Maybe it makes me an attention-deficit riddled memelad, but I STILL fucking hate people running away and delaying even if the flags are fully functional.
Even if that shit is only, what, 30-60 seconds, I still get upset. I don't give two shits about people being unskilled at any facet of the mod. I don't care about folks running in naked. I don't give a rodent's hindquarters about people "losing me my multi!!" because XP and gold gain are nearly irrelevant now. Shit, I didn't care years ago when it WAS a big (read: autistic) deal to get upset over multi loss induced by stupid shit.
But I do get upset at one person perpetrating antics that only amuse themselves at the detriment to nearly every other person in the server. You know, aside from other fucking shits such as themselves.
From what I've seen of EU, I'm jealous of Krems for God's sake. They've got some decent players, and at least all they'll do is hug at the start and spam voice and maybe TK one another. I've not witnessed them running away as a class that has ABSOLUTELY NO NEED to engage in any sort of risky behavior, God forbid actual melee combat.
So yeah, flags (that glitch out rather often) are a part-way solution to this madness.
The only real solution is extreme social engineering creating far greater amounts of empathy in the cRPG population; players would forbid themselves from gaining personal enjoyment at the cost of the enjoyment of the other 20 players on the server. (LOL IMPLYING 21 PEOPLE PLAY CRPG AT ONCE IN NA)
Of course the classic argument against it "omg its just a game rofl i can do what i want YOU CANT TELL ME WHAT TO DO NYAH NYAH IM HAVING FUN AND YOU ARENT LOL" is extremely effective, since such scummy behavior is absolutely allowed.
You know the fucking WORST part? These cunts don't even depend on a healthy population to have their fun. They are just as content chucking stones, getting an occasional meme-kill that I'm sure they print out for their fridge when the server has 20 players on it as when it has 100. Shit, they're probably even HAPPIER since there are fewer real players to end their degenerate and detrimental brand of fun.