One SIMPLE change (that's already available) would make the Game ROCK for me:

[Dearmad]

A server with a respawn time of... wait for it... 2 minutes!

There, I said it. This would result in a few things:

No more kamikaze jets, jeeps, etc... unless there was some THOUGHT behind it and it had a reason other than to simply cause spam death.

When your TEAM took heavy casualties, you can BET you'd pull back to preserve manpower, because if you lose too many men (ratio wise) to the enemy, they can claim flags and its game over...

People, even the selfish ones, would value their lives more, so not EVERY SOLDIER on the filed would need to be RAMBO like it is now.

Risking the lives you KNOW you will lsoe in taking a flag/area would require slightly more careful planning and gathering of people before you do it, rather than as it is now- people all over the map willy nilly taking flags, losing, whatever...

WHen a jet is downed, it is DOWNED for god's sake for awhile!!!!! Same for choppers.... and tanks... you get the idea.

I think the more careful play would result in each class of soldier filling its role that much better, from the ammo guys, to the medis, to support (holding back an onslought so people can regroup and hold out), to sniper (covering an area and letting the enemy fear him long enough for a few peeps to respawn, etc...)

Communication would have to go UP UP UP. And the tension would be more white knuckled, I think.

[GosuR]

Couldn't agree more!!!

[Dearmad]

Also without respawn like it is, the army in pursuit, would need to slow it's advance more due to SUPPLY anyway- meaning people would literally run out of ammo and be running forward with pistols at times, or knives if no other ammo was available! How cool would that be- like Saving Private Ryan when they chucked helmets at each other!

OMG I'm wetting my pants thinking baout the strategic/tactical possibilities of a game like that!

[imported_Soda]

It all sounds nice and all, I would like that too, but the thing that bothers me is the time wait, in Counter-Strike it seems ok for me, but when I am playing Battlefield games, I just can't take long respawns.

[Grim_Grom]

Yeh but note. 2 minutes is a hell of a wait, especially if you get an unlikey death [vechile exploding in your face or soemthing], perhaps a better solution would be to restrict ammo to 1 magazine.

[Dearmad]

No because then when they die they just come back with more ammo, and another body in the fight, the point is to deplete PEOPLE from the other side so that they need to deal with that fact and regroup and be more careful.... Maybe a 1 minute wait would be enough given the fluidity of the map at times, but certainly MORE than 15 seconds....

And vehicles expoding, etc... happens. That's the point- be CAREFUL. It would make people move and think more about what they're doing. And those who didn't like it- move to another server.

-sigh- I wish I had the $ to open a server, as I would.

[imported_Fig]

https://www.realitymod.com

I don't know of any PRMM servers with long respawn times, but that is the ultimate goal of PR, to have long spawn times, at least a minute in most maps, more in others.

BTW, im suprised I got here before you got flamed for having a realistic opinion, a lot of arcady people see threads like this and think "ATTACK!"...

[Dearmad]

Hey thanks for the link. Maybe that mod will satisfy me a bit. Or at least go forward in that direction.

And yeah, this board is flamey, but it is a testosterone loaded game (for a lot of people).

[Eddy01741]

Imagine the spawn rapers then, they just drive over to a CP and then shoot everything that appears, that would be really bad, cause if there's one spawn raper at each spawn point, then you would spawn, be killed, then wait for 2 minutes, and by that time the spawn raper would capture the spawn point, and with uncapturables, that would still be bad, maybe make it 30 seconds, caus i wouldn't want to be raped by an apc, wait for two minutes, and then spawn, raped yet again, and then wait for two minutes etc.

[ThyNecromancer]

2 minutes is way too long due to alot of things.. like getting bored. You get killed, wait 2 minutes and spawn in to get tked... now you are waiting 4 minutes. And if it's a spawn rape.. 6 min..8..10..ect... get it?

Plus a lot of medals and ribbons are time based. It would make the a lot harder to get and people would just get annoyed with the game and find something else to do.

Mind you, if the game can figure out that it's a plane/heli kamakazee.. they should get 2 minutes.

[The **TERROR**]

i crash my jet if the missle misses it

[SmilingRaccoon]

what about death bonus sorta of thing, after 1st death 15 seconds 2nd 30 seconds and so on, would give a advantage to the people that try to stay alive.

[~US~Riggs-]

wow...
1) if they did that you would have to be able to watch your team mates...sitting there looking at your dead body for 2min would run every one away from the game...
2)if so happens you whole team dies and there the enemy left the round is over
3)CSS is ok in the spawn time thing but i like to spawn fast in BF... some times 15sec feals like a long time...
4)imagin a tank... kills every one... round is over cause the tank would own every one and he would only have to worry about AT guys every 2 min...

[SaladFork]

Don't forget that if the corpse stays there for a whole 2 minutes, medics have PLENTY of time to run over and revive you.

It would also make medics THAT much more important in the game...

~Salad

[crashtest]

I'd quit playing if it was 2 minutes to respawn. 15 seconds is long enough.


Let's make it 1 second! Good players don't die stupidly anyway, (Like ramming their C4 jeep into a tank or m203 too close) so who cares about pub noobs!