=(eGO)= Battlefield 3 Servers No Autobalance?

[A_Bystander]

As the title says... The =(eGO)= servers are in need of autobalance. I have been playing the game since its release, mostly on =(eGO)= servers. Far too many times I have seen stacked conquest teams five capping and rush teams just walking through objectives. This typically results in unbalanced teams (8 vs. 16 etc...). The problem only gets worse and typically this leads to an empty server. Is there a reason for the absence of autobalance? I know it exists and works properly from playing on other servers...

 

[forty2skates]

There is auto balance on our servers, just not active autobalance that evens teams automatically during a round. Between rounds the teams are evened up but I'm pretty sure squads are never broken up. An example of that taken to the extreme would be that if you have 12 players total in 3 squads, 4 per squad and 8 vs 4, it will still be 8 vs 4 in the next round. As for the mid round autobalance, I don't know why that isn't in place and I'm on the fence about whether it'd be a good thing or not. Since it's also not my decision, I guess my indecision doesn't matter.

 

[DustWolf]

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[Kerak]

There is auto balance on our servers, just not active autobalance that evens teams automatically during a round.

This sums up your answer

 

[frankth3frizz]

There is mid game autobalance, well Idk if that was midgame because it was like 5 minutes after the round started. Probably not.

 

[A_Bystander]

Thanks for the responses I guess I just didn't have a clear understanding about how the Autobalancing works

 

[LilShortstuf]

I know it does the auto-balance at the beginning of each round but I'm not so sure about the mid-round auto balance. That may be a plugin other servers are using or it may just be something I haven't noticed and turned on. Currently all our servers are set for team balance.

 

[Droid]

I personally hate when I am on a server in the middle of a game and I get auto-switched. I usually just leave and go somewhere else. All the work, you were doing was wasted and then you have to get in the groove again for the other team.

 

[AoiMaiden]

Well, speaking of balance....

I dunno, I like balanced matches. And when one team is getting absolutely raped in their uncap, I RARELY see anyone crossing over to help them out...including you higher-ups. A lot of times on the server, one team is all eGO and the other is just randoms. And yea, while every now and then I'll be generous join the losing team in the hopes of turning tides, I don't do it all that often, cuz I prolly ain't gonna turn the tide and my stats are gonna get screwed (not that they're great). But I think that if we all sacrifice a couple SPM, and stop bein so selfish, we can manually make our servers more balanced and fun for ourselves and newcomers.

 

[Vertago]

There is a Plugin for the Procon Admin Tool that we use called "True Balancer". Basically the plugin makes sure the teams are always even in the amount of players on each team by balancing the teams mid round whenever they are uneven instead of only at the end of rounds. How it balances is that it takes the last person who joined the server on the other team and switches them to the team that is unbalanced. I have brought it up, whether we should use it or not. Would you all be for or against this? Lately I have been seeing maps become one sided and people on the losing team start leaving the server and it becomes even more one sided than it was before, this would help that.

 

[AoiMaiden]

I'd like to see the balance be at the admin's discretion (when it happens, not who it happens to) or by a vote. TF2 has a lot of stuff like this, and in my FFN servers they have a balancer that balances by stats, as well as players, and absolutely decimates balance problems. It's likely not relevant, but a program that could balance SPM and team members by admin or vote would be superswillasweet

 

[forty2skates]

I'm not a huge fan of the active auto balance mainly because it switches the last joined player as soon as it's deemed necessary, whether they are dead or not. It's happened to me a few times while flying choppers and it kinda sucks. That said, I really like the fact that in BF3 switching teams preserves your score so far in the round. Overall, I don't really care all that much either way about the active auto balance but forced team switching would be nice if for no other reason than being able to switch myself back and forth as needed. I recently ran into a situation in our servers where a handful of people were freaking out about balance (and rightfully so). As the only clan member and having recently switched myself a few rounds earlier for the sake of balance there was nothing I could do to help.

 

[Ranchito]

Ive played other servers that did it when it when one team was +2 or 3 than it would warn to even the teams than send the last guy to join to the other side. I like this and if you worked hard to get points, objs on one side you will stay on that side unless you were the last to join.