Personally, I think that the -15 points is a pretty big deduction so far. I mean, in office, which is about the only cs map we play anyways, to have killing hostages do any good you have to kill two of them anyways. Thats -30 points to the offender, which is pretty stiff. Also, just taking me as an example, I try not to kill hostages, but if terrorists are hiding close to them or among them, sometimes they die. I guess I would make a horrible SWAT team member, because I don’t even think about hitting the hostages if a terrorist is shooting a me, I only think about killing him.
As far as penalizing teams go…. I think its fair, first it puts pressure on that person from their teammates, secondly -1 point is not that much and since rescuing/holding hostages is the point of the mission (think do the objective), if a hostage dies that team who killed them actually failed and should be punished.
A solution to remedy some of this. Make killing a hostage worth -15 points per hostage, make rescuing a hostage worth +15, -1 for a team, +1 for a team. -5 for all hostages dead to the team who killed the last one, +5 for all hostages rescued to the CT team. Do the same thing with the money. I do think its also a good incentive to have the hostage killer lose all their money as well.
A side note…. Liam, is there anyway for admins to track who kills the hostages? That way if one person is repeatedly killing them, we can take action. A simple message that says “Pink Monkey #16 has killed a hostage!” in chat would be good.