First off, sorry if this offends anyone (However i dont see how)
Secondly, only mature points of view on this topic please, or I'll will neg karma on you!!!
Something which bugs me about the BF2 community, the fact that so many people think attacking uncaps is wrong.
Before i go any further I'd like to make two definitions for you;
Base Rape: This is attacking a base constantly, without trying to or being unable to cap a flag.
Spawn Rape: This is pointing your weapon at a place where someone is going to spawn and insta killing as soon as they arrive.
(apologies to those who were already fully aware fo these terms)
Attacking an uncap is seldom Spawn Raping in my opinion, in fact i've only ever been spawn raped at hotel on Karkand in those cases by a knife weilding guy (Pre badge nerfing) and by APC's (again at the hotel).
Now, into my main argument. The way i see it, attacking an uncappable base is no more cheating than attacking a cappable base. in fact, attacking an uncappable gives more advantage to the defending team than defending a normal flag. Reasons for this are that the uncaps always have a plethora of Ground and Air defence stations, several vehicle spawns, and most importantly you can spawn there indefinately. Essentially all you have is a sitation where the enemy is near you when you spawn, the same way any enemy capping a flag would be near you.
While I believe that attacking uncaps is ok, I do disagree with Spawn raping. Namely because you are not outgunning or outclassing an opponent, your opponent may be the best player in the world and will still die to the M95 headshot before he knows where he is. So long as those attacking the uncap dont delieberately point at spawns then I see know reason why uncaps should not be attacked.
Before i open this discussion up i'd like to make 2 little exceptions to attacking uncaps, firstly that attacking uncaps in planes is not really fair, secondly that Artillary on uncaps is also not fair. This si only because I dont think that the people on the ground can either avoid or retaliate and it just makes for a lousy 15 second wait.
I'd also like to make one minor point: EA never intended uncaps to be 'safe zones', hence all the ground defence and no 'Don't attack uncaps' rules on the official servers.
Thanks for reading.
[BaT] Sea_JayUK
Secondly, only mature points of view on this topic please, or I'll will neg karma on you!!!
Something which bugs me about the BF2 community, the fact that so many people think attacking uncaps is wrong.
Before i go any further I'd like to make two definitions for you;
Base Rape: This is attacking a base constantly, without trying to or being unable to cap a flag.
Spawn Rape: This is pointing your weapon at a place where someone is going to spawn and insta killing as soon as they arrive.
(apologies to those who were already fully aware fo these terms)
Attacking an uncap is seldom Spawn Raping in my opinion, in fact i've only ever been spawn raped at hotel on Karkand in those cases by a knife weilding guy (Pre badge nerfing) and by APC's (again at the hotel).
Now, into my main argument. The way i see it, attacking an uncappable base is no more cheating than attacking a cappable base. in fact, attacking an uncappable gives more advantage to the defending team than defending a normal flag. Reasons for this are that the uncaps always have a plethora of Ground and Air defence stations, several vehicle spawns, and most importantly you can spawn there indefinately. Essentially all you have is a sitation where the enemy is near you when you spawn, the same way any enemy capping a flag would be near you.
While I believe that attacking uncaps is ok, I do disagree with Spawn raping. Namely because you are not outgunning or outclassing an opponent, your opponent may be the best player in the world and will still die to the M95 headshot before he knows where he is. So long as those attacking the uncap dont delieberately point at spawns then I see know reason why uncaps should not be attacked.
Before i open this discussion up i'd like to make 2 little exceptions to attacking uncaps, firstly that attacking uncaps in planes is not really fair, secondly that Artillary on uncaps is also not fair. This si only because I dont think that the people on the ground can either avoid or retaliate and it just makes for a lousy 15 second wait.
I'd also like to make one minor point: EA never intended uncaps to be 'safe zones', hence all the ground defence and no 'Don't attack uncaps' rules on the official servers.
Thanks for reading.
[BaT] Sea_JayUK