Re: =HOG= (North America)
Posted: 2016-03-31 23:49
The team playing OPFOR is better than BLUFOR. People switch from BLUFOR to OPFOR to go civi. Civis prevent caches from going known, therefore an already better team can make sure their team is consolidated on 1 cache instead of 2. Even small unit tactics state that 2 people are 4 times as effective as 1 person. Think of that on a grander scale.
As an asset whore switching to BLUFOR to do CAS or APCs when the OPFOR team is bad is the exact same. The BLUFOR team will gain the skill and the experience of the asset whore, while the OPFOR team will lose a solid player and will have to endure his wrath the entire round.
While both are game mechanics and could be considered fair play, with a deeper look it is basically stacking the odds and making the round impossible for the other team to win. Team switching for either of those reasons, in my opinion, is the same thing.
Same thing when admins don't want to play as INS and we get a mapvote of Korengal Gaza and Grozny. Those are 3 maps that are very challenging for BLUFOR, so it basically deincentivizes the players of the BLUFOR team from voting for INS, especially if they're bad. I've seen this done rather than a scramble numerous times, to give a solid BLUFOR team more of a challenge.
Giving a bad BLUFOR team Korengal is the same as giving them Karbala ALT, or giving a good BLUFOR team Fallujah or Ramiel. The reason you guys look negatively on INS a lot of the time is because you aren't putting maps into the vote under the right conditions. If the team that's gonna be BLUFOR is bad, either do a scramble, or put up 3 maps that they have a decent chance of winning, or at least getting a couple of the caches.
As an asset whore switching to BLUFOR to do CAS or APCs when the OPFOR team is bad is the exact same. The BLUFOR team will gain the skill and the experience of the asset whore, while the OPFOR team will lose a solid player and will have to endure his wrath the entire round.
While both are game mechanics and could be considered fair play, with a deeper look it is basically stacking the odds and making the round impossible for the other team to win. Team switching for either of those reasons, in my opinion, is the same thing.
Same thing when admins don't want to play as INS and we get a mapvote of Korengal Gaza and Grozny. Those are 3 maps that are very challenging for BLUFOR, so it basically deincentivizes the players of the BLUFOR team from voting for INS, especially if they're bad. I've seen this done rather than a scramble numerous times, to give a solid BLUFOR team more of a challenge.
Giving a bad BLUFOR team Korengal is the same as giving them Karbala ALT, or giving a good BLUFOR team Fallujah or Ramiel. The reason you guys look negatively on INS a lot of the time is because you aren't putting maps into the vote under the right conditions. If the team that's gonna be BLUFOR is bad, either do a scramble, or put up 3 maps that they have a decent chance of winning, or at least getting a couple of the caches.
