The few, the proud, the useless.

[Mythril Gear]

Mwaa haaa haaa!!!!

Then
When I played shifter it was like a blast from the past. Every day when I used to get home from school, Steffa would call me up and we'd play tribes together. I was the *best* at deploying the turets in the most buggerin' places around the base. I would place them, then guard the flag as a Juggernaut. (like super-heavy. it came with an auto-shield pack and lots a ammo) Steffa would run around repairing our guys and sniping the crap outa the enemy guys. It was the best of times. But then Steffa got mono, and I stopped playing Tribes and haven't played it to this day. (Actually i started it up today just to see if the Homelan servers were still online...) I learned Tribes on shifter. I stuck with it during all the server crashes, code revisions, lack of admins, stacked teams, and anything short of a tactical nuke that was thrown my way.

Now
I got Tribes 2 because I saw how how much fun YOU guys were having. But playing base throws off all my tactics. I'm used to flying as a light (and for those of you who know, I mean FLYING!), and plodding to the flag in heavy. I wished for those days when lights could turn into scouts at will, and heavys were nearly unstoppable (and unmoveable!). Shifter on T2 isn't the same as Tribes 1, but there are some resemblances. Let's just face it. There are those of you who like to play those old MAME/RAINE arcade games. It's nostalgia right? Well, that's what Shifter is to me. Tribes WAS shifter back then. There was nothing else, because HomeLAN ruled al other servers. (Come on, they're corporately funded, and own hundreds of servers on an OC3 line. You can't NOT like them! )

Future
Just because I found Shifter doesn't mean I won't play with you, I'll just be really sad that none of you like/play the glory that is Shifter. You are a great bunch, and it's the practices that matter right? Just consider Shifter to be a separate game if you will. Don't worry, MG is here to stay. (heh......that is, untill FFX comes out.... then u won't see me for about a week.)

Jeff

[STUWEY]

FFX is only gonna take you a week

[Mythril Gear]

Heeeyyyyy!!!!!! I like Final Fantasy! IT WILL BE GOOD!
Did u even see FFIX? It was in-cred-ible, and it was on PS1 to boot. It even worked well on my broken PSX! (Well, since I don't have PS2, I will get it for PC. Because Geforce 2 rules!)

[Aluscia]

Loser... I'll be picking up a PS2, because it will cost the same ammount of money to upgrade this comp, and it's not even mine to keep.

[Mythril Gear]

Hey! I spent +2000$ on my PC. It better be able to run FFX. Besides, I got an AGP GeForce 2 GTS at my side, what could go wrong?

[KitZune]

...it COULD explode.

I lost faith in Final Fantasy a long time ago.

[Aluscia]

Stupid chicken packing plant... they just laid off half of their workers, so they won't need me as summer help... Back to the drawing board.

[Kusiami]

I love Shifter!

[Ambush_Bug]

MG:

You'd be surprised to hear this from a guy who's been playing (and quite successfully at that) Tribes since December of 1998, but my aim sucks.

I can't hit a target for the life of me with the disklauncher (or just about any other weapon, for that matter). Don't even ask me to snipe.

Yet I've played and played and played since '98, and I still manage to kick some ass.

The main reason for this is that once I found out I couldn't aim for crap, I figured that if I wanted to stay in this really cool game, I'd better figure out a way to supplement my bad aim. So I started doing some research, and found out that my aim didn't mean crap just so long as I had turrets and a sensor web to back me up.

My primary evil tactic in T1, when I was outdoors, was to get into a fight and lure the bad guy into our sensor web, whereupon our base turrets would tear him to bits. Or I'd control turrets.

Or I'd do ofensive/defensive fire support. The one thing I got good at was tossing mortars around. After a bit of practice (about a month), I got to the point where I could throw one into a heated battle with a better than 90 percent chance of killing the bad guy and not making a mark on my teammate.

My aim with the disk still sucks though.

Now that I'm in T2, I'm still getting used to the weapons. My wonderful mortar from T1 has been nerfed, and I'm still getting used to it. So, in the meantime, I'm working on other things. I drive tanks for Jester or RedSirus, fly bombers, do sensor recon with the Shrike, pick up cappers, do forward recon for my team, and that kind of thing. I don't hit a lot of combat (unless I'm doing fire-support, and then I get into it), but I do end up making a difference for my team.

There are literally so many roles in this game you can't hardly exhaust 'em all. Since you aren't sure what you're good at, try everything. Just mess around on pubs, try stuff out, see what fits. Then decide.

Oh yeah... the practicies with THZ will help. I'm serious here... once you get into an organized effort, you'll see your skills improve.

[DeLukas]

My aim sucks. But there are weapons that need no aiming. The missile lancher is my weapon of choice.

Beep . . . Beep . . . beepbeepbeep . . .boom!

No more little flying scout. . .oh you want to toss flares, ok your gernade finger is going to get tired. . .oh you want to duel? here have a morter at point blank.

There is no need for aim.

[Mythril Gear]

See. That's why i liked shifter. You actually got points for repairing. Actually, you could get MORE points repairing than fighting! (I learned a hard lesson in that by Steffa) Back in the good old shifter days, you could repair and fight too, as the armor (Engineer) that had the beloved repair-gun, could also carry the railgun, one of the most powerful weapons. In shifter, being a support character did not suck, it rocked.

[Kusiami]

heh... I see. Would you like this in paper or plastic?

[Mythril Gear]

What you say? (i dont get it.)

[Crono_Magnum]

the big thing is do points matter? its cool to see that your name is in the top of the list but this is a team game

[Mythril Gear]

Heh, My name was never at the top. My score peaked at about 100 points. The cappers and fraggers got scores in excess of 500 points.