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General / Is This Spawncamping?
« on: October 08, 2004, 09:43:08 PM »
Earlier, I was on LM, map was ns_bast. I was a marine, I didn't know which hive the aliens had and I happened to wander through engine hive with a teammate and discovered that it was their hive. We were then told to kill the RT, so I checked to see if any aliens were dead/spawning (they were not at that time) and jumped down and merrily knifed away.
Inevitably, an alien or two died and spawned in. My teammate (I'm not sure what he was doing or what his name was) and I would stop what we were doing and defend ourselves, then go back to knifing the RT. I think we killed 3 or 4 skulks max before we died, and the RT was low enough that I then was able to run back from MS and kill it with less than one LMG clip. One of the aliens, a reserve slotter, told me that this was spawncamping by the new rules, so I popped in to read them.
Now, the rules say that if you're unable to kill the structure fast enough then you should get out. My question is, what is the limit at which it's simply not fast enough? Is 3 skulks unacceptable, or 4? This is a very gray area, I'd just like to see it cleared up. I've always been willing to abide by the rules, but I have to know what to abide by first.
Inevitably, an alien or two died and spawned in. My teammate (I'm not sure what he was doing or what his name was) and I would stop what we were doing and defend ourselves, then go back to knifing the RT. I think we killed 3 or 4 skulks max before we died, and the RT was low enough that I then was able to run back from MS and kill it with less than one LMG clip. One of the aliens, a reserve slotter, told me that this was spawncamping by the new rules, so I popped in to read them.
Now, the rules say that if you're unable to kill the structure fast enough then you should get out. My question is, what is the limit at which it's simply not fast enough? Is 3 skulks unacceptable, or 4? This is a very gray area, I'd just like to see it cleared up. I've always been willing to abide by the rules, but I have to know what to abide by first.