Team sizes

schkorpio

<div class="IPBDescription">aliens more players than marines</div>Has anyone though about what the game could be like if the teams were balanced for a 1:1.5 ratio ? On a 32 player server 12 of the players would be marines, and the rest (20) would be aliens.
The aliens would need to completely changed of course - not necessarily nerfed, but just a different style of play. As individuals they would be more like scouts, but as a group they would be like a mass of insane piranahs! They could have in a way fast access to all of the map, but in order to achieve something, many would need to work together and hit a location at the same time.

Atmosphere wise it would heaps better, marines would never feel safe - you might be chasing a single skulk which then runs around a corner only to be reinforced by another 4!
parasiting would be more crucial to keep track of the marines.

Buzzou

i vote: <!--coloro:#FF0000--><span style="color:#FF0000"><!--/coloro-->NO<!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc-->

firstly its taken ages to get it balanced this much, it would bea nightmare to rework it all again.

secondly, 1 of those marines is in the commchair at all times, therefore there's 1 less marine out in thefield.

in my opinion, the way it should currently work is to make it stack marines before aliens. so if teams are even and you want to join, you are forced to go marines. but i guess its remained the way it is because of skill stacking issues etc...

N_3

how could you have any competitive game if you needed more players for a particular side

schkorpio

<!--quoteo(post=1650652:date=Sep 20 2007, 05:58 PM:name=N_3)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(N_3 @ Sep 20 2007, 05:58 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1650652"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->how could you have any competitive game if you needed more players for a particular side<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

obviously some players would sit on the marine team - most clans are usually bigger than one team anyway

invader Zim

It cud be come dull as an alien if there was competition for kills

e.g 4 aliens chase down a marine only one gets him repeat this a few times and it may get dull for the aliens that arnt quite as quick

Misere

<!--quoteo(post=1650554:date=Sep 19 2007, 06:26 PM:name=schkorpio)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(schkorpio @ Sep 19 2007, 06:26 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1650554"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Has anyone though about what the game could be like if the teams were balanced for a 1:1.5 ratio ? On a 32 player server 12 of the players would be marines, and the rest (20) would be aliens.
The aliens would need to completely changed of course - not necessarily nerfed, but just a different style of play. As individuals they would be more like scouts, but as a group they would be like a mass of insane piranahs! They could have in a way fast access to all of the map, but in order to achieve something, many would need to work together and hit a location at the same time.

Atmosphere wise it would heaps better, marines would never feel safe - you might be chasing a single skulk which then runs around a corner only to be reinforced by another 4!
parasiting would be more crucial to keep track of the marines.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->


VOTE <!--coloro:#FF0000--><span style="color:#FF0000"><!--/coloro-->NO<!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc-->

Balance is fine as it is. If you want to talk balance then in low NS games the Marines should always have one extra man. Number of times I'm playing and kill gready individual goes alien when its 2v2 making it 3v2 meaning the single mairine has to handel 3 aliens on his own is insane!.

yoda

as N3 said competitively this would be a nightmare.

duke_Qa

i've been modding a bit in other environments where the topic of having a different ratio on teams often comes up, and the answer is "don't go there". its just bad bad bad. easier to get the wanted effect by varying spawn-times and cost of weaponry.