I have read and heard of countless complaints about teamstaking, and that the current autobalance system does nothing to help the problem. So i'm going to design my own server side version. This is how it will work:

1: When one team has an avaerage kill/death ratio of at least 1.5(could change that later) of the other team, or they have 25 more alien energy (not sure if ill include that one), the auto balance sequence is triggered.

2: When a player who is in the top half of the losing team is killed, they are swapped to the other team. If the team they are swapped to then has at least 2 more players than the winning team, the next player who is in the bottom quater of the team is swapped to make up the numbers.

3: After 10 minutes (that also may change) if the skill stack is not resolved then the sequence starts again.

If Quacks sends me the current server config (uploads files on rapidshare and pms me the link) I can start working on it over the school holdidays and hopefully have it finished soon.

10 minutes is a wee bit too long clerk, in ten minutes the winning team might've gotten the losing team into a siege already, maybe 3 or 4?

lol im guessing you read my thread over and all the crap i said, though i went into it quite a bit


be interesting to try out and see how well it works practically. the only things that would need tweaking is the range of ranking to select players from and KD used.


10mins is also pretty long, perhaps even 2 minutes may be better?

ClerkWithKnife wrote:

2: When a player who is in the top half of the losing team is killed, they are swapped to the other team. If the team they are swapped to then has at least 2 more players than the winning team, the next player who is in the bottom quater of the team is swapped to make up the numbers.

worded wrong...

yeah every 5 min i reckon

In theory it should work to reduce team stack, but it may result in one man teams for example if hope joins a team with a 100-5kdr, and the average players are swapped acrosss, hope stays cos he never dies, and the noobs will also stay because they dont get swapped. So it could end up as 1 godlike player vs a team of average players. This shouldnt happed, the best way to test this would be a trial day/week on the ausserver with admins monitoring the teams to see what happens.

so true when you call hope godlike, put him in a proto with a scar and he'll pwn probably every1 but wounded and ob1