Not just wished for, but needed.

[W7LPNRICK]

We need a rule that says, 1. If you're idle in the tower for 15 min you get disco'd 2. If you sit in a shore battery and don't fire on an approaching CV for 5 minutes, you get bumped out of the shore battery and can't get back in it for 24 hrs. 3. You cannot split your squad. All squadies fight the same side, ie: if the ve3ry first squadie logged on as a Rook, the rest of your squad must log on as rooks. These rules will prevent, for example, a Bish squadie from logging in as a Rook at a base with an approaching Bish./Knit CV & just sitting there tying up the gun to prevent it's use, prevent several Knight squadies from logging on as Rooks and sitting in the tower doing nothing except affecting the eny to keep it equal, and it will prevent anyone from logging on & going to work or the store etc.intentionally or  forgetting to log off, thus padding the Country count in a negative way. This is not a Bish, Knit, or a Rook thing, it's effects everyone. 

[Spikes]

No.

[waystin2]

1) Big Nope.
2) Nope,  But I would settle for a player icon above shore batteries for grins and giggles.
3) I sympathize, but nope.

 

Way

[ImADot]

1. Perhaps I'm waiting for squaddies or others I've been winging with to die/land so we can re-up together.  Perhaps I'm looking at the map to see what's going on.  Perhaps that dump I'm taking isn't quite as easy as I had thought.

2. Perhaps someone should get bumped for not firing the SB at an enemy TG, but a 24-hour ban is ridiculous.

3. Many squads don't have ridiculous rules like "we fly Rook/Bish/Nit and nothing else - ever."  Some squads like to even out number imbalances - which are more pronounced in MW and EW where the overall numbers are very low to begin with.  Some of the best fights I've had were against squaddies flying for another side.

[SectorNine50]

15 minutes in tower is a bit too short.  I'd say more like an hour.  Also, if you are coordinating with squaddies, you aren't afk, you are going to be pressing buttons and such.

24 hour ban, no.  Kick from gun when afk for a period of time?  Sure.  I mean who is going to sit in a gun for an extended period of time without giving the game any input.  If they are actually in the gun actively doing something, they are going to be either clicking the map, talking on vox, typing in chat, or turning the gun.

[W7LPNRICK]

Just my opinion, but the only reason to disagree, is to be in sympathy to, or part of those whose run cheats, or pad the game in this manner. Of course, those who are being harmed by this, or have noticed this, will agree, and those who are part of the problem, will oppose it. IMO. 

[W7LPNRICK]

1. Perhaps I'm waiting for squaddies or others I've been winging with to die/land so we can re-up together.  Perhaps I'm looking at the map to see what's going on.  Perhaps that dump I'm taking isn't quite as easy as I had thought.

2. Perhaps someone should get bumped for not firing the SB at an enemy TG, but a 24-hour ban is ridiculous.

3. Many squads don't have ridiculous rules like "we fly Rook/Bish/Nit and nothing else - ever."  Some squads like to even out number imbalances - which are more pronounced in MW and EW where the overall numbers are very low to begin with.  Some of the best fights I've had were against squaddies flying for another side.

This is a great constructive comment IMADOT, but the time frame was a suggestion, not intended to be rigid. You wouldn't wait in a tower for 30 minutes. If you did I still say that's part of the problem. A 30 min ban would probably suffice. for the shore battery tie-up.  

[W7LPNRICK]

15 minutes in tower is a bit too short.  I'd say more like an hour.  Also, if you are coordinating with squaddies, you aren't afk, you are going to be pressing buttons and such.

24 hour ban, no.  Kick from gun when afk for a period of time?  Sure.  I mean who is going to sit in a gun for an extended period of time without giving the game any input.  If they are actually in the gun actively doing something, they are going to be either clicking the map, talking on vox, typing in chat, or turning the gun.

I should have used "XXX time frames" as an example. Their are greater minds than mine to decide that.

[W7LPNRICK]

No.

Why No Spikes? Omnipotence? or do you have an opinion?

[waystin2]

Just my opinion, but the only reason to disagree, is to be in sympathy to, or part of those whose run cheats, or pad the game in this manner. Of course, those who are being harmed by this, or have noticed this, will agree, and those who are part of the problem, will oppose it. IMO.  

Wow just wow...

[kvuo75]

Just my opinion, but the only reason to disagree, is to be in sympathy to, or part of those whose run cheats, or pad the game in this manner. Of course, those who are being harmed by this, or have noticed this, will agree, and those who are part of the problem, will oppose it. IMO. 

thats a bit of a leap.. C-word and "padding"?? how do you "pad" anything by sitting in a tower or in a shorebattery?

so what, people might want to fight against each other as a squad, maybe they wannt just sit in the tower and BS with squaddies.. maybe they want to spy and give away positions of the dime-a-dozen respawning CV's, or give up the position of some random NOE mission.. maybe they do want to tie up a shorebat (never seen actual proof of it tho)...

seems to me someone wasn't doing what YOU wanted them to be doing with the shorebat, so you want to change the game so they have to play your way. would you rather they sit in there firing but not hitting anything with it? because thats all they'd have to do to prevent getting kicked out.

at the end of the day, what difference does it make?  who really cares? let em knock themselves out. I'm sure they'll get bored with it eventually.

I dont concern myself with what other people are doing or not doing. My fun does not rely on them, all I need is red things to shoot at.

[Melvin]

When will you guys quit taking this so seriously?



 

[caldera]

Quite often, the SB doesn't have a firing solution because the CV group stays out of the line of fire.  So the guy manning the SB doesn't even bother firing.  I would bet 99% of the time that it is this scenario and not some "side switching spy" squatting in the SB.

[skorpion]

Wow just wow...
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[Spikes]

Just my opinion, but the only reason to disagree, is to be in sympathy to, or part of those whose run cheats, or pad the game in this manner. Of course, those who are being harmed by this, or have noticed this, will agree, and those who are part of the problem, will oppose it. IMO. 

Yup. I'm just a dweeby spy who switches countries to bomb ships, then sit in shore batteries all day so my squad on the other side can attack the base freely.