I fully encourage people to use tactics other than 'chase the ball like a retard and hope you score'. However standing by the goal, killing defenders when the ball is across the map, or in the opponents possession is equally retarded as just ball following. A better tactic would be to stand in some space until your team get the ball and then AND ONLY THEN, kill the defenders/keeper to allow more space to attack.
Randomly attacking defenders is useless since they respawn within 10 seconds and you have done nothing at all to contirbute towards your team winning.
...However standing by the goal, killing defenders when the ball is across the map, or in the opponents possession is equally retarded as just ball following. A better tactic would be to stand in some space until your team get the ball and then AND ONLY THEN, kill the defenders/keeper to allow more space to attack.
Randomly attacking defenders is useless since they respawn within 10 seconds and you have done nothing at all to contirbute towards your team winning.
...If you have 4-5 players on a team just finding space for passes while the rest defend or try to get the ball back then the opponents would have little chance to stop you...
For the most part I was attacking/harrassing the goalie, the other defenders just came at me to try to get me to stop. I see this as ciable in general since I kept two other players (not the goalie) away from the ball making it easier on my team.
Those defenders may have been staying back to defend anyway, as it's not wise to leave the goalie alone in the first place. You're just using whatever logic you need to justify yourself.
In fact, players like you often get passed the ball by teammates who actually think you're paying attention,
causing your team a turnover because you are too stupid to ever turn around.
You're hoping your actions will be useful to your team, instead of actually being useful to your team.
I don't see why this is being adminned. While it can be annoying, the act of fighting away from the play is not explicitly leeching. As people learn to play positions, more will be staying off ball. If the ball is in one team's offensive zone, then the midfielders and defenders will not be involved in the immediate play. They will have their opposition equivilant probably standing near them, are we really going to start punishing these people if they start using their axes on each other in some mostly pointless violence? It's basically harmless (they respawn in 10 seconds, 10 feet away), stats aren't counted, so who cares if you die a few times while ball is across field, cuz some guy on other team is really excited and wants some action while he waits for ball to move??
Admins having to watch for something so commonplace but trivial and then make arbitrary decisions on if it was tactically relevant or not would be a huge waste of time for them. We would be much better off if they focused on watching for REAL leechers and team sabotageurs.
I don't see why this is being adminned. While it can be annoying, the act of fighting away from the play is not explicitly leeching. As people learn to play positions, more will be staying off ball. If the ball is in one team's offensive zone, then the midfielders and defenders will not be involved in the immediate play. They will have their opposition equivilant probably standing near them, are we really going to start punishing these people if they start using their axes on each other in some mostly pointless violence? It's basically harmless (they respawn in 10 seconds, 10 feet away), stats aren't counted, so who cares if you die a few times while ball is across field, cuz some guy on other team is really excited and wants some action while he waits for ball to move??
Admins having to watch for something so commonplace but trivial and then make arbitrary decisions on if it was tactically relevant or not would be a huge waste of time for them. We would be much better off if they focused on watching for REAL leechers and team sabotageurs.
Tis what I do. I camp enemy goal and kill all oppostion nearby so that when I DO get a pass i got a free run. And 1h is OP in rageball versus the agi whores.
Yeah that's the tactical arguement that can be made, that if you constantly have your checker on respawn timer you might get an open field if they ball is suddenly punted to you. In reality this will probably rarely happen, but the arguement can be made it will, but even then, who cares? Fighting is something to do while you wait for ball, and if you are annoyed by this prospect then either run away or just let him kill you and watch play develop while respawning, there's no stats anyways...
Actually it happens a lot. But then of course there's usually 1-2 of us on the team that's in TS making when i get the ball that much better. I've scored quite a few goals like that. Just killing the opposition and then having the ball arrive.(and the flipside, pissing off the enemy team so that there's a bunch jumping me and I can't grab the ball)
Well I like to play D and if there's some clown hanging around looking to cherry pick I'll shadow him. If he wants to fight that's fine, probably isn't watching ball anyways, and I'll fight him back to keep him busy, he can spend 2 minutes uselessly beating on my +3 huscarl shield trying to kill me, try timing that on TS/vent.
People don't like you killing them because they don't get to sit there and leech while the ball is on the other side of the field, or you are stopping them from achieving their objective.