What can our community improve on?

[schemer]

I would like to see vehicle spawn time increased, not player spawn time though.

I agree with this. I think increasing spawn times for soldiers isn't necesarily what slows down the game but moreso the lack of a lot of vehicles - be they planes, choppers or even buggies. Foot offensives just take more time, and if they aren't organized, will often fall to a well placed defensive setup. When you add a lot of vehicles, however, I feel the time compresses, there is less planning and more reaction, and even well placed defenses can collapse when more than 1 armor piece or a air asset show up. Not to mention there is less time to set up a good defensive setup - a lot of times you barely have taken a flag when another wave of buggies/choppers/apc's are coming back.

I'm not saying I want vehicles out of the game, just that once in a while its a nice change to have a pure light infantry battle.

Oh and post-edit - I'd vote for scantily clad women too.

[asch]

Battles need to be slowed down. Too many people prefer the run and gun or "get the flag now!" approach, as opposed to people who run very specific tactics. I would love to run a more defined set of battle plans, but just can't do it because things happen way too fast. This is a general problem with the game though, I'm not sure the community can do much about it.

I think one way to help that would be to increase spawn times even more.. However, that would need to be accompanied by a drastic increase in spawn times for certain equipment, notably jets and choppers.

You two really need to check out the next release of the Tactical Mod due out shortly!

[Santa]

I could agree with the vehicles maybe getting slightly longer spawn times, but not players themselfs. I moved away from CSS because of the round based kind of play, and id hate to have to deal with that in BF2. We have tactical mod for that exact reason, to cater to the people that want the longer spawn times. If we put longer spawn times on vanilla BF2 then we're only catering to one type of people.