The Team “Balancer” certainly doesn’t balance

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  • #4276
    dets
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    I suppose this is somewhat of a rant, but I hate the team balancer. Under most circumstances I have seen, the team balancer moves #1, #2, and #3 from the winning team to the other team. Generally the end result is the team that was losing, now has 3 good players, and dominates the next three rounds until they are switched back.

     

    It is my belief that an even score does not represent a balanced game. While at the end of the map, round scores for T’s and CT’s are close because of the balancer, every individual round is quite stacked. It seems the balancer simply moves the stack from the winning team to the losing team, until that team becomes the winning team and the cycle repeats.

     

    I purpose that instead of moving #1, #2, and #3 to the opposing team, the balancer could move #1 and #3, or even #2 and #3. Splitting up the top players, instead of moving them from one team to the other as a group would achieve much more balance.

     

    Balanced rounds are more fun than either dominating a round, or being dominated for that round. Lets take some sort of steps to achieve actual balance!

    #41501
    YahooEarth
    Spectator

    If I recall correctly, Liam is working on a new team balancer at the moment…I think…And the team balancer is doing (again I think this is what Liam said, correct me if I’m wrong) exactly what it should, just move the top few players when it balances…

    #41524
    Liam
    Spectator

    YahooEarth said:

    If I recall correctly, Liam is working on a new team balancer at the moment…I think…And the team balancer is doing (again I think this is what Liam said, correct me if I’m wrong) exactly what it should, just move the top few players when it balances…

     

    There has been a lot of stuff going on that has taken from my time to deal with this issue.

     

    I’m almost done with the current plugin I’m writing. As soon as I finish that I’m going to revamp the team balancer to be better. The first time I wrote this it took me a while to get the formula right and this is no exception considering its written in another language and I wrote it from scratch.

     

    Thank you for your post though. I always appreciate construtive criticism and ideas on how to make things better.

    #41597
    dets
    Spectator

    Liam said:

    There has been a lot of stuff going on that has taken from my time to deal with this issue.

     

    I’m almost done with the current plugin I’m writing. As soon as I finish that I’m going to revamp the team balancer to be better. The first time I wrote this it took me a while to get the formula right and this is no exception considering its written in another language and I wrote it from scratch.

     

    Thank you for your post though. I always appreciate construtive criticism and ideas on how to make things better.

     

    Awesome, I look forward to seeing a revamped team balancer. Thanks for the hard work Liam.

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