Battlefield 4 Change Autobalancer

[Boo-Yeah!!]

Please change the autobalancer to switch PUBS before EGO members. Its incredibly to annoying to be spearheading and get a good K ratio on an enemy team only to then be switched and watch your K go back to down to breaking even or close to it. Pubs should be forced to switch before any eGO members.

 

[Cheezyshooter]

Hell just switch everything in general.

"Omg, you have like 4 lv100 on your team"
"Way to teamstack"
"Can you switch me to the winning team because I have a friend on that side"

These comments are annoying and we can't do anything about them because we have no access to either switch players or activate autobalancers.
I vote for a pub scrambler at the beginning of each new round. That way, people will stop complaining about unbalanced teams.

 

[Squirtles]

1, I didn't realize that it chose eGO's before pubs, but...
2, we are members of eGO on our eGO servers, and if there is an imbalance, we should be the first to switch sides to try to even it out.

 

[Wizekraker]

Im not sure if auto balancer does that or its pure coincidence. However, Im against this idea for reason of clan stacking. Sure moving couple competent players may help. But against a coordinate group that players that individual wont have chance of carrying his entire team.

 

[Squirtles]

And coordination is the name of the game in BF4. That's what the squads are for, and that's why players try to be with their clanmates/friends on the same team. Breaking up those players, regardless of whether they are eGO, pubs, or whatever, on purpose, isn't right. I think shuffling at the end of a map is best. Yea, you have to wait for the map to be over while getting trounced, but it's kind of the point to try and trounce the opposing team. When the map switches and some players are scrambled, then you can try to get a fresh start.

 

[LilShortstuf]

I'll tell you the leadership response to this request. Short answer is no.

Long answer is no because on our servers everyone plays by the same rules. Everyone is just a susceptible to the auto balancer. Yes it sucks when your kdr takes a hit but that's part of the game. I doubt they will give you access to the auto balancer abilities too. It requires a TON of effort to grant that access to all current admins (I know because I know exactly which box would need to he checked and currently isn't in your access) and because there is no need for you guys to be moving people. People will always find some reason to explain their losing when in general it is just that their team is not working together as well.

 

[SUPERJ569]

2, we are members of eGO on our eGO servers, and if there is an imbalance, we should be the first to switch sides to try to even it out.

Exactly!!

However, Im against this idea for reason of clan stacking.

We do not allow other clans to stack in our servers and eGO members are not suppose to stack teams as well.

With that said, having the autobalancer just switch pubs BEFORE eGO members promotes clan stacking and like shortstuff said, no. Autobalance goes to any player on our server, whether it be a pub or eGO member.

 

[Samariii]

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[Tomato]

I like an autobalancer but ours is just broken. It will stack teams on its own and it just sucks sometimes.

As for the scrambling idea, I do like it but I think it could make players leave who want to play together. I don't think everyone that joins is looking to just play alone or in a random squad.

 

[GamesB4Gains]

I agree that playing the game using a team of "friends" or a clan is the name of the game and the whole idea. Also the notion that there will always be someone who complains. We tailor our gaming experiences to the community, not to the individual player. You cant make everyone happy.

 

[Boo-Yeah!!]

However correct me if wrong but most other divisions require lower rank members to switch before higher ranks switch. That's how its usually always been.

 

[Wizekraker]

However correct me if wrong but most other divisions require lower rank members to switch before higher ranks switch. That's how its usually always been.

Thats interesting where does it says that?

 

[SUPERJ569]

However correct me if wrong but most other divisions require lower rank members to switch before higher ranks switch. That's how its usually always been.

In my 4+ years in eGO, I have never heard of this rule.

 

[Sineira]

What autobalancer are we running and how is it set up?

 

[xitreon]

1, I didn't realize that it chose eGO's before pubs, but...
2, we are members of eGO on our eGO servers, and if there is an imbalance, we should be the first to switch sides to try to even it out.

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This. I couldn't agree more. Squirtle makes an excellent point. If all the eGO members are going to switch to the winning side or the side with the most eGO members, people could start avoiding our servers all together.

I have never heard that rule you mention, i doubt it exists as it would make a game terribly one sided

 

[PBJ]

Squirtle, Short, and Super have basically closed this thread. It's great to coordinate with friends in Battlefield, yes; however, on our servers, it is our number one responsibility, whether e or council member, to try to even the teams and create an enjoyable playing experience for all, no exceptions.

 

[Captain]

Squirtle, Short, and Super have basically closed this thread. It's great to coordinate with friends in Battlefield, yes; however, on our servers, it is our number one responsibility, whether e or council member, to try to even the teams and create an enjoyable playing experience for all, no exceptions.

This is great except for the fact that the Auto-Balancer we use isn't working.

Anyone that has tried to fill our servers in the last two weeks would know this.

Not to mention our members have been attempting to fill the server but when they load in they are back capping and sometimes even all-capping the server. This does not encourage players to join, it actually does the exact opposite.

Please fix or replace the Auto Balancer it is not functioning correctly.

I have seen countless times where the auto balancer will not register a player joining off another and will fail to auto balance the server as a result. The players sometimes will join off of a friend and will be put into a squad with his/her friend on the winning team. It has gotten so bad that the Auto Balancer has allowed the winning team to have 8 more players in some cases. Not even a joke! The auto balancer when it does work will even balance a player that has fought on their team for the whole match when there are about 100 tickets left. This is highly rage inducing. I've seen players ragequit as a result, hell I've even done so. This is not okay, it is far from okay and needs to be changed ASAP!

We have tried to fill the servers but this crap keeps happening and it is highly demoralizing! Please someone do something for the love of all that is Battlefield!

I am serious, this is really happening guys wake up!

 

[Mr.SaJoRa]

i guess i couldnt agree more with most responses. autobalance doesnt work. i think we made this pretty clear now.

while i agree its our responsibility to switch first, nobody should be forced to or judged if they dont want to for whatever reason. spending quite some time filling servers (even back in bf3 (and autobalance already wasnt working there)) it can be frustrating some days so when you are finally on the winning team for once you dont want to switch. i think this is understandable. i also believe if we get a decent autobalance most of this wouldnt come up.

once we get a good autobalancer, have a meeting where we can clear our minds and discuss certain things without breaking each others skulls and possibly set up some guidelines while serverfilling that everyone agrees to follow, the situation in the division should be alot better and most of the frustration should be gone.

allow me a small note on the servers themselves: i personally believe we cant keep up with 3 servers max. obviously op locker is running good (once it is running) and conquest is doing ok too. the china rising one is just not going which i believe is why we could/should just get rid of. i know quite a lot of ppl wanted a HC server and got it. and now it is empty. on that part i would love to see a bit more flexibility from our higher ups (not counting advisors here) to change and play around with different modes and whatever is needed to satisfy ppl. on teamspeak i heard several ppl say to put the HC on domination or whatever it is. i personally would like to see a mix that includes obliteration because thats just alot of fun. since HC is empty anyways why dont we just go ahead and try several things that we request? i know we want pubs but at some point we should also listen to what our very own members want to play. in fact those are the ones needed to start a server.

tl;dr i think we are better off with only 3 servers. op locker and conquest are going good once they are going. keep HC but listen to request of different modes/certain maps.

my 2 cents for now

 

[Captain]

Thanks for helping fill the servers today guys! Made my day for sure!

 

[RainFire432]

It has gotten so bad that the Auto Balancer has allowed the winning team to have 8 more players in some cases.

I saw this today on the conquest rotation server, the team I was playing on had 6 more people than the opposing team. It took the auto-balance a minute to start putting people on the other team