Random team
Racer1
Join Date: 2002-11-22 Member: 9615Members
Join Date: 2002-11-22 Member: 9615Members
<div class="IPBDescription">Make it a pool</div>Currently, joining a "random" team isn't random about half the time. It is most often based on which team has the fewest players. That, in turn, is based on whoever joined the other team immediately before. Only once the teams even up is it random again.
Given that a significant majority of "random" joins occur in the first 15 seconds of the round, I have an suggestion to slightly change how random works. A number of other games do this, and I think there was even an ns1 mod that did something similar.
<b>Suggestion</b>: When a player chooses the "random" team, the game will wait a few seconds before actually choosing a team for that player. If, during this time, any other player joins random, the timer resets. This will continue for up to 15 seconds (from the time the first player went random), allowing for late joiners, etc. to get in on the fun. Once the time is up, all players in the pool join a random team.
P.S. It would be helpful to see a "Waiting for other random players" message while you are waiting, so as to not cause confusion.
Given that a significant majority of "random" joins occur in the first 15 seconds of the round, I have an suggestion to slightly change how random works. A number of other games do this, and I think there was even an ns1 mod that did something similar.
<b>Suggestion</b>: When a player chooses the "random" team, the game will wait a few seconds before actually choosing a team for that player. If, during this time, any other player joins random, the timer resets. This will continue for up to 15 seconds (from the time the first player went random), allowing for late joiners, etc. to get in on the fun. Once the time is up, all players in the pool join a random team.
P.S. It would be helpful to see a "Waiting for other random players" message while you are waiting, so as to not cause confusion.
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