!Balance Button

Relative · Post by **Relative** » 12 Jan 2007, 18:39

I know ultimately rank doesn't matter that much, but I would be great to have an auto-balancing feature, like the springie !balance to be available. It would be useful for organizing those large matches of 10+ people with a variety of different ranks. Even if you need to rearrange it because the feature doesn't truly reflect skill level (eg: Placing me at par with someone like Noize) it could make the process quicker for the host in said cases.

Edit: Note, the feature should only be available to the host.

Edit 2: Make it a big button!!!

LordMatt · Post by **LordMatt** » 12 Jan 2007, 18:53

Respect clans or it phails.

Relative · Post by **Relative** » 12 Jan 2007, 18:54

LordMatt wrote:Respect clans or it phails.

LLC is leet! As a result LLC players should be marked as a rank above star. [/suckup]

LordMatt · Post by **LordMatt** » 12 Jan 2007, 19:13

Clans wear a tag because they want to play together. LCC plays against itself all the time in private games, but why should we play against each other publicly? We don't need some noob to throw the game...

jackalope · Post by **jackalope** » 12 Jan 2007, 19:20

LordMatt wrote:Clans wear a tag because they want to play together. LCC plays against itself all the time in private games, but why should we play against each other publicly? We don't need some noob to throw the game...

also LCC plays without 100 handicap all the time in private games, but why should they play without 100 handicap publicly? They don't need some e-stall to throw the game...

Relative · Post by **Relative** » 12 Jan 2007, 19:45

Matt, if you want to play together as a team then just manually change the allies. The feature is only meant to be an aid when hosting, not an absolute decider of who pairs up with who.

LordMatt · Post by **LordMatt** » 12 Jan 2007, 20:42

jackalope wrote:also LCC plays without 100 handicap all the time in private games, but why should they play without 100 handicap publicly? They don't need some e-stall to throw the game...

I can't stand handicaps because they mess with the flow of the game. Oo

Relative · Post by **Relative** » 12 Jan 2007, 20:47

LordMatt wrote:
jackalope wrote:also LCC plays without 100 handicap all the time in private games, but why should they play without 100 handicap publicly? They don't need some e-stall to throw the game...
I can't stand handicaps because they mess with the flow of the game. Oo

.......... matt........ that was sarcasm.........a form of irony........ k?

Comp1337 · Post by **Comp1337** » 12 Jan 2007, 23:04

LordMatt wrote:
jackalope wrote:also LCC plays without 100 handicap all the time in private games, but why should they play without 100 handicap publicly? They don't need some e-stall to throw the game...
I can't stand handicaps because they mess with the flow of the game. Oo

HAHAHAH PWNT

Dragon45 · Post by **Dragon45** » 13 Jan 2007, 00:12

SmuG ftw.

hrmph · Post by **hrmph** » 13 Jan 2007, 01:06

!balance should not regard clan members at all. Who cares if 'they want to play together': this is about balancing the teams, not placing people with their friends.

That would be like !biasedBalance.

That being said... the lobby could really use a button for auto-balancing.

Relative · Post by **Relative** » 13 Jan 2007, 01:31

hrmph wrote:!balance should not regard clan members at all. Who cares if 'they want to play together': this is about balancing the teams, not placing people with their friends.

That would be like !biasedBalance.

That being said... the lobby could really use a button for auto-balancing.

Woot!!! A supporter!

BigSteve · Post by **BigSteve** » 13 Jan 2007, 04:08

I like the balance button idea, although I reckon there would be problems unless it only usable by the battle host, that way if clans or friends do want to play together then they can set the teams how theyd like, and keep them that way without annoying people pressing or typing !balance and screwing everything up.

hrmph · Post by **hrmph** » 13 Jan 2007, 10:14

Definitely Steve! The balance function should only be able to run by the host. (I guess it came off kinda strange with all this !balance business)

Licho · Post by **Licho** » 13 Jan 2007, 14:31

Springie actually have two commands, !balance and now fixed !cbalance - both can arrange people to N teams.

Cbalance puts clanmates to same teams and then tries to fix balance, balance ignores clans.

Relative · Post by **Relative** » 13 Jan 2007, 15:23

Licho wrote:Springie actually have two commands, !balance and now fixed !cbalance - both can arrange people to N teams.

Cbalance puts clanmates to same teams and then tries to fix balance, balance ignores clans.

I never knew that, might as well include that as well to make Matt happy. Would it be possible to just port these features into the client?

BigSteve · Post by **BigSteve** » 13 Jan 2007, 20:09

hrmph wrote:Definitely Steve! The balance function should only be able to run by the host. (I guess it came off kinda strange with all this !balance business)

Phew ^^ the nightmares Ive had recently with the !balance command in the auto servers have been too horrible recount :)

The !biasedbalnce command also intrests me, any springer worth his salt knows that stacked games on xanthe terra are an xhc trademark... a team stack button really should be made available, this will make our job that much easier when setting up the teams for the glorius xhc landslide victory we all know and love ^^

Neddie · Post by **Neddie** » 14 Jan 2007, 03:11

You guys can't even field enough people for a full team game anymore...

BigSteve · Post by **BigSteve** » 14 Jan 2007, 08:02

I was joking neddie, and yes, unfortunately at the moment we cant field a full team, RL and new timezones Im afraid, however we can field a seriously kickass, very stackable 3 man rolling death machine of handsomeness, wit and charm though

Day · Post by **Day** » 14 Jan 2007, 09:58

Spring RTS Engine

!Balance Button

!Balance Button