Selfkilling

It is pretty gay that some players frequently use that as a normal strategy. I personally don't do it because a lot can happen in the amount of time I suicide and then scramble back to the flag. But I have to admit, I'm guilty of self-killing to quickly get back to the base and defend. Although, I haven't done that in months.

But as a prevention method, I say self-kills should decline your score by more than -1. Perhaps, -3? It wouldn't stop everyone but only those who care about their dignity and self-image.

I kill often myself with grenade launcher or death tiles. I dont think its a cheat, but tactics, it it doesnt make any sense to waste 1 minute to pick up 9 health if you can respawn with 10.
And i think it shouldnt be changed, as the gameplay gets faster with it oO

Yes, but not with the command.

when you kill yourself and press mouseclick "fire" you spawn in 0.5 secs? atleast thats what i keep getting,
and i totally agree with bee it's stupid! i use selfkilling only in race cuz it's usefull.

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Ppl really need to learn to read here... Of course I was talking about command as a kind of "cheat"(not really cheat since it is a part of game as it is right now).
Anyway good to know that others share my view. Still imo this command should be disabled on pure servers.
Or maybe just increase respawn time a bit more after using it so it will be never profitable.

well i dont think we should add a command like this, pls remember KISS.
the other reason is:

And how increasing it further to say 5,6 seconds would be bad exactly? It seems to be agreed that this command should not be used as a playing technique and currently it can effectively be used as such (well not maybe on ctf2 which is the high level map, but majority of games are on ctf5 anyway, and there it can put to a good use).

Do you even play this game? There are plenty of places on ctf5 where you can leave the flag after killing yourself and easily pick it up even after 3 seconds, because of the size of the map and easiness of camping in some places. This is not the case on ctf2 which is smaller and there is much more going on. Anyway you have some point in ctf2 it could be also usable with good defense it should not be hard to suicide effectively in base, but on ctf2 that would be just stupid as Sushi said because in base you can just easily heal or pick up grenade and suicide with it. On ctf5 hearts are less concentrated in bases and with more ppl playing  there is bigger chance that somebody already took pickups.

Selfkilling is also very useful to give the flag to a partner, when being in danger. 3 seconds is really a decent penalty for this, and I think this is a part of gameplay and shouldn't be altered.