invalid Limit on how long one can hold the enemy flag

[Aunty_Entity 245]

subject: Maximum hold time for flag.

 

Some sort of time limit where you have to drop the flag or pass it on to another team member. Would help to bypass the knobs that sit on the last flag and refuse to cap.  30 seconds maybe.  Obviously has to be long enough to get around a map with a bit of hassle... I'd take the largest regular CTF map as the example, no idea what that presently is.

 

Love

 

Aunty

[Maf 32,338]

Valid

 

Holding the flag without capping it is already considered to be a violation of rules, so people doing that risk getting banned for sabotage. Your idea would help with this issue to some extent, but it needs to be balanced in order to not interfere with normal gameplay actions. For example: your flag is at the base and you are carrying the enemy flag, but you can't go and cap it because enemies are waiting at your base to ambush you, return their flag and capture yours.

[MysticSid 14]

Hmm.. It Should be made an option in pro battles after Finalizing.

[DieselPlatinum 5,121]

Players refusing to capture the last flags is the reason why I don't play pro battles anymore except when it is parkour.

 

Won't be much help in MM battles. But would be extremely helpful in reducing the chances of people refusing to cap those last flags because of "more funds". Like I give a crap about more funds, I just want the funds I already earned.

[fordmustang12345 3,910]

Nah this would ruin XP BP CTF along with just be annoying

[wolverine848 13,097]

Nah this would ruin XP BP CTF along with just be annoying

If the threshold was reasonable - how would it "just be annoying"?

 

I'd say violating the rules is way, way more annoying. 

 

Even when I'm on the team with 6 flags I tell them to cap it.  Finish the battle and let everyone get on to the next one.

[N221 597]

Perhaps longer than 30 seconds?? You never know what can happen in a battle situation. Like the person holding flag may have to take different routes because they are being chased or may have to wait because if they come out they will be hit by a shaft.

[Hex 11,522]

This would be terrible, really... What if you're on the way back to your base and the enemy team is behind you, the time you can hold the flag has passed and the flag drops, and the enemy team returns it.

[wolverine848 13,097]

Perhaps longer than 30 seconds?? You never know what can happen in a battle situation. Like the person holding flag may have to take different routes because they are being chased or may have to wait because if they come out they will be hit by a shaft.

 

The timer would have to be longer than 30 seconds.  More like in the 1 to 2 minute range.  Worse-case scenario is a mammoth heading back to base on Highways - maybe someone can time that with and without speed-boost.

 

This would be terrible, really... What if you're on the way back to your base and the enemy team is behind you, the time you can hold the flag has passed and the flag drops, and the enemy team returns it.

[CabbageRoll 3,018]

oh so flag keeping is sabotage? cool losers can report enemies for holding last flag

[DieselPlatinum 5,121]

Maybe it should be in effect after the flag carrier is in their teams base and it would depend on the map and the flag carrier's hull.

[sensei_tanker 3,098]

oh so flag keeping is sabotage? cool losers can report enemies for holding last flag

It appears to me that you are one of those no-life, last-flag holders. 

[Maf 32,338]

It is a violations of game rule, but I encounter that every single day. Whenever I steal a flag from the enemy base, come back to my base to see that the flag isn't on the podium, I have to hold the flag, and sometimes it can be a long time, because, I really don't trust my teammates. Reason why is that I don't want to risk a sabotage player holding the flag for an unnecessarily long time. So I keep it to myself and hope the best I don't get banned for sabotage :lol:

Well obviously it's fine during a flag exchange. The only time it's a violation is when your own flag is at the base, you have the enemy flag and you refuse to capture it despite having the opportunity.

[RIDDLER_8 5,558]

Bad idea. Players should hold the enemy flag for as long as they want until getting killed by enemies.

[C.O.N.Q.U.E.R.O.R 3,845]

Bad idea. Players should hold the enemy flag for as long as they want until getting killed by enemies.

For once I agree with Riddler  :lol: 

[RIDDLER_8 5,558]

Thanks.

[Wes.Is.Just.A.Digger 1,712]

          Is this topic a joke or what? What happens when getting flag into our base to cap takes longer than 30 seconds? Where flag drops? Next your tank? South, East, North, West? It is spawned back to enemy base? Anything would be a bigger disaster than noobs holding flags from cap. 

[Person_Random 4,991]

So does the flag drop or is it auto returned?

[LunaStar 348]

In Big maps like Kunger , Madness , Barda  , You can't capture flag in 30 seconds,  However , This rule should be apply on Small maps like island etc.

[GorgoBlesk 831]

This would ruin the fun of the "stalemate" situations when both teams defend the stolen enemy flag and try to return their own flag from enemy base.

[DieselPlatinum 5,121]

This would ruin the fun of the "stalemate" situations when both teams defend the stolen enemy flag and try to return their own flag from enemy base.

It would not even affect stale mate situations. It would only be in affect if the flag carrier's team flag is still in their base.

[Aunty_Entity 245]

Sheesh guys it doesn't have to be 30 seconds.  Could be 6 months, its just a figure I pulled out of my .... , and I did say you'd want to reconfigure it for larger maps.  I usually only play sandbox and for that 30sec is probably sufficient.