What has happened to my skill?

[Flynn]

Okay I thought I was getting good, I beat a few 1500+ players but now I am back to losing again! Just lost to a 1200 player and a 900 player today I am getting really mad

[ColonelSheppard]

1st: stop playing for points
2nd stop going for snipe
3rd improve your metagameplay
4th stop QQ
5th rewatch you replays

[Flynn]

1. Okay
2. I guess you mean stop trying to end the game too early, okay
3. Meta gameplay, I'm not sure what that is
4. Okay, I need help here. QQ, what does that stand for? Quick Quitting?
5. I do watch replays but I rage so hard that it is hard to focus

[ColonelSheppard]

i have to admitt that this was kind of a troll answer, however with QQ i mean rage, not nessesarily flaming in the chat, but beeing angry after a loos, it's helps asking your opponent what he thinks why he won/lost (i often do that)
with meta game skillz i mean forexample trapping a commander, open a hole where he can push through and then close it again
rest is clear

[Ze_PilOt]

Please don't use "metagame" wrongly like starcraft players do.

Galactic War is a metagame. Poking your opponents in the ribs to de-concentre him is metagame. What you describe is strategy.

[ColonelSheppard]

Please don't use "metagame" wrongly like starcraft players do.

Galactic War is a metagame. Poking your opponents in the ribs to deconcentre is metagame. What you describe is strategy.

i dont know about fancy things in online/english language, it was explained to me like this

[Ze_PilOt]

Meta is greek actually, it means "beyond" or "around". GW will be a game around a game, so a meta-game.
Poking a guy is not part of the game per-se, but you can do it to give you an advantage in it, so it's meta-game too.
Strategy is part of the game, so it's not.
What is called "mind game" is more tricky. Poker is often given as example for that, but for me it's part of the game. As long as you use something as a part of your strategy, it's hardly "around" or "beyond" it

Some people (and even wikipedia) define it as things you do that are not part of any written rule, but then anything you can do in a video-game is meta, so I don't agree with that.

To be on topic, try to put this in mind : Your goal is not to kill your enemy at all cost, your goal is to take the upper-hand and kill your enemy with it.

To put in FA terms : Try to set you as a goal to control one mex more than your enemy, and on top of it, try to control where the battle are so you can reclaim.
If you remember our little game, I think you though you had the upper-hand early on, while I was just trying to make the battle happen on my side, with a least similar mex control (I could have less as I had more wrecks) until I've got enough to control more map (because auroras are slower. The priority, for me, depend of your faction and your initial BO).

While you have a little more eco and control, the game is basically wins if you don't throw your units into defenses.
Sure the goal is to destroy the ACU, but destroying his base works too. It will annoy your enemy that you don't finish it, but it what you have to do : I've already lost games that were won on a "lucky" last minute veterancy or similar.
So, don't try to shorten your games.

[Rocksteady]

Zep the Meta prefix has a few different meanings such as change/transform i.e metamorphosis which basically means Change-Development. After/Beyond/next is a different kind of meta used for things like metaphysics.

Gamers use the Change/Transform prefix so it isn't used wrongly. If a player finds a new build order that becomes very strong/popular or units are changed/removed in a patch and players start playing differently, that change is called the metagame which basically means how the game is played has changed. The metagame in FAF is t1 aggression and map control.

@Flynn

Host loads of 1v1 unranked games and just play against 1800+ rated players for a week or two. Lot's of 2k rated players also offer training and 1v1's.

Your only ever as good as the people you play against, so playing hundreds of games at 1300 +/- rating won't help you much.