» Thu Jun 02, 2011 2:01 pm
I don't care about player scores. What grinds my gears is when the teams are uneven. If one team has 2 or 3 more players than the other in Crash Site the team with more players wins due to numbers and nothing else.
It's annoying that you see new people join a game and they go to the team with more people, too. That's broken. Yeah, it's impossible to balance by score but they sure as hell can balance team by numbers, but they don't even have that basic of a feature.
Even if you get that balance in numbers there still will be problem with balance in matter of skills new added to team players. Team with less people can get noobs, and team with already uber player can get ONE more uber players. Frankly if you play server which are filled with people you won't get problem with numbers.
Teams are small, 8 people max. on each side so factors like wide skill spectrum of each player have huge impact on team balance, and at some point minimize imbalance when one team have few less members. Basically each player can make up for more than one missing player in his team, and it is possible in any type of game. You can win easy Crash Site 4v8, but ofc. there still will be problem when game start and some people leave team which already lack players.Sadly this is one of downsides which you can't fix without pushing imbalance in other way, which is lack of balance in players skill in each team.
So summing up, one way or another there will be imbalance no matter what you do, and honestly i prefer what is now that have screwed up teams by shifting players between team when they already was assigned to one team by factors like their performance in last round.