Skirmish strats

Empok Nor

Currently number 2 in this weeks skirmish event ~230000pts. Been grinding non-stop since it started. Average time to complete all 5 battles is 1min20sec. The person in 1st has nearly 200000 more points than me. Anyone know how this is possible or is this straight up cheating somehow?

Edit: Thank you for the responses. I am about to stop grinding regardless since I only do the skirmishes for honor and credits mainly and I'm about out of chrons but just seeing how big the divide is between 1st and 2nd led me to question whether there was some strategy I wasn't aware of similar to the shuttle event strat to get to 4000pt missions in under an hour. Also, the 1st place user's name definitely led me down the path of possible botting or something along those lines lol. After writing the post and then doing the math (wrong order I know), I see that it is indeed possible to get that many points legitimately. "non-stop" was too strong a term since looking back upon the day, I did stop a few times to do human things like eat and got distracted watching the season finale of The Expanse. My bad. GGs

Cpt_insano_2k1

Everyone knows that auto is a cheater /sarcasm

Bylo Band

All I can say @Empok Nor is the score you referenced is absolutely possible through legit methods.

Calhoun

I just timed myself at 55 seconds for all five battles, so perhaps you could cut that down a bit.

The top few scores often strike me as ludicrous, though - I just don't know how people have the time or energy to do that.

Cpt_insano_2k1

Calhoun wrote: »

I just timed myself at 55 seconds for all five battles, so perhaps you could cut that down a bit.

The top few scores often strike me as ludicrous, though - I just don't know how people have the time or energy to do that.

If you really want to win skirmish, right out of the gates you gotta be like auto. Just go, go, go, go and keep on going. Take the lead establish dominance, maintain composure.thats the recipe.

Automaton_2000

If you're asking in earnest, yes there are many things someone can do to improve their skirmish performance and even picking a few that fit one's own playstyle will help.

I wanted to talk all about skirmish prep and tips on Timelines Talks after the event. Shame that we're off for a few weeks, but it'll happen when we're back.

The bulk of winning a skirmish is very unglamorous and involves sitting on your butt until it's a pancake, and ignoring sleep until you're a zombie and your eyes are twitching.

Fwiw, my time to complete a skirmish round is ~50 seconds and I use Ardra, Fury Kes, Redjac Jaris, and the event crew on the Krayton. I've slept 3 hours 30 minutes of the 18 hours so far and gone through about 13 episodes of TOS season 1.

Shy Khan

Automaton_2000 wrote: »

If you're asking in earnest, yes there are many things someone can do to improve their skirmish performance and even picking a few that fit one's own playstyle will help.

I wanted to talk all about skirmish prep and tips on Timelines Talks after the event. Shame that we're off for a few weeks, but it'll happen when we're back.

The bulk of winning a skirmish is very unglamorous and involves sitting on your butt until it's a pancake, and ignoring sleep until you're a zombie and your eyes are twitching.

Fwiw, my time to complete a skirmish round is ~50 seconds and I use Ardra, Fury Kes, Redjac Jaris, and the event crew on the Krayton. I've slept 3 hours 30 minutes of the 18 hours so far and gone through about 13 episodes of TOS season 1.

Who told you it was okay to stop skirmishing? BACK TO THE SKIRMISH MINES!!!