Not sure where better to put this particular request/rant/plea to the gaming gods.
Okay, so this hasn't been too much of a problem up until now, but this last week there's been a substancial increase of TDMers in the rageball servers. These people aren't there to play rageball, they're literally only there to fight people and have a low respawn time and leech on the multi of the people who are actually playing the game mode. This has got to stop! It's ruining the game for those of us who actually want to play.
I'd like to officially request that death matchers be classed as leechers so that we can ban them. They contribute very little, if anything to the game and most of the time just stop any kind of team play at all.
The rules state;
No leeching
NOT OK: Running around naked without weapon. Not contributing is leeching, naked runners don't contribute.
Now I'm not talking about people who get into fights in order to get the ball, to remove defenders
while their team is attacking, to mark dangerous players or to stop people attacking their goal. The people I'm talking about are:
Rangers (Archers and throwers) who stand around in the middle of the field shooting anyone who runs past - with the ball or not.
Rangers who stand around the goal area repeatedly shooting the goalkeeper
when their team is not attacking.
Anyone who repeatedly ignores the ball in order to go attack random people.
Melee who run around infront of a goal wildly spamming at anyone who doesn't have a banner over their head.
Of course, there has got to be some common sense allowed for admins in these cases. Sometimes the action around the goal is hectic and all you can do is fight to get the ball - that's fine! But when all that's happening is half of each team is going from one goal area to the other in order to fight, that's just completely rediculous. The points system has worked quite well to indicate whom these people are who don't actually contribute (although it can be flawed if you're unlucky in your positioning). My point is, people should be in the rageball server in order to play rageball. Death matching has no place on the rageball field. As for the suggestion that "death matchers have their place", bullshit. Strategic killing has it's place, that's true, but spending all your time killing people and no time trying to help your team play ball properly is not strategic and if it helps, it's purely coincidental.