Spawn Campers

[Dimitrii]

So what is it a party of ninjas or something? 2 ninjas and a whm will not last long spawn camping. There are GCs that sends out a whole party to hide underneath spawns and weaken their own ability to secure nodes by reducing their own numbers? Cause anything less is a waste of time and battle resources since one call out to your team about enemy spawn camping can quickly destroy anything less than a party. Only time I ever see spawn camping is when most of the GC commits to it. I never see duo/trio spawn campers anymore.

[Selli]

So what is it a party of ninjas or something? 2 ninjas and a whm will not last long spawn camping. There are GCs that sends out a whole party to hide underneath spawns and weaken their own ability to secure nodes by reducing their own numbers? Cause anything less is a waste of time and battle resources since one call out to your team about enemy spawn camping can quickly destroy anything less than a party. Only time I ever see spawn camping is when most of the GC commits to it. I never see duo/trio spawn campers anymore.

There was a couple of times where I ran into a premade of 7 Ninjas and 1 WHM, but that's not every game and it's pretty easy to tell they're premade when the match is over.

What I've seen become popular is they wait for parties to engage on the 2nd set of nodes, they then send out a party to camp either 1st or 2nd place. The team in 2nd place usually has more deaths, so there is a supply of people for them to harass. They also usually send out a pair of Ninjas to sit in hide and avoid this first wave of spawn campers (as they'll get driven off sooner or later) and wait for the fighting to continue and pick off people who spawn after that. Generally after killing a couple people they will return back to their GC just to avoid getting killed themselves.

Since they're holding up one of the GCs from having their full force and killing off anyone willing to risk trying to book it, the 2nd place team usually can't hold nodes and end up losing quite a bit of people. The rest of the 3rd place GC can easily come in and take any nodes the 2nd GC might have. 2nd GC sometimes drop into 3rd because of this.

If the 2nd place team doesn't drop into 3rd, the match will continue as normal (for the most part) when the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd places become more prominent (usually when the lead team has 600 points), the team in last place will drop all their nodes and all 24 will spawn camp.

Now, this sounds extreme and kind of excessive, doesn't it? I used to see it maybe every once in a while, since sometimes it doesn't get them out of 3rd. I saw it a couple of times this week, but I didn't think much of it. Until today when it happened in all the matches that I ran, I checked for premades and didn't see any. And, no, I didn't run all of those matches back to back and it wasn't all the same people. I did my roulette in the morning, a couple in the afternoon, and a couple in the evening.

[EDIT] That text limit, tho. >:c