A typical night on the goldrush server

[Frankster]

Ban 'nobody'! he's the worst stacker.

Seriously tho, I hope we can find a solution to the stacking, I usually wait to join a team when the map starts and pick the weak one... I wish more people did this.

Unfortunately after a while, teams do end up stacked because after losing some of the better players leave and whoever comes in after is either not as good or doesn't want to join the worst team...

I have nothing against people wanting to play with friends but it doesnt have to be 6 people all on the same team... its fun to play against friends from time to time...

In the end the solution has to come from the players...

[Snarf]

on every server I think the announcer should occasionally shout 'CHANGE PLACES!' and people should start rapidly and randomly getting switched across teams

[Hell-met]

still that pretty dumb idea?

[Drbumpy]

still that pretty dumb canadian?

[Hell-met]

At least I make sense.

[Drbumpy]

Debatable

[Alex]

Bumpy, shut the fuck up. Hell-met is the coolest mofo on this god damn server b/c he actually gets laid. So stop trying to put your dick in his ass b/c it won't fit. So stop trying. Maybe try and get a girl now and then instead of flirting with a guy you're jealous of.

[OmegaZero_Alpha]

I submit to you that he is the uncoolest person on the server because he is french canadian.

but really, there are plenty of mods that would balance the teams based off of HLstatsX score as well as number of players, making stacking nearly impossible.

[sdogg2m]

I submit to you that he is the uncoolest person on the server because he is french canadian.

but really, there are plenty of mods that would balance the teams based off of HLstatsX score as well as number of players, making stacking nearly impossible.

We can discuss this problem but unless you hold a gun to people's head to stay and play then nothing will get solved. The problem isn't stacking, IT'S RAGEQUITTING!!!! Whenever a decent game presents itself but its difficult and a team loses a couple of rounds then quitting occurs thus further imbalancing the teams.

Also, this screen shot was taken at nearly 2AM!!!!! This means that many of the regulars have gone to bed and either noobs will be joining because a slot is available or foreigners who cannot use a mic because they do not speak english.

You can continue to temp ban or permaban those who circumvent the autobalancer but that will lead people to just break for a longer period. Finally, team imbalance plagues ALL servers including the elitest sourceop Valve Maps 1 -2!!!! The difference between Valve Maps 1 - 2 is that the maps rotate at a faster pace thus leaving more opportunity for a better match.

Finally, I don't get what everyone is searching for? The illustrious 16-16 final score? Even when teams are balanced the score can be lopsided.

[OmegaZero_Alpha]

but what I was saying is that a team balancer that took into account play time and HLstatsX scores would shut people up.