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Ok i will try to explain this carefully so perhaps you will get it
There have been people stating that boosting leads to the pbox camp and should be nerfed as some magical cure to the camp.
I am stating that boosting and pbox camping are completely unrelated with each other
All nerfing boosting would do is force teams to play a defender or 2 whilst attacking. This just means less ppl attacking and even less goals will be scored than currently.
It wouldnt stop pbox camping as a tactic because even without boosting the attackers can just run back to help out the defenders that are forced to stay back due to boosting being nerfed.
NOTE: This is only the case if the team chooses to pbox camp.
Even if a team does pbox camp, after an opposition attack breaks up it will just take an extra 15 seconds or so to work the ball up to your attack again.
ok a couple notes from the responses
Actually the pbox camp will still be in place so you will have a 2v4 scenario, not a 2v2. You might occasionally get a 2v2 break on but the defenders back there should be able to slow it up enough for the attackers to get back to complete the camp (minus boosting)
I dont see why, in this scenario there is no boosting for either team and my team has a defender plus a midfielder back there to pick off all your interceptions.
As for playing in a pub, um how? boosting is not disabled in pubs so its a moot point
Just one final note: All This Post Does is Show That PBox Camping and Boosting Are Completely Unrelated Issues. Please Dont Read More Into it Than That
There have been people stating that boosting leads to the pbox camp and should be nerfed as some magical cure to the camp.
I am stating that boosting and pbox camping are completely unrelated with each other
All nerfing boosting would do is force teams to play a defender or 2 whilst attacking. This just means less ppl attacking and even less goals will be scored than currently.
It wouldnt stop pbox camping as a tactic because even without boosting the attackers can just run back to help out the defenders that are forced to stay back due to boosting being nerfed.
NOTE: This is only the case if the team chooses to pbox camp.
Even if a team does pbox camp, after an opposition attack breaks up it will just take an extra 15 seconds or so to work the ball up to your attack again.
ok a couple notes from the responses
btw potato give me a 2 v 2 on O over a 3 v 3 anyday cuz it is man to man marking and it is just more fun (the overall goals being scored doesn't matter that much)
Actually the pbox camp will still be in place so you will have a 2v4 scenario, not a 2v2. You might occasionally get a 2v2 break on but the defenders back there should be able to slow it up enough for the attackers to get back to complete the camp (minus boosting)
I'm sorry potato.. but if your entire team is running back and forth O to D to O to D all the time and there are no boosts, you are going to get scored against every single interception.
Just play a pub and you'll see what I mean
I dont see why, in this scenario there is no boosting for either team and my team has a defender plus a midfielder back there to pick off all your interceptions.
As for playing in a pub, um how? boosting is not disabled in pubs so its a moot point
Just one final note: All This Post Does is Show That PBox Camping and Boosting Are Completely Unrelated Issues. Please Dont Read More Into it Than That
Obviously boosting is not disabled in a pub. But you don't see the players uber boosting each other either. In fact, it's one of the things noobs get yelled at the most for; not boosting.
WOW REALLY YOU THINK THAT A GUY MIGHT HAVE TO STAY BACK AND PLAY D IF BOOSTS ARE NERFED? THAT'S THE WHOLE IDEA.
And if there is 1 or 2 guys on Defense? Fine! That's easy to get by. I play keep and even I can usually get past a defender or two, so if you can't then you just plainly suck on offense. 'Pbox camping' in itself isn't the problem, it's when the WHOLE GODAMNED TEAM is in the pbox that it becomes lame.
Obviously nerfing/removing boosts isn't going to stop that 1 defender from going into the pbox, but that isn't the problem.
SPECIAL NOTE IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: 1 or 2 guys in the pbox is NOT the issue.
And stop saying 'the attackers will come in to help' ok?
If 2 guys on blue team are in the red half with the ball ready to make their play, red team's attackers aren't going to do shit. By the time they get there it will be too late, and if red's defenders successfully defend they won't have anyone in position to start an attack. ok?
So here just because you seem so adamant about your little 'not related' shit, let me rephrase.
4 guys pbox camping and boosting ARE related.
**edit**
btw my point of bringing up boosts in this thread was to show how players have changed the way they play (i.e. they didn't used to boost as much) and not to go 'omg boosts and pbox camping = related', so I'm not sure why you're arguing with me o_O
WOW REALLY YOU THINK THAT A GUY MIGHT HAVE TO STAY BACK AND PLAY D IF BOOSTS ARE NERFED? THAT'S THE WHOLE IDEA.
And if there is 1 or 2 guys on Defense? Fine! That's easy to get by. I play keep and even I can usually get past a defender or two, so if you can't then you just plainly suck on offense. 'Pbox camping' in itself isn't the problem, it's when the WHOLE GODAMNED TEAM is in the pbox that it becomes lame.
Obviously nerfing/removing boosts isn't going to stop that 1 defender from going into the pbox, but that isn't the problem.
SPECIAL NOTE IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: 1 or 2 guys in the pbox is NOT the issue.
And stop saying 'the attackers will come in to help' ok?
If 2 guys on blue team are in the red half with the ball ready to make their play, red team's attackers aren't going to do shit. By the time they get there it will be too late, and if red's defenders successfully defend they won't have anyone in position to start an attack. ok?
So here just because you seem so adamant about your little 'not related' shit, let me rephrase.
4 guys pbox camping and boosting ARE related.
**edit**
btw my point of bringing up boosts in this thread was to show how players have changed the way they play (i.e. they didn't used to boost as much) and not to go 'omg boosts and pbox camping = related', so I'm not sure why you're arguing with me o_O
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theberkin8or
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I don't see the problem with boosting. I boost people (or at least try; my latency seems to play a big role in whether or not i'll be boosting that game 
) from D to O or O to D if they stop and let themselves get boosted. Boosting is just an easier way to get from one end of the map to the other, or to get closer to the ball, quicker. Where's the 'n00bness' in that?
(And now for a little n00bization)
Regarding pbox camping; is this referring to one team camping another team's pbox, or just 1 or 2 players staying back on D; because if it's the latter, wtf is the problem? :p
) from D to O or O to D if they stop and let themselves get boosted. Boosting is just an easier way to get from one end of the map to the other, or to get closer to the ball, quicker. Where's the 'n00bness' in that?(And now for a little n00bization)
Regarding pbox camping; is this referring to one team camping another team's pbox, or just 1 or 2 players staying back on D; because if it's the latter, wtf is the problem? :p
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theberkin8or
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Pbox camping refers to everyone just waiting in their own team's pbox when the other team has the ball.
Normally if a team does this they'll have no O, but with mass boosting that problem is easily solved.
I guess I shouldn't say boosts are noobish. In fact, from now on I will instead say it lets people get away with acting noobish (for example, boosting lets you get away with not having any defense which in any other sport/game would be a rather noobish thing to do)
Normally if a team does this they'll have no O, but with mass boosting that problem is easily solved.
I guess I shouldn't say boosts are noobish. In fact, from now on I will instead say it lets people get away with acting noobish (for example, boosting lets you get away with not having any defense which in any other sport/game would be a rather noobish thing to do)
Ok I admit I didn't get the time to read all the posts in this thread but I just wanted to say to that boosting has been apart of this game always and shouldn't be taken out. I've been playing since 1.2 came out and I always would boost people. The only prob now is that every single person does it and now since some people's game plans changed from the amount of boosting, they are now complaining about it.