Idea (request)

[SJAndrew]

How about a mod/option for auto balance (host-option during a team game)?

It seems like I (and we all) spend time in the lobby while the host tries to move people in order to create the highest game percentage. It seems like this could be automated...

[Kof]

LOL

You were obviously absent for the recent MatchMaker incident ....

[Lionhardt]

Automatically scrambling all players in the lobby to an even balance configuration is something different form the matchmaker? It merely both deals with balanced teams.

[SJAndrew]

I'm not familiar with matchmaker.

What I was thinking of is that you have 8 players ready to start a 4v4. They're in the game, ready for host to start, when they say "balance". The host then tries different iterations of teams in order to achieve the highest game %. This takes time and could be automated with a simple hot button called "balance".

[Hawkei]

Or, the Host could simply use their brain and balance manually. Seriously, it isn't hard.

All the host needs to do is pair off the players in similar skill brackets to mirror each other. Starting from the highest rank and working down to the lowest. If, for instance, there is a sizable gap between the two highest players. Then the next pairing down should favour the alternate team.

Eg. If a host needs to balance 2200, 2100, 1700, 1500, 1400, 1400. Then it should be:
2200 vs 2100
1500 vs 1700
1400 vs 1400

[SJAndrew]

That's what takes forever now (at least in my experience).

A button would expedite this and also make it 100% objective.

[Lionhardt]

Or, the Host could simply use their brain and balance manually. Seriously, it isn't hard.

All the host needs to do is pair off the players in similar skill brackets to mirror each other. Starting from the highest rank and working down to the lowest. If, for instance, there is a sizable gap between the two highest players. Then the next pairing down should favour the alternate team.

Eg. If a host needs to balance 2200, 2100, 1700, 1500, 1400, 1400. Then it should be:
2200 vs 2100
1500 vs 1700
1400 vs 1400

Are you sure you always get the best match this way? Can you give a reference to a proof on that? Because I am not convinced of that.

[Xinnony]

How about a mod/option for auto balance (host-option during a team game)?

It seems like I (and we all) spend time in the lobby while the host tries to move people in order to create the highest game percentage. It seems like this could be automated...

viewtopic.php?f=42&t=3663&start=90#p62348 ???

[Lionhardt]

Nice, when will this go live?

[Ze_PilOt]

The code needs to exist first.

By the way, random spawn & autoteam should do it already, unless someone broke the function.