Aug 06, 2010, 01:39 PM
I do like auto-balance avoidance, but I feel like it's only solved the intentional stacking by noobs. Once the distribution of skill is unbalanced, auto-balance only worsens the problem by only auto-balancing players that are performing poorly. I've never been auto-balanced when I have a good kpd, it's only if I first join and I'm screwing around with a pyro or spy or something it'll flip me. And I've never seen people at the top of the scoreboard get balanced. And since it only balances people that are dead, people that die frequently have a higher chance to get switched. I believe these two factors cause the server to stack players that are performing better against those that are performing worse, cause every time someone rages off the losing team, it just moves the bad players off the winning team to fill the void. If anything, the losing team needs the best people it can get to help them get back on their feet.