Team Balancing

[Zantas]

there needs to be a way to balance the teams..... like an admin command or something. sure, the bots are there to help balance, but they only keep the teams balanced number wise. players end up (from map changes/connecting) basically all going to one team or the other, leaving 1 or 2 players againts 4-6.

[Soxmls35]

The problem as I see it is the ut system. It doesn't take into affect the bots when people join the game. It will at the start of a map but not when someone joins during the middle.

What I mean is if you have your ut set to prefered blue team. A new map starts it makes sure the teams are even with players. So if blue has 3 and red has 2 it will put you on red even though your prefered is blue. After all the players are assinged it then puts the bots in to fill the rest of the spots. Now say you join in the middle of a game and there are bots in the game. It now will just put you on your prefered team because it counts the bots as players.

Im not sure how this works if you dont have a prefered team. I assume it does it randomly then which would still cause problems. The main problem here is it counts the bots as players when it does its team balancing.

[[gh]Spurty]

UT2K4 needs an autobalancer built in. Anyone close to this game know if such functionality can be added by some 3rd party peice of software? If so, where do we find it.

[Zantas]

acually sox you are wrong, it still assigns people to mostly one time even if a new map starts.

i'm going to look online a bit after i finish updating comp (finished installing xp) to see if anything can be done with this.

[Zer]

I'll look around too and see if i can find anything

[Soxmls35]

No it doesn't unless team balancing is turned off. Pretty sure its not on GH. UT2k4 has a built in balancing system. The problem with the system is it counts bots at players when balancing.

UT doesn't add the bots untill the map starts ususaly a few people get in before the map starts (I would say about 6). It keeps the teams balance untill the bots are added. Once the time for players to join is up it then puts the bots in. For the people that take a long time to load you are correct it doesn't work becuase then the round has started and the bots are in the game already.