Intentional Tk's
Posted: 2007-09-05 16:25
Just now, I was on the TG server with another dev, when topcat ruined our fun.
We had a two man squad, and were working well with two tanks, creating static defenses using the armour instead of using a single two man crewed tank. (It's easier to defend an emplacment this way, the germans and british used it a bit in WW2 and was very effective.)
Things were going well until, of course, we were both quickly removed from the map when a USMC convoy ambushed us, and we couldnt hold our ground well enough, especially as they had sneaked around the back of us and popped off the first round into our backs.
So we waited for a good long time when topcat comes along. He told us that we had to let the tanks go to armour squad which he had just created at that moment.
We told him in lament terms no, just because you have a squad name dedicated to armour doesn't give you the right to reserve vehicles, or queue jump.
Three tanks spawn in short sucession, and both Matrox and I jumped into our own vehicles and got ready to set up a defensive position the commander had given us.
Suddenly, to my surprise, Matrox was kicked from the server. On msn he quickly told me that topcat decided that running infront of the tank was a good plan. He was punished for a tk and removed. This probably wasnt helped with some fun we had had with one another previously in the match with our grenades.
I confronted Topcat with this and he said in his true annoying fashion something along the lines of "two people, one tank. Thats the rule and the rules are final." He then went off about how he was talking to the drunk server owner, and that i should shut up. I was then auto kicked for swearing (I understand that, I was a tad angry.)
Well, we had worked well as a team before and had managed to set up a defensive position that was very effective. Had we been a single tank, we would have not been able to hold the oilfields.
Is it wrong to throw yourslef infront of a tank as if we were in tiannamen square? Is it wrong to create a squad called armour and then demand to have the next few tanks, despite the fact that you had allready worked well with the commander and been waiting almost triple the time the squad had.
And the real question that I want to put to the public is, is one man tanking still an awful thing? I don't think so in some circumstances. When building a defensive position I would say its very effective. I would say however that jumping in and out of the driver/gunner seat isn't really acceptable, as that is a bit glitchy and frowned upon in my eyes. What do you think?
We had a two man squad, and were working well with two tanks, creating static defenses using the armour instead of using a single two man crewed tank. (It's easier to defend an emplacment this way, the germans and british used it a bit in WW2 and was very effective.)
Things were going well until, of course, we were both quickly removed from the map when a USMC convoy ambushed us, and we couldnt hold our ground well enough, especially as they had sneaked around the back of us and popped off the first round into our backs.
So we waited for a good long time when topcat comes along. He told us that we had to let the tanks go to armour squad which he had just created at that moment.
We told him in lament terms no, just because you have a squad name dedicated to armour doesn't give you the right to reserve vehicles, or queue jump.
Three tanks spawn in short sucession, and both Matrox and I jumped into our own vehicles and got ready to set up a defensive position the commander had given us.
Suddenly, to my surprise, Matrox was kicked from the server. On msn he quickly told me that topcat decided that running infront of the tank was a good plan. He was punished for a tk and removed. This probably wasnt helped with some fun we had had with one another previously in the match with our grenades.
I confronted Topcat with this and he said in his true annoying fashion something along the lines of "two people, one tank. Thats the rule and the rules are final." He then went off about how he was talking to the drunk server owner, and that i should shut up. I was then auto kicked for swearing (I understand that, I was a tad angry.)
Well, we had worked well as a team before and had managed to set up a defensive position that was very effective. Had we been a single tank, we would have not been able to hold the oilfields.
Is it wrong to throw yourslef infront of a tank as if we were in tiannamen square? Is it wrong to create a squad called armour and then demand to have the next few tanks, despite the fact that you had allready worked well with the commander and been waiting almost triple the time the squad had.
And the real question that I want to put to the public is, is one man tanking still an awful thing? I don't think so in some circumstances. When building a defensive position I would say its very effective. I would say however that jumping in and out of the driver/gunner seat isn't really acceptable, as that is a bit glitchy and frowned upon in my eyes. What do you think?
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