...what strategies do you use to stay in the game? Stay safe? Even collect passive XP? I found a new one last night: Engi riding a 75% certed Scout Radar Flash. Parked in a pit near a full spawn of TR and made absolute bank while VS spawn-camped and I talked to my son about some of the Olympics.
Usually I just hit Redeploy if I'm on foot so I stay out of the fight. If I'm in a vehicle I transfer control to someone else and find a passenger seat. I don't feel like I should be getting XP if I'm AFK, but I don't want to log out and mess up the alert bonus at the same time.