Originally Posted by sc1ence

If it is allowed, why not? Imo, either say dont do it, or do it. Its unfair if only some do it, while others do not. Whats unfair is that it is a grey area, which makes haves, and have nots.

First, quoting the tactical gamer primer:

Originally Posted by Tactical Gamer Primer

3) Support game play in a near-simulation environment. Where the focus of play would not be solely on doing what it takes to win, but doing so utilizing real-world combat strategy and tactics rather than leveraging exploits provided to players by the design of the game engine, regardless of the level of advantage, if any, it gives over the opposing team....

Within Tactical Gamer, ANY activity that capitalizes on the limitations of a game to provide the advantage rather than that advantage coming from superior teamwork, strategy and tactics, is frowned upon. We all want to win when we play, but the focus at Tactical Gamer should be one of winning with some sort of dignity, honor, and skill, not because you were able to out-exploit the other team or box them into a corner built on technological weakness that gives you the advantage.

I think it's pretty clear that using your mouse to pod in a certain direction isn't intended by the developers, and isn't really supposed to happen in the BF2142 world. Obviously in BF2142 we work with an altered reality, but there is a reality nonetheless. Some podding you can control easily and without the mastery of a special twitch (APC podding, Titan Podding, Port Bavaria APC Podding, Horizontal Liberation of Liepzeig podding).

As for permitting or not permitting, the admins have made it pretty clear that the list of things we ban for needs to be kept pretty small by necessity. Personally, I think that heavy abuse of the beacon thing (such as podding from outside toll station to Central Camp repeatedly) should be a bannable offense.

But I don't think it's inconsistent to discourage an action while not outright forbidding it. We have these sorts of things all the time. We frown on people who don't equip defibs, but it's not really a bannable offense. We frown and discourage people who try and knife too much, but we don't really prohibit this (beyond extreme examples)... and we certainly don't encourage it on the forums.

Certain things will always be grey. TG members shouldn't see grey areas as opportunities to push the limits of acceptability. That's not what we're about.

That said, some clarity from admins is always appreciated.