Bounty Hunting Combat Flightschool

[Doggen]

EDIT:

Interested:

Bigtimes (EU) - Bigtimes
Julu (EU) - Lipwig
Stee Jans (NA) - SteeJans
JeffCraig (NA) - JeffCraig
Vett (NA) - Vett
Supitza (EU) - felixkilljoy
Just Jake (NA) - Metal_Muffin
Snakey (?) - snkygmg
Daak Seed (EU but plays at night) - Daak-seed
Han Burgundy (?) - Han Burgundy
Accented (?) - Accented
MarcSand 2 (EU) - Marcsand2
? (?) Midnitesky



[original post]
Ive been watching the legacy instructional series and watched them in action:

I dont care about score or anything, but games get so much better when there is teamwork (for me anyway).

Would anyone be interested in setting up some kind of combatschool for people who want to play the game a bit more competitive?
Do we have anything like that?

 

[julu]

i'm absolutely up for it ! count me in !

 

[CosmicTrader]

Good idea.

Do we have anything like that?

Sounds like you just started one.

 

[Doggen]

Haha well my first lesson is read, watch and learn from this link ;) :

http://imperialnews.network/guides/

 

[Doggen]

Im going to move to a new appartment this month but after that I would like to start practicing with some other testies. Im EU based and mostly only on in the evenings.
For now I will test manouvers on rocks

 

[Stee Jans]

Hell yeah, count me in! If TEST is gonna have a seasoned precision strike force, my Warden, SH and I want in on that shit!

 

[JeffCraig]

I'm very interested in helping from the NA side.

I've watched some of these team-play videos before and have seen how effective they are. Wing and Fleet tactics are going to give a massive edge to organizations that practice them.

Overall strategies are always going to be changing in SC, but the basics will always remain the same. Having ongoing flight-school sessions is probably a really good idea to make sure our Auroras know how to correctly smash into enemy targets :)

I'd love to help compile courses for the following:

• Basic flight and combat training
• Wing maneuvers
• Fleet tactics

 

[Doggen]

I have zero experience in these things so any help is appreciated! Moving house the 20th but feel free to set up things in the meantime.

FirstFirst we need a name and a logo ;)

 

[Vett]

Love the idea. Count me in. Coordination will be key in larger battles but having basic combat training will help the entire org.

 

[supitza]

I'd love to join.
Did I mention I'm a very bad pilot? I'm a bit scared you'll see how bad I am (even by TEST standards) and that you'll kick me out of the org.

 

[JeffCraig]

FirstFirst we need a name and a logo ;)

My name idea:
How about we just keep it simple and call it: Dummies

Logo could just be the Test logo on a Test Dummy:

http://imgur.com/VMHSrEZ

This is a very rough draft, but I'm sure we have some better gfx guys around here.

I'd love to join.
Did I mention I'm a very bad pilot? I'm a bit scared you'll see how bad I am (even by TEST standards) and that you'll kick me out of the org.

I think you rank up in TEST every time you crash into something, so you'll be fine :)

Part of what this flight school would be for (in my mind) is to get newbies into the fight quickly. I've seen a lot of people intimidated just to step into free-flight in Arena Commander because they don't think they're a good pilot. Once I push them into the pool, so to speak, they realize that it's not so bad and they have a lot of fun.

I'm not the best pilot ever, but I'm always willing to walk people through the basics. A lot of time people just need to know what the keybindings are, and after that they do much better. First sessions would be getting people used to controls. Second session would be explaining advanced modes like decoupling. Third session would be some Vanduul swarm, and teaching some combat basis (avoiding missiles and learning not to drive straight into a swarm of hostiles). These would be part of the basics training course, and after graduation from basics, we'd start getting into more advanced tactics. People could join in on whatever flight sessions that they want, depending on their skill level.

Eventually the goal would be to have a good fighting fleet that can practice and apply the more advanced combat maneuvers and tactics, but there will always be newbies around that need help through the basics.

 

[Metal-Muffin]

I'm down.

 

[JeffCraig]

I found some posts on reddit pertaining to doing some flight training in the past (maybe a year ago or so).

We should see what happened with those sessions and check if those dudes want to join:
@Lonestar the Kilrathi
@RussianJ
@ShadyBrady
and @whatever Stomega's account name is here on the forums

 

[Snakey]

Sure! I've got an andromeda that can be used as a target and a super hornet to be loaned

 

[Daak Seed]

Haha well my first lesson is read, watch and learn from this link ;) :

http://imperialnews.network/guides/

I am in too! I am in Europe and I normally play after midnight (0:00 CET or 7pm ET). It happened only once when I played with a fellow Testie, right @CosmicTrader ? )))

FYI: I came across this website which I found quite good for covering different aspects: http://bsvcflightschool.com/

 

[mromutt]

My name idea:
How about we just keep it simple and call it: Dummies

Logo could just be the Test logo on a Test Dummy:

http://imgur.com/VMHSrEZ

This is a very rough draft, but I'm sure we have some better gfx guys around here.



I think you rank up in TEST every time you crash into something, so you'll be fine :)

Part of what this flight school would be for (in my mind) is to get newbies into the fight quickly. I've seen a lot of people intimidated just to step into free-flight in Arena Commander because they don't think they're a good pilot. Once I push them into the pool, so to speak, they realize that it's not so bad and they have a lot of fun.

I'm not the best pilot ever, but I'm always willing to walk people through the basics. A lot of time people just need to know what the keybindings are, and after that they do much better. First sessions would be getting people used to controls. Second session would be explaining advanced modes like decoupling. Third session would be some Vanduul swarm, and teaching some combat basis (avoiding missiles and learning not to drive straight into a swarm of hostiles). These would be part of the basics training course, and after graduation from basics, we'd start getting into more advanced tactics. People could join in on whatever flight sessions that they want, depending on their skill level.

Eventually the goal would be to have a good fighting fleet that can practice and apply the more advanced combat maneuvers and tactics, but there will always be newbies around that need help through the basics.

Got you covered, just slapped this together :)

 

[Han Burgundy]

Admiral Brannigan and I have found a nice little strategy with My SuperHornet and his Sabre. If its a single target (connie or something like that) The Superhornet Orbits and chips away at the shield. The action also holds the target in place for some awesome jousting attacks by the Sabre. Pretty effective unless you are going up against something small and zippy. I would be interested to see what kind of tactics we all come up with for larger squadrons and whatnot. I am IN

 

[Accented]

Count me in. I won't be much help with my 10 FPS, but count me in anyhow.

 

[Doggen]

Good stuff guys. At the moment im practicing the moves from the legacy link but it would be more effective to practice them against 'live' targets. I also find myself tweaking stuff all the time after a BR session, surprising how different it is to fly under pressure. Still not sure where to map my roll to ;)

Ideally I think we should group up one night and run through some basic stuff and work from there. I'm also not a very good pilot so im hoping someone with some more experience could show us the ropes

 

[julu]

how about we just setup a date and time, maybe 2 for the different timezones, and whoever is there, we'll open up a private match and fly some 1on1s, for starters.. i'm usually available for a couple hours from 9pm GMT onward, add me in your contacts as lipwig....