Great Event !

Haha, damn it! 374! I had one of 417, you beat me

 

Finally peaceful times at the Bay, more running, less shooting!

Besides - sports is healthy!!

 

At least defending is a bit rewarding this time around.

 

I don't like the current iteration of capture the flag event. Last week was awesome, fair to all except maybe shooters, my favorite of all events so far. This week heavily favors speedy yellow boats.

I had a match this morning, I started at the closest possible point to our flag on Forge. The enemy speeder got in and out before I was within decent range. I got a single flare off to knock out the capturer's Tshield but after that he was out of range. He capped in under 30 seconds, I got 0 damage and 0 coins with no chance to participate whatsoever. Simply frustrating.

On the flip side I got a capture and 10 coins but still feel empty because this event is just annoying. Too short for any strategy to develop. It's brainless.

 

you need to return the flag to get more coins, that's possible even with shooter, fixer and defender
I love this event, altough I play shooter or selfish fixer mostly (I played also with defender and speeder, but speeder was too easy for me), it's awesome mode for farming damage/heal
each ship/variant of ship has it's own specific role, which will yield good ammount of coins when played correctly, all ships have chance to get 10 coins
I won most of my battles against "yellow teams" with my shooter, if it's impossible to capture, stay near xour flag and kill every enemy that is stupid enough to get in your range

 

I know what I need to do to get more coin, but games with less than 4 yellows on each side are uncommon, and they always nitro straight past you to steal the flag or flag return. Ctf has made me really hate yellows. I've probably had 3 games the whole event where I didn't have a yellow on my team, but then we lost in 25 seconds because the other team had 2 or more yellows.

 

2 Speeders were optimal, as they could tag-team the flag back, and 3 gunboats could both defend and play midfielder.

3 or more Yellows started to be a drawback in my matches. If my side outnumbered the opponent in gunboats I made sure we had 2 defenders and 1 midfielder which made it really tough for Speeders to run the flag out of our side. When my side outnumbered the opponent in Speeders, I had no choice but to go Defense, and it also meant no heavy escorts could be spared and my Speeders never returned. Both situations frequently ended in Draw.

 

Meh, it just seemed like a total dumpster fire to me. Then again, I'm not really a fan of most gimmicky game modes (CtF, King of the Hill etc) So if this mode comes up again, I'll probably give it a miss again