when we did a bunch of 1v1 battles the other night.

[FPF-DieHard]

20+ people tonight.  That's more that we can get on  D2 server.   If more of "us" show up on a regular basis and gear the next D2 towards PvP, we may even be able to salvage a playerbase!

[Dizzy]

Damn i missed it. But Journey to the center of the earth was pretty fun in 3D

[DIFJosh]

I had a goood time last night, was real fun. hope we get more on tonight !!!

Your SFC Community Angel

DIFJosh

[marstone]

what ship and fighter list is used on GSA, might have to pop in

[FPF-DieHard]

what ship and fighter list is used on GSA, might have to pop in

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