lsof wrote:
Punishment for team killing seems to be an absurdity to me - at least among real teams of soldiers, who would not TK unless it was accidental. There are just too many situations where team kills can happen. An Armor vs Armor fight, when someone on the team is too close but not noticed; I am confident the list of situations becomes long. There are apparent bugs in the game, where colors don't pop up upon mouseover; the red bug thing, and who knows what other buggy game behavior contributes.
I believe there are examples of when intentional team killing can be justified in this game. If a Spec Ops can take out a vehicle full of troops but a nearby team member get killed, then the team comes out ahead. Similar examples for an Engineer can occur. A tank once rolled into our home base and paused, so I ran up behind it, dropped an AT mine, and then one in the front, then ran for cover. When I looked up, the driver had jumped out and a team mate jumped in and attempted to drive off.
The pusnishment system does not resolve the issues. One important point in this game is that it is not real, nor can it be totally realistic. Death is nothing but a thing in this game, and a thing that happens every minute; there is no sussessful fighting going if there is no death occurring. If team killing is so unacceptable in the game, then turn team damage off - that seems to be the only comperable solution I've seen so far.
For what it is worth, I always forgive the team killer. Always. If I judge I'm getting intentionally TK'd, I forgive, and leave the server.
I agree with you except for the last bit. If you can, report the TK'r to an admin.
I think a better solution would be to take out the punish option and just make it an automatic kick and 24 hour ban once you commit X number of TK's in a round. This would cause people to be more careful knowing that kick is on the way. Granted there will be accidents and there will be noobs and jackasses that are going to jump in front of your vehicle and drive over your mines, but it is just a 24 hour ban. No biggie.
One other thing. Have a way for the server to keep track of the TK bans. That way an admin can see that a particular player is constantly getting banned and make the ban permanent.
Last edited by 123456789 (2006-02-19 01:56:29)