Instant respawn, or not ?

[-Jv-]

Late night, 2Fort Instant seems to be the only server with people playing. Think that says a lot.

That's why I brought this up

 

[-Jv-]

Last I checked we had a Instant Respawn 2fort server AND a Regular Spawn 2fort server......

Regular was EMPTY...

 

[Nightmare_90]

Well we cant make every server instant respawn lol

 

[Insurge]

5 seconds is perfect because it isnt too fast so the enemy is respawning out of base as soon as you kill them (making it a lot harder to complete objectives) and isnt boring as having to have 15 second (wayyyy too long and many players get tired of waiting and leave).

 

[b|3nd3rh34d^]

instant gratification.... or death. lol

 

[Major Payne]

I play IR when I just feel like rushing and shooting.

I play regular when I'm down for some teamwork, organization, and strategy.

 

[-Jv-]

Well we cant make every server instant respawn lol

No, ofcourse not ! but maybe reduce it a bit.

 

[trykael]

The point of the respawn time is to give some sort of consequence for death. A shortened respawn time causes the same problem that an IR server has - it turns into a free-for-all death match instead of a goal-oriented game. When you have extended respawn times then the team who is doing the killing gets a true advantage (i.e. they wipe out the other team and have another 6 or 7 seconds to get to their goal). There's a reason that the respawn takes longer than 3 or 5 seconds...

On another note, this is why we have different kinds of servers. When you feel like a death match, go hit 2 Fort IR. When you want a shortened respawn time, go to Turbine. Making the change across all of the maps would be a major mistake in my opinion. The fact that we have all the different servers with different rule-sets means you have several play options.

 

[wasawiki.]

I hate when its 25 seconds respawn time >.< 5 seconds would be great

 

[Mr. Dogma]

I play both, but personally I like 5 seconds. It's short enough to not feel like an eternity, but long enough to still require some degree of tactical decision. I still find instant respawn fun because it feels like quick deathmatching with a goal in mind. I dunno, doesn't particularly matter to me.

 

[cueTheBall]

Instant respawn can be fun for just deathmatching, like in CTF2Fort, but most of the time, I think a respawn timer is necessary for the game to be fair. Instant respawn makes it to easy for defense if what they are defending is right outside the doors and offense needs to run a distance to get to the position.

Just my 2 cents.

 

[-Jv-]

The result is obvious ?
Instant respawn if fun, but not always.
Most of the time you like a short respawn time to keep things real. ?

 

[jdcskillet]

I like the 10 second respawn, it gives you a chance to click around see where people are and what you're going to do when you get back in to the fray. Also, I use it for Spy checking...

 

[Nightmare_90]

I think the respawn time on the ego dustbowl server should be lowered...20 seconds just seems like forever

 

[brett9001]

5 seconds is good for most maps.

 

[koolaid]

5 seconds will do not 15 though

 

[master exploder]

I prefer short respawn.
Seems like insta-spawn servers are the majority.

 

[KuNai]

15 seconds, always. I only play on Instant respawn servers when there's no one in the "normal" spawn server.

 

[Gig]

I love insta..

Only on 2Fort though. I pretty much exclusively play on our 24/7 2Fort Insta... Its a frag fest and I enjoy that very much.

When I am on my game it provides lots of targets, when I am off it gets me back in the action quick.

End of Story

 

[Captain Ashton]

I like A repsawn time but anything above 10 seconds gets really annoying sometimes.