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3 years ago

In what situation will players be banned for grouping other teams maliciously?

I want to know whether a player will be banned if he cooperate with a team temporarily to fight another team in the situation that they don't have any communication and don't know each other in the r...

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NullEffective9

3 years ago

I think there needs to be a distinction between "trucing" and "teaming."

Trucing: using non-verbal communication in game to prevent an exchange of gunfire, possibly to form a temporary alliance and work against other teams.

Teaming: Coordinating queue times and being in voice comms together to coordinate meeting in a part of the map and deliberately avoid firing on each other, with the express intent of:

Farming kills
Farming rez
Farming stats
Creating a duly unfair advantage over the rest of the lobby
Gaming a victory for RP

The former sucks, but I don't know that it borders on ban-worthy. The latter though, absolutely is ban-worthy.

HappyHourSumwur

Seasoned Ace

3 years ago

@NullEffective9 Both of those suck but choosing not to shoot someone else is a tough one. Two solos may decide it best not to kill each other against a 3 stack if they both realize that's the case. The haven't talked or decided beforehand to cooperate (i.e.-teabagging friendship agreement previously). How do you know that they made a prior agreement to cooperate rather than a snap judgement that it is in their best interest not to kill each other so that they have the best chance to win?

pandareno1999
Hero+
3 years ago
I'm not talking about either one. If you're a solo in top three with another solo and a full team present in the same area, your only hope to succeed and have a chance of winning is to not engage and then third party when the other solo and the full team engage. The way I read the original post, that is what I envision having happened. I could also imagine it looking to the full team like there was collusion, when there was none. Nobody was described as crouch spamming at each other or whatever to try to make some deal.