Hehe yeah, some players just don't seem to understand what kind of a game quake is. You can't blame them, though. Some of them grew up on Halo and other such shooters. It's no surprise that the concept of a completely fair, aggressive-paced arena shooter is alien to them.
Speaking of completely fair, the rocket launcher is still WAY to strong compared to LG and some other weapons, though mostly the LG.
There's a thread over at the official forums and one poster in particular did some math and calculated this:
In CA, at 200/200 health/armor, and with your starting 150 LG ammo, to kill just ONE guy, you need 7.5 seconds of 54% accuracy LG fire. Let me highlight that.
7.5 SECONDS OF 54% ACCURACY AND ALL YOUR LG AMMO TO KILL ONE GUY.
That's just ridiculous.
I pride myself on pretty decent aim, a tier 4 duel/TDM/CTF player (3 on CA) and I only have about 40% average with the LG. That means I can't even kill one dude with full LG ammo.
Compare this to the RL, 35 starting ammo, fire rate about 1.50/s and it only takes 4 direct hits to kill a player, so about 5-6 with splash damage which comes to about 4 seconds of mediocre spamming. That's not even hard. Add to that the knockback and you've got yourself an overpowered weapon.