Flew in a wing for the first time today. Met up with random strangers at LTT 9810's nav beacon and flew together during two separate occasions earlier. Different people both times, teams of four. All of them generally nice; they weren't inclined to use mics.
Made earning credits from the small number of ships that passed through easier because we weren't fighting for credits like dogs fighting over scraps. I didn't know that wings share the bounties and each member gets the total amount as long as you fire on the target.
One of the people in the first group ragequit when he missed a miniscule bounty on a Sidewinder.
I went to a random RES that I've been hitting up the past couple of days. This time there was a wing of 3 dudes, I think a Vulture and two Cobras. I didn't pay them too much mind. After I killed a Clipper and an Anaconda in my Viper I lined up a Cobra with a bounty that was moving nice and slow, so I nestled in behind him and started taking him down when all of a sudden I get missile warnings, my shield is gone, my hull is half gone, and I'm just trying to boost away. I notice the wing of guys had gone red on my HUD so I guess they went to pearl harbor me. I managed to jump away with 27% hull despite malfunctioned thrusters. I guess they were mad that I was taking out ships? Considering there was three of them they really didn't seem to put much work into either of the ships I killed.
Anyway, I'm fairly new, picked the game up a couple of days after it came out on steam. There does seem to be a lack of PVP, maybe I'm too low level right now, or maybe I'm mostly in the wrong places, but aside from this incident the only other PVP situation I got myself into was when I scanned a Sidewinder, saw the wanted level, and started firing my laser at him before realizing that it was an actual player and stopped and just let him jump away.
So wings gets full bounties for taking out ships, that seems stupid, they should divvy it up. But since they don't maybe those punks should have just invited me to the wing? I wouldn't have minded a fair-ish 1v1 situation to fight over the RES, but the 3v1 plus sneak attack bugged me.
I'd like to get some experience taking on other players... but it seems almost impossible to get a fair fight going. Someone always has a better ship, or wingmen, or whatever. Dogfighting against AI gets a bit repetitive. Maybe I just need to get into piracy, it seems like a fair career path to try to take out freighters in my Viper.
Fake edit: How does one pronounce HOTAS?
I rhyme it with ass personally.
So since this thread appears to have some X52 users, btw I don't have a throttle zeroing problem but sometimes my stick gets really weird where there's a big gap when I push forward. That is, I get a little forward movement when I start pushing, then a bit further I get zero movement, and finally towards the end I get near max movement. Pretty annoying, but unplugging the joystick to throttle cable seems to do the trick.
Anyway, what kind of mappings do people go with? Most specifically how do you deal with thrusters? After a lot of tweaking I have the throttle Hat as up/down/left/right and the D button as reverse thruster, and just use throttle for forward thrust, then the I button for boost. I don't feel like the hat switches are all that accurate though. Maybe I just need more time with it.
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