Originally Posted by Namebot

The problem I see with base raping now is that the assets cost tickets, yet the teams have no control over when they spawn in. You cannot delay their spawn until you have secured you base. If you base is under full siege by rpgs and mortars wouldn't you delay the delivery of new equipment until you could secure the area?

This is true, but since mortars are on a 30 minute timer, you can pretty much gauge when an attack is coming.

More importantly, you simply cannot control what happens to an asset once they are in control of players on your own team.

Yesterday on Archer, we had a pilot try to fly a huey under a hanger, resulting in 15 tickets lost instantaneously when the huey crashed into a jeep parked under the hanger. Shortly afterward, a humvee with troops in it was returning to base, hit the hesco barrier and the collision mesh of the barbed wire - dead humvee.

We lost more tickets to our own players than the Taliban inflicted on us by baserape. Actually, we defended the main for the first 30 minutes or more of the round, easily repulsed their first attempt at baserape and I think that was their only attempt. So, it can be done. It just takes some players who are willing to sacrifice their "fun" for the good of the team.

The rule isn't going to change in the near future, so I think it is up to players to adapt and overcome. A large part of this is that the assets do cost tickets, but instead of trying to protect those assets with tactics, the players seem to want the admins to do it for them.