HLC/Clusters/Pods/Directionals/Barrel and a ton of ammo? Do want.

True. And I'll advocate for that all day. (And also recognise that a lot of players that could affect the balanced do like to be on the stomping side. I guess it's not boring to some).

Most times I'm on I see good players bouncing the losing side to try to balance. Sometimes it works too well.

Indeed. I'm totally happy to group with noobs. But the noobs have to join the chat for that to be possible.

Ta. Just wondering if there was any wisdom in the multi-tensors you see at the start of some doms, or if people just weren't paying attention to the ships everyone's chosen and/or the chat.

Thanks

Do tensors stack?

If it weren't for the wargame later, that would have been the match of the night. It seemed to me like most of both teams were often in the same place. Pure chaos.

Daily Chronicle - The only really good match I saw was a Pub wargame. Tilia, Janka and (some) company (I assume; they had a 3 or 4 person group, I think) on one side against Greetz, Sehrpalu, me and a name I forget (sorry). Lost, I think 45-50, or thereabouts. Not incredibly nailbiting, but it was pretty balanced, well flown by everyone and mostly dogfighting, so it was really enjoyable. It was me, greetz and sahrpalu that jumped over to repside after stomping for a few matches with "Zarathruster" () and redfantom. We wanted to balance it out. We weren't fully responsible for the rep resurgence, though, as a few other people logged off at the same time (mbwun, Z-Thruster and redfantom), so impside lost 6 and rep gained 3. I didn't know about 'stronk', or the origin of stonk. The origin of stonk just makes me like it more.

It's certainly less active on TRE than it has been before. The biggest difference seems to be much fewer matches with high numbers of 2-shippers. I think a lot fewer people are trying GSF out, even compared to a couple of months ago.

Lesson learned, like so: TRE daily chronicle. Saw this thread, thought there might be some residual action about, grouped with tilia and someone else, 2 stomp matches, go impside, lose one, get a very surprising Dom win; we had quite a lot of 2 and 3 shippers against mainly 4 and 5 shippers and actually pulled it off pretty decisively; good match (which also had my PB of 10 kills, 9 assists, 1 death, ~50k damage in a razorwire, of which I have no proof, so I shall speak no more of it). And no sir, it is definitely 'stonk', stonking, to stonk, stonked, stonktastic, stonkathon, but you were instrumental in its inception, so I suppose if you want to add an 'r', it's just all the stranger (and therefore funnier) and fine with me. (it's just a british colloquialism, btw; one that shall now be thoroughly overused, like a meta-stonk-ship).

FFS. On a night I take a break. That looks like it was an awesome game.

TRE Daily Chronicle part 2: Went repside for 1 modest loss and two utter stomps, one of them embarrassingly merciless GS spawn camping. Not wanting to take part in that any more, went impside, formed Team Stonksalot; Max/Zuck, Mbwun, lymykyl (or however they spell it), r'tard-d-two, fromand, quissin and zarathrustra (not all at the same time, obviously). Stonked all matches, I think. Balance does seem very hard to get right on TRE. But this isn't news. It is quite new that it can go in imps favour and actually stay there for a while. That's progress I suppose. Vex, when flying repside, I have seen people call out SRW members as threatening players, but no more than any other threatening players. I think you might be a little paranoid about that, mate.

While the above is true, it's not the full story. Pubs generally have more vets and decent players on at any given time, forming random groups or soloing. TRE Daily Chronicle: Flew a bit on Pub in a group of ghost squadron and pucmara. Stomped. Got weekly. Left. The end. Hopefully this evening will be better for whomever is flying impside.

Yeah, we got it right this evening. Started with rep stomps, ended with some really close, hard-fought matches. Great fun.