What Would Really Help New Players

[Arryn]

Originally posted by Reverend Zombie:

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Originally posted by Norfleet:
... tried and true method of Improvement Through Getting Your *** Handed To You Repeatedly.

What does it mean that I follow this method, yet never improve?

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The polite answer is: switch to non-strategy games. Anything that prefers reflexes over careful deliberation.

There are many blunt, rude answers to the question. I'll leave them for others to imagine.

A middle-of-the-road answer is that you need to pay closer attention to why you're losing. How did your opponent(s) beat you. What mistakes did you make. Then stop doing whatever that is, and try something different.

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Reverend Zombie:

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Originally posted by Norfleet:
What you REALLY need to do is actually play the game. Against actual players. Because while guides are all fine and good, it's no substitute for the tried and true method of Improvement Through Getting Your *** Handed To You Repeatedly.

What does it mean that I follow this method, yet never improve?

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Well, you know the saying: For every winner, there are many losers. Odds are you're one of them.

So don't expect to win outright. You gradually improve through the process of getting your *** handed you repeatedly. Some individuals will always consistently hand you your ***. This will result in you improving to the level where you can consistently hand other people their asses. As you continue getting your *** handed to you, you'll learn how to hand out the asses of those who were formerly around your level, but weren't spending their time getting their asses handed to them.

Remember: Winners never quit, quitters never win, but people who never win and never quit are idiots.

[Atrocities]

This stuff is really interesting. One would think you all play this game all the time.

[PrinzMegaherz]

Originally posted by Atrocities:
This stuff is really interesting. One would think you all play this game all the time. [Big Grin]

One would be right

[Sheap]

I only partly agree with Norfleet. If you play players who are much better than you you don't really learn anything. You just die and lose morale (and then everyone else in your squad routs). You only learn by playing against people who are somewhat better than you. Then you can see the differences in strategy in an environment where you can still have a chance to evaluate what is going on and adapt.

[Arryn]

Originally posted by Sheap:
If you play players who are much better than you you don't really learn anything.

Not necessarily true. It depends on the "expert" player's willingness to answer questions and ability to explain to the novice what the novice did that's inferior. Zen was/is a good example of such an expert mentor. And despite what has been said about him by various persons, I learned a lot about Ermor and sundry other topics by conversing with Norfleet.