AZ is hell...why do you think I moved from it. BTW (off subject), Im very happy moving to Colorado.
Texas? lol. ok. It's almost like Arizona, but bigger and with a beach, right?
Loial. the way I've heard 'Liner' referd to is like a sprayer. One who sits in a spot spraying a popular entrance into one's fort. I started hearing this months (a year??) ago first coined by the German players (which kinda explains the term). Any time they would get killed by rushing into a fort and it was by some one that sprayed in one spot without moving, they would 'yell' out "LINER". I asked and that was the definition that I recieved.
Im infavor of a stats page, btw. Make the game something worth playing well. give people a reason to want to play well, and they will. Also, I think one main reason that people do not want to play with skill (read: stratagy) is because: why should they have a stratagy when they can just jump like hell and rush the other team in surprise?? Take that away, and they will be forced to play on even terms.
I my self am guilty of this. I realize this and still do it cause it is available.
Wicked has not (and may never) perfect the speed jump and because of that fact, she plays with much more stratagy. I end up with more kills, but she plays much better them me at times. Often in a one-on-one, she will kick my arse.
While the speed jump continues to exsist, the faster players will always travel the fastest path on a map. This will always make a multi pathed map into a single path map and then the bigger multi pathed maps are rarly desired(the logic goes...why should I jump all that way just to get killed in the first 10 - 20 seconds of the round? give me a smaller map where all the people dies about the same time as me so I dont have to wait around for a minute before I can play for another 10 seconds!). People will want to play the smaller, simpler maps so that the speed jump has less advantage against them.
The game has degraded from a skilled/stratigicly played map into 'who can kill the fastest and the most just to strut thier excrement'. Im not sure how much of this is due to the old school (better??) players leaving, and due to the physics of the game being changed to advantage those who desire speed.
my $.02
-Derrek