I agree with SOAPboy 100%. The planes are a valuable commodity for your team. If you can't fly them well, stay out of them or you'll get banned from my server. The jeeps are plentiful and not that useful, screw around in them in you want. Just leave the planes and choppers for people that can use them to help the team.
-Ace-
But the parachuting out of a plane or heli is a very good team technique. Granted I do generally do a bombing run first o clear a checkpoint. But I have found a great technique for taking a checkpoint in some maps. Take a plane or heli and get to an enemy controlled checkpoint, bomb run to clear out some enemies. Then parashute out ontop of a building near a flag. The flag is now neutral, enemies can't spawn there. That helps out the team alot when trying to take over the checkpoint. And I usually try and aim a plane for a kamakazi at a tank before bailing.
And I never said I couldn't fly them well. In fact, if there was a BYOAC clan I'd be the guy to take the I probably can out fly anyone. Flight sims are my number 1 favorite type of games. But you do have to use the limitations, physics, map layout, etc... of the game to your advantage. Example, Codename Eagle (which is the grand daddy of battlefield) there was a wing walking technique for the planes. In CE your vehicles ran on fuel, and could run out of fuel unless you refuel them. Planes too. So before you got into a plane you grabbed afuel can, then if you run out of fuel you level off the wings, go into a slight upward climb, get out of your plane, you end up ontop of the plane. Switch to fuel, refuel in midair. Get back in and off you go.
On to Battlefield 2. What are you going to use a jet for other than taking out other jets? The missles don't fly too straight, unless guided (which uaually is on other jets). The maps on bf 2 are too small for hte speed at which a jet flies. You can't use a jet there like a jet would normally be used, IE like in flight combat sims. It's the fastest vehicle. I use it to get to my teammates faster, where I am best needed. And it is suprising how many people can't figure out they are being shot at from above if you parachute onto them. I can usually take out half a squad by doing that. You tell me that isn't useful for the team.
Sometimes you have to think outside the box. You may just see a tranport heli and think it's only task is to transport a bunch of people. But now learn the physics and limitations of the game and it can become a very good tool or weapon.
But I am not going to sit in a transport heli waiting for the next spawn time to take people when more teammates are dying and I could be out there helping. I will take that heli out to the fight as it is the fastest vehicle to get from point a to point b over longer distances. If I take off and I noticed the spawn time happened shortly after take off I will go back and use at "as it was suppose to be used". But any vehicle is also a tool to get where you NEED to go, not just fooling around.
By the way, I usually do this corrdinated with others, let them know wha ti am doing and so forth. Taking a plane and parachuting behind enemy lines is another good technique when working with a team. You get behind enemy lines you can distract the enemy and help your teammates out. They can take advantage of the situation.
So it's not a matter of how you are using a vehicle, it's a matter of communicating with your teammates to let people know what you are doing or what your are going to do to help out the cause.
Examples:
until some retard comes alot, takes a buggy, and takes NOBODY with him
Depends on what that person is going to do with the buggy. Hence why communication is so vital in team play.
I realize its a game.. You dont use jeeps to goto a plane.. someone might of actually USED that jeep to go get a flag back
Yeah, if you aren't coordinated and don't know what others are doing. You knew what others are doing you'd know if they needed that jeep.
Now, taking a jeep to the plane gets you to the plane quicker. Now you can go bomb a tank that is being a pest for your teammates quicker.
It all depends on the context of what is going on. In that above case taking the jeep to the plane is a pretty good idea if your team mates are in trouble. And that's my point. You don't use vehicles as you think they might be intended, you use them to get the job done. In gaming there is no time for what ifs if you are serious about. I mean, what if the person took the jeep to the plane instead of letting it there, think about that, both side. Ok, someone else could have used the jeep to get the flag. Was there someone else to do that there? Then yeah, use the jeep for that. Are your buddies in toruble and you need to get to them in a hurry and a plane for the situation is better, and you can use the jeep to get to the plane faster, then that person can take the plane and clear out the flag area so someone can actually get the flag?
So, you see banning someone for taking a jeep to a plane may not be means. It depends on wha tis going on and what is needed.
i just really hate people who refuse to play the game the way its ment to be played
That's matter of opinion. In your mind how it was meant to be played is different than others. This is going to sound like something from the matrix. You have to play within the limitations of the game, not your mind. Your mind may see a tranport heli and think it is ONLY used for transporting players. But you gotta go beyond that and use is as a tool for it's abilities, not what you think it is for.
you don't know if someone's actions are going ot be good or bad for you unless oyu communicate with them.
man made jeep to get to one place to another, and occasioanly piss people off by ramming them into tanks or try to run over people.
ah yes. Great technique. Ram a tank with a jeep. I do this. but realize I only do this near a spawn point or goal. I am not going to do this out in the middle of no where then I'd have to run forever. Great way to get rid of tanks, ram them with a jeep and one grenade, boom. Gone, no more tank.
Guess someones never heard of tournys..
Right, but tourneys are different than public online play.
It does when your trying to win.. and your team is gimped because you have smacktards jerking off with planes and doing nothing but killing themselves costing your team tickets..
If you are trying to win then play in tourneys, not public online. Public online is for fun. It's a game, people are playing because they have fun playing it. if oyu are playing on a public server you aren't playing win, you playing to have fun because you like the game. If you want to win join a clan, goto a private server and tourneys. Also if you are trying to win you are going to play with people you trust to help you out, which means private servers and tourneys. If you bring that mentality to public you are going to ruin it for the people that just want to have fun.
I understand if people that are trying things out get banned on private servers. But if you made your server public you have to expect that. It's like making your ftp server public, there's something you just have to expect...
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