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Jedimushroom wrote:Gazz I'm not sure the devs increased the civi spawn time to prevent mass civi rushes, my understanding was that it was done to prevent civilians from deliberately getting themselves killed to punish Blufor, in which case the change you suggest wouldn't be effective.

I think a Dev would need to come here and clear this up really.

it was a little bit of both IIRC, mainly the mass civi part. also with my idea the civi that goes around getting killed would punish his squad as they wouldnt have a medic/spotter as he would always be dead.

[R-COM]MrSh@vid wrote:...2. A heavy punishment will discourage people shooting civilians, as now, they are just seen as cannon fodder by many people and shooting civilians should make people think "ah dammit" instead of "Yay-another kill".

well actually... some of us do think "ah dammit" when we kill a civi.

time for a bump as its gone into the depths of past threads. im only really looking for DEV responses now.

I see the biggest problem with this (aside from the ridiculously long spawn time) is that the only regular penalty for BLUFOR doesn't even apply if they have discovered both caches, because their intel is frozen until they destroy one of them.

(And how hard is it to mow down 7 insurgents for one civilian? Or maybe a cell leader)

In my team we had a sqaud of civi's once and we were on a building, throwing rocks down at any unsuspecting brit. We got shot at by like 3 different sqauds, the max penalty was five minuites-not sure if this was PR or servers fault so we kept on getting mass murdered and we had to pay and wait ages and they only had 2 wait 5 mins for killing all of us. you should make it if you kill more than 3 civi's in a life (not a round, just one death) you get killed and have a 300 sec spawn time (100 for each civi shot.) or something

i never saw masses of civis since 0.86 lol