Hence the average IQ of most redberries.

I was coming here expecting a Link to an IQ test but I came disappointed...

Clone count and needles. Look it up.


I.Q. Or age? For me it's the alcohol.

I never call for help since I'm usually the logi. I.just terminate and respawn because I have to baby a team of blueberry slayers.

I never terminate fallen clones unless its an explosive kill(install dead) or its officer they are wearing.

Most of the time they just choose to respawn anyway.

If you let them lay there, they can either respawn on the fastest link (3 seconds is the fastest) if available or wait for their revive timer to run out.

If you clone (ensure the body cant be revived) They are stuck with a 10 second spawn and loss of the clone.

Better just to finish them off.

Why are they stuck with a 10 second spawn? And even if it's 10 seconds how is it better to get them back into the match (on the other team) than to let them lay there waiting and then have to respawn anyway? What benefit is there to you or your team to finish them off? Do you get more points? Is there some bonus to you for getting the other team's player back into the match faster?

Please do elaborate. I still can't see how finishing off a clone benefits you or your team in any way.

Hence the average IQ of most redberries. For the entirety of the time it takes for the clone to be resurrected or for it to expire, whichever comes first, that player is out of the battle. That means their side is down a player. If their clone is terminated, they get straight back in just as soon as they can respawn which is usually a lot quicker than waiting for assistance.

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I've wondered about the IQ of most Dust players. Or perhaps their age...

Does anyone else find the practice of "finishing off" a clone to be pointless and stupid?

We have a practice in EvE called "podding", where a second kill is made, first of the ship, then of the capsule (pod) itself, forcing the pilot back to his medical clone. In ProviBloc, we actually don't do this. It has become expected so that in fleet fights, the opponents just come back into battle as soon as they can hop into another ship and warp/jump back in. But if you don't pod them, they sit there, waiting (they can't move because they're warp scrambled). And waiting. And waiting. Eventually, they get the message - they're not gonna get podded, and they'll have to self-destruct. That effectively takes them out of the action until they figure out they need to do something.

In Dust we have something similar. Granted each side has limited clones, which is not the case in EvE but effectively, people in EvE are not going to just come back an unlimited number of times, because they will have limited numbers of ships. So, with Dust, we have the situation where a clone is "incapacitated" for a period of time when they just sit there calling for help, if there's any available, and then when that time is up, they respawn into another clone.

For the entirety of the time it takes for the clone to be resurrected or for it to expire, whichever comes first, that player is out of the battle. That means their side is down a player. If their clone is terminated, they get straight back in just as soon as they can respawn which is usually a lot quicker than waiting for assistance.

Players who finish off an opponent aren't gaining anything from the second "kill" - there's no increase in their score. All they are doing is sending that player back into battle ASAP. Perhaps that means to them that they will get more kills? Anyway, I've developed a distaste for such players, and consider them mental midgets. It's the sort of practice that reminds me of kids habitually doing something because everyone does.

I've also noticed that there are some players (me included) who habitually do NOT do this. Even though it delays my getting back into battle, if I choose to call for help, I'm actually kinda glad to find a player for whom this practice is not an automatic thing. It takes some players quite a lot of time and resources (ammo) to finish off another player. I sometimes wonder at the marksmanship of a player that can't hit a body lying still on the ground, or players that lob multiple grenades at you when a single shot would do.

All in all, I find the practice idiotic. I would love to hear any arguments from anyone that can see a purpose to this that actually makes sense in a battle-scenario manner.

I still don't see the point. Yes, I know about clone count, and I know about needles. Finishing off a clone forces a reduction of 1 in the clone count. But most battles don't finish with one side depleted. Therefore finishing off a clone in most battles doesn't gain you or your side anything and puts the player back into the match.