Team Damage? On or Off?

[Brit]

I much prefer Team Damage to be on. Sure, it can be a bit fun to lob countless grens and mortars through a base door, *knowing* you'll only hurt the enemy, but where is the skill in that eh?

Its always the guy with the hand-eye co-ordination of a gnat that initiates the 'Disable TD' vote.. and personally, I vote *NO* every time.

What is the general opinion on this? I notice that BW servers tend to have it turned off. The IGN.ie servers are always TD enabled (and the admin's will switch it back on if they find it off,usually) and it often makes for a more intense, exciting game.

--Brit--

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[VELVET]

Its hard enough not blowing myself up, without worrying about killing my team mates

Seriously though I'm not too bothered with it, in most games with it enabled if your team mates are any good they'll only kill you if they have to... And it gives you the opportunity to kill spamming llamas like the one who was on my team last night (Hogfather I think he was called)...

However, what I do hate is very accidently treading on a team mates mine because you, er, forgot to check whether team damage was enabled when you joined the server...

To conclude, I don't care, but I'm more likely not to vote than for it to be disabled...

 

[Poker]

I think this debate has been had before, in other guises, with the eventual conclusion:

Matches: On
Public: Maybe

 

[Shelob]

League games it should be on.
Public servers it should be off because theres just too many idiots trying to spoil the fun and kill thier own team because they are too shiite to kill the enemy.

Shrap

 

[TedTheDog]

Personally, I prefer Teamdamage to be On. It sems to add something, it highlights teamplay, and that can be very satisfying.

However, TD on a public server attracts the TeamKillers and admining the server becomes a tiresome task and, on average, I think it makes the "atmosphere" worse because of all the moaning (about the TK's).
The UKTL has TD on, our public servers have TD off by default.
I must go and tryout the IGN servers and see how it goes. It might be worth considering TD back on again. You never know, Tribes has been around for a while now and maybe people are getting used to it.

 

[Exocet]

Turn it on Ted.

Can't type more. Must kill people. In real life...

Hnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnngh

 

[Shelob]

Its been around about two weeks in the UK ted

Shrap

 

[[BR]Afty]

Organised games : ON
Public server : ON if an experienced player is around to kick TK's, OFF otherwise, as public voting for kicking them invariably fails.

Simple as mon...

Afty

 

[Ewan]

Id agree with Our Gloious Leader, The Man Himself, Afty, if only there were more bloody admins

Simply, you couldnt have td on unless there was almost always someone there willing to take the time to drop into spec and watch someone before kicking them for tk'ing. Its all too easy to kill a flag carrier, accidentally also killing a teammate, and then have him turn around and scream "TEAMKILLER!!". Ive seen it happen too often to think we could have team damage on for public servers.