well if you can’t see mines laying in your path right outside spawn then that’s a skill issue,..
yeh that’s what I was told as well. Later on I heard but if you bait then you’re the baddie. Well what if I want to see where the enemy is in jet and I turn around immediately after spawning . I’m not baiting i just want some extra time to find enemy aircraft without getting shot down immediately. In practice you could endlessly loiter in spawn with protection so long as you don’t fire but not really because um, idk, muh reasons XDI distinctly remember Panda telling me, something to the effect of "they can be in their uncap all they want unmolested" and when I pitched the same scenario when I was in the uncap it was "if you do that you'll be banned, you know better" and "baiting" came into play.
It's selective instance to instance rules and it's subjective to players. It's bullshit.