Nov 17th 2014, 15:31:54
In the past, I'd be on your side, farmer, but here's the situation:
This server doesn't get a lot of new players, but it does get its share of players claiming to be new to hide and grow big enough to be effective suiciders.
The vast majority of people playing untaggeds in Free For All either are clearly harmless or are suiciders trying to hide in the collection of untaggeds.
They're primarily attacking suiciders and occasionally killing off an innocent. If you're that innocent, this sucks, sure. However, this is ultimately an alliance server, and for that matter, there's nothing in the rules that says that a person can't be a fluff (otherwise we'd have been able to ban suiciders, after all!) and kill whoever they want. I don't say that to mean that people killing untaggeds are just being fluffs, but moreso to show that all our "rules" of good play are ones the community has come up with and enforces.
Does it probably drive a few new players away? Yes. I'm almost positive it does. And that's unfortunate. But clans like TKO, with Warster pointing out they would typically lose 2 top-10 caliber countries per set to suiciders, have no obligation to a random new player, but they do have an obligation to the players under their tag. I don't blame tags like TKO (and others, I don't mean to single them out) for going after suiciders preemptively.