Spawn Wipes and You

There has been a lot of spawn wiping going on lately (duh) but more importantly a lot of complaining and trash talking about spawn wiping in world chat, common chat, forums, private pms, pming your friend to whine about it in the faction's fc, etc.

What is a Spawn Wipe?
When someone from the opposing faction in a TW goes immune to avoid your base towers and kill you on top of the respawn area, or spawn point. Now lets list things that spawn wiping is NOT: killing you when you have your seal on in front of the spawn or elsewhere in your base, killing in front of the crystal but out of range of your towers and spawn point, killing you as you run up under the crystal like sheeple.

Why do people Spawn Wipe?
During TW it's a suppression tactic to keep people from regrouping when the enemy is in their base. After the TW people like to unleash their pent up frustrations on a group of unprotected squishies. Also boost their kill count, especially cata pullers who otherwise get few. It's important to understand that when someone spawn wipes, they're not doing it to hit YOU when YOU are vulenerable and thus mock YOU in some way. They're killing your pixels for ****s and giggles, and most know they're being douchey, so whining about it won't make them stop. It's also demoralizing. They are aware of this and, well, duh.

How do I do a Spawn Wipe?
Go immune and hit stuff. I suck, don't ask me.

How do I avoid being Spawn Wiped?
Ah, well, you see, that's the trick. To avoid being Spawn Wiped you move off the spawn. Not forward, as that will usually get you killed, but to the left or right or fly. Sometimes even moving far back will get you out of AoE range. It's that simple. If you have to leave the instance and they are spamming you, use a teleport stone.

Kerona would write a post about Spawn Wipes. What a "insert insult".
Why yes, I would.

It's rude to Spawn Wipe! I've lost all respect for "insert faction name"!
What is important to understand is that EVERY FACTION SPAWN WIPES. Every faction has also been spawn wiped. Maybe you don't see it because you're usually a) dead b) not in enemy base c) low distances d) blind, but it happens. Vindis spawn wipe, LG spawn wipes, Regi spawn wipes. Nef used to spawn wipe many eons ago. Endeavour, Enelysion, Kakumau, blahblahblah all spawn wipe. Last weekend I got spawn wiped 3 times in 1 minute trying to get out of LG TW and into Kaku and I average 3 deaths to Spawn Wipes per month since two years ago when I was first spawn killed by BigP in Vindicate vs LG. It happens to everyone.

Second, you claiming to have lost all respect for XXX faction has absolutely zero effect. You world chatting about it might earn you more spawn wipes, who knows, but it will not make them stop. They might giggle at you. Maybe in the old days it was respectful to not do it, and some factions like Endeavour still pull out of enemy base (insert sex joke) after TW, but during TW you are free game. Getting used to it doesn't mean you have to like it or embrace it, but it will save you a lot of stress and e-tears. Relax, it's a video game.

My faction Spawn Wipes and I don't like it
I'm sorry, that must suck.

I tried to Spawn Wipe and failed and now they all laugh at me.
b:sad I feel you.

So lets move on, people of Sanctuary, and focus on more interesting and popcorn worthy drama. Only a few more weeks until reset and a few months until The War Between Guilds Numero Dos.