Does anyone know where a thread or sequence of posts can be found that refer to raising the point penalty for blue on blue kills? I've been in contact with Joaquin over what I naturally assumed is a glitch - a 500 point penalty for nicking a blue's wing, 1000 points for knocking a blue down - and he informs me that these penalties are not only accurate, but that some player(s) actually requested them!
Are you, whomever you are, outta your f*ckin' mind?!?!
I was just in a BTB, 2 vs. 6, with the reds going high and diving, swarming in, camping, spawnkilling (thanks Musicious, Fragmental, et al including a couple very disappointing M.O.Ms...I love when ugly sh*t like that ends with everyone on the winning team saying "GG"...yeah, put that one in your scrapbook, quite the accomplishment) ... and as they were storming in I took down four of the five but also hit my teammate in the snarl.
So for stopping four reds I got 200 points. And for accidentally killing one blue I lost 1000 points. Just a wing hit, not a take down, costs 500 points. Ten good kills or carrier hits or bombed hangars wiped out for accidentally clipping a blue's wing. With the lag, skipping, jutter, f*cked up frame rate issues all being what they are...you lose the point equivalent of TWENTY clean kills for one unintentional team kill? WTF?!?!? Are you completely nuts?
If I can't fire into a crowd of reds for fear that I might lose all the points I've amassed for the past twenty minutes - or if a blue wandering/lagging into my fire does the same - I'll f*cking well go high and dive, too, when I'm one of six or seven blues.
These wildly disproportionate fines don't do a damn thing to discourage teamkillers, if that was the misguided goal. Teamkillers don't give a rat's ass about losing points. Next time think it through. And Joaquin, drop these ridiculous penalty amounts now, please. 50 points was fine. 1000 points is insane.
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