Guide [Issue 12] Ten Ways to be a Successful Teammate

[SpreadLoveNotHate 374]

With the new team kick system in effect, it’s hard to stay in a battle when you are hated by the majority of your team. Many actions can lead to this effect, and when you do, you probably won’t be able to battle without being hated by your own team and consequently kicked. Being kicked can affect your ban log, which shows ‘Current Team Kick Karma: xx’ with xx being negative number showing the amount of times you’ve been kicked by fellow teammates out of a battle. This would gravely affect your account, it could lead to a ban or block depending on the severity of your other offences and your sabotage history. To help you avoid being kicked, here’s a useful guide with ten tips as to what you can do to be liked as a teammate (other than reckless drugging)!


Never stay in a battle where you find yourself easy to be killed and difficult to kill others. If you have close to no kills if you’ve spent a lengthy period of time in the battle, it’s probably a good idea to move on. This may put you at the bottom of the list, a place where more players have the option to kick you. Battles with lower ranks might be less exciting, but you will be able to reach your full potential by killing lighter hulls. So, just be mindful of your contribution to the battle, and if you can’t contribute that much, just don’t stay. Some battles such as the ones with ranks are probably not the best for the ranks on the lower end. The higher ranks dislike that there are lower ranks in the battle and already oppose you in wanting you to leave.

Attempt to coordinate and carry out attacks with your team in order to be successful in taking either more kills or flags, even controlling points. You have to understand that not everyone in your team might speak the same language as you, but it is worth a try, since numbers can make a significant difference when attacking. This will show that you’re actively trying to help your team come out victorious, which tankers like.

Don’t block your teammates in any way. If you are trying to either protect them from an attack (which is ultimately heroic) or just blocking them from capping a flag, no one likes it and you would be either kicked or recorded and reported for multing.

For Capture the Flag modes, don’t blind your vision and only focus on killing. The flag is most important, and the main goal is to grab the enemy’s flag and protect your own. If you make no attempts to try to help with protecting the flag, or helping a flag bearer for instance, they may think you aren’t trying to help them achieve their goal and kick you out. If you're not trying to help your team achieve something, then it is expected that teammates will dislike the amount of effort you are contributing.

Avoid jumping for crystals. If you are that desperate for crystals, you might as well stand in their spawn spots. If you continue jumping, you often end up flipped in which many players would dislike. You're nothing but a dead weight blocking your teammates from attacking or defending a flag. If you would like to get crystals by staying right under, make sure you are not only being killed or just standing there. Contribute in as many ways as you can while you are crystal hunting, because it will definitely lower your potential in getting a better score.

Be conscious of what you are picking up. Often, players dislike others with full health pick up a health kit when another teammate running at it has low health. The same thing occurs conscious there are two of one specific drug lying around and a player just picks up both when he only needed one. This is wasting the drops, in which can negatively affect your team and will limit your team's ability to perform well. Of course, you may think one or two drugs won't make a difference, but if a flag bearer barely misses a health and dies, the flag is at risk and all the hard work that the bearer has done is in vain.

Choose your best combination to go into battle with. Even if you are attempting to try a weaker lower modification weapon (If you have M2 or higher), it probably isn't a good idea to choose a full blown battle to test it out in. People will notice it, and they will think you aren't trying your best to battle, which is against rules. Rule of thumb is, try your best in a battle with the best you can give. This will help you succeed in not only having a good placement in the battle but also a good reputation.

One of the simplest but highly important things to do is to keep your teammates alive. If you have an isida, heal your teammates and support them with defending and attacking when necessary. If you are any other weapon, help clear all enemies out of sight to keep the drugging teammate, or just the one running towards/with the flag safe.

Drug. Ok...title says without drugging and that's probably what I say in every battle I join. But, if you are close to a flag capture, the best thing to do is just put a double armor and a nitro, and cruise through your opponents. If the game depends on that one flag, it is probably a good idea to try to hold on to it and capture it to the best of your ability.

Lastly, you need to get points. Even if you are trying your best, getting points is the only effective way of showing contribution to the team. If not, it is easiest to kick someone who has been in a game for over 5 minutes and have only gotten a minute amount of points.


Well, those ten tips will hopefully make you more popular as a teammate. Hopefully, next time you're available for battling, people will be flooding your PM box to make you join their battle ^_^. If not, let's just aim at having a karma-less teamkick portion of the ban log!

[austinmyles 114]

good guide xD I don't want to get kick I always try my hardest and that so I think I am good ;)

[FBA966 5]

Good guide bro!!

 

Never Kicked from a battle :P

[unholycloak5 1,814]

Good guide, lok!

[Raphael2 3,263]

Good guide

[SilverCenturion 0]

Thanks! I needed that :wub:

[Scientist 4,224]

As always, great job!

[r_Damn_Slow0 12,476]

Contribute in as many ways as you can while you are crystal hunting, because it will definitely lower increase your potential in getting a better score. , hence even more crystals at the end of the game.

apart from that little bit up here ↑ am not gonna 'selena' you on the grammar stuff :P

 

Overall great article , am linking this to my personal off-forum guide to team playing

Edited May 31, 2013 by r_Damn_Slow0

[hogree 4,179]

I must say, disappointed with this one :/ Thought there were a lack of relevant points, and many things were a bit too obvious. However, your point regarding drop boxes was well made, and I do reccommend you to keep up this series - it really is useful :)

[BoRn.To.Be.WiLd 29]

Hog nice rank :D

[ExtremeKiller26 443]

And that's why, I'm real picky about my battles. I never choose the battle with rank limits much more than 2nd lt.

[jokjinari 160]

Good guide, although some of your points did seem a bit obvious. It was well written and didn't get boring (as guides tend to do). Good job and keep it up.

[GoldRock 6,165]

I personally found this pretty good. Concise, and to the point, with some good tips. My only criticism would be that it could have been more in-depth/detailed, but it's a great series ^_^

[Notchfan 616]

I really hate it when I'm in desperate need of a first aid kit, a n00b who has full hp on our side picks it up.

[r_SwagBoy110 421]

I really hate it when I'm in desperate need of a first aid kit, a n00b who has full hp on our side picks it up.

[r_Damn_Slow0 12,476]

I really hate it when I'm in desperate need of a first aid kit, a n00b who has full hp on our side picks it up.

or 2 or 3 DA / DP / Nitro and take them all at once !!!! someone needs to teach these kids that those aren't crystal boxes ...

[Bacia_Da_Boss 4]

How do you see someone's ban log?

[SpreadLoveNotHate 374]

You can PM a chat moderator and kindly ask 'May I have my ban log please' They will PM it back to you when they can get to it.

[dionyshs02 64]

i am never got been kicked is that good?

[SpreadLoveNotHate 374]

That's great! Good job :)

[eatlead3 0]

hi i bet you don't even read this but here goes I need 2 questions answered 1. how to report someone? 2.can you do a post on the best combinations of hulls , guns and paints

thank you eatlead3

[richardlin 0]

I declare that you're #1 at explaining that! :) :) :)

[SpreadLoveNotHate 374]

hi i bet you don't even read this but here goes I need 2 questions answered 1. how to report someone? 2.can you do a post on the best combinations of hulls , guns and paints

thank you eatlead3

Send a Screenshot of chat (full screen, not partial) to a chat moderator. I'm sure Ranger has done a great job with his combinations articles :)

[donut70 97]

I once got auto kicked for having 140 kills and 12 deaths without drugs and I wasn't cheating.

[TheLegend15 4]

Nice guide!

 

But the problem is....

 

Most of the people dont even know how to kick. 

 

So this system is a fail