To solve this problem, let us introduce the same thing into the game, that helped the soviets and nazis making their people run into combat:
Afaik only the soviets used that pressurising medium all over the war. They even went so far to shoot soldiers who lost connection to their squad for a few hours as they were assumed to be betrayers. And many of the prisoners of war who were rescued were executed too or sent to the russian counterpart of the KZ as they were regarded as german spies cause only betrayers would allow themself to be captured by the enemy.
The germans executed deserters -the german quota of deserters is estimated about 2% from which most were hanged in their hometown as determent- like all the involved parties did but they never forced soldiers to decide between the option to get shot from the enemy with a slight change to survive or getting shot by thier officers like it is for example shown in "Enemy at the Gates".
Well there might have been some examples in the late period of war -the time when the untrained Volkssturm men were thrown against the enemy lines- but overall it wasn't a usual behaviour of the german officers.
Soldiers who attracted attention of one of the snitchers were displaced into the "Strafkompanie" where they surely had a lot of fun with finding mines, digging graves into the frozen ground or attacking heavily guarded positions. The russian comissars simple and plain shot conspicious people.
Back to topic. I think that the respawn is ok as it is now as most of the represented battles were fought by more then just 16 soldiers per side and allowing players to respawn is the best way to represent bigger battles without rising the server cap to 200 or whatever. However if there were small maps with an objective like taking a accommodation building or an antitank gun position it might be interesting to just allow one spawn as there sure were small commando missions.
I'm playing RO for over 8 months now but yesterday was the first time that I experienced real teamplay with random people. So I think too that there must be some fixes to the game mechanics to force people to work as a team. But I don't have any idea how it may be done.
Changes concerning the scoreboard might be one idea, an other one might be some kind of "thrill"-bar, which makes aiming more difficult and reloading much slower if it's rosen to the top. You get more thrilled if you're on your own -except for snipers as they're are ment to be alone- facing a tank or under heavy fire, which would make MGs more effective too and a bit more realistic.
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