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"Todd" <noone@nowhere.com> wrote in message 
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> Last night, I played some UT99 ctf online to see if I could find some
> maps I haven't gotten from FileFront.  As I spawned into one map, I
> get a message telling me not to flag camp.
>
> I know that camping in Last Man Standing is where you hide out and let
> your opponents kill each other, then "win" the game by finishing off
> the real winner.  That's not fun.  (I hate how UT2004 tells me I'm
> camping when I'm playing bots, and there's only one opponent left, and
> it's easier to wait until he comes to me.)
>
> And then there's spawn camping in dm where you stand near a spawn
> point and kill everyone as they respawn, while they don't have any
> real weapons to defend with.
>
> But "flag camping"?  You mean, when I stand near the flag and shoot
> any enemy team member who comes into the area to take the flag?  I
> call that basic defense.
>
> Next thing you know, they'll ban "control point camping" in
> domination.
>
> Back when Jedi Knight 2 was new, I played on a public server.  I was
> so horrible, my tactic was to take up a position near the flag.  When
> an opponent came in to grab it, he'd focus his attention on me,
> leaving himself wide open for the other defender.
>
>

It's just my opinion, but I think "poor sportsmanship" is way overdone. If 
it's a team game and you are in the opponent's base they have every right to 
use whatever defense tactic they can to protect the objective. About the 
only caveat I have with that is when it's an insta game and someone is 
obviously targeting the objective in wait for you to touch it. That's kinda 
lame BUT I don't call people on it. Part of defending.