Spawn shooting - allowed or not?

[Severian]

I posted a message here asking this question yesterday but it was deleted without any messages to me, so I'll repeat it. If this is the wrong place please let me know where I should post it.

I was playing DOD:S yesterday morning on the Donner map and someone got warned by two admins for shooting from spawn.

When I commented that shooting into and out of spawn is allowed on EGO servers both admins told me it was definitely not. Yet I often play against EGO admins who do this themselves, and have categorically said it is OK.

In the end the admins kicked the player who was shooting from spawn.

Can someone please clarify the rules, because I'm confused and don't want to get kicked or banned.

So my question is simple - can I, or can I not, shoot in and out of spawn on EGO DOD:S servers?

 

[jeod66]

The thread (and my response) was not deleted - it was moved to the Drop Box section at the top of the forum list for direct review. Here is a link to it:

http://edge-gamers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=234073

For everyone else, it contains a direct link to the DoD:S FAQs sticky in DoD Division Discussion, which clearly outlines our policies. Please feel free to contact me with any questions.

Here is the official ruling for DoD, taken from the DoD:S FAQs thread in DoD Division Discussion: (http://www.edge-gamers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=155457#post1649350)

Official Ruling From Leadership:

...Yes the rule has always been on eGO servers any player is allowed to kill any player anywhere as long as they as are not in the act of spawning or can see thru a wall and can kill as well as be killed...

...Yes you are allowed to shoot from spawn. If someone is camping from spawn you are allowed also to kill them by any means. Which means this is the only example of where its allowed to throw a nade into spawn.

Spawn camping is allowed as long as the players are not being killed in the act of spawning. Hence you should not be lobbing nades into spawn, but feel free to nade the spawn ramps.

Alright, now a few examples to apply this ruling.

A player camping on a spawn ramp or behind it towards spawn allows the enemy team to nade, rocket, and shoot into the camper's spawn at will. This is the only time in which hurting players as they spawn is acceptable. The second nobody on the ramp or inside spawn is shooting out, nades and rockets into the spawn have to stop. If you are worried about accidentally nading spawn after the enemy has stopped shooting out of it, simply don't use nades around spawn.

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