Assisting

[Mabathon]

Hi, my name is Mabathon. I am sure that some of you have seen me play in the XN server a bunch of times. I registered onto the XN websites a few days ago to make this post. There has been a particular issue occurring on the server that not many people are talking about. My issues is with !assist. Now, I am not calling for the removal of !assist nor I am saying that !assist ruins everything. I don't mind !assist if it is used properly to counter horrible balance. What I have a problem is with players abusing !assist to switch from a "losing" team to a "winning" team. What do I mean by this?

For example, for the first 15 minutes of a game, RU team is likely to hold objectives A and B. Let's say rushers from the US team have infiltrated A and taken it, thus forcing RU players retreat from B and lose it to Team US. At that turning point, Team RU is still technically winning by having more tickets than US. It is a common occurrence for RU players to use !assist to switch to Team US which has the momentum. I would consider Team US to be the "winning" team, even though they have less tickets than RU at the moment. In my mind, this is clear abuse of the !assist system which I have a huge problem with.

This has a few negative impacts: 1) The player switching can create imbalance if the teams are even before the switch. 2) The "losing" team is losing a player when they are in need of one to defend A and recapture B. 3) Encourages other players to do the same, either during the match or in matches in the future.

Now, I understand that there are limitations to !assist. One of them is "The other team is losing, but is gaining momentum" or something like that. This limitation only occurs long after the team with less tickets have captured C and B. People tend to abuse !assist right after the momentum shifts. Let's understand that when people do this, they are not assisting the other team. The other team does not need assistance after they captured B. And I don't care what anybody else says, regaining B after you lose it is incredibly hard to do as a team. People understand that a team with momentum that just took B has the bigger chance to win the game, so they use !assist to end up on the winning team.

I have asked the admin in previous matches about this issue but I never got a clear response. I mostly blame the fact that game chat sucks when it comes to conversations. I made this post so that the admin can hopefully see my concern and maybe address it. The way that I look at it is that the abuse of !assist should be a kickable offense. Just the other day, I caught one of the RU players on my team switch to US when the circumstances that I mentioned above had occurred. I started a votekick, stating my reasons. I got about 7 !yes before the guy just quit from the game. Honestly he wasn't going to get kicked, there weren't enough !yes votes. However, I am glad that some people are seeing the abuse of !assist as an issue.

Anyway, sorry for the long post. I hope I don't look like I am ranting. Overall, I wish that the admin would consider adding the abuse of !assist as a thing that violates the rules of the server and earns a !votekick.

Thanks,
Mabathon.