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Dr2B Rudd wrote:if there were more collaborators you might, and there might be more of them if a punish system was brought back in to give them some protection

and I've seen plenty of dudes just demolish the whole village with HEAT on basrah, so yes, it does happen.

This sure won't make people play as collaborator more often. The fact is, its not a very fun class and the only reasons people play as them is if they desperately need a medic they can't get from the other side or if they want to cause the US/UK to shoot them intentionally in order to have a high respawn. The former isn't really needed cus you have patches from the SL or captured kits to rearm off the caches and you can get killed without punishing the enemy if medicing.

The collaborator is like that new Christmas toy. After you play with it for the first time its fun, but after that it goes in the closet.

How about just 3 civis in one life (including revives)?

I didn't know there used to be this mechanism of getting automatically killed after killing civilians. I think this is a grand idea, far better than ticket lose or public humiliation - it immediately makes you far more careful. In fact I think 2 civilians in X minutes - and not 3 - is probably even better, since killing one will already make the player be ten times as cautious - his next shot could kill himself killed!

This also combines well with the whole "temporarily tagged killable" thing - you get less careful if you're being shot at from somewhere, since it's likely civilians there are already tagged.

If civilians could be tagged just by being near an insurgent who's firing his weapon it will even be better...

00SoldierofFortune00 wrote:This sure won't make people play as collaborator more often. The fact is, its not a very fun class and the only reasons people play as them is if they desperately need a medic they can't get from the other side or if they want to cause the US/UK to shoot them intentionally in order to have a high respawn. The former isn't really needed cus you have patches from the SL or captured kits to rearm off the caches and you can get killed without punishing the enemy if medicing.

The collaborator is like that new Christmas toy. After you play with it for the first time its fun, but after that it goes in the closet.

You where here in 0.5 and 0.6 rigth? compare how many civies it was then to now. You could stumble on one on every corner in 0.6(when I started) now your lucky if you see one over ten insurgent rounds.

Coalition side players already know where all the caches are. Or they always have the "Informant" AKA a guy telling the cache location to his friends in BLUFOR with Xfire. So More point penalty, Intel or tickets, these will not have any effect on people who just love abusing another player. The fun part in shooting civilian is because you can force some one to stare into black screen for next 2 minutes. If people can do these bullying over internet on person sitting on other end of Internet, many of PC user will just do this all day long like Hamster running the wheel. Its just how most of people act on Internet.
This shooting civilian for fun happened much less often when spawn time for shot civilian was 15 seconds.

Another Idea is to display words like "[players name] shot civilian and we lost 10 tickets! We have [Remaining tickets] tickets left." or "[Players name] just shot civilian. He brought us 10 points closer to lose this round." Any of these message to provoke other same side player to almost have anger and lose respect against player who shoot civilian. Something that makes other player type "OMFG stop it!"