[QUOTE=Smokeskin;361401]Who plays in 4v4 games anyway? I only join nearly full servers, and I’d leave if it got that low.
No, what we need is bots to fill in when they drop out of 8v8 games, so the game doesn’t get too unbalanced while we wait for new players to join.[/QUOTE]
I’ll play in a 4v4 game. And I meant that the bots only fill in up to 4v4… people can keep joining in up to 8v8.
As far as unbalancing, they could implement forced balancing, so if a team is short more than one human, a player is automatically swapped over from the other team.
I’ve joined a number of games that are 8 humans vs 8 bots, and sometimes we’d like to split the humans for a 4v4, but I’d rather play 8hum vs 8bot then 4hum/4bot vs 4hum/4bot. The only advantage to the latter is that new people joining the game are more likely to stay if there are already 4 humans on their team than if they’re the only human vs a team of 8.
Another option (though maybe tricky to implement) could be in-match parameter voting. So you’re in the middle of a game, and you want to kick out all the bots, you just call a vote to do just that.