Poll: What is your definition of "camping"?

[SenorNemo]

My definition of camping is entirely reliant on whether you know someone is coming or not. The most simple example is: if you see someone coming and you wait behind a doorframe for him/her to run past, that's not camping, but if you wait behind the doorframe with the expectation that someone will run past eventually, that's camping. One is a tactic in response to a fluid situation: thinking on your feet. The other is undeniably still a strategy, but far less honorable and glorious.

With snipers, it's a similar situation: if you're not moving from cover to cover, looking for people to pick off, or at least in response to shifting spawns, you're camping. It can get a bit iffy in situations where people just keep on running through the same part of the map that you have overwatch on, since you know that people will go that way, but you're still sitting and waiting rather than actively hunting. In situations like that, I think it's a fairly honorable tactic, since it requires planning and skill, and it'd be almost silly to do anything else; it's the strategy that makes the most sense in the given situation.

 

[tthor]

pitching up a tent and roasting smores

...that counts as "other", right?

 

[Hader]

You can always counter campers.

It may take a death or two to get their position down and all but any competent player can take them out. If you know the maps well too, then you should know the prime camping spots and always be aware of potential threats there when you pass them.

 

[loc978]

EDIT: NOOOO, NOT THE THING WITH THE FIRE AND THE MARSHMALLOWS AND THE TENTS AND THE AWKWARD SITUATIONS!

What if it involves a tent, a fire, a bunch of meat and beer... and occasional firearms (when not under the influence of the beer, of course)?

In FPS terms, though... depends on the game. In capture the flag, for example, it's a perfectly legitimate strategy. In deathmatch, it tends to be a losing strategy.

 

[Kroxile]

my definition of camping is sitting around for hours and hours waiting for a mob to spawn so you can kill it only be disappointed when it drops its crap loot instead of the one you're looking for.

 

[ScumbagEddie]

You know. It's that one thing in games that everyone says they absolutely hate but do anyway.

 

[Discord]

In my mind if you're playing a objective base match like Domination or CTF or maybe HQ and etc. etc.

If you stay in one place for those type of game modes YOU ARE NOT Camping you're Defending And Defending an Area is a perfectly good strategy.

But I'm sure millions have played FPS or other multiplayer games; We all know where the Campers like to stay so I either Chuck a grenade where they are or avoid it all together.

 

[Mr Pantomime]

I said 1 and 2. 2 for the sole reason that I was playing the firing range map on Black Ops, and a giy was running up the stairs, off the edge and back inside over and over on one of the buildings. He had Ballistic Knives and was really fast, so he had the highest KD by the end of the match. He wasnt in one place so it was hard to kill him.

I never do it, I always move after a kill (mostly scared of revenge kills). I do think its a legitamte strategy however.
My thinking goes like this: If its in the multiplayer game, its not unfair. If it was unfair, the game would be broken. And youd have to be pretty stupid to be playing a broken game, and even then, using a proveably losing strategy.

 

[The Gnome King]

My definition of camping would be sitting in a corner, waiting for people to come by,and repeat this process for the rest of this game.

I would not consider patrolling one house as camping.

I want to know the general consensus on what camping exactly is. If your definition is not in the poll choices, please pick other and type it down.

EDIT: NOOOO, NOT THE THING WITH THE FIRE AND THE MARSHMALLOWS AND THE TENTS AND THE AWKWARD SITUATIONS!

I've never heard of this for FPS type games - maybe because I'm not a huge FPS fan (tho I loved Bioshock) - but in games like "Everquest" 'camping' was basically sitting around and waiting for a mob to spawn... so you could kill it... so you could try for rare loot drop off rare mob X... so you could wait more... so you could kill the spawn... so you could try for rare loot drop... so you...

You get the idea. It was basically sitting there and waiting for something to spawn so you could keep killing it. Used in such gamer-speak as, "Dude, I had to camp The Gremlin King for, like, 36 hours to get my Sword of Awesome Awesomeness and now I really need to shower and sleep."

Ahh, Everquest.