I’m opposed to an increased penalty as well as penalizing the team. Sometimes, yes there are bad eggs who decide to be douchebags. Firstly, if someone is killing hosties, everyone is yelling at him anyways; why make people even more angry because the guy is on their team? The team has nothing to do with it. And, if someone is killing the hosties, they obviously are pretty immature, and thus won’t care about their rank. The only sure-fire way to keep people from PURPOSELY killing hostages is to kick after 2 have been killed or so. Even then, accidents happen, which is why I’m opposed to an increased penalty. I’m pretty sure as a CT I’ve misfired and killed a hostie, and as a T I’ve been chasing a rescuer and tried to shoot past the 3 hostages following him and it went all wrong. Imagine if it’s 1v1 and the t is about to clutch, except he would have to kill 4 hosties to get to the CT. -200 points? No thanks, I’ll take the loss. People are always going to bet on CT if its 1v1 if there’s a big point deduction for hostie killing; the T may as well sit back and let him have it (assuming they’re a stat *edited* like me).
I say it’s totally up to the situation and admins. If someone sees a guy go up and purposely shoot the hosties, kick him saying “No hostage killing”. No warning. That way, the point gets through. If they come back on and keep doing it, ban him for a day or so. Maybe even keep a list of people who have killed hosties; enough 1-day bans and they’re done, though I think it’d be hard to come back every other day and keep doing it..
Basically, I see this as an admin’s responsibility, not the point system’s. If it happens to be 3v3 or so and no admins are on, the guys on his team can vote him out. If not, and the guy is really doing it excessively, I’d get a demo of him doing it over and over. THAT is worthy of a ban – it’s not much different from hacking, doing something that gives you an advantage over other players (the cts MUST kill all the t’s), and nobody likes it.
So no, don’t make it a point thing. Sorry for the rant? I’m not sure how it got so long.
That’s what she said.