Question to the community

[Chuba]

Hello one, hello all.

I have a question I've been meaning to ask for a while now, probably a couple of years, but I never really felt the need to make a thread about it until now. Unsurprisingly, it’s a question about PvP. After all, it’s probably my favorite part of the game and the main reason I’ve stuck around for as long as I have (I mean, shit, 11+ years).

Regardless, the question I want to ask those who take the time to view this thread is fairly simple:

Why did you never become good at PvP?

Don't take it as I am throwing a jab at anyone in particular, I really don't mean it in an insulting manner. I am just curious of the following things:

• If you’ve never tried to become good at PvP, why?
  
  
• If you’ve tried to improve but stopped somewhere along the way, why?
  

I’ll reserve any and all judgment, as well as my own personal opinion, on this topic.

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[TheKusari]

If you’ve tried to improve but stopped somewhere along the way, why?

Living literally on the other side of the planet relative to the server's location certainly doesn't help me. I simply stopped due to that. Suppose I could train and work with others to improve, but living in Australia is a huge hurtle when it comes to Discovery in of itself.

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[Nodoka Hanamura]

Time investment to get good, plain and simple. My hands are in many pies, Second Life, Disco, other video games, relationships, real life matters, and I have always felt that I were to be on par with the Aces or even able to hold a candle, I'd have to put in as much time as you have, Chuba.

Weapon and others have tried to drill it into me and sing praises of some of my abilities but I still feel my aim is lacking in spite of it and I never feel like I've improved in any significant capacity.

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[Ramke]

I just ask the better players (friends) to shoot betterer than I can.

It's a community game after all.

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[Thunderer]

"If you’ve tried to improve but stopped somewhere along the way, why?"

I have the reflexes, attention and general motor intelligence of a dead tulip. Almost certainly hereditary. I wish I took more after my mother. Always preferred strategy games over shooters and caps do me just fine for that. I've had some lucky victories on snubs, but don't expect me to deshield Wesker.

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[St.Denis]

Being in the latter stages of life, I understand, quite well, that one is well past their prime and hence their reflexes will never be as good as if they were 30+ years younger.
Coupled with that, I play this Game to have fun and the thought of spending hours and hours everyday 'right clicking' never appealed to me, as a way to enjoy myself.
I occasionally get involved in PvP, but it is never taken seriously as I never expect to survive, let alone get a kill.

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[Proselyte]

I did try a couple times. Usually with snubs, caps less often. Rarely in events, mostly in spontaneous fights. I was satisfied getting to a point where I considered myself maybe just about average skill, or a little worse. The more I focused on that though, the less I focused on the roleplaying and the discovering/immersing myself in the world, and that's kinda the only reason I'm here anyway so I just cut out the chaff. I don't like it enough to keep at it. Not that I don't enjoy other shooting games, or other space sims with dogfighting, but this one just hasn't managed to feel fun for me in PvP despite attempts.

I really like the ever-present possibility of combat and danger, but compared to many of the other games I play, actually playing that combat has only gotten less intuitive to me over time, so I try to get just enough surface understanding to not completely embarrass myself, and then just avoid fighting altogether. That and I rarely have a good enough connection to enjoy a fight against a single dude.

[Elvinos2003]

''Why did you never become good at PvP?''

In my case, I lost motivation. I could set any objective I want and still can't reach them. It is also a question of patience, a thing I lost a while ago. With new balance after each patch also doesn't help.

When you try hard and fail over and over, motivation vanishes slowly as well. Also the calls of skill issues and the likes can also influence someone's will to learn. Also, I am hopeless case.

''If you’ve tried to improve but stopped somewhere along the way, why?''

I hit a wall and can't go through even after efforts and it makes me saying: ''Oh well, just too bad. I stick to where I am.''

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[L1ght]

Got tired of getting killed 10 times a day for a month and waiting 1 hour(death timer I only played Navy for a while) every time I'd start the game and try to play Dayvon Bennet just because I had a 46th tag and no I did not run or dock ( like some of my former fleetmates ) it was in character to stand his ground so I did :') so I bashed my head in for months and exploded till I stopped exploding.

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[9th.Legion]

I can say express my opinion on this.

I was conn-botting for years. Changed classes from snubs to capitals. I've been PvP'ing on all ships that existed in Freelancer, without the last few patches. The main problem with being a PvP'er is that you get a SEVERE burnout from the game. I've been taking burnout breaks from Freelancer with months, literal months. My last burnout was almost a year and a half, that is why it's not healthy to be striving to be the BEST or be AROUND the best PvP'ers. Not cuz they are Toxic or Cancerous, but cuz you get bored from being too good, since Freelancer always makes you clash with Weak, Mid or ACE players.

Striving to become the best or be in the top 3 ranking on all classes, I've turned into a bully and a complete moron, and i am really sorry, cuz i caused a lot of dmg to some players many years ago, now i've learned my lesson and i hope they can forgive me. I personally lost taste in being a PvP player, tottaly not worth it anymore. I found being a good Fleet Commander or a Leader, works a lot better and makes me use my brain more, than just mindless Pew-pew's till get i blues and stroke my ego.

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