Random Teams

XanderXander Join Date: 2013-01-06 Member: 177809Members
edited February 2013 in Modding
Team stacking is, in my opinion, one of the biggest problems with NS2 and most online shooters.



This mod passively prevents team-stacking by forcing players to a random team when they try to join the one they prefer. Basically, walking through the marine door or entering j1 in console will act exactly like the player had stepped through the random door: The player will be put on the team with the lowest player count, or, if the player counts are equal, a random team.



This makes it nearly impossible to spam j1 with your bound key to stack marines.



This is an improvement over sv_randomall, since using that command will usually force AFK players into the game. With this mod, players will have to initiate their team-joining themselves before they are randomed.



[url=http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=122993161]Random Teams Workshop Page[/url] - Mod ID: 754ba09



[img]http://i.imgur.com/6wY5g6E.jpg[/img]

Comments

  • XanderXander Join Date: 2013-01-06 Member: 177809Members
    edited August 2013
    <b>Files Modified:</b>

    lua/NS2ConsoleCommands_Server.lua
    lua/GUIReadyRoomOrders.lua

    <u>models + materials + dds</u>
    models/props/generic/alien_join
    models/props/generic/join_alien
    models/props/generic/marine_join
    models/props/generic/join_marine
  • bp2008bp2008 Join Date: 2012-11-28 Member: 173581Members, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Gold
    Nice. The model changes must be to make everything say random so people are less likely to think the game is broken?
  • XanderXander Join Date: 2013-01-06 Member: 177809Members
  • FlyingMongooseFlyingMongoose Join Date: 2013-06-28 Member: 185769Members
    Great plugin and concept, and I find team stacking to be a significant problem on my server, however this plugin causes client side crashes due to file inconsistency. Please update it!
  • SamusDroidSamusDroid Colorado Join Date: 2013-05-13 Member: 185219Members, Forum Moderators, NS2 Developer, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Gold, Subnautica Playtester, NS2 Community Developer, Pistachionauts
    edited June 2013
    A server I frequent has implemented a very great system to prevent stacking. One of the temp admins/admins starts a balance, it disables the scoreboard so you can't see it, changes everyone's names to "No Name", and prevents switching teams 15 seconds after balance is started. It also balances using ns2stats and the server stats.

    Because, after all, if you can't see what team the good people/friends are on, how can you stack! ;)
    Tactical Gamer server if you want to check it out. Was working great before 250, now it doesn't balance as fairly as it did before.
  • XanderXander Join Date: 2013-01-06 Member: 177809Members
    Thank you for your patience everyone! I have been away for several months and I'm happy to say that the mod has been updated for build 251.
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