Rule 5 / Re-evaluation

[Scruffs 193]

Right, Rule 5.

 

Rule #5 : No Abusive/Excessive Spawnkilling or Camping

 

This rule is causing more drama than a Christmas episode of Eastenders (shout outs BBC).

 

Getting spawn-killed repeatedly is annoying. No doubt.

 

But, what do we expect the spawn-killer to do? Run in the other direction and get killed by the people spawning?

 

It's seems silly to report someone for not sacrificing their life for the sake of satisfying that rule.

 

If I'm shredding some mp_nuketown (which is super small) and I'm in garage blasting into the spawn, should I stop and run away or should I keep on playing like normal?

 

I understand that the rule is there for a reason, but too many people are getting shouted at for 'breaking it' when sometimes the map is too small not to spawn-kill.

 

Another example, mp_killhouse. Most players spawn either side of the map. How can you not spawn kill? Spawn-killing is almost the only strategy. 

 

Unless! We camp in the middle of the map and wait for them to come out? But, then we're breaking rule 5 by camping...

 

Please, all admins and players, give some slack on this rule.

 

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[Tino 1111]

The rule is for when players Excessively Spawnkill or Excessively Camp. The rule is intended to make play fair of all, no one should be getting warned for situations where you have no other option.

 

The odd bit of spawnkill and camping isn’t a problem, its expected in CoD4.

 

Make it abusive and thats when we have people leaving the servers.

[JillyJill 5336]

Remember that this rule is meant to prevent exactly abusive camping. When player is sitting on the same place and shooting at spawn the whole match, it's against the rule.

 

Of course, there might be different situations, and admin's job is to sort them out ;)

[Azeri 139]

I guess this rule was originally intended to prevent players spraying known spawn points on large maps. (eg. Crossfire) You could keep spraying a spot, and get some sweet kills for your record. On a small map (eg. Nuketown, Shipment, Killhouse) it's not really a big deal, because you have to run-around not to die. So you are not focusing on a certain spawn location, you just run into enemies because of the limited spawning points on the map.

[Badass 821]

What Tino said is what I said to my rookies.