Skills & Tactics

[breakpoint]

sorry if this has been asked before...

i was chatting to a fellow freelancer the other night (GMT), about certain skills to learn for advanced players....

for example... Speed Docking

the act of docking at the last moment during cruise or thrusting

i now wonder what other skills or tactics players have found... you need not discuss the actual method of mastering the skill, more like, what skills are there to learn...

i don't tend to play many games (i've played computer & video games for about 18 or so years and it takes alot for me to actually get "into" a game), but when i do.. i like to know that i have mastered the game... for example 100 percenting Vice City or collecting every item/weapon etc in Final Fantasy 7!

maybe even stuff, you can't do but believe could be possible

thx 4 yr time

[{}P.O.W{}1RingToRule]

Hey,
I am far from an expert at this game, so I haven't mastered this skill yet. (I have only had the game for 3 months give me time) I have started to learn what I think all good duelers have mastered.
1.) The art of using thrusters, strafe right/left, and kill engine in a duel.
2.) Also I have heard, though not done, of a glitch where if you fly directly away and backwards from an opponent they can't hit you.
Enjoy, ;D
-1RingToRule

[sundancer]

quite true, 1RingToRule. it IS possible to fly backwards away from an opponent, and they don't hit you.
admittedly this only works for NPC's i think, but it's useful if you need to make a err... tactical withdrawl from a lightfight.

and speed docking is useful in any case. normal docking just takes so looooooooooong...

later,
dancer one

[liberatoralpha1]

Can you speed dock with stations?

[{}P.O.W{}1RingToRule]

I think so unless you are thinking of something different from what I am thinking of.
But if I am thinking correctly you simply fly towards the "dock" you want to go into. Don't get too close and you must be completely perpendicular to the "docks" doors.
-1RingToRule

[maximilian]

I think that there would be best if we only had Barrel- roll button

[warbrother]

There is a mod for that, needless to say it's illigal on the Eagle Utopia server, but hey, it messes up your flight so much that it's HARDLY an advantage!

[powbeta4]

Technically, if you put your ship upside down and press certain buttons in the right order(no i wont tell u do i look that stupid?), u can do a barrel roll, maybe not 180 degrees but pretty close.

And yes i have done it.

Only problem is it takes too long to set up, slow, and not good for fast paced dueling. If someone were to master that and use it in dules when it appeared, tho...