The whole redline sniping thing is just contradicting what CCP wants, that risk vs reward playstyle. Being able to sit in the redline and have absolutely no chance of dying unless you're counter sniped or hit by an OB really isn't much of a risk. You should have the same chance of being shot by an HMG as any other infantry should.

If you want a place away from all the fire if you're being spawn trapped, spawn in the MCC and just sit there.

This is not war, this is a videogame, in a real war the stakes are much higher and it is of course not about being fair. Even in real war their are rules, there are things that if done are considered war crimes, consider the geneva convention for example.

This is a video game, so players expect sportsmanship, they expect a balanced and level playing field, with these qualities a game is more fun, yes "fun" we play videogames for fun, not for score, this philosphy is alien to you tryhards who will do anything to win, that is why you see no problem with cheap tactics like uplink spam to lag the map and redline sniping.

The redline eliminates risk for players who wish to abuse it.

At the same time it really doesn't do anything positive for a redlined team. Once bottled up you aren't likely to escape and it just results in one of two scenarios. Ether folks hide or they come out and are slaughtered.

It's boring either way.

Remove the redline. End the match early if one side has lost everything and is bottled up in its MCC.
Declare a mercy and end it.

Maybe it should just delete your account if you stay in the redline for more than 30 seconds, since you aren't playing in a way that has proper "risk and reward" according to the ARtards. My tank costs 5x your suit. I will protect it in the most efficient manner possible. My sniper has an effective range of 600 meters I will use it to find a good cover or vantage point, well outside your effective fire area and then put two in your head or three in your chest.

when you're getting the short end of the stick, you **** and moan like a whiny little girl. When I get it? I get angry, and crafty.

Oh, that sniper got me? well then, he shot from direction D at elevation E, so there are good blinds at points x,y, and z. I know that he can see x and y, so Z is out of the picture for not having a shot. of those two, y has the technically better cover, but too many teammates are nearby, so I risk being spotted prematurely. So, point x provides the best chance at killing him before being spotted.

So how's your planning? I'm guessing it goes someodd like this: SHOOT AT WITH AR! IT DED? PAT SELF ON BACK! IT KILL ME!? OP NERFNERFNERF! REMOVE IT FROM GAME! IT'S NAWT FAIR!!!!!!1!!

The conditions you just described literally do not exist the current form of this game. Even if that imaginary scenario was a reality that alleged sniper would only have 199 meters of 'shootable terrain'. He would be so far from being effective that you wouldn't know he was in the match. You would probably die from timing out in his redline before he would ever even see you.
Do bad players abuse the redline? Maybe. Is anyone actually a viable threat while hiding deep in the redline? Hell no.

Lol, if you snipe because you're doing bad, then you're more useless than if you had quit.

If you are leaving a battle and angrily chasing me, you are hurting your team. Even if you do kill me, you are out of the battle for a few minutes. It's always a risk that you could lose a point or some other important piece of real estate. And I just come back someplace else and snipe some more.

If, however, you feed my location to a counter-sniper, you are playing cooly and intelligently. You are right. We love snacks and other snipers are junk food. There is a whole sub-game that goes on between snipers.


Munch

I wasn't talking specifically to you, I was replying to your post......You said, "So you want people to quit?" and I replied.

Ok...so rail rifles, combat rifles, scrambler rifles, and sometimes SMGs are "try hard" weapons. So...you ok with nova knives and plasma cannons? What is acceptable play to you outside of sniping?
To this yes I am ok with novas but have trouble using them myself. I have a plasma cannon alt account and I can say it is challenging to use against infantry which most said it is supposed to be used for. Rail rifles shouldn't even need to be explained with the basic fact that it does 55 dps on BASIC and is has a further optimal range than most of the auto/semi auto guns on the game meaning you don't have to get better at using it just put it on any suit. Subs have their times but they CAN be used by true try hards. Scr definitely hasn't changed even with the 1.7 update but is just being used a little less(my be exaggerating when I say a little) with the RR and CR coming out. Combat Rifle eats up any suit just like and auto weapon/ burst weapon and with the fact that CCP has their priorities set wrong. There's nothing I can do but accept that this game is turning into COD514 w/ Tanks Tm. I love seeing everyone play but the way everyone (I don't mean EVERYONE) is playing it only pushes to separate the styles further than mix them in so all playstyles is acceptable and has counter measures going against each other all the while NOT FORCING people to be in tune with FOTMs

I'm not trolling, guy. You started with flamethrower posting and you've got some decent points to make but now you want basically layout that 85% or better of the players aren't good enough to play with on the same field as you?