Hoax is a good example of what I was thinking about--becoming more skillful because of experience with heavies/low agility ships.

I like the atlas; it's an interesting and funny ship. with my n00ble sight, I still get atlas confused as prommie from a distance.

homers are a pain for rags/wraiths, but I think rails/tachyons/gauss are too. how can you dodge those in a heavy? after I found out how easy it is to dodge advanced gatling (nice weapon for slower ships) just by strafing, I really think heavy ships need a boost.

Everyone's taking claim for finding stuff these days.
"I found out how to enter astroids!!!"
"WOW! prox mines looks cool when they go off togeather!"
"You can cover people in prox mines!"

It's wierd, really. I look back at the days when we first did find those things at and it's like "Damn.. History DOES repeat itself."

Now that i think about it, here in vendetta, we get a chance to litteraly see the evolution of an organism. That organism is the player.

Unlike humans, the "player" is never taught the tricks of the game. There is no "vendetta school." The player has to learn things on his own. We are basicly gorillas.


This leads me to an interesting question:
If information isn't passed on from one group to another (vets to noobs) could the "players" ever evolve? If every time 1 group replaces the other and goes back to start, wont that group die off at about the same time evolutionwise as group they replaced? They will know just as much as the group they replaced when they die off.

I only rarely find a few n00bs worthy of teaching. The rest all have bad mouths on them.

Yes, but if we dont teach them anything, they will never advance past our levels when we leave.

oh you of the weak mind phoenix...

since when did you teach n00bs anyway?
you just kill them on first sight and take their cargo.
come to that, since when did you teach anybody?

I didn't get trained in rails really, and I can take vets(Keep running Pho:P), the newbies don't need vets to train them, we learn new weapons and old tricks from fighting. 'fighting is my training'

And here we see an excellent specimen of the "Newbius Talkimus". It seems that this has learned a few tricks and thinks people should respect him! By golly! Perhaps we should!

Yeah, I just get pissed when a newb comes in and starts spouting fake gangsta-speak. You're not a gangsta, 99% chance says you're not even black.

Because all gangstas are black?

Because most gangstas are older than 13, and are generally not suburban kids playing games on their dad's Compaq.

"and are generally not suburban kids playing games on their dad's Compaq."

-Wait, so video-games don't turn us into psychotic killers? Whew, that's a relief.

good going on the rails, Piro... but don't you ever wonder what more cool things you could learn if vets bothered to disclose what they've learned from the past 1-2 years?

Fighting is the best teacher... I think that's how vets train n00bies when they bother to. (after Katarn and Jm triflare me constantly for at least an hour, my dodging improves a little : D. hehe thanks guys)

but besides fighting, vets can tell you about all the old bugs (like turbo tapping), how to look at clues and explore secret sectors, how the bot AI works.

I usually pick up n00bs and take them trading, telling them how to behave in a way that doesn't get them noticed (and therefore attacked) all that often.

History began when written language developed.
hmm, I wonder why that is :p

Well, seeing as how a large sum of Vendetta's citizens have not fully developed their written language, we got no history!

So, back in the war of .05, we had us only two ships! The bus...and the bus with a better engine! We had to drive those ships, I tell ya, uphill 20 kilometers in the snow to the next station, even though there was only 2 stations, it was still uphill both ways! And then after we got to the station, we had to walk ANOTHER 2 kilometers uphill in mud, rain, and hail! You whippersnapprs be thanksful for your fancy "vultures" and "centurions" and those new-fangled "modular stations"

/me wanders off on a cane

-Scuba/Skrail/SotL/creepy old guy

/me points to Skrail. there newbies, if you want someone to tell you about vendetta, go to Steve.

=D

The problem is that the greatest art known to the vets is that of flaring and gaussing, neither of which I use to a large degree. Maybe for SOME they can teach the tricks of the trade, but all I had was Camps fighting me with rails once.

The art of flares shall stay ours. Go get a goverment issued plasma cannon.

An art takes challenge. Flares and Gauss do not. Tachyons and Gravitons, on the other hand, are a sight to behold when placed in the right hands.