Jun 08, 2010, 12:29 AM
While some good points are raised i think a lot of you are forgetting and missing something crucial.
The problem with specing and then forcing the game to auto balance is it effects OTHER PEOPLE. Somebody else is moved to another team due to yours or another person's actions. Even if your trying to "unstack" one team and help another your still making someone else join another team that might of just been as happy on the one they were originally on.
The same goes for if you like to play with friends or regulars. I have tons of regs on my friends list and plenty of people i like to play with who i end against. I don't auto balance the teams for the very reason said above.
Just stop doing it. Its really simple and not that hard to understand. Don't do it for your own benefits and don't do it for the "preconceived" benefits of the other team. Let the algorithm do its job. Maybe a few minor tweaks may be needed but in general the mechanic is DEFINITELY needed.
In the end its either a mechanic that DF puts in that does it, or its the admins that do. I promise you, you'd rather have an impartial set of code do it then me. I will not be as kind. I'm tired of having to deal with it and I'm tired of the often selfish attitude that accompanies it.
As an extra note: forcing people to wait in spec will just waste room. Most of the servers have a queue of people trying to get in and don't need people who are supposedly being punished taking up perfectly good spots.
The problem with specing and then forcing the game to auto balance is it effects OTHER PEOPLE. Somebody else is moved to another team due to yours or another person's actions. Even if your trying to "unstack" one team and help another your still making someone else join another team that might of just been as happy on the one they were originally on.
The same goes for if you like to play with friends or regulars. I have tons of regs on my friends list and plenty of people i like to play with who i end against. I don't auto balance the teams for the very reason said above.
Just stop doing it. Its really simple and not that hard to understand. Don't do it for your own benefits and don't do it for the "preconceived" benefits of the other team. Let the algorithm do its job. Maybe a few minor tweaks may be needed but in general the mechanic is DEFINITELY needed.
In the end its either a mechanic that DF puts in that does it, or its the admins that do. I promise you, you'd rather have an impartial set of code do it then me. I will not be as kind. I'm tired of having to deal with it and I'm tired of the often selfish attitude that accompanies it.
As an extra note: forcing people to wait in spec will just waste room. Most of the servers have a queue of people trying to get in and don't need people who are supposedly being punished taking up perfectly good spots.