Me and my squad were defending West City. We were pinned down in a building by mortars, enemy infantry, an apc and the cobra. Unable to move, we watched the rest of our team move up to cap both North City and Docks. When our situation cooled off I gave the move order, advancing to Docks. Then we lost West City :S Isn't it supposed to be flag by flag?
I did some searching and didn't find anything on this.
I found a way to explain this to people long ago when AAS was first introduced (and the subsequent v2/v3 changes came):
- You can always finish what you start.
So this means that if you're on a flag while it's in contention, start neutralizing it, but the enemy stalls your neutralization, but subsequently leaves because they think that the flag is no longer under threat, even if the flag is no longer 'active' in AAS, you had started neutralizing it and thus can finish.
The same goes for when you and the enemy seemingly neutralize each other's flags at the same time. The team to neutralize first and start the cap, even if by only a second, can finish what they started. The other team is able to finish neutralizing, but is unable to start the cap until they regain their previous flag.
So when you moved off, you left some enemies there that had been in the cap since it was in contention, thus allowing them to finish neutralizing the flag. You could've left them there all round though, because they wouldn't have been able to cap it.
