[GSF Vote Kick]

I.

Do.

Use.

My.

Blasters.

 

Still see that stupid message. Luckily I haven't run into the kick trolls lately. Wonder why the enemy team that runs away from my tick spots after I destroy some of their ships don't get kicked if we're all treated equally. My kill counts are going up. Wonder what the function that controls all of this looks like. Probably like pvp flag in WoW: you get flagged and assigned a time stamp. If you don't engage in any more pvp activity for the specified period, the flag goes away. But in this case you start out with a count down timer that gets reset every time you "participate". One thing I've seen is I see that stupid message and I'm moving toward the fight and I get one shotted by a gun ship or a fighter and then I see "You are contributing again." So, I guess "using. my. blasters." is not the only way to participate.

 

It is possible to be "contributing" without actively contributing, but I will not share it here if only to make it the slightest bit harder for leeches to figure out how to leech.

 

Wonder at the mind set of the guy that sits at the spawn point waiting for someone to be flagged so he can get them kicked for "not participating". The lack of self awareness is strong with this one.

I doubt anyone does that. Dakhath definitely doesn't. She's one of the best, or at the very least, one of the better pilots in the gsf scene.

 

I will also say that there are niche cases where you are actively contributing without being flagged as such. Namely: contesting a node to prevent it from turning red, despite not actually firing on anyone (thus reducing your enemy's ability to earn points and tying up multiple players who are all trying to destroy you). Additionally, it is possible to get tied up against a persistent foe and not getting the chance to hit enemies even as you're chased, leading to you being flagged as not contributing.

[Your three wishes]

3: Replace Battle Over Iokath with something fun.

FTFY, no need to thank me

 

Let me guess. You're one of those people who has more fun in DOMs than TDMs, huh? So uncivilized.

[Your three wishes]

1: Actually do something about Starfighter Leeches, make the afk timer actually sensible, that sort of thing.

 

2: A sort of playback feature. When you're killed, show a couple seconds from the perspective of the pilot that killed you (so that people get a bit more understanding of ways to defeat players, instead of just pROtOrP), but more importantly, record the "raw data" of each match, and let players save it to their computers for... say 20 CC before the system deletes it, and then use TOR or maybe some other thing to read that data and allow any perspective to be viewed, even just a point in open space. This could even be saved as an MP4, for the purposes of Starfighter Videos.

 

3: Replace Denon with something fun.

[Can we *please* get a change to the GSF AFK timer, devs?]

Seconded. Spawning in and just afking is essentially the same thing as waiting in the protected area of a warzone, which is, in contrast to the GSF situation, actually penalized. Not entirely sure if you get flagged as contributing just for contesting a node, but if not, such a change may also need to be made if not contributing is more strictly penalized.