Against rules to snipe from basecamps?

Just cut and pasting the salient parts of my "whine" here, as I started it in the wrong forum.

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Just wondering if it is against rules to snipe from basecamps or something similar? Last night I seem to have gotten banned while sniping from Allies basecamp hut on Bocage. I was not TKing (had 1 accidental TK when teammate stepped right in front as I shot, but I was in positive score range), so it isn't that. I tried to reconnect a couple of times thinking it was a problem on my computer (had some modem config probs recently), but couldn't stay on, so I assume I was banned. Please let me know if sniping from basecamps is against the rules.
Thanks,
H.I. McDonnough



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Originally posted by Bullhead

H.I, what probably got you banned was the sniping from the main base, instead of pushing forward to help take flags. I was on the allied team, and we had like 5-7 snipers in our main sniping the other flags, which was VERY frustrating, b/c we were losing horribly. I also heard an admin say he had banned someone b/c they were sniping people in the sawmill from the airfield runway, which is not possible without a fog hack. I'd suggest posting (or an admin moving) this in the whine, complaints, etc forum.......
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Originally posted by H.I.

It could be that he accidentally banned me instead of the culprit (I was in the front hut taking out enemy scouts/prone gunners at the sawmill so they couldn't damage our charging assaults, and I have never used/loaded any hack/cheat).

C'est la guerre, c'est la vie.

BTW, you CAN hit people in the sawmill (and in fact on many maps in many "dark" places--i.e., in dark bunker windows, etc.) without actually seeing them or even their name tags -- just takes the psychology of the predictable, and random guess-shots. When the damage crosshair lights, you made a good guess.

H.I. - I will say that it is certainly easy to snipe to from the mill. There is no hack needed, you just aim into the wndows and guess.

You were prolly banned b/c of a mass snipe kick. Ask the admins though....

I'm hoping one will answer this thread in the near future...... (wink wink)

So how long do bans last? 10 days? A month? Life? Is there somewhere on this site I can check to tell how much longer I am banned?

Thanks,
H.I.

[Chacal]

Procedure to get unbanned: send a PM to MMmmGood, including:

- a pointer to this thread
- your IP address
- your player name when you were banned.

He'll send or post an answer.