note to self:
Never start a topic 'how much of a coward are you'.
-david-
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I only run away when the enemies ship is a lot bigger than mine and/or I am severely(sp?) outnumbered.
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"The heathens are upon us. Arm yourselves and go with God." Paul Benden, Commander of the Purple Sector Fleet, prior to the Battle of Cygni.
Depends on the rate that I am taking damage. If I expect to be killed within about 5-10 seconds at the current damage rate, then I withdraw. In small ships, this occurs around 30% shields. In big ships, I wait til I am down to armor before even considering retreating.
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I never retreat unless I have something to loose, say having blown up the Alien crusier in my Defender, and haven't landed yet. Otherwise, FIGHT TO THE DEATH!
- Anatole
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There will come a time, when the/curse of the One above/will not be tolerated further/when the Lineage of Caine will be weak/and there will be no Embracing for/these Childer/for their blood will run like water/and the potence in it will wither/Then, you know in this time that/Gehenna will soon be upon you.
- The Book Of Nod
run away? What is that- never heard that term while I play 
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Silent Night, a plug-in for Nova, will feature a small, unique galaxy. With only three races, I will be able to change the galaxy to my hearts desire. To help me finish it faster, I will not be slowed down by making ship graphic- I will use the ones from Nova.
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Approving someone else's work is not the same as creating it yourself- Bill Watterson, Author of Calvin and Hobbes
I don't care much about dying usually, since I almost never play strict mode. However, as Anatole said, I will of course run away if I just completed a special mission and haven't landed yet, or just pirated 150,000 credits from a pirate Kestrel and haven't landed yet, etc.
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-Joolzman
hector: Joolzman is only 14, so the truth is that he is nowhere near impotence.
xmattWerk: I would agree that Joolzman is a lamer...
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<sarcasm=true>Hmmm... What to say... <sarcasm=false>
I just jump into my Aurora, ready the thrusters, and see how many I can kill with a
single Fireball,")http://www.ambrosias...ea.hqx)Fireball,(/URL)(/url) and then I'm done!!!
The factors to consider should be:
total shield
remaining shiels
sheild regeneration rate
armor
shield + armor of emeny.
rate that your ship can do damage
rate that enemy can do damage
plus many more! (got that idea from commericals for music!)
if you could make a simple formula out of all that works in ev- wow.
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Silent Night, a plug-in for Nova, will feature a small, unique galaxy. With only three races, I will be able to change the galaxy to my hearts desire. To help me finish it faster, I will not be slowed down by making ship graphic- I will use the ones from Nova.
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Approving someone else's work is not the same as creating it yourself- Bill Watterson, Author of Calvin and Hobbes
Past experience - if a particular mission combination or ship creamed me before, then I always run away until I get a bigger, badder ship.
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M A R T I N • T U R N E R
I always have a 'lazy bastard' pilotfile squirreled away somewhere...so, take for example New Horizons. I start the game with 2.4 B credits. I buy myself an old, outdated rebel destroyer, and equipp it with my preferenced equipment. In this case:
3 Energy Lances.
4 Atomic Blasters.
35 C-Missiles with two launchers.
Engine upgrades.
Missile Jammer.
NOTE: This is all civilian stuff. Available at the beginning.
With that equipment, I always win, even against a ship 20 times my size with 40 fighters. Hell, I even modified the dreadnought to have 10k shields and 10k life and 14 proton turrets, and it still dies 1:1. The TNY carriers are even easier. Aliens? Bah. They Ph33r me. 
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American beer is like sex in a lifeboat. It's f*cking close to water.
Well, It depends what strategy I'm using.
If I'm using the 'press autopilot and both fire keys at the same time while accelerating ' tactic, i'll go away when my shields reach about 30%, but if i'm doing a tactic like an MP where I can avoid most enemy fire, i'll take my chances until my armor gets down to about 20%.
So as the computer uses the first tactic all the time, 20-30% would be a good figure.
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Mazca
I never go away. The problem is that I loose many ships
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M'enfin!
Y'a personne qui parle français ici?
Often a reason I run away is because I'm so imersed in the mission, I don't have time to fight. Yes, as said before, also if I have just done something really hard and have low shields. Besides that, going up against better odds is something that makes EV and EVO so fun. I always welcome the challenge of taking out a Confed Cruiser with a shuttlecraft, or an Igazra with an Azdara(which is actually easy once you decide that Azdaras are invincible 
). Of course, when I wasn't registered, I always ran from Captain Hector in a bad mood.....
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Azdaras here Azdaras there, I see Azdaras everywhere!
(This message has been edited by Azdara Ace (edited 09-12-2001).)
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Originally posted by Talon Karrde:
**With that equipment, I always win, even against a ship 20 times my size with 40 fighters. Hell, I even modified the dreadnought to have 10k shields and 10k life and 14 proton turrets, and it still dies 1:1. The TNY carriers are even easier. Aliens? Bah. They Ph33r me.:D
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Event Horizons?
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