Why capture?

If the last survivor of the enemy team clearly is AFK floating at the spawn point, why on earth does everyone usually insist on capturing instead of finding and easily destroying him/her? Don't you still get better rewards for winning "by dominating" imstead of capturing?

 

Я не знаю почему но если бы союзники убивали врага награды были бы лучше. I dont know why but if teammates kill enemy rewards will be better.

 

Wondering the same... I always go for the floater in that case, but sometimes I don't manage to kill it before my teammates capture

 

Usually the last boat alive is either a speeder or a healer. They will just keep running away untill the time runs out. And usually you're simply not fast enough to ever catch them. So it's just much faster to go for capture. And usually with the pressure on capture you can lure those cowards towards you.

As for why they insist on running away untill time runs out is still a big mystery to me as they'll just lose anyway, so why prolong the suffering?

 

you beat me to it @Wishaal
I do not know if there is any extra rewards for capturing. Capturing in this game is confusing. Most to all games can't be one by capturing especially from the start of the battle. Some people use the capture command to tell people to ATTACK at the capture point, but this is usually a more advanced tactic as not many people understand that. The ONLY time I would recommend capturing is when you can't see the enemy team and you want them to come to you. But now that the team with the most players wins the game after the time runs out, it's even less likely to be used.

 

You do get better reward by sinking all enemy ships. Also capturing takes quite long time if 1-2 capturing.
Anyway, I wouldn't go capture right away if there's enough time left to search a bit (going to their start area). And if there is a floater, I wouldn't capture completely but there should always stay one person capturing in case this floater starts moving and in very rare cases killing your team's ships which are on low hp.
Of course using common sense is always recommended that if there's only 1 other ship alive in your side with low hp, don't leave it be alone.

 

in 1vs1 situations in the end when you have less than 100 hp and enemy does have few thousands, would you still run towards then? - I bet you don't so hide if you can. In same situation when there's more than 1 enemy left in enemy team just surrender unless you have bandage or something else to heal yourself and then attacking again.
There's always a purpose for running away, you know.

And as this thread was about speaking when your team has more than 1 player left and you haven't seen that last enemy anywhere during the match, it is more reasonable to go to check that spawn area of theirs than capture.

 

That is if you haven't seen te enemy during the match. But when you have seen him participating in the match, then you can be sure that he is just running away.

But of course it's not always a smart idea to put pressure on the capture point. It's just usually a good idea (in the big majority of the cases)

 

As a slowly cruising defender ("turbo" my butt...) I can't even reach the enemy spawn point before 4 teammates finish the capture.

 

In that instance, I have no idea. I think people still think the old Draw rules are in effect or something.

 

Once me and my speeder friend captured on Chill Zone right away and got 3 stars without doing any damage

 

Haha I remember before some updates that if you didn't capture or kill everybody, even if you outnumbered the team 5 to 1, the chances were random as to who got a little infamy and who lost some.

 

Same with me on crude awakings once. 2 people were capturing, and me and the other 2 were holding off the enemy. They could have attacked from the other side of the big pillar to ruin our little plan... but they didn't.

 

Gotta love capturing when all the enemies are alive. Best feeling ever