All I did tonight was chase runners. Finally, exasperated after a couple hours of this I went to the DA to find a fight and all I found in the furball area were more runners.
What a joke.
I will totally agree.. the DA is a joke. It's full of gang tards, pickers and runners. The current DA is way worse than the MA IMHO. Whats even worse is is actually a squad in there now that dose nothing but climb to 15k so they can all gang some lone con or pick anyone they see in a fight. Then they think they are fighter gods because they land kills in the DA and the other noobs give them WTG's.
Hell me and a squad mate tried to do a private dual about a week ago and couldn't even do that, with out some noob twit coming in and interrupting.
As far as the MA.. The state of the MA I've been squeaking about that for quite some time. Skill level keeps eroding further and further because we have two many twits worried about landing 4 or 5 "easy" kills or blowing buildings in NOE surprise attacks rather than actually fighting for a hard fought for kill or base capture.
Just a simple example of how bad it's getting... Last night I went out looking for a small fight because I hate hordes. I end up finding a Huri 2 at 18k.. Tried to bait him in and next thing you know there was two 16k to 17k Nik2's and a Tempest coming in behind them.. I mean it was quite literally most of my personal list of the biggest dweeb planes in the game. Of course they wouldn't come down or fight with out all 5 of them.
I end up climbing out, because they were the only cons in the sector and managed to get one of the Nik2's by himself. By this time I had to climb to 20k and this guy was now at least 25k in a Nik2 lol. Once he finally was willing to engage by himself I liturally sent him to the tower in 3 turns it wasn't even worth my time climbing up there because the fight lasted all of about a 45 seconds.
It's why I hate flying to other bases anymore and why I pretty much just upp at bases under NOE attack or that are getting attacked by a CV. At least that way I don't have to climb to 20k to fight some con or worry so much about them running away, because they are more worried about vulching or capturing a base so it keeps them close by and gives me lots of targets.