xane
Fledgling Freddie
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- Dec 22, 2003
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Last weekend I was suffering from a bad cold and was not too happy, this probably compounded the situation.
Basically, I went on a Jolt Server with teamkill turned on and a at some point couple of idiots from the same clan decided to make fun by camping their own bases, i.e. teamkilling until they got autokicked (at around -10 I think it was), and then simply rejoining.
After swapping teams a bit to get away from them, I got mildly pissed off, having wanted to play on a teamkill server for a while, I actually prefer them, especially when the id tags are set to close range Abandoned the server entirely in the end.
Later on, I encountered a server late at night which was not fully populated and unfortunately had the auto-balance deactivated, so several games got wildly unbalanced teams after a while, sometimes to a margin of 2:1. I started making a habit of looking at the teams and swapping, trying to encourage others to do so. The team balance usually became immediately obvious when one side started to rapidly lose all its flags.
The extreme case is when one team is left with one (uncappable) spawn point and less players, and the other team starts to "extreme spawncamp", for example by driving tanks into the spawn or just saturating it with artillery or aircraft fire. This is utterly pointless unless you badly need to raise your personal score.
Iwo Jima it happened again to the American side, the boats got sunk and we are left with the beach flag, two bastards had driven their tanks down to the beach and a few more were wandering up and down killing everyone who spawns instantly, this was in addition to the MG nests covering the beach.
It was at this point I flipped out.
I swapped sides and started to block one of the tanks by jumping up and down front of it, forcing him to move and lose his peachy spawncamping position, giving the newly spawned a chance. Incidently it was a player who poo-poo'ed my suggestion that the spawn camping was getting a bit irritating, I could see he was gunning for a 100 score, he was at around 40 or so.
It was so lame on my part to do it, maybe I should have just left instead, this is what I will do next time.
On reflection, I considered what happened in the previous situation, where lamers were teamkilling for kicks. The fact is they did so at the expense of ruining a game for others. In this respect I think extreme spawn camping a single spawn point by a numerically superior side is probably just as imposing on player enjoyment, for both teams actually, unless you're the one in the tank on the beach.
Discuss ?
Basically, I went on a Jolt Server with teamkill turned on and a at some point couple of idiots from the same clan decided to make fun by camping their own bases, i.e. teamkilling until they got autokicked (at around -10 I think it was), and then simply rejoining.
After swapping teams a bit to get away from them, I got mildly pissed off, having wanted to play on a teamkill server for a while, I actually prefer them, especially when the id tags are set to close range Abandoned the server entirely in the end.
Later on, I encountered a server late at night which was not fully populated and unfortunately had the auto-balance deactivated, so several games got wildly unbalanced teams after a while, sometimes to a margin of 2:1. I started making a habit of looking at the teams and swapping, trying to encourage others to do so. The team balance usually became immediately obvious when one side started to rapidly lose all its flags.
The extreme case is when one team is left with one (uncappable) spawn point and less players, and the other team starts to "extreme spawncamp", for example by driving tanks into the spawn or just saturating it with artillery or aircraft fire. This is utterly pointless unless you badly need to raise your personal score.
Iwo Jima it happened again to the American side, the boats got sunk and we are left with the beach flag, two bastards had driven their tanks down to the beach and a few more were wandering up and down killing everyone who spawns instantly, this was in addition to the MG nests covering the beach.
It was at this point I flipped out.
I swapped sides and started to block one of the tanks by jumping up and down front of it, forcing him to move and lose his peachy spawncamping position, giving the newly spawned a chance. Incidently it was a player who poo-poo'ed my suggestion that the spawn camping was getting a bit irritating, I could see he was gunning for a 100 score, he was at around 40 or so.
It was so lame on my part to do it, maybe I should have just left instead, this is what I will do next time.
On reflection, I considered what happened in the previous situation, where lamers were teamkilling for kicks. The fact is they did so at the expense of ruining a game for others. In this respect I think extreme spawn camping a single spawn point by a numerically superior side is probably just as imposing on player enjoyment, for both teams actually, unless you're the one in the tank on the beach.
Discuss ?