just saw this thread...

the whining about the base raping at mosque is rather lame. there was a cache on the map showing <100m distance from the north spawn. Allowing insurgents to pour out of that building made it impossible to find the cache. The insurgents have infinite tickets, so besides the added second delay you get for dying, there isn't much penalty. Some smart players on their team actually figured out that if they spawned in civies at the same time, they forced massive +60s spawn delays on the brit spawn campers. The average lifespan of a spawn camper, mind you, was also around 10 seconds, with average respawn time of 2 or 3 minutes. Also, it took a full squad to really attack the spawn point, that's 6/32 brit players that can't go search for the cache. With limited spawn points available for the british team, bomb cars, bomb trucks, IED's, RPG's, and unlimited insurgent tickets, I don't see how anyone can argue that the towel-heads don't have a clear advantage on this map. Camping that point, was a massive ticket drain on the brits, but it was the the only thing that made finding that cache possible.

I think the issue on insurgents was a lack of skill & communication. Had they coordinated spawn times, protected their spawn, or told other people that spawned in elsewhere to come help, they could have limited the base camping.
All arguing aside, they still nearly won the map...and probably should have. Had there not been any "population control" by the brits in this north building, I don't think we would have found more than 3 caches.

On a related note, who needs a ZOMBIE event? we have Al-Basrah 32!