No auto-balance teams on BFM ROCKS?

[Mercoledi]

I just noticed that there is no team auto-balance on the BFM ROCKS server. Usually that's not that big of a deal, but I just played a few games were one player would continually switch to the larger or winning team, up to the point where it was 4 vs 1. I kept "counter switching" to the smaller/losing team, but it didn't help much.

Any chance team auto-balance gets enabled on that server? Please? 

[BFM_Thunder]

i believe that the CE server also doesnt have auto balance 

[Mercoledi]

Had the same issue today on the British server, although I could have sworn that auto-balanced was enabled before.

[BFM_Thunder]

its enabled on that one im pretty sure,

mostly when alot of people from one team leave the server, and people on the other team dont want to change teams...       
it gets a little out of balance

but after the map changes the teams are mostly in balance again


hope i explained this good and clear

[Mercoledi]

its enabled on that one im pretty sure,

mostly when alot of people from one team leave the server, and people on the other team dont want to change teams...       
it gets a little out of balance

but after the map changes the teams are mostly in balance again


hope i explained this good and clear

You did explain it good and clear, but that was not it. Someone actually did switch from the smaller team to the larger one. The larger team had more than six players afterwards - I counted the players three times because I couldnt believe it. And even though I suck at maths, I don't think I miscounted three times in a row. 

[BFM_ColWlkr]

Most of our servers do not have auto-balance.  Instead we try and rely on our loyal players and admins to make adjustments as needed   From time to time we do get the odd person who just switches teams to be a nuisance, and our admins will take care of that as we do other things that hinder the enjoyment of our other guests

[BFM_Thunder]

okay, then they probably changed this, cause i used to have the problem of being unable to switch teams, because of autobalance.

[BFM_Booyah]

Sorry ColWlkr that is not the case.  All of our server should have auto team balance enabled.  The team balance function in Halo is not perfect and there are a few circumstances where teams can still be unbalanced by a player who is trying to do that so we do rely on our regular guests to help us out in those situations by either switching teams when asked or by pointing the situation out to us.  We will investigate this and make sure that team balance is enabled on any servers that it is not currently enabled on.  Thanks for bringing this to our attention.

[Mercoledi]

Always happy to help. 

[swant]

hmm, just wondering, earlyer today i was in a server with zeek, mr blue and a lot of others, and suddenly the teams were 3 v 8, in autobalance that is impossible because there is a max of 12, yes a few people left during map change, yet to become 8v3 is impossible if auto-balance is on!

[BFM_NavyJHk]

If several left during map change, then several joined exactly during map change - it can sometimes load the teams like that.  It had to have been caused by players leaving the server and joining at the exact right moments though (map change).

[swant]

hmmm, no, because one of the 3 then switched to blue *accidentally* so it became 2 v 9....

anyhow we evened them up again

[BFM_ColWlkr]

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[Mercoledi]

Thanks a lot for all that work. 

[Mercoledi]

Auto-balance is definitely disabled on the British server, at least on Timberland. Game started out 4 blue vs 3 red, and masterchief switched from red to blue. No one had joined or left since the previous map.

I know it's a lot of work to fix that, but it would really help a lot. Thanks.