We are in dire need of a team balancing plug-in

[deejank]

especially during primetime hours, it is the best time to reach out to new players and show them that this server is more than just another place to play. Team stacking, intentional or not, hurts the chances of this happening because everyone on the losing team becomes frustrated and leaves. for those that stick around, some of them switch to the winning team. I just got out after the teams were 32 vs 20. the losing team kept switching to the winning side!

i can only imagine the initial set up of an auto-balancer plugin but it will be beneficial to more fair games and the duration of a player's stay on the server. We can have one that is very passive which randomizes teams only after a round is over, never during the game. Also there are plugins that do a decent job of keeping squads together (MultiBalancer).

Maybe someone can assist the server mods with the set up? I'm really pushing for this....

[Schultzy]

http://cainslair.sirex.me.uk/showthr...lance-scramble

Brought up just over a month ago.

[baconoclock]

Its not necessarily intentional team stacking. A lot of my friends are also good players, use voice coms, run as a squad, and are 110. Friends tend to group together whenever you get the chance. So one person sees "OMG team stack 5 110's in a squad", while the people in the squad see it as 5 friends in a squad.

Not much team balance you can do with that unless you start splitting squads. Lets just hope that doesn't happen.

[wigz]

Splitting squads is dumb. Auto-Balance would be nice, but breaking up squads is ridiculous. As for the person's rank, that has hardly any meaning considering how rank = playtime, it isn't a level of skill. If it were skill related, then put all the high skill rating players on one team and watch what happens... suddenly all the people playing objectives dominate.

[zackman40]

Its not necessarily intentional team stacking. A lot of my friends are also good players, use voice coms, run as a squad, and are 110. Friends tend to group together whenever you get the chance. So one person sees "OMG team stack 5 110's in a squad", while the people in the squad see it as 5 friends in a squad.

Not much team balance you can do with that unless you start splitting squads. Lets just hope that doesn't happen.

^ pretty much right, I really dont even like playing the game unless I got some people I can join on into.

[Schultzy]

Going to have to find somewhere else to play, or start bouncing servers again.

It feels like every game I join it is one-sided. I have hung around for HOURS hoping it would change. Nothing. I have streaks of wins and streaks of losses. All good and fun to win, but when it is as bad as it was the other night - I saw a 740-0 win - it gets old regardless of which team you're on.

[Cain]

Splitting squads is dumb. Auto-Balance would be nice, but breaking up squads is ridiculous. As for the person's rank, that has hardly any meaning considering how rank = playtime, it isn't a level of skill. If it were skill related, then put all the high skill rating players on one team and watch what happens... suddenly all the people playing objectives dominate.

For me splitting squads is more annoying than my team losing a round. I understand that some folks care more about winning rounds then they do playing with friends, but for me I'd rather lose with my buddies than win with strangers.

[Apache Warrior]

For me splitting squads is more annoying than my team losing a round. I understand that some folks care more about winning rounds then they do playing with friends, but for me I'd rather lose with my buddies than win with strangers.

Apache

[goldenfooler]

Schultz I know they can run in spurts. I also have seen it go back and forth each round with huge differences. I wonder if there really is a way to balance things out.

[deejank]

Cain, I sent you a plug-in that does a sweet job retaining squads.

[kyekye]

Keeping 100+ squad is fine with me if the balance can be done by number of players.
Team with lower skill players can have more people on their side. I wonder if that can be done via some balancing math.

Probably that will only speed up the death rate thou...
Still a match with the same 30 vs. 30 - with one side with 10 squad players with 100+ rank - will just become one-side massacre.

[Slaughter]

Cain, I sent you a plug-in that does a sweet job retaining squads.

If that plug-in would make the server no longer "Official" or ranked or whatever else EA deems to be a standard server, odds are that Cain will not run it.

[deejank]

If that plug-in would make the server no longer "Official" or ranked or whatever else EA deems to be a standard server, odds are that Cain will not run it.

right it is deemed custom it seems, i don't know the differences, but player record-wise all stats are recorded to a players' profile and acknowledged by EA/DICE. I guess Cain has a simple reason not to install it i suppose

[Schultzy]

More rounds of 600+ ticket spreads. Exciting.

[FrOgM]

TEAM PLAYERS ARE 100% rape the nubs that don't talk on the viop and we all know it all lone wolfd styles that think they can do that up with team play you are so out of touche with this game thats why you get RAPED and it sucks to be on your team and that's why we have 600+ tickets to 0 games....Now go play COD or learn to adjust your play style to team play ...that's alll gg have a great day
...btw this isn't a rant just truth TEAM play or be prepared to get pooped on...i don't play on alot of servers no more because of all the dumb peeps that don't know the game and no one to help them learn on how to be a good player in BF....Ok i lied its a RANT laters boys and gals if the people that you group up with don't talk on Voip and have that is 50% of fail right there....if your team mates will not adapt to a different role to help you push past the problem at hand...{example...this guy plays assault and he sees his teammate in a chiopoer anbd its smoking and he still spawns assault anyway ..instead of a repair class ....kick him off your team asap lol