The server finder should try to put you in a nice match, or get one going.
Sometimes it works, but often there are two scenarios:
A.) New server is being started, but it doesn’t fill up: you get a ~50% penalty. When using the server finder, this should not happen. It would be impossible to abuse the system intentionally, as other players would join you eventually.
B.) You replace a ragequit, usually after the stacked team is going to spawnkill. That’s no fun, and sometimes the loadtime + additional spwan (because they killed you while you had to confirm mercs) is longer than the actual game you can participate in (remember, you replaced someone who deemed the game a lost cause)
Additionally, you don’t get to chose the map, and B.) happens a lot more often than evening out a 7 vs 8 where the underdogs didn’t get a disadvantage.
I propose that,
a) when using the server finder, no penalties for uneven teams apply, and
b) you get a bonus for being tossed into very short/lost games
If such a bonus would be hard to understand, we could get indefinite extra quests once we used our regular quests that are just “Use the server finder and complete the match” rewarding ~50 credits for completion.