Now I know alot of the ski issues are with flying/tp toons, or people with lag issues, griefers, etc. However there are alot of people in the game who do not come on the forums and never have a say in any of this. To me, if we only take what everyone here suggests, we are taking away from the mass of the players. Personally I enjoy the ski slopes, now my toon is a FF defender with SS and hurdle and I have gotten all three of the ski badges, but it still took me practice to know what to do and when. Another thing is, I do not have an amazing computer, I usually get massive lag, and get disconnected at least twice a day if I play so I can see where it can be a problem, however it can be avoided by using some tips presented in earlier posts. Also one thing that helped was looking on here for advice. For example, I steered with A and D, only other thing I did was use my mouse to direct. Just my two inf.
