[Asai]

It's possible to mess with respawn timers like this, but I'm not sure it's the right thing to do.

I completely understand the situation. I am a regular player/donator/forum user, and i only mention it not as a threat but as a point to where i am comming from. I play regularly in the morning and as of late except for a few players recognizing the imbalance there has been no consideration for team balancing and what the auto balance does is not really a fix. I am not sure what criteria auto balance uses but i have seen the auto balance make matters worse. So instead of trying to force people to balance in the spirit of competition, i thought either of these ideas might if nothing else artificially create balance. I recognize the uniqueness of this problem of trying to allow friends shoot with friends and still have a balance in game play, so i thought that either of these ideas might actually be able to make the most happy.
I know that either of the ideas i mentioned in this thread are a bit draconian but what else is there? When the stacked team looses because of thier 45 sec respawn time vs the nonstacked teams 0 sec respawn or if the stacked team of 13 shooting at 19 gets overwhelmed by numbers maybe balance can be had. Or if nothing else at least stacking will not be as beneficial to team wins and personal stats as it is now.
All i can say is that when the map is over and you look at the scores, and the player who is number 9 on the winning team has 2 or 3 times the points of the number one player on the loosing side, that is not a demonstration of your prowess, it is not a contest, that is fish in a barrel.

Asai