Warchest

Auto-balance teams at the end of the round. Or... give the weak team 2 bots bodyguards/player :D . Every noob will have a ccbot medic and a bobot soldier to protect him from the incoming fire :D

Autobalance at the end, use accounts + global stats to shuffle to stop all kinds of ****tery from rating ho's :rolleyes:

I don't think any of these things solves the problem, if you're lucky a shuffle will work, at other times it may have no affect or worse totally kill the server population. That's to say you're even able to join a server that has this functionality turned on or voting enabled. To repeat myself (and I won't bother clogging this thread with arguments in followup, you can read all those in the CQ Skills thread) it seems that if you can't balance teams by ensuring an even spread of player skill then you should in some way balance the teams as a whole through handicaps, boosts or other means (items, events etc). The aim there of course is to narrow the chasm but not close it. The better team should win but that should come down to them playing better not due to them having 2 very skilled players on their side. And yes I know this can be deemed as unfair and maybe is, yet is it any more unfair than facing a team that quite obviously can't be beaten. And to be clear, I repeat myself not to push an agenda or seek glory for some idea. I want to push for an alternative approach to the problem as we just seem content to repeat what was done last time, the time before that and the time before that. Can we try to think outside the box? Is there more 'Other' votes with ideas?

For numbers imbalance, move the person(s) who last joined, not person(s) with the lowest score unless, of course, score has no correlation to skill. Attempting to balance a game by moving lower skilled individuals onto teams with less players would indicate a disturbing laps in logic given that teams that are loosing significantly often suffer higher attrition. For significant skill imbalance, the thing I suggested in that other thread that shall not be referred to,

I would even give the dominated team, the option to concede a map after x amount of gametime with an autoshuffle on the next map.

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Auto-balance teams at the end of the round

I don't know. Auto-balance at the end of the round sounds good, but from my own experience this is not really effective. Most people disconnect at the end of a round/beginning of a new round, so there is still a really great chance that teams end up uneven after the "shuffle".