Console messages are sent out through chat.
For example, it would say: [SM]Say "!preference RED" in chat so you will be high priority if that team is unbalanced!
And !sausage is the same as !scramble, !votescramble, etc.
New Autobalance/scramble Plugin
- Thread starter Kevimaster
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Console messages are sent out through chat.
For example, it would say: [SM]Say "!preference RED" in chat so you will be high priority if that team is unbalanced!
And !sausage is the same as !scramble, !votescramble, etc.
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its actually the best reason to auto balance. if one team is stomping another team, 9 times out of 10 people start leaving and then the winning team gets auto balanced to the losing team to fill the spots that left. this causes the servers to empty out and server ranks to go down and people to be less likely to join the server since no one likes to play against a stacked team.
i'm all for this change.
First off I am still wondering if you can only add one friend with the !addbuddy command or not.
However from what I see about this addition to your servers I have several reservations. I do understand that you need to insure your servers are ranked well and that people are having fun. However I am a firm believer that not allowing people who are good and work well together in a team based game to ?make it fair? is just silly. The game is called TEAM fortress for heaven?s sake!
I don?t think those that work hard to get the skill they have working with their friends/team mates should be punished simply because those that don?t want to put the effort or time into getting better and developing a network of people to play with don?t want to lose. If the game you are playing is not fair because of a game mechanic that is one thing but balancing out the skill of the players who specifically play this team based game to play with those on their team makes little sense to me.
Pariah Caste (my team) really enjoys playing on your servers because you allow us to play together. We often wished you had a no random crit server because that also obviously is a mechanic to help those with less skill be able to kill those with more. Anything random in a game makes it much less competitive and that obviously is why they don?t have crits on competitive servers. We however got over the crits because we could play together.
So we are now having to ask are we going to be able to play together on your servers or should we be looking else ware to play?
Thanks
C
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However from what I see about this addition to your servers I have several reservations. I do understand that you need to insure your servers are ranked well and that people are having fun. However I am a firm believer that not allowing people who are good and work well together in a team based game to ?make it fair? is just silly. The game is called TEAM fortress for heaven?s sake!
I don?t think those that work hard to get the skill they have working with their friends/team mates should be punished simply because those that don?t want to put the effort or time into getting better and developing a network of people to play with don?t want to lose. If the game you are playing is not fair because of a game mechanic that is one thing but balancing out the skill of the players who specifically play this team based game to play with those on their team makes little sense to me.
Pariah Caste (my team) really enjoys playing on your servers because you allow us to play together. We often wished you had a no random crit server because that also obviously is a mechanic to help those with less skill be able to kill those with more. Anything random in a game makes it much less competitive and that obviously is why they don?t have crits on competitive servers. We however got over the crits because we could play together.
So we are now having to ask are we going to be able to play together on your servers or should we be looking else ware to play?
Thanks
CartThe only thing is that one good person doesn't do much on a bad team unless they play comp. or something, so it just sucks for that one guy. D:
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I seem to get auto balanced a ton. I was actually making note of it. I once got auto balanced to the other team at 4 times in 15 minutes. I even had my !preference set. It was very confusing. Over all though, i like it a lot more. It does a better job I think.
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I like the system +1
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You can't forget guys like me, if I'm having a good game(it doesn't happen often:blushing
& I get auto-balanced to the other team it usually end up with me just turning off the game...especially if the other team is getting "rolled", because like Varil said one person won't be able to help a uncoordinated team.Another issue I see with this system is this is another way to punish good players and make the bad players happy.
We already have random crits (they allow bad players to kill skilled players where the skilled players honestly don't need them or want them).
The point system is already made to help them (they get 25 points per kill while the skilled players only get 2).
Those ways I can understand because the skilled player should be able to kill at a high rate to continue to get points. While I would LOVE to see random crits GONE I don't think that will happen.
So this would just be another way to frustrate and make it harder for skilled players to play this game the way they enjoy. In a team with good communication and planning with others they work well with. That I know for sure is the main draw for my team.
We already have random crits (they allow bad players to kill skilled players where the skilled players honestly don't need them or want them).
The point system is already made to help them (they get 25 points per kill while the skilled players only get 2).
Those ways I can understand because the skilled player should be able to kill at a high rate to continue to get points. While I would LOVE to see random crits GONE I don't think that will happen.
So this would just be another way to frustrate and make it harder for skilled players to play this game the way they enjoy. In a team with good communication and planning with others they work well with. That I know for sure is the main draw for my team.
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Totally just saw this, yeah we can still roll.
^ Jk lol
But besides that, this system is so much better than without!
At times I find it to require too many people to actually get a scramble going or the scramble simply does nothing and moves one person.
If there was a way to actually make the teams even, I'm all for it, but until then this'll do.
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I tried this and it didn't work for me. Maybe you could expand the options or something because !preference MUDKIPZ doesn't seem to do anything. I know it's not a spelling issue because I tried it multiple times on multiple servers. Also, the addbuddy system has some flaws. I type !addbuddy Idol every time yet whenever there's a scramble it never seems to keep me on the same team as myself. While I'm ranting, !bacon doesn't initiate a breakfast order nor a team scramble, and !up Idol doesn't work for me but I see other people using it.
tl;dr. Banned.
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I like the autoscramble plugin. I could now use the !preference. I didn't know that.
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!preference spectator does not work... I would also like to know whether the !addbuddy command has limitations. Otherwise I have no problems with the plugin, keeps the game fair, even if I get autobalanced 5 out of 7 times. No problem though!
Oh, and Dart, these are pubs, if you want to have a game like that, play competitively, or set up your own server.
Oh, and Dart, these are pubs, if you want to have a game like that, play competitively, or set up your own server.
