Originally by: Mi Lai

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Originally by: Tobias Sjodin

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To whoever it concerns: It's not the rush I want to get rid of, it's the impacts it has on my selection of targets.

I do know about how to set my overview.

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The thing is that; I select the wrong targets.

If I have used some of my guns to eg. take out drones of a ship, or fire at a second opponent, and still have drones/second target locked, and then try to lock the pod of a pilot (to scram him, meanwhile fighting a second target), I can't quite think straight - and can activate modules like the scram on the drone/second target, because in the "rush" I fumble a lot.

This frustrates me, because I can reproduce these maneuvers in my sleep, when I train on rats, or whatnot. But as soon as the adrenaline hits, my micromanagement ability goes AWOL.

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Personally, I think it's still just a matter of experience. I had exactly the same, and sometimes still have (a few weeks ago I locked and scrambled the loot can instead of the pod ) in my first couple of hundred fights. I think everyone who PVP's a lot will get to the point of where he is able to let the rush work in his favor instead of against him.

Sorry for the analogy, but it's like getting into the first rounds of CounterStrike: most people that been out of it for a while will make panic decisions in the first couple of rounds, wildly emptying their magazine on auto fire when an enemy appears. After a few rounds, they get in the routine where they manage to aim, duck, and fire of a few rounds in the head in less time then they would otherwise have needed to emtpy their clip in the air.

I think the only way to get rid of the fumbles under pressure is by fighting a lot, and I think you can speed the process up somewhat by dieing a lot initially.

Personally, whenever I undock to look for trouble, I basically say goodbye to my ship, declaring it officially dead, and usually kit out a back up one. Having been podded without a clone early in my carreer (damn you Caya ), I tend to check my Clone as well. I know I only have to worry about my opponent and the fight when the time is there, as I killed of my fear before the fight even begun. This is a ritual we picked up when Sanguine was a corp with people only a couple of days old, and we intend to preserve that. People shaking from excitement is a benefit. People shaking for fear of loss stinks.

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