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Is it worth coming out of retirement?

Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2004 6:11 pm
by Admiral Thrawn
Lately, I've pondered coming back and playing some d3 despite the fact that PXO is down. It's been 2 years since I've hopped in the mines but I'm quite sure it won't take long for me to get back to 85% whoopass capacity in no time.

For those of you still playing, has the average skill gotten better? Are people still whining? Or is it the same ole BS?

Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2004 7:03 pm
by CDN_Merlin
85%?

Yeah right. I've never seen anyon witht hat high an efficiency. If you play the better players you will not get that high for sure.

Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2004 7:14 pm
by Mr. Perfect
I think he means 85% of his own personal best. Your skills tend to degrade after you've been away for a while.

Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2004 7:21 pm
by Infamous Ingus
come on back. its just the normal without pxo.
you can still use kquery and descent.cx for server browsers.

Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2004 7:41 pm
by CDN_Merlin
Ahhh yes, I red it wrong. Me bad.

<-- bends over for punishment.

Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2004 7:48 pm
by Admiral Thrawn
Oh, nawww, when it comes to that efficiency, my highest efficiency ranking pilot was around 70 percent. But my main Pilot, Korrupt was the one in which I got into the major battles with the good players. Here's the stats at retirement time

245. Korrupt 29291 Captain 14583 889 65% 66 33 2 18.07.08

Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2004 9:42 pm
by kurupt
theres a few good players left, and a ton of players who arent any good but think they are.

Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2004 9:48 pm
by Liquid Fire
There are few things worth coming out of any retirement for. Descent is one of them.

Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 12:35 am
by Ferno
I can't beat the crap outta you in here if you're expecting it Merlin. ;)

Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 4:08 am
by CDN_Merlin
Ferno, why not? We are CDN. We can do anything to each other. Don't tell me you wouldn't like it. ;)

Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 4:17 pm
by Iceman
I came out of retirement a few months back. I find a whole lot of new pilots that are OK to pretty good. The old timers seem to congregate in Veins, Halcyon, and Earthshaker quite a bit and the newer pilots are playing a lot of Abend and Subway.

I remember playing you a whole lot of times and I have a good idea of your skill level (yes, it'll come back in 2 weeks max). I think you would be challenged and have fun in the Veins and Hally servers ...

I play a lot of Hally and some veins. Lately I have been quite amused with Subway because it is such an incredibly fast and action packed mod. It is a missile boater level though.

Hope to cya there,

Ice
aka Iceman / InigoMontoya / Buster

Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 8:47 pm
by T-Devil
Come on back Korr! We're still around. It would be good to shoot you again!

TD

Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 1:25 am
by Ferno
T-Dev, heya.. where you been hidin man?

Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 3:49 am
by Instig8
Descent pilots never retire.

Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 5:13 am
by Suncho
they just fade away...

Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 7:36 am
by Admiral Thrawn
or actually start having sex

Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 9:09 am
by Instig8
That too.

Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 10:05 am
by Pun
I'm down for some sex.

Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 10:12 am
by BAAL
I think Ace is busy with the cat pun... ;)

Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 7:01 am
by Neo
kurupt wrote:theres a few good players left, and a ton of players who arent any good but think they are.
like you =P

Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 6:23 pm
by The Dingman
Like me.
kurupt wrote:theres a few good players left, and a ton of players who arent any good but think they are.

Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2004 1:39 am
by Ferno
I should bitchslap you Neo.

Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2004 2:11 am
by kurupt
i dont think i'm any good, i know i used to be and that i no longer am - but am still better now than you ever hoped you could be. :)

Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2004 9:05 am
by Pun
gg the other night, thrawn.

Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2004 9:11 am
by Clayman
D3 still appears to be alive and kicking. I finally got to play with the Great Ninja, and went even on him, heh.

Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2004 5:25 pm
by Bet51987
Clayman wrote:D3 still appears to be alive and kicking. I finally got to play with the Great Ninja, and went even on him, heh.
Where!......where was he....
Bettina

Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2004 6:13 pm
by STRESSTEST
I think you are secretly in love with ingus and want little ingus's running around when you grow up

By all means

Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 10:53 pm
by BoneCrusher
I came back last weekend for the first time in 4 years or more. I pretty much suck at the game now, but it is still incredibly fun. I remeber flying against you all the way back to the demo...before the afterburner bug got me. It's nice to see the community haging in there. I'm glad I finaly came back. Descenters have always been the best...

Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2004 12:07 am
by Krom
Holy!!! Its BC! Welcome back! I remember I used to play on your server in Polaris all the time when I was on dial up.

Yeah...

Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2004 10:28 pm
by BoneCrusher
I remember you being one of the few who could hand me my ass on my own server everytime you were there. I was happy if I got one good kill on you. Good to hear from you.

Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2004 11:51 pm
by Suncho
Ahhh I remember those days well... Back when all the newbies were on PXO and all the tournament stuff was on Heat. ;)

Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2004 6:50 am
by Tyranny
[semi-necro] and all of the players that really mattered were still playing the better descents on Kali, whats your point? ;) [/semi-necro]

Re: Is it worth coming out of retirement?

Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2004 11:02 am
by Sarge
Admiral Thrawn wrote:...For those of you still playing, has the average skill gotten better? Are people still whining? Or is it the same ole BS?

AHEM.... phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=4816

Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2004 11:08 am
by Beowulf
Thrawn, screw D3 play Halo 2 with the awesome D3k people!

Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2004 12:12 pm
by Darkside Heartless
Beowulf wrote:Thrawn, screw D3 play Halo 2 with the awesome D3k people!
Saying that on a D3 BB is tantamount to treason :P

BURN HIM AT THE STEAK!!one (misspelling intentional :P)

Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2004 1:31 am
by Top Gun
Beowulf wrote:Thrawn, screw D3 play Halo 2 with the awesome D3k people!
Halo totally heaves. 6DOF or nothing, baby! :D

Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2004 12:19 pm
by Admiral Thrawn
Yea, I already started a clan. Still recruiting. It's called the helljumpaz

I would love to add you guys to my friends list though

Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 9:39 pm
by T-Devil
Ferno wrote:T-Dev, heya.. where you been hidin man?
Hehe, I've been lurking. Been busy too. Got a new job about a year ago and it wasnt one that allowed me to dick-off on the DBB half the day like my previous one did.

Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2004 3:49 pm
by Ani
Beowulf wrote:Thrawn, screw D3 play Halo 2 with the awesome D3k people!
Had it, Tossed it. Groundpounders suck!!!

Come on back!

Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2004 9:02 am
by KlubMarcus
It's worth it coming back for multiplayer D3 just to pick up some new audio taunts. :P