Penalize Speeder Suiciders

Can we seriously consider penalizing all those dumb speeders who rushes to the enemy's spawn and commit suicide????????

Like if they die within 15 seconds of the game, they can't join games for 15min? 2nd consecutive offense = 60mins? 3rd offense = 3hrs? 4th offense = 24hr, 5th offense = 3 days, 6th = 1 week, 7th = perma ban??? This game is f**king ridiculous because of these intentional suiciders and absolutely NOTHING is being done to set rules.

 

I have 1700hp. The enemies routinely hit me for 500+. My margin for error when I go out scouting for my team is very thin and if I go around the wrong corner and *presto* there's the whole enemy flotilla then I'm a gonner. I can also be taken out by a single mine which happens on nitro. Speeders, in general, are a high risk proposition and getting nailed early is just a fact of life. But hey, if we're gonna go with what you say then how about every time I get a quad-kill or better then everyone else on the team cannot join games for.....

 

Yeah this is pretty annoying. I play speeder sometimes but I never scout cuz there's no need to.

 

My primary is a defender and secondary is a Speeder so I know it's a hard ship to master. I'm at 3400 infamy Ace I and still encounter foolish suiciding speeders. I'm hoping to stop meeting them at Nightmare... it's a nightmare teaming with a suicidal speeder.

 

Heh... on my shooter I was swearing and cursing at every single speeder that loitered back with the pack. All I could think was, "Oh man, if you'd just give me some dots and a bit of distraction my opening salvo is going to be A LOT more effective." Sadly, they seldom did so I went and did it on my shooter... taking a whole ton more damage than a speeder would've.

I know that for the most part my team doesn't care and isn't in any position to exploit the opportunity. I still practice on the hope that better teams at higher infamies will be more on the ball.

 

The thing is when I scout on speeder I'm open to snipers, and I've also seen a bunch of speeders get a little to close and get melted immediately. And it's much more important for the team to stick together than attack in the first 30 sec

 

This has nothing to do with "attacking in the first 30 seconds". I'll loiter as long as I need to before I begin scouting. What I"m waiting for is one or more shooters to get into position meaning long range distance from the expected enemy positions. From there I go in, skim along the edge of detection and light them up. I generally don't get hit or get hit once. If my shooters are on the ball they got at least one free salvo in.

 

Well if it works then it's good XD I just don't see many successful scouts at my infamy level.

 

This was something that rarely happened to me when I had a rudder. I had a lot less health (being a mk5 and having to give up my big shield) but it was really easy to turn around and bolt outa there. Helped even more to have a fixer waiting for me when I returned.