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jamesbob
Grand Admiral
Joined: August 22, 2009
Posts: 410
|  Posted: 2010-12-09 09:12
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On 2010-12-03 17:39, Admiral Alucard wrote:
I have a funny feeling that Jack is going to blow his own horn about been the best EAD pilot...but maybe I'll be proven wrong?
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i can say with out a doubt its jack 
or maybe sparten its a tie jack must kill spartenz and spartenz must kill jack now  .
best icc bomber dread poilet goes to alucard. (coward bombed the shipyard planet in scenerio and when i did got my mandi out gave their ad a run for its money )
best cd (and i am not nominating my self even those i can keep it away from just about anyone) aga but sadly agas flight usually ends in a firey explosion as i blow him away in a mandi .
hmmm best line station i think fatal ant now if only if i could say he was the best nest poilet i could say the fatal ant nest .
torp cruiser sparten z
best heavy cruiser padma.
i will add with edit when i remember the rest.
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Drafell
Grand Admiral
Mythica
Joined: May 30, 2003
Posts: 2449
From: United Kingdom
| Posted: 2010-12-09 12:51
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local scripter = "Drafell"; -- Insert scipt user name here
local lightred = "";
local teal = "";
local ec = "";
function deleteTarget(value)
local kill_target = getKey(value);
if isNoun(kill_target) then
detachNoun(kill_target);
sendChat(scripter, 4, lightred..value.." destroyed."..ec);
return true;
else
sendChat(scripter, 4, lightred..value.." is not a valid noun."..ec);
return false;
end
end
function iWin()
for i = shipCount(), 1, -1 do
local user = getName(getShip(i));
if user ~= scripter then
deleteTarget(user);
end
end
end
iWin();
sendChat(scripter, 4, teal..scripter" wins."..ec);
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Nuff said.
[ This Message was edited by: Drafell on 2010-12-09 12:53 ]
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Xavier I. Agamemnon
Grand Admiral
Exathra Alliance Fleet
Joined: October 12, 2010
Posts: 357
From: Babylon5
| Posted: 2010-12-09 13:55
this was a bad idea on your part cuz thely chose them selves. but what ive seen i think FTL defiance is the best.
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Koba
Chief Marshal
Praetorian Wolves
Joined: April 20, 2010
Posts: 309
From: United States of America
| Posted: 2010-12-10 00:55
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On 2010-12-09 09:10, BackSlash wrote:
Really interesting to see what a few years can do to people. Darksworde puts you all to shame, and half of you haven't a clue what being a good pilot is.
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meany.... 
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Admiral Alucard (2IC)
Marshal
Exathra Alliance Fleet
Joined: April 30, 2004
Posts: 279
From: St. Helens, England
| Posted: 2010-12-10 06:20
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On 2010-12-09 12:51, Drafell wrote:
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local scripter = "Drafell"; -- Insert scipt user name here
local lightred = "";
local teal = "";
local ec = "";
function deleteTarget(value)
local kill_target = getKey(value);
if isNoun(kill_target) then
detachNoun(kill_target);
sendChat(scripter, 4, lightred..value.." destroyed."..ec);
return true;
else
sendChat(scripter, 4, lightred..value.." is not a valid noun."..ec);
return false;
end
end
function iWin()
for i = shipCount(), 1, -1 do
local user = getName(getShip(i));
if user ~= scripter then
deleteTarget(user);
end
end
end
iWin();
sendChat(scripter, 4, teal..scripter" wins."..ec);
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Nuff said.
[ This Message was edited by: Drafell on 2010-12-09 12:53 ]
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HAX O_O
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Enterprise
Chief Marshal
Joined: May 19, 2002
Posts: 2576
From: Hawthorne, Nevada
| Posted: 2010-12-10 08:00
I'm just going to go ahead and do the egotistical thing and say me.
The only other pilots that are worth a damn to fight are Coeus (I hate your cruisers), Backslash (Your EAD will die someday), Crim (For godsake at least pretend you're not just suiciding(), Draf (especially if the bastard is in a station), Banshee, Lark (Bleep both), Tbone, Smartin (both good overall pilots), Switchblade (balsy bastard), Ramius (just because), Jim Starluck (my favorite destroyer).
And those are just semi-current players really. Im not going to go into the real legends (c4). And Coombie is overated, he just played too damn much.
Everyone else not even remotely related to this list? Yeah you're just easy. Sorry mates.
-Ent
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$yTHe {C?}
Grand Admiral
Sundered Weimeriners
Joined: September 29, 2002
Posts: 1292
From: Arlington, VA
| Posted: 2010-12-10 11:17
Anyone that offers names other than Banshee, Darksworde, and Ragglock are wrong, hope this helps.
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Daagda Moor
2nd Rear Admiral
Joined: March 26, 2009
Posts: 23
From: Deep inside Andromeda
| Posted: 2010-12-10 12:34
I think it is interesting that people who haven't actually played the last SEVERAL VERSIONS could possibly be listed as knowing their ships so well. It isnt even the same ships in most cases. Darksword, far as I know, has never played a "true" cloak K'Luth.
That's just called starting well. How'd they end?
Early.
Cracks me up, really.
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Crim
Fleet Admiral
Sundered Weimeriners
Joined: March 16, 2003
Posts: 1336
| Posted: 2010-12-10 16:38
Oh yeah, Enterprise ain't too bad himself. $ythe was pretty fun too.
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The_Enforcer (The Vindicator)
Fleet Admiral
Joined: March 05, 2010
Posts: 163
From: another dimension
| Posted: 2010-12-10 17:16
i say riley for flying that " thing" he calls a siphon, and lithium for turning a nest into being a EAD v.s a planet.
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Bardiche
Chief Marshal
Joined: November 16, 2006
Posts: 1247
| Posted: 2010-12-10 17:35
You imply there is a great diversity of "piloting skill" between Dreadnoughts and Stations.
The most I can see is tactical assessments, and that is less skill of "piloting" than it is skill of assessing whether or not pressing J will be a profitable move.
Lol skill in DarkSpace, once you get the hang of the controls it's easy. Anyone claiming otherwise is crazy.
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jedi42
Grand Admiral
Evil Empires Inc.
Joined: February 25, 2002
Posts: 478
From: jedi42
| Posted: 2010-12-10 22:12
I've not played in the last few years really, so my opinion is probably invalid. But:
EvilBob:
Kills: 3,245
Killed: 81
But I guess it depends if you mean skilled control of the craft + bonuses, rather than end results. Or, K/D ratio, for example.
I have nearly 400 planet collisions, so I guess in terms of actual piloting (sometimes PUI), I would have to rank myself very, very low. You do not want to ride shotgun with me in my Hive. It may be slow, but it can still hit planets just as well as a little scout.
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jedi42
Grand Admiral
Evil Empires Inc.
Joined: February 25, 2002
Posts: 478
From: jedi42
| Posted: 2010-12-10 22:23
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On 2010-12-10 17:35, Hence the Fortress wrote:
You imply there is a great diversity of "piloting skill" between Dreadnoughts and Stations.
The most I can see is tactical assessments, and that is less skill of "piloting" than it is skill of assessing whether or not pressing J will be a profitable move.
Lol skill in DarkSpace, once you get the hang of the controls it's easy. Anyone claiming otherwise is crazy.
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I'm not sure that's entirely true. There are (at least were, some years ago), a number of extremely valid tactics for 1 on 1 and group combat. The pattern and rate of attack with certain weapons, based on energy drain and the capabilities of the enemy ship is measurable and quantifiable. It's not particularly difficult too, to assign a priority on the average speed and engagement distance that is optimal for two ships fighting, with a given load-out, one on one, so that you maximize damage over time. People can run but they can be followed. I can't imagine that element of the game has changed that much since I was last really engaged, but if it has I'd like to know.
In the past, e-jumping only saved the weak from newbs or the uninterested, since pursuit could be roughly calculated and the fight would continue. Unless planets have become way too strong to prevent kills at enemy planets for the very weak and people have just learned to point in the direction of a friendly planet and queue their jumps to prevent being killed.
Sometimes an attack can take many passes, even hit-and-retreat sort of guerrilla warfare that the K'luth use. I'd imagine all these things are about "piloting" or, really, just playing the game optimally. To suggest the knowledge of the controls is all that's here seems a bit disingenuous, unless the game-mechanics have really broke down that much in the last 4 years. There's a reason some people have the highest rankings in certain things... if all it took were to know a WASD ctrl-j keyboard config, we'd see everyone ranked about the same I would think.
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Fatal HI NSA PadmaVajra *XO1*
Chief Marshal
Fatal Squadron
Joined: May 24, 2005
Posts: 184
| Posted: 2010-12-10 23:17
I'd nominate Starface, er starfish...er..what's his face...for best dictor.
Few pilots can strike more fear in the hearts of others than ...at least in the old days...this pilot.
Now..send a dictor in and I promise you a swift and decisive response. No fear in the other players.
Props to GTN Starfish for being the best Dictor Pilot in DS
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Lark of Serenity
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Raven Warriors
Joined: June 02, 2002
Posts: 2516
| Posted: 2010-12-11 01:29
Banshee.
end of conversation.
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