We've made a few minor changes to the rules this season with two more to come in Weeks 2 & 3 as we finalize (roster lock & playoff format). A summary of changes is below. Please respond to the forum post with any questions.

Rule 3.3: Non-Team Players are now allowed, by default, in all regular season matches provided they meet the requirements of an NT (see the rest of Section 3 in the rules). For playoffs, NTs are disallowed unless both captains agree to allow them.

Rule 4.1: Roster limits have moved from 12 starters/4 bench to 16 starters/0 bench.

Rule 5.4: The following has been added to the visual lag rule to further empower our referee staff to take action on visual lag that may impact a match. "Referees are encouraged to take quick action against players that are visually lagging, even if it is during the middle of a battle. The player visually lagging may provide an unfair advantage during those seconds of battle resulting in the course of the game being unfairly changed."

Rule 6.1/6.3: Changed to remove references to time.gov as a standard clock and give referees some discretion to allow for minor delays when attempting to start a match with a goal of reducing/eliminating potential forfeits and keeping games on equal footing (prior rules would punish teams by losing a player for ## minutes for certain pre-game activities).

Rule 6.4: Revised for EC. Players may cross the opposing team's rape lines, but MAY NOT FIRE any weapons. Firing will result in the typical punishment of a loss of a team slot. This means you can pass through rape lines for the purpose of repositioning your team at the risk of being caught without the ability to return fire until you cross back over the lines.c


Roster lock: Will be announced before week 2 games.
Playoff format: Will be announced before week 3 games

roster lock bravo, about time.

Good to see the roster lock being put on early. Rules look good though. Thanks Captains and staff.

Wasn't 6.4 already unwritten? You can cross rape lines when not engaging enemy. Why didn't you say it that way? What if you cross them and the enemy engages you in fire so you have to run back? Or now, can you stay there if you don't shoot? Did you remove that part of the rule or what? Before you could cross to get ammo and shit but you would get warned if enemy was there and had to run back.

If I'm understanding this correctly, the decision on roster lock will be announced before week 2, right? Rather than roster lock happening before week 2.

Correct. Waiting on some more votes on the poll I believe

You're screwing over potential players which haven't joined a squad, they don't play the game yet, or they're just inactive. Let them join 2 weeks later if they haven't joined a squad all season

should be able to join a squad at any point in time if that player has not played all season.

HELP THE LEAGUE GROW lol

I agree with Sir Legend here.

people gonna join on second accounts GG

Updated in game rules as per armor's news post also moved the 5.5 rule (Any player who is found to be speccing on purpose for a personal or squad gain...) into section 6. It didnt have anything to do with lag restrictions, more of a match rule.

Yes grow the league, and take all foreign players excluding the states and england away from the league, im glad the whinging about my lag once i stopped playing on predators only took 3 weeks to create a new rule, Don't punish players for a server move that is beyond our control. We see the same lag as you but yet we get punished, all seems well :)

Nothing against your skill, because I know you are a very capable player, but your own captain admitted that the sole reason he recruited you was so no one else could use your lag against them.

Edit: this double posted

Z that rule wasn't even made for you actually.

There's literally 3 players that would effect on a constant basis... So the rest of us are supposed to play at a disadvantage while you eat 400hp because that's fair

Lol

Once again, Why i was recruited aside, instead of clarifying a rule you have broadened it, what counts as visual lag? A medic eating a law will be taken from the battle. No. A hop along a wall from a player? No, Lag has always been around, What the difference from last season, a lagger making a difference on a good squad for a change? Some clarity of this rule is needed, This just put's people like myself who has been active in this community for a long time, in a position not to participate because certain people are getting killed and losing sbs, not because of one lagger, but because a squad with a lagger doe's well, the fact squads won't sb us and attribute to a lagger, Some clarity would be nice for a change, My two cents from a tin and can connection.

Mecca point and case, 3 players, why the big deal now?

The rule has always been in about visual lag for one

Secondly, the only thing he added was clarification that refs can spec visual laggers immediately after they start lagging.

Once again this rule still was not made about you. Iced could play right now with his lag. Yours is just unplayable, it sucks I know because you've been an active player, a squad captain, a troll, but you can't expect us to just let you play with your lag. That's like having Alex Rodriguez continue to take roids, but everyone else can't.

Sorry mecca, your missing the point, my lag has not changed, it has been the same ever since they moved the server, Was no issue on predators, You are saying it is unplayable yes? well what has changed, what has happened since. Oh right i get it, nothing except the fact your finding yourself in the ds

You were barely allowed to unspec last season, it's just reality man. Just keep sbing... But no ref is going to allow you to play.

I'm not going to comment on you bragging about having a competitive advantage.