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Soldat Talk => Game Improvements / Suggestions => Topic started by: Aoba on June 30, 2006, 08:07:57 am

Title: Automatic team balancer.
Post by: Aoba on June 30, 2006, 08:07:57 am

Whenever there's 2 or more players difference between teams, teams would balance automatically by randomly choosing from the team which has a big advantage to switch to another team.

I couldn't care less if it's a flagger who gets picked or anything, because it is his own fault for not balancing teams and not looking around if teams are balanced or not.

The current team balancer-feature (which is a server-side option, I assume) just won't do it. It's too easily exploitable to make even so teams unbalanced.

Is that so hard to create? If it is, what makes it so hard? This would be a server side-option as well.

And no, I couldn't find another topic regarding this topic from this forum. There might be one but it's already buried so deep so it's as much as worthless to bump it.

Title: Re: Automatic team balancer.
Post by: jrgp on June 30, 2006, 08:21:59 am

There is are php scripts that do what you just said.

Title: Re: Automatic team balancer.
Post by: FliesLikeABrick on June 30, 2006, 08:22:23 am

There are multiple server scripts (I guess you could call them mods) which do this.

Title: Re: Automatic team balancer.
Post by: zyxstand on June 30, 2006, 08:52:24 am

I think it should take the person lowest on the scoreboard for transfer...  and never the flagger.  but that's just me :-\

Title: Re: Automatic team balancer.
Post by: Aoba on June 30, 2006, 08:57:07 am

Mm, there are some scripts for this? I haven't noticed, hehe. Thanks!

Title: Re: Automatic team balancer.
Post by: [R^M]TomaHawk on June 30, 2006, 09:55:44 am

yeah i hate when people are like 20 to 2

Title: Re: Automatic team balancer.
Post by: viggoloniggolo on July 01, 2006, 01:29:02 am

instead of scripts it should be burn't into soldat, so when you open options and then click team balance it literally means that teams must be balanced.

Title: Re: Automatic team balancer.
Post by: CardBoardWarrior on July 01, 2006, 10:43:40 am

Yeah, and I like the idea of the lowest guy being switched, however it might turn into to where the person keeps getting constantly switched as people join and it could be annoying. The servers are stupid, especially trying to kick 'cheaters'..

Title: Re: Automatic team balancer.
Post by: Mr. Domino on July 01, 2006, 01:38:59 pm

Having the newest person switch is a good idea, especially for those times when a person switches from one of two even teams to make them uneven again. It'd be nice to see something like this for a change:

Major Camper joined Bravo. 6/6
Major Camper left game. 6/5
Major Camper joined Alpha.  7/5
Major Camper auto-transferred to Bravo. 6/6

Title: Re: Automatic team balancer.
Post by: Chariot on July 02, 2006, 11:35:24 am

Quote from: zyxstand on June 30, 2006, 08:52:24 am

I think it should take the person lowest on the scoreboard for transfer...  and never the flagger.  but that's just me :-\

More like the last person who joined should switch...