Spawn Camping Guidelines

[Dirka]

Fair enough. Stay off the platform and you're ok

[FreakTheKing]

Pre Capping A/B on Steel while capping E, it clear that they had spawn camping in mind.. Since there is a raised platform go get to the spawn door, with a protective wall to keep spam from coming from the entrance to the final point room. Unless you walk onto that raised platform, you can't get a clear shot at the spawn door. That includes sentries being built around the point. They can't fire into the spawn door area because of this.

Post Capping A/B, the red spawn doors to E are actually protected from being shot directly at, and blu can not get close to them. Blu would have to walk up directly into one of the two leading corridors and shoot into the spawn area, which would spawn camping.

People always try to say I'm spawncamping when I'm helping scouts back cap E on Steel, so when I back off, the scouts get screwed. I would understand if I was camping with stickies, but as a Heavy I'm still not on the platform. I'm shooting up at the people coming out and on the platform.

They can still shoot them from the window, and going back through B to E is an option, but I can't help but feel like I'm being wronged about sitting there, protecting my teammates and the objective we're trying to cap.

[NATO]

I agree with freak. You almost have to be staring directly into spawn to protect those capping E efficiently. It doesn't take much to extinguish a threat on that point, be it a random crit rocket directly out of spawn or an effective sniper, and without the threat of a heavy or other class to take the attention of an enemy directly out of spawn instead the scouts or what have you are almost completely screwed or have to retreat.

[TypeZERO]

Don't stand on the platform, and theres no issue.

[ItGoesSplat]

I've been on the server a lot as of late, and every time the rotation hits steel, this seems to be an issue. I always hear the argument "there are multiple exits", and nothing gets done unless there's an admin on the server. I'm not really sure what do about this, other than hope someone is available to take care of it.

Obviously I mean stuff happening outside of what's acceptable gameplay etiquette of course.

[Runic]

I've been on the server a lot as of late, and every time the rotation hits steel, this seems to be an issue. I always hear the argument "there are multiple exits", and nothing gets done unless there's an admin on the server. I'm not really sure what do about this, other than hope someone is available to take care of it.

Obviously I mean stuff happening outside of what's acceptable gameplay etiquette of course.

If you can't find anyone who is currently on the server you could always hop on Vent and ask there, most times of the day there is at least one or two server admins or at least PPs sitting around somewhere that can access the situation and deal with it.

[Ruugab]

i rarely see what i would consider spawn camping on the servers, but if you do see it, just hop in vent and bug an admin

btw, would camping a teleporter exit be camping? or against the rules? or would it depend?

[Ninja]

Camping a teleporter is not spawn camping.

[No-eye-deer]

Spawn camping is pretty rare. Four biggest ones to look out for are stickies on the spawn door, a cloaked Spy waiting at spawn, Level 3 sentry facing the spawn door, and a Heavy Medic combo camping the door. There are other things that are spawn camping of course, but those are the most common.

[Dirka]

btw, would camping a teleporter exit be camping? or against the rules? or would it depend?

that is fine, I do it whenever i can