Not to mention there's plenty of people that just don't give a crap about CTF, and therefore they'll be fighting 24/7 with zero care about the objective.

I don't blame the individual. I blame ZOS for forcing them to play a game mode they could care less about.

you know, I was actually just thinking about the capture the flag scoring yesterday.

Here's the story, because the servers are down and I'm bored. I cant remember what color I was, so lets just say I was on the purple team.

SO the game starts out, I solo queued, and am assuming everyone else did too. I do my usual "/p Hi" to the group, but no one responds. OK. No big deal. I guess we're all just going to do our own thing, which means we might lose, but whatever.

I rush to one of the opposing team's relics, lets say it was green, grab it, then see the notification that my team's purple relic was grabbed by the orange team. I look at the compass / map while i'm still trying to run back to my relic area and see that three of my team mates are right on top of our stolen relic, so I figure they're going to get it back and I'll just wait at my relic area to cap the one I grabbed.

So I'm waiting at my purple team's relic area for a couple minutes, with the green relic, with no one else around. Then the green team comes in to try and get their relic back. Being the outstanding tanky proctato of a Stam Warden that I am, I successfully 1 v X and am the last one standing, still holding the green relic, waiting for my own team to return our relic so I can score one for the good guys.

But nope. My team dies, and orange captures our relic. Ok, not a big deal, I'll just wait for our purple relic to respawn and then cap green's.

While I'm waiting, green is rushing back in to get their relic, but this time my dead purple mates are respawning too. SO with their help, we manage to wipe out green again. But now, orange is back, and we're all low resources from fighting off green. Needless to say, orange wipes us out. So, no points for us. Then the orange team grabs our relic again AND the green relic that I had stolen.

Luckily, my respawn timer is fast, and I'm back in after a couple seconds. I see a cluster f**k of green, purple, orange fighting at our relic point, but ignore that because the orange guy carrying our relic is already running for the hills. I chase him, gap close a few times, start getting his health down, and then see a notification that the green relic was returned to its spawn point. But now the rest of orange is on top of me. So I'm scrambling to stay alive while trying to dps down the purple relic carrier.

Then I see the notification that my team just grabbed the green relic again. I guess they figured they already lost the points to orange and they're thinking ahead for when our relic respawns. Seems reasonable.

Fortunately, I'm still beating down the opposing relic bearer while tanking and roll dodging through his team mates attempts to protect him. And luckily again, just before my health completely runs out, I kill the relic bearer, return our team's relic, then die in a hail of glory.

Our team captures green to get on the scoreboard.

Outstanding. So since orange is more of a threat than green, after I respawn, I starting running towards their relic.. On the way, I run into them trying to beat down 2 of my purple mates. Good thing my warden healing ultimate is so awesome. I plop it down on my two team mates, who were pretty much dead, then jump in the fight and start beating down orange. Its three of us against four of them, but again, i'm a tanky proctato so I keep orange busy while one of the other purple guys takes the initiative to go grab the orange relic. Good thinking.

While orange is trying to beat me down, my man carrying the orange relic speeds past us. He eventually scores, and the orange team eventually kills me. But hey, I'll take another one for the team if it helps to put us on the scoreboard.

After I respawn again, I'm thinking, might as well try for green relic again. So i start heading that way. I get to the green relic to see another cluster of orange purple green duking it out. I plop down my healing ultimate for my guys, and start going after the orange guy who grabbed the green relic. Poor green never stood a chance.

Sorc bombs are going off left and right, Dk roots are hitting me, Proc blades are cloaking in and out of the fight, but I manage to kill the orange guy who had green's relic. Then I die, but not before I see that one of my purple mates, the guy who scored last time, grabbed green's relic.

I respawn. 17 second timer this time, but I jump down to our spot just in time to fight off orange who is trying to kill my man with the green relic. He scores, I kill some more orange, but green is here now. So I die again because my healing ultimate isn't up and I'm out of resources thanks to orange. But we scored, so its all good.

Eventually, we win the match.

However, even though I'm pretty sure we wouldn't have won without my being there to be an awesome tanky proctato, even with the most amount of kills on my team, I was still ranked at the bottom of the purple score board. A guy with no kills was the number one spot. He also had the most deaths.

And yeah, I may have exaggerated a few details here and there, but the point is, I should have scored the most points. Because I'm awesome.

Servers up yet?