Massive CTF updates

maybe this is a better way to handle things than forcing the player to drop the flag without warning?

Yeah, definately. It just seems like a no brainer to me. It will also encourage more team play as team members need to protect the fc instead of just letting a pro player go out on his own and do all the work.

Loads of games (like Halo) stop you from piloting/using vehicles while you've got a flag.

Also, having a gigantic flag poking out of a vehicle looks really stupid imo.

That's not true, in older Halo games (the good one being Halo CE ) you could carry the flag in vehicles... and you still had to protect your team mate.

Although I think "disabling entrance of vehicles while holding the flag" is a better alternative to "forcing players to automatically drop the flag when entering a vehicle", I do not necessarily support either of them, as I don't think they're necessary by default, and I would far prefer server owners/map makers to decide this themselves for their own specific gameplay ideas.