airwolff wrote: i don't play as often as i used to - is this an increasing problem?
Just the usual ebb and flow. Here's Zup's post about it from 6 years ago. He titled the thread "Let people take off":
zuperman wrote: Guys, I'm disappointed that I always have to modify stuff so people don't abuse the system.
I mean, it's common sense and it hurts you otherwise. I'm talking now about letting players take off. In the past 3 days every time I log in,someone different is flying around the enemy airport and then shooting players before they take off.
Problem? Well, usually they are new people who just playing for the first or second time, after 2 minutes without any hope because usually the person doing this is a way higher rank, they leave the game and NEVER come back, writing reviews saying the game is boring.
I find myself alone on my team while this person flying is just collecting points. Obviously if they know who I am, they stop, but since I'm not always playing it's just bothers me that this person is not able to have some kind of manners towards players.
So what now? I'm forced to add an inmunity option for maybe 30 seconds after take off, or maybe just ban everyone that shoots me 2 times before i take off with a message that says "you are a jerk" or similar
you get the idea. let others have fun and you'll have fun. My idea of fun is not to login and leave myself alone on my side with no enemies playing.
Note, he implemented the immunity but it had many unintended consequences, including problems between different updates. As it stands there is some limited immunity for some low ranks.