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The issue that remains is pleasing all the people. That will take some time to discuss and figure out.

After Bollie said that, ELiZ asked me about the code. I looked into it and fixed the issue of duplicate votes. There aren't many duplicate votes in the poll.

After Bollie said that, ELiZ asked me about the code. I looked into it and fixed the issue of duplicate votes. There aren't many duplicate votes in the poll.

Good to hear that you check it.

But what about those who were trying to abuse the system? If you punish players for things like teamkilling and mouse macros, shoudn't you have punished Bollie for cheating on voting system? It is a serious matter.

Such a useless effort? I mean, the poll was won by over 63%...

widow, that's great that you don't like spamming. I wish many more players were like you. The sad fact is, many players do spam to get cheap kills without any skill. That is the problem we are trying to address. The simplest way to do that is to remove the weapon that can be spammed. That is a solution, and the one being used right now but it's not the best solution. Personally, I would like to see global spam settings that prevent grenade/203 spam for 15-20 seconds at round start (maybe longer, we have to test).

We're not trying to dumb down the game or ignore people and do what we want. We're trying to make the game better. You don't do that by sitting still, that's how things die. Just like in life, you learn and improve. We're trying to fix issues inherent in the game that the original devs did not bother with due to time/budget constraints. These ARE problems, we just need to find an elegant way to solve them to keep everybody happy.

1. The way Hospital is designed, many of the 203 shots are such a shots that kills are definitive, from upper helipad to somewhere down there with usually a wall behind it are just free frags
2. 203s do work for wwr/escort building. The problem then is the weapon balance, as far as I've noticed is that SPR is way worse, this is why in the past a lot of people where exploiting the parental control to change their SPR. It was almost impossible to get a good SPR spot, sometimes you saw them at the back of garage, but that's seen from the objective not the best spot to have. I also feel that in relation with 18C, IF74 also became better.
3. A 203 in the hospital to blindfire with when there could be nurses anywhere is just a big no for the ROE
4. Not to mention that you see a lot of 203s being used for: blindfire, taking free frags while sitting in the back of garage, people walking on helicopter roof with 203 out to get a free kill, and only some of them actually trying to stop roof.

So, why does it work on oasis, ic, etc?
1. Oasis: map design, very hard to actually hit the 203, but very rewarding if you do, it takes much more to hit a 203 on those distances with those hills, and it thus does not make other weapons very imbalanced either. 203/rpg does not dominate gameplay as much compared to hospi. You can't get a kill with 203 that easily on this map (unless someone runs in the open in the river)
2. Insurgent Camp: There is only 1 (or 2 in a full server) person with 203, you can not get spammed from 5 different directions. It is a lot harder to hit the windows, or hit someone proning south outside. Because of only 1 203, when a 203 is fired you have a small time frame in which you can show up at certain areas and take this to your advantage when the 203 wasted 1 shell. Opens up more tactical plays in teams.