"No one will play custom maps because you can't earn precious ranks on them, so the whole idea of modding the game is merely a nice fantasy.."

That's how I got a great deal of my points. You could always rely on the ranking system to make people stupid. I'd Lay C4 all out around a flag and wait for an interloper. Once the flag turns white, they'd come out of the wood work and dive in to get the precious capture points then, BOOOOM! I'd get 6 or 8 guys + Armor sometimes. Call for supplies, repeat. Yawn.

Still Play from time to time but it's just not Desert Combat. EA took a GREAT mod, sucked the fun out of it, and made it retail. Made sure no one wanted to play mods on it, then puts out "booster packs" that would have been FREE community mods barely 2 years ago. Desert Combat was more fun AND it was FREE. The corporate succubus that is EA destroys another awsome game. 2142 should be an interesting disaster.