I am getting really tired of my teammates committing really stupid errors. I'm going to make a list of some of the worst, with the hopes you (yes YOU) will stop doing them.
1. Floating. Do I need to say anything more? One floater will kill your team.
2. Fleeting with weak players. I often see someone fleeting with a player with less than half the infamy of the rest of the team. Stop bringing losers into the team!
3. Long range artillery battles. You cannot win a game if the opponents are barely within range. Sure, soften them up with a few salvos, drop their points, but then you MUST ATTACK.
4. Stupid weapons mix. If you have all mines, or all torpedos, you are an idiot. You need a mix of short and long range weapons. Ideally, you also need a mix of weapons with short reload times and more powerful weapons with longer reload times.
5. Failure to go for the kill. Over and over, I see a teammate chase a strong target while another ship with only a few points could be killed with a single shot. As long as they have ONE point left, they can still shoot at you. Kill them, THEN go for the stronger target.
6. Failure to kill high value targets. I often see one ship fighting two ships, e.g. one healer and one other shooter, etc, and they keep trying to kill the shooter while the healer keeps healing it over and over. Kill the healer FIRST, or else the other target will never die.
7. Failure to seize the initiative. Oftentimes I will go kill a a serious threat, do some serious damage to a few other ships, and then die in the process. And then I watch my teammates sit back and lob long range shells at the enemy, while a healer brings them back up to strength. You must seize the initiative and attack before the enemy can heal. Better yet, you must attack before they regroup and counterattack.
8. Chasing targets you can't hit. Do not chase speeders unless you have a powerful short range weapon like a carronade. Do not chase ships in a circle. If you get caught in a death spiral, back up suddenly and let the other ship run past you, into your gun range.
9. Placing mines where they do no good. Mines are not an offensive weapon, you can't shoot them at an enemy and expect them to arm before the enemy leaves them far behind. It is pointless to put mines in areas close to your team, unless you can get the enemy to chase you into the minefield. Mines are a stupid weapon anyway. They are defensive weapons and that means you are a coward. If you have a speeder and toss mines everywhere, you aren't playing the game, you are just griefing, you are a troll, literally trolling for an accidental hit.
10. General cowardice. You cannot play to win, if you are playing not to lose. Without risk, there is no victory. You must put yourself in the line of fire, if you expect to get the enemy in YOUR line of fire.
11. Going for capture immediately at the game start. This never works. You cannot capture if an enemy can lob a shell at you and reset the clock to zero. Usually you are just abandoning your team and making yourself an easy target.
12. Going for capture too late. If there is not enough time left on the clock (60 seconds I think?) you can't capture to win the game.
13. Failure to stay in formation. If you split off and go freelancing by yourself, or if you get too far ahead of your team, you are likely to meet the entire opposing team and they will all fire at you simultaneously. You will become the first casualty.
14. Failure to go for the draw. When you're at the end of the game and it's down to one-on-one, when you have 5 points left, and the only enemy has 2000, go hide. You owe your teammates a draw, when you will most certainly lose a final attack.
15. Failure to lead the target. Just a slight pull on the target ring in the direction of the target's travel, will be enough to put the shot ahead of the target. Remember your weapon has a travel time, and you must shoot where the target WILL BE, not where it is NOW.
Please add on your own stupid teammates' actions. I wish there was a mechanism in the game where you could flag a player that does something so stupid that you never want to play with them again.
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