Hi!
Just came here to ask about the recent teamhitting issue.
Shouldn't being careless about your shots/hits considered as half-intentional teamhitting and deserve at least a warning?
I mean, to my mind, if you're a bad player, you should play carefully, not careless. If you shoot everywhere trying to get a kill and often teamhit, it's not actually because you're such a bad player, more because you don't care.
So, what Warlord and others should have done is to report each th since they suspected it's half-intentional, and the kick after 5 th's would be enough of a punishment for that archer? Or should he have reported it on forums?
Just in case I get in similar situation (not going to tk anyone though).
Thanks!
Of course, the carelessness is a pain in the arse so get ready for me to be a job's worth here; carelessness is still an accident so it is not bannable, I can't run around giving out bans to people who do things like this because I expect we have all have some sort of accidental teamwounding streak during our time playing, and if I banned one person who hit a couple of allies then I'd have to ban the lot of us.
The rules clearly state that intentional teamwounding/killing is breaking the rules, so as much as I can understand someones anger towards another player for teamwounding them, they should just have bottled it up, I'm not sure what they were expecting to happen after they murdered them in cold blood...
The only borderline incidents that I can believe to be verging on intentional teamkilling would be randomly swinging/shooting with only allies in your field of view, away from any enemies, when the chance of cutting down an ally is almost a certainty, you can't do that and not expect something bad to happen and therefore, unless it was a slip-click at spawn and really was just someone doing the whole "It's not my fault if you get in the way of my sword/arrows" it'd be bannable in my eyes under the "arse-hat" rule.
I can understand it's annoying to be team hit time and time again by the same person by their sheer incompetence but it's just not bannable, hell, I remember a Native clan battle that I once had back when I first started playing, I shot five arrows, all of which killed an ally, the enemy team thought someone said something to me on teamspeak and angered me, it was just my poor shooting.
At any rate, the sad fact of the matter is that in the case presented, the banned player had no evidence to support his claims other than rants and demands. If the attacks were intentional I couldn't do anything about it without having seen it happen myself (with no evidence) so I'm at an impasse regardless of whether or not poor playing was a bannable offence.
Well, problem is that with the lower tier bows you get the stagger which can undeniable kill you in the consequence but won't do any damage to report.
"Bloody peasant archers!" - That quote of myself, that became a staple on teamspeak was literally for that annoying low damage stagger.
One thing however, I should probably have written a longer statement in the ban thread to clarify the process and reasoning behind what happened, I shall adjust my "ban reports" for less clear-cut ban requests such as this one with a bit more information.