Omega22 said:
And what if they dont wana switch... can we have the AI automate this and do the switching itself to even out the team balance or disable weapons until the teams balance out whichever seems more logical and acceptable in terms of product quality and fair gameplay..
No. No, no, no, a thousand times no. Forced autobalance is
ALWAYS a bad idea.
- It won't be optional since we don't have player-controlled dedicated servers. This makes playing with friends as a group impossible unless the tender mercies of the autobalance gods put you all on the same team.
- Some players with more fragile egos decide they no longer want to play a match they will lose. These players leave.
- Autobalance kicks in a short time later, moves over the players who were doing good, often after it is far too late to make a comeback in the match.
- These players rightfully leave to avoid taking the loss.
Thus, autobalance just results in several people leaving, not balancing anything. The only way I would ever be comfortable with this sort of solution is if you get a sizeable HC and XP bonus for being switched over and sticking around, especially if you're going to eat a loss, and wouldn't have if the game hadn't switched you. Win-Loss record is, like many things, just a number, but I can't stand losing a match because someone else's ego couldn't take a loss, and so I go from a win to a loss thanks to them.
If that happens, you're damn right I want to be compensated.
Edited by DarkPulse, December 14 2012 - 01:09 PM.