the dretch->goon tactic is sweet fun ofc. but cheap :-D like deconning on ATCS Battleground ;-) (well sorry probably you were just kidding)
and well... crouching under stairs or boxes is not so much fun, and i play this game for fun. i like competing and the funny situations like blasting between adv goons and tyrants when out of ammo, trying to tease them and make them teamkill each other.
hiding is useful ofc when i need to get another beer from the fridge...
otherwise hiding persons are gonna be dead sooner or later by dretches, and during that time they are useless for the team. i rather get killed, arm up and help the others.
"instead of 'acting cheap' and trying to save your life by hiding in some small spot, you should go out, get killed and feed another evo." - well, EXACTLY :-)
seriously Lava, what do you smell when for example Gryf is crouching between the Nexus tubes at alien base entrance and lasgun spamming everything that moves? :-P there are always some 300ping newbies who are trying to get him, and as you can only get him from frontside, that makes a nice killwhoring. better players seeing the massive feed can do nothing but trying to get him themselves, what can be done for the price of 2-3 deaths. it is very nice that he is a Top Player nominee at the stats(i guess thats why he is doing that), but i dont think it is a strategy that people should use :-S
i don't say that theese cheap stuffs are extra-annoying, I just say it is LOL and not smooth fairplay.
*edit: nahh, and of course tyrants have to run back sometimes :-P try to demolish your own built human base with a signle tyrant without running back once :-S