Idea for imbalanced matches - Give the side with less Mercs +% to dmg per person down


(bontsa) #21

This is already in the game. If the teams are off significantly then there is a credit penalty applied. Same if there isn’t enough players on the server as well. This is to keep people from farming.[/quote]

To be honest, while it certainly is an attempt of encouraging to balance out teams, getting rid of such penalty, it doesn’t seem widely known or might not feel appealing enough to switch, since we’re still having the easily unbalancing situations. That or the absolute majority of the playerbase is afraid / too lazy / greedy for victory to even out an uneven team. Call me naive but I don’t digest that most of the players would be so close-minded.

For the first group, unknowing, announcement should do the trick if they fall in the fairplay category of players. For the second group, greedy ones, a straight up reward instead of silently removing penalty once teams are numberly even, could make them switch.

Thanks for the clarify by the way! Now that I can ask directly from you @Amerika , any info how this penalty is calculated playernumber-wise? Is 4v6 situation on a 8v8 server resulting in same penalty as would 5v5 on same server? Because in both cases server overall is missing 6 players from full. Or does 4v6 add on harsher penalty because of both overall miss of players and unfair numbers? Is 2 man-down situation on a team compared to other enough for the penalty to kick in to begin with?


(B_Montiel) #22

Forced autobalance with 20-30 secs warnings always seemed to me the best solution on regular pub games, since most of the players can’t behave themselves… It has always been like this, in any game, and this is getting worse. Of course, there is the leaving issues, but, in my mind, if the switched player is selected correctly, this should balance the game nicely. Selecting the last arrived player is not good.

And for MM games, HIDE XP LEVELS during the game, and give strong penalties. -1 rank for every 3 games left out of 5. I see too many players, even some with levels around 15, after getting two attack waves cancelled, starting to chat things like “Full Level 20+ nice matchmaking” and then leave. And they generally have ranks more or less close to us…