Reply #5: My impression is it's somewhat effective/popualr in BF2 also.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

I looked on the EA forums for BF2 and found many, many threads with people who think like me bitching and hating on the bunnyhoppers.

You always get the people who say "why do you whine about that, the hoppers are easier for me to kill" etc. but it must be at least somewhat effective or else people would never do it.

My main beef is just that it looks so damn stupid. It ruins, for me, the aesthetics and any sense of "realism", although I personally feel that respawns etc. also do that...

One thing I really like about BF2 is that it looks like they really have the speed of movement of the players to be a lot more realistic than most shooters, where you strafe around like Speedy Gonzales.

My understanding is that upcoming patch will at least remove the ability to shoot while jumping.

I personally feel the best fix would be to make jumping and extremely stamina dependent and taxing activity. In otherwords, say that it uses 50 percent of a stamina bar to do. So you can either do one, or two jumps at most, in rapid succession, and if you don't have half a stamina bar, no jumpee.