Sparks Murphey, on 14 April 2014 - 04:22 AM, said:
It IS worth noting that non-participation is ALSO against the Code of Conduct.
This is the part everybody glosses over when they're riding their shut-down-for-the-last-ten-minutes-of-a-match high horse. Certainly ambushes are a thing, but far, far,
far too often, players just dust themselves off in a distant corner of the map, far from any possible enemy contact, in order to wait out the match timer because dey dun' wanna dye.
[[NOTE: I play 'All' match bucket, not just specifically Skirmish, and in fact think Skirmish was a terrible idea largely for this reason. No sass on that count.]]
Now, according to PGI, if that player fired two medium lasers twice at some distant target they thought looked like an enemy 'Mech, then proceeded to shut down for fourteen-and-a-half minutes, they've earned full right of participation for that match and reporting their position is liable to get you reported, infracted, banned, perma-banned, and in fact will incite the orbital grid to start dropping meteorites on your house. Never mind that the player is CLEARLY, UNAMBIGUOUSLY, AND UNARGUABLY no longer playing the match in the spirit in which it was intended...he gets to do whatever he likes, because he fired his guns once or twice and moved for twenty seconds before shutting down and AFKing.
Why is this behavior considered perfectly legal, acceptable, and even encouraged by the player base, but every time someone comes up with a thread like this there's five million guys clubbing everyone over the head with the Team Treason rulings?
Anyways. HoldMyHand, you're doing just fine. You're clearly positioning yourself for maximum damage from ambush, and doing your best to play the game in the spirit in which it's intended. I've got no problem whatsoever with you, and props for playing a style of game very few people bother with anymore. It's the rampaging douchenozzles who swear by all the dead gods that firing their lasers twice before running to a corner and hiding means THEY PARTICIPATED(!!!1!), or that they can shut down for the first ten minutes of the match and not help at all so that they can swoop in at the end and try to Bee Teh Heerow and clean out all the wounded enemies. These players are bassholes and need to be punished, not protected by an awkward, lopsided interpretation of the EULA.