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Re: Ranking. It's cool and all that but...

Knifing is for close-range combat. Dogtags make all the noobs come and say, "DOGTAGS!!!" then they start running around with their knives instead of guns...would you rather see thousands of mindless idiots running around stabbing you with their knives than a bunch of experienced players running around actually fighting like soldiers rather than kindergarten children? (...don't even ASK what would happen if kindergarteners got knives...ugh...scary)

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Re: Ranking. It's cool and all that but...

S-Guy wrote:

Dogtags make all the noobs come and say, "DOGTAGS!!!" then they start running around with their knives instead of guns...would you rather see thousands of mindless idiots running around stabbing you with their knives than a bunch of experienced players running around actually fighting like soldiers rather than kindergarten children? (...don't even ASK what would happen if kindergarteners got knives...ugh...scary)

yeah of course, you got a point

lol, i am in fact one of those mindless idiots you mentioned, but i can play "like a soldier" too, if necessary.
Just the existence of dogtags doesnt mean the whole gameplay is going down river - i wouldnt say 2142 is unplayable because there are dogtags or it would be perfect if there werent any...

whats the big deal anyways? some mindless idiot coming at you with a knife? just shoot him in the face with your huge rifle at point blank range and say to yourself: "omg what a noob"
A knifer shouldnt be a threat to a "real soldier" in open combat, so whats with all the panic?

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Re: Ranking. It's cool and all that but...

There's no panic, and if I thought it would really bring more players to the mod I would gladly add it.  However, I really don't see it having that much draw and I'd rather not encourage people to run around and ignore teamwork.

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Re: Ranking. It's cool and all that but...

Ok, I'll say it again. TAKE OUT THE FING KNIFE. TAKE OUT THE KNIFE BADGE. They're useless right? So that means we can give 1 new piece of equipment to each class. I'm being totally serious. Lets just replace them with one of Jafar's awesome ideas.

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Erm, no my knife is far from being useless
- i need a melee weapon for when out of ammo, regarding theres no pickup kits
- also its useful at times to make a silent kill, i dont need a whole squad coming for me just because i fired a shot that they heard

i wonder what the alternatives would be...

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Re: Ranking. It's cool and all that but...

Pam wrote:

I never been in a situation where using my knife was necessary - i use it for fun, a rush and humiliation

Tags would attract more players, thats for sure (be it good players or tards) - and id rather stab 10000 n00bs in game than just play with a 10 man community who thinks: "z0mG were so 1337!"

Once you start with awards and all that crap (even a knife badge ?!!) you might as well go all the way and include tags.
Personally i preferred the unranked system with no awards at all cause it makes me play a lot more relaxed. I can get my knife-fix anytime in vanilla if i feel the urge to...

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5. Doesn't support teamwork
6. Encourages lone-wolfing

I would like more people to join the FS community, but not people who are just going to go for tags. If the only reason someones not going to play FS is because it doesn't have dogtags, then frankly I'd rather not have them around, and I'm sure most of you would agree.

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63 Reply by S-Guy (edited by S-Guy 2008-01-18 07:53:55)

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Re: Ranking. It's cool and all that but...

Pam wrote:

Erm, no my knife is far from being useless
- i need a melee weapon for when out of ammo, regarding theres no pickup kits
- also its useful at times to make a silent kill, i dont need a whole squad coming for me just because i fired a shot that they heard

i wonder what the alternatives would be...

Thats what im trying to say...

A knife is still useful and still an important weapon, so it shouldn't be taken out, but dogtags really don't help the gameplay in any way at all. Also, the knifers will not want to kill you with a rifle, so they will run at you with the knife, giving you time to shoot him in the head when he gets that close. Easy...lol lol

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