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!Balance Button

Posted: 12 Jan 2007, 18:39
by Relative
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!!!

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Posted: 12 Jan 2007, 18:53
by LordMatt
Respect clans or it phails.

Posted: 12 Jan 2007, 18:54
by Relative
LordMatt wrote:Respect clans or it phails.
LLC is leet! As a result LLC players should be marked as a rank above star. [/suckup]

Posted: 12 Jan 2007, 19:13
by LordMatt
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...

Posted: 12 Jan 2007, 19:20
by jackalope
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...

Posted: 12 Jan 2007, 19:45
by Relative
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.

Posted: 12 Jan 2007, 20:42
by LordMatt
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

Posted: 12 Jan 2007, 20:47
by Relative
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?

Posted: 12 Jan 2007, 23:04
by Comp1337
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

Posted: 13 Jan 2007, 00:12
by Dragon45
SmuG ftw.

Posted: 13 Jan 2007, 01:06
by hrmph
!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. :P

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

Posted: 13 Jan 2007, 01:31
by Relative
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. :P

That being said... the lobby could really use a button for auto-balancing.
Woot!!! A supporter!

Posted: 13 Jan 2007, 04:08
by BigSteve
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.

Posted: 13 Jan 2007, 10:14
by hrmph
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)

Posted: 13 Jan 2007, 14:31
by Licho
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.

Posted: 13 Jan 2007, 15:23
by Relative
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?

Posted: 13 Jan 2007, 20:09
by BigSteve
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 ^^

Posted: 14 Jan 2007, 03:11
by Neddie
You guys can't even field enough people for a full team game anymore...

Posted: 14 Jan 2007, 08:02
by BigSteve
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 :P

Posted: 14 Jan 2007, 09:58
by Day
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