Harm said:
I started playing on this server earlier this semester with my roommate and a couple other friends on my campus, and for the most part it’s great. It’s the one server we all regularly play on.
i’ve just got a couple complaints however.
First off, the whole player switch thing is INCREDIBLY annoying, espcially when i’m playing with friends and we’re coordinating movements and things that are fun to do and then one person randomly gets switched to the other team. I of course understand the need for autobalance if teams are like 5 on 14, then i have no problem with switching a few people over, it’s when teams are even, and the games are going great and i’m suddenly switched to the other team for skill balance or whatever. It’s really dumb.
and secondly, i think the whole map voting thing is really cool…but i think it may be bugged. Just earlier today i was playing and the vote thing came up, and when de_train was picked i figured something was amis, so i pulled down the console and counted up the votes to see that assault_upc had like 3 or 4 more votes than train did. so someone may want to look into that.
We have went around the world to try to make the gaming servers the best that they can possibly be. I understand your frustration when you are on a specific team with your friends and it switches you. The plugin is coded to switch people amongst teams to equal the team scores. Its a true ‘team balancer’ the default autobalance doesnt take into account your score and looks to see if the team sizes are equal. We have great reason for using this plugin as we have seen Clans come into the server and pick one side of the teams and run people out of the server. It happens everyday in normal pubs. Therefore we must leave it on there. Plus you dont lose anything when your switched, so everything is still equal.
As for the map voting. I have seen some issues in the past as far as map selection, but Split our plugin coder will look more into the issue. Thanks for the suggestion.