Of course, all of this can't exist in a vacuum. You cooperate with your fellow flag guards. The simplest way to do this is, if you're a flag bearer, signalling to your guards you're going to drop the flag for them to pick up by crouching. In the case one of you has Officer Permissions, this is unnecessary. An officer can "take away" or force a drop by pressing the N or J keys on their keyboard. When an officer takes away or forces a drop from another soldier, that soldier obtains a "pickup time penalty" where the time to pick up the flag will be increased from ~0.7 seconds to ~3-5 seconds. If another soldier picks up the flag, the penalty is removed. Taking away a flag during a teleport or death can cause the FlagModel to fall through the ground. An experienced flag bearer can be expected to use voice chat to give commands or "backseat" the flag.
