chikler wrote:
Padding is like murder 1, has to be premeditated. Thats about the easiest way I can sum it up.
If stuff happens that is "cheap" but done under the correct circumstances, then its good. Least that is my opinion. (ala grenade resupply etc.)
Mason4Assassin444 wrote:
Premeditation of padding??? Thats like thought crimes. So if it looked like padding but wasn't pre-meditated it isn't?? That'll stop the screenshots from going to EA. As long as in the "padders" head they didn't mean to, it will all work out. Til those ranks/scores are erased.
"oops" "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to knife you 99 times in a row. Oh...and revive you."
"Its ok. As long as it wasn't pre-meditated dear chap!"
"carry-on"
Mason, you are missing the point entirely. Premeditation isn't about what you SAY, it is about your mindset at the time of the action. Chikler is saying that part of being a statpadder is that one KNOWS that he is statpadding when he is doing it. If you are aware that statpadding is a problem, and you don't want to be a statpadder by principal, it IS possible for you to engage in statpadding behavior without being aware of it. Case in point: On Oman once I was a sniper poised on a hill behind the hotel. Just as I plopped prone and did a scan, I saw an enemy soldier in my scope, and I gave him the ole' what for. Fifteen seconds later, he spawned again and I smacked him in the noggin again. Hooray for me! I'm such a sniper stud! But, lo and behold, he spawned yet a third time. Pop goes the cranium. Three in a row! Then I realized, as he spawned a fourth time without moving, that the player was probably perched on the loo in the next room, since I waited and waited and the guy didn't move. Now, what I DID was kill an inactive player three times in a row at his spawn point. Which is statpadding. But what I THOUGHT I was doing was being a stud sniper (I should have known better, because that is one thing I am NOT) and killing an enemy soldier as he respawned at a CP that my team was trying to overtake. That WOULD have been statpadding had I known the guy was inactive. But I didn't. And when I realized he was, I moved on. So although it was the BEHAVIOR of a statpadder, the intention made it NOT stadpadding. (I didn't shoot him again, but someone else owned him twice as I watched.)
This is probably an example of what Chikler meant by premeditation.