Team Autobalance

JooJooFlopJooJooFlop Join Date: 2002-11-17 Member: 9140Members
in NS General Discussion
<div class="IPBDescription">Boy is this thing awful</div> I was just playing on one of the H20 servers and it was using some sort of team autobalance mod. I'm assuming it's a mod because I doubt something so inane and useless would have been bothered to be made part of NS itself. When it detects that teams are unbalanced it will boot random people on the team with the greater numbers into the ready room where they are supposed to join to opposing team. While this alone is annoying enough, the fact that since 1.03 you cannot rejoin a team once you've selected one forces you to leave the server and reconnect if you want to continue playing.

Anyway, it looks like I'll be avoiding the H20 servers until this thing is removed. Anyone seen it on other servers so I know which others to avoid playing on?
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  • Hang_LooseHang_Loose Join Date: 2002-11-08 Member: 7775Members
    That whole, "can't join team because you were already playing" thing is really a step backwards in working on getting the teams balanced. Everytime the numbers tip and the aliens or marines are down 2 or 3 players, and they are whining, I just ignore. Switching teams used to be not that bad, but now, I'd have to reconnect, and then I have to risk losing my slot. It takes way too much effort so I say screw it. I expect others to do the same, so I stopped bitching about evening teams. It is just too much trouble. As for it fixing the resource exploit... it really didn't. I still see people doing it on the server, and they don't even have to reconnect.
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  • padijunpadijun Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 3419Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--Hang Loose+Dec 2 2002, 11:01 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Hang Loose @ Dec 2 2002, 11:01 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Switching teams used to be not that bad, but now, I'd have to reconnect, and then I have to risk losing my slot.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Simple, really. You can type reconnect or retry in the console and be guaranteed not to lose your slot. Not that complicated at all.
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  • Jeb3diahJeb3diah Join Date: 2002-11-03 Member: 6044Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--padijun+Dec 3 2002, 08:28 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (padijun @ Dec 3 2002, 08:28 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteBegin--Hang Loose+Dec 2 2002, 11:01 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Hang Loose @ Dec 2 2002, 11:01 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Switching teams used to be not that bad, but now, I'd have to reconnect, and then I have to risk losing my slot.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Simple, really. You can type reconnect or retry in the console and be guaranteed not to lose your slot. Not that complicated at all.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    I've actually lost my slot twice before accidentally retrying <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
    Have to make sure custom.hpk is really small or deleted.
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  • RueRue Join Date: 2002-10-21 Member: 1564Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--padijun+Dec 2 2002, 08:28 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (padijun @ Dec 2 2002, 08:28 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteBegin--Hang Loose+Dec 2 2002, 11:01 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Hang Loose @ Dec 2 2002, 11:01 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Switching teams used to be not that bad, but now, I'd have to reconnect, and then I have to risk losing my slot.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Simple, really. You can type reconnect or retry in the console and be guaranteed not to lose your slot. Not that complicated at all.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    yeh iv lost my slot once or twice on servers when i type retry and reconnect, when the teams are un-balanced and some1 starts shouting "fix the teams!!!!!!!!!!" if u explain that they cant be changed without sone1 reconnecting then 9/10 they wont complain and + when there are 10/14 on a server it will fill up in no time
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