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When your goal is to improve your game and you wish to have someone else help you in accomplishing this goal it would be wise to listen to their suggestions on the best way to learn 1 v 1 so as to obtain elite skillz. Especially when the person trying to help you has successfully trained other pilots to become serious threats.

If you are only interested in training your way and not listening to the suggestions of the teacher then you are severely limiting your progress. If you knew the best way to train yourself to be badass then you'd already be badass. Perhaps the person that is already a proven badass/teacher just might have good suggestions on how to train to improve your game.

Just a thought.

No Pain No Gain.

Play people that you know you are going to lose against and play them over and over and over....and you'll get better. Especially if they are willing to tell you what you are doing wrong and what you are doing well. etc.

The other side of this coin:

I can play a dozen matches against most silver and bronze pilots, but one game against Sirius, Dravis, or DKH will leave me exhausted. I'd love to get better, but how do I balance that with not wanting to be fatigued all the time? I can manage to play better pilots on most days, but TRAINING with a better pilot is hard work and a serious commitment.

Well, u don't have to 'train'.

Playing a match IS training so long as you are trying to learn from it. Also, ask that person before the match begins to demo...if they don't mind...and at the end of the game ask if they will analyze it with you and give you pointers.

That's definitely a missed opportunity that I've had from my 20-10 and under games... learning from them. Most times I go into a DCL game just to play a DCL game for fun. But I really need to start bearing down and learning again if I'm to have a chance against the top tier.

it's worth pointing out that you can get all sorts of *technical* practice on your own. You can practice trichording by doing stupid kiln tricks in Minerva. You can practice dodging homers in D1 level 10. You can practice avoiding walls by chording around in that one secret level in RevoDrav (if your chording is sloppy, you will take damage.)

The thing you get from playing a better pilot is *practical* practice. You learn tactics, positioning, countertactics, mind tricks, etc. And you learn those things best when the stakes are high -- in on-the-record, high-pressure games where they'll be using their best tricks to beat you, and then from watching demos and talking about what they're doing and why it's working. You don't have to play the same person 5 times a day to learn from them; play once a week, take it seriously, and learn from what they have to say to you and from what the demos show you.

Last night I was flying around in what started as a fun game with Mr. Face and Zero. I don't know if I had a mean streak or something but I was just getting frustrated by the game and my flying. Fusion was off, I was dodging into walls instead of open spaces, it was bad. Hearing -_- complain about the lag with what a 10 kill lead wasn't helping improve the mood any. ^_^

There was a point, I don't know when, that I just stopped looking at the score and went into the main room (this was Athena), found the first energy primary I could get my hands on, and just sat in the room, dogfighting anyone who showed up. Of course, Zero was very much game, and most of the rest of my time in there was lasers, plasma, spread, and occasional fusion, back and forth, forth and back. That part of the night was actually pretty fun.

The whole experience reminded me just how competitive I can get, and showed me just how much I need to learn.

Like figuring out how to deal with that #@&% devil cannon.

Yeah, I believe I was up by 20 something. I still complain win or lose (unlike most people.) I feel that I can and should be doing better than I am. Stupid stuff like getting stuck inside Zero's ship for 20 deaths really doesn't help matters at all. I still don't understand how lag works in this game at all. Doesn't matter how much I play. So, I started to walk away from the game for 10 minutes or so to try and relax but that didn't help (did this three times in the game.) I get way competitive with myself, which is probably my biggest downfall. You guys may have fun playing even with the crazy lag and random things that happen but I do not. I am way too competitive (only in this game) to relax and play for fun. Even if I'm up about to win if one stupid thing happens, I am willing to give the game away.........