How is camping remotely good for gameplay? It's so boring, If youre playing in OP just pearl. If normal then bring a friend and some shields to help you build. Camping has no positive effects, other than maybe people delaying their losses.
Actually, although I never camp hardcore, camping at base is a legitimate strategy. I have won a lot of games of eggwars, including some non-op games where I was completely solo from the start, on a team map. I basically waited until everyone else's eggs were down and most other teams have been reduced to 1 - 2 people, and only then did I start getting aggressive, and I won because I had the best gear from sitting at the generators the entire game. However, you do have to rush mid at the start, so it is not completely camping. I was also careful never to show that I was afraid of anyone, so I left my bridge intact. You have to be very careful.
Also, camping can be a good way to wait out the game and let others fight while you gain gear. There is nothing wrong with it. The one thing that people have to know, however, is when you must stop camping. In one of my solo games on team maps, I camped a bit in the beginning, and then a team came to my island to kill my egg, I took revenge and killed their team, because I had a gear advantage. By that time, only a team of campers, red, still had all 3 players and their egg, none of the others had an egg or a full team, so I hunted them down 1 by 1 and killed them all. During this time was when red should have stopped camping. And if they did, they would have outgeared me and destroyed me, winning the game without taking a scratch. It was only because I camped at mid for a while and they took very long to come out of hiding that I eventually beat them in a 1v3. Note that in the end, bow spamming and camping mid for notch apples saved my life, proving that both are valid strategies as well.
Each eggwars strategy, big and small, have their own use. A good player will execute each strategy when it is fitting to do so. Even things like camping, bow spamming, rushing without any gear, 1.8 spam, are all valid strategies when used at the right time.