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alkis21 wrote:No, I mean some moves are easier to make with some joysticks than with others.
This is very true. My game has improved dramatically since I started using the CMS sticks. Now things happen most of the time as I want them to. Whereas before I'd be making huge blunders because the stick wasn't so precise.
I know a bad workman always blames his tools but these comments got me thinking. I wondered if there's a any correlation between joystick and KOA rank? Are certain joysticks avoided by the top players and others preferred?
Post the name of your preferred joystick and lets see what (if anything) the trend is...
RESULTS SO FAR (based on Nov '06 Rankings)...
Pos Name Joy
1 Gianluca T custom joystick 2 Gianni T Speedking 3 Alkis P Tomahawk 4 Spyros P ACS Microtechnica 5 Martin J Cruiser 6 Nikos A Pacman II 7 Klaus Lo
8 Rikki F
9 Mario F Suncom Tac-2 10 Luigi F Suncom Tac-2 11 Michael O
12 Steve C CompPro 13 Ben G Cruiser 14 Robert S Cruiser 15 Martin B
16 James B CompPro 17 Panayotis P Pacman I 18 Mark P
19 Dan C
20 Marco D Suncom Tac-2 21 John H Wico 22 Jon G Cruiser 23 James L
24 Fabio F Suncom Tac-2 25 Stefan V
26 Simon B Zipstick 27 Christian D
28 Rodolfo M CMS 29 Nick P
30 Thomas K
31 Nazim C
32 Kees V
33 Giacomo T
34 Oliver St
35 Glenn L
36 Maurizio L Suncom Tac-2 37 Lee M
38 Jacob K Wico 39 Sascha W
40 Alessandro Cu Suncom Tac-2 41 Jorn F CMS 42 Ketil B
43 Riemer P
44 Mattias N
45 Mark B CMS 46 Sindre B
47 Filippo D
48 Jorg P
49 Francesco D
50 Luciano T
51 Ben C
52 Kostas O
53 Alex B CMS 54 Chris K
55 Gerd W
56 Heiko K
57 Haydn H
58 Mark W
59 Vasilis K P Pacman I 60 Kostas L
61 Jesper B
62 Michael M
63 Paul M
64 Lars A
65 Lorenzo V
66 Sascha F
67 Patrick D
68 Wayne L Zipstick 69 Matthias D
70 Jacopo A
71 Steve B
72 Franco C
73 Sandro T
74 Diego D
75 Knut L
76 Marios K
77 Apostolos T
78 Vagelis D
79 Mark D
80 Bjorn P
81 Fulvio O
82 Thomas N
83 Antonis T CMS 84 Daniel G
85 Marco S
86 Tobias B
87 Pascal V
88 Michael Mu
89 Mark E custom joystick 90 Angelo S
91 Volker K
92 Henrik R
93 Mandhir S Zipstick 94 Wolf H
95 Garry C CompPro 96 Pete S
97 Fabio A
98 Peter S
99 Danny D
100 Nick H
101 Darren G custom joystick 102 John R
103 Thorsten B
104 Niels T The Arcade 105 Gunther W The Arcade 106 Jan T The Arcade URP Daniel J Wico Red Ball URP Mark H CompPro
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gdh82 wrote:I know a bad workman always blames his tools but these comments got me thinking. I wondered if there's a any correlation between joystick and KOA rank? Are certain joysticks avoided by the top players and others preferred?
Joystick will play a part but game knowledge and basic skill will always be overriding factors.
I used to use Zipstiks but changed to the CMS joystick a while back and haven't looked back.
Started off with Comp-pro but made the switch to CMS a few years back. No way I'm going back.
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I used to use Zipstiks but changed to the CMS joystick a while back and haven't looked back
Thats quite true!! especially reversing
As for the joystick question, I don't think there's any correlation between good/bad players and specific joysticks, or at least not an obvious one.
I do know though that there's no way I could play with Cruisers/Speed Kings (how on earth can you play with this thing Gianni?)/Comp Pros/Zip sticks etc. Apart from my stick, I could easilly play with Tomahawk/Pacman/Starfighter sticks and - to a lesser extent - CMS sticks.
