Topic: GSA Games

[Wraith 413]

 Haven't had a chance to play any games with you guys lately due to RL. Now I'll be off to training for the next 3 months and my laptop won't play OP.   Maybe when I fly home for a long weekend I'll get a little play time in.  <S> and HF all !!! 

[FPF-DieHard]

Haven't had a chance to play any games with you guys lately due to RL. Now I'll be off to training for the next 3 months and my laptop won't play OP.   Maybe when I fly home for a long weekend I'll get a little play time in.  <S> and HF all !!! 

Buy a new laptop! 

[Dizzy]

Well, we now know why the USS Hood can't ever get away from Klingon D6's in the Kobayashi Maru Scenario... D6's go faster than fed ships. 

[Dizzy]

lotsa games going on...

[knightstorm]

wouldn't know considering that for some reason, I kept dropping yesterday. grr.

[Roychipoqua_Mace]

wouldn't know considering that for some reason, I kept dropping yesterday. grr.

I know what you mean. We gotta advertise SFCdirect to the Gamespy crowd, no dropping there.

[knightstorm]

wouldn't know considering that for some reason, I kept dropping yesterday. grr.

I know what you mean. We gotta advertise SFCdirect to the Gamespy crowd, no dropping there.

It wasn't a matter of me dropping out of gamespy, it was me dropping out of OP.  I probably would have gotten donkey punched across the map anyway, but i still would have liked to have a go.

[FPF-DieHard]

Speaking of advertising to the GSA crowd, do they actually gather anyplace forum wise?   The dates on the CUGS forums are all old so it doesn't look like much activity.   

If we can get a campaign that's appealing to both that crowd and what we have here, we may be able to salvage a community.  Problem is we can't find out what's appealing  to them without posting on their boards or them posting here.

As much as we joke about the 450 ADV crowd, they seem to be in the minority.   

[Roychipoqua_Mace]

I can't find any forums either. Many of them are the last remaining SFCers of their fleets. They do have a Teamspeak channel that is usually active, though (see http://www.cugs.org/news.php). Josh would probably know how to reach a lot of the playerbase.

This might be a no-brainer but do you mean a Dynaverse campaign or some kind of GSA-based one?

[FPF-DieHard]

I can't find any forums either. Many of them are the last remaining SFCers of their fleets. They do have a Teamspeak channel that is usually active, though (see http://www.cugs.org/news.php). Josh would probably know how to reach a lot of the playerbase.

I seem to spend as much time on their TS server as I do Dnets.   I'll ask them if they gather anyplace on line forum-wise

This might be a no-brainer but do you mean a Dynaverse campaign or some kind of GSA-based one?

Both 

[Roychipoqua_Mace]

Gamespy players may have noticed that a regular room cannot be seen by a player if the player signs on after that room was created.

However, rooms with passwords on them show up right when you enter the lobby. I don't know why, but it works.

I strongly encourage any hosts to put a password on their rooms. Not as a measure to keep people out of games, but to make it more convenient: this way, the room doesn't have to be remade repeatedly if someone drops out, and any players who wander in to the lobby could join in fast and easy.

Heck, the password should be visible in the room description: "Hey the pw is sfcrulz!"

[FPF-DieHard]

Is anyone else sick of fighting against plasma in every fight?  In the land of the slow drone Plasma is king, especially since the drone speed upgrades cost too much.   Did a bunch of FvK fights last night that were a blast.  I wonder how receptive people would be to a few "west coast" only fights . . .

The other night Dizzy and I were laughing as it was almost as if I'd forgotten how to fly Fed since I've been flying ISC so much on GSA.  I was getting my ass kicked and it took me a good 20 minutes into the fight before I was able to get any decent firing solutions.  Flying ISC on GSA is like flying a Droner in D2, it rots your brain and makes you forget what it's like to fly "real" ships.

[Roychipoqua_Mace]

In the 3v3 fleet GSA matches, plasma almost is a necessity, keeping chasers away so the direct fire races can do their magic. But it would be sweet if there were some West Coast matches, like you said. Because of all the plasma, a true overloaded alpha strike from Feds or Hydrans is so rare now (no one wants to charge a plasma punk). It's all just proxies for a while. Some old-school hammer Fed tactics and fusion Hydrans would really be nice.

I'm willing to bet enough people with be interested in a non-plasma game, we should give it a try.

[FPF-DieHard]

In the 3v3 fleet GSA matches, plasma almost is a necessity, keeping chasers away so the direct fire races can do their magic. But it would be sweet if there were some West Coast matches, like you said. Because of all the plasma, a true overloaded alpha strike from Feds or Hydrans is so rare now (no one wants to charge a plasma punk). It's all just proxies for a while. Some old-school hammer Fed tactics and fusion Hydrans would really be nice.

I'm willing to bet enough people with be interested in a non-plasma game, we should give it a try.

And people may actually play Kzinti!!!     Even go with D2 loadouts in some of the fights.

That's the kicker, we've gota game with 8 distinct races with 8 distinct styles of play.   But in open races games it all resorts to the same tactics.   We're actually seeing less variety by having more variety.

[marstone]

In the 3v3 fleet GSA matches, plasma almost is a necessity, keeping chasers away so the direct fire races can do their magic. But it would be sweet if there were some West Coast matches, like you said. Because of all the plasma, a true overloaded alpha strike from Feds or Hydrans is so rare now (no one wants to charge a plasma punk). It's all just proxies for a while. Some old-school hammer Fed tactics and fusion Hydrans would really be nice.

I'm willing to bet enough people with be interested in a non-plasma game, we should give it a try.

And people may actually play Kzinti!!!     Even go with D2 loadouts in some of the fights.

That's the kicker, we've gota game with 8 distinct races with 8 distinct styles of play.   But in open races games it all resorts to the same tactics.   We're actually seeing less variety by having more variety.

Was looking at why the drones were so expensive, it is because they don't figure the BPV of the drone loads by the SFB rules.  It is alot cheaper in SFB to load out a droner.

[FPF-DieHard]

In the 3v3 fleet GSA matches, plasma almost is a necessity, keeping chasers away so the direct fire races can do their magic. But it would be sweet if there were some West Coast matches, like you said. Because of all the plasma, a true overloaded alpha strike from Feds or Hydrans is so rare now (no one wants to charge a plasma punk). It's all just proxies for a while. Some old-school hammer Fed tactics and fusion Hydrans would really be nice.

I'm willing to bet enough people with be interested in a non-plasma game, we should give it a try.

And people may actually play Kzinti!!!     Even go with D2 loadouts in some of the fights.

That's the kicker, we've gota game with 8 distinct races with 8 distinct styles of play.   But in open races games it all resorts to the same tactics.   We're actually seeing less variety by having more variety.

Was looking at why the drones were so expensive, it is because they don't figure the BPV of the drone loads by the SFB rules.  It is alot cheaper in SFB to load out a droner.

It's because the upgrade cost is multiplied by the reloads and shouldn't be.

[marstone]

It's because the upgrade cost is multiplied by the reloads and shouldn't be.

yep, you only are suppose to pay for the first load in the racks and the reloads are free.  (but I like the payment for them in the D2 as that is prestige and not BPV)

[Corbomite]

Is anyone else sick of fighting against plasma in every fight?  In the land of the slow drone Plasma is king, especially since the drone speed upgrades cost too much.   Did a bunch of FvK fights last night that were a blast.  I wonder how receptive people would be to a few "west coast" only fights . . .

The other night Dizzy and I were laughing as it was almost as if I'd forgotten how to fly Fed since I've been flying ISC so much on GSA.  I was getting my ass kicked and it took me a good 20 minutes into the fight before I was able to get any decent firing solutions.  Flying ISC on GSA is like flying a Droner in D2, it rots your brain and makes you forget what it's like to fly "real" ships.

 

[Dizzy]

25 peeps in gsa...

[FPF-DieHard]

25 peeps in gsa...

My best friend picked the wrong night to get married . . .