We need auto team-leveling

outerfroggy1 · November 2002

<div class="IPBDescription">20 marines vs. 4 aliens</div>this game has the potential to kick so much ###! yet, in every game ive been in, its always like 10 marines vs. 3 or 4 aliens. no joke! we need auto team balencing BAD! why it was omitted from the game is beyond me... every game looks like this,

<img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/asrifle.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='::asrifle::'>
<img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/asrifle.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='::asrifle::'> <img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/skulk.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='::skulk::'>
<img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/asrifle.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='::asrifle::'>

outerfroggy1 · November 2002

BUMP!
i feel this issue needs to be adressed!

Ginger · November 2002

well why dont you just join the aliens side instead of joining the marines.. coz you aint posting this coz you are losing to much it is coz you have no compeition (cant spell it) playing aganist small amounts of aliens!

GWAR · November 2002

I think auto team leveling is bad... if aliens are outnumbered 2-1 on a 20 player server, aliens should have the option to evolve to onos and teach them marines a lesson in team-balancing, Im sure a few will be convinced to switch after seeing their team being trampled...

outerfroggy1 · November 2002

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every time i join a game I go to the side with less players, whitch 10 times out of 11 is aliens!

and ginger how the hell are u supposed to know what side i play on? or why i made this thread?? what are u telepathic or something? the truth is 90% of the time i play aliens because they are the team that needs help...

azid · November 2002

Gwar: This game is unplayable when the teams are so uneven, this has got to be one of the best games i have ever tried, but this problem with teams completely ruins the game! GWAR and Ginger there is no solution in your answers!

GWAR · November 2002

lol, i was j/k i wanted to get some attention to this issue, as it is a problem.

Decreasing evolve costs when aliens are outnumbered is another good idea...

outerfroggy1 · November 2002

i dont see why team leveling was not included in the release, every other mod i can think of has auto balence on by DEFAULT. (CS, FA, DOD, TFC...) hell if i remember correctly even HL team-DM has auto teams.

standard1 · November 2002

agree
i love the aliens, i join em anyway
but the game is just no fun when you get simply overrun, and cant do anything about it. cant even get a hive back, so your team basically has lost the match midway trough the game <img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':('>

divad · November 2002

auto team blanace in some form is defenitely needed.

OR. you just need some PR.

i was in an even game On the alien team and we were cleaning up.

and eventually... we just started getting our ##### handed to us. I had no idea why... Then i checked the score board... 4 on 13... And no one would switch. after like twenty minutes it was finally 9 on 13 but we had been smashed into the ground so hard there was no coming back... one hive and a bunch of unevolved aliens against an entire team of heavy marines with machine guns.

People kept saying it was because of the message "if you are new, join the marines" ... and since EVERYONE is new... well... you get the picture.

dont know if AUTO balance is the key, it would suck to play as an alien or marine and put a lot of work into your base and then get switched over to the other team after all the time you put in. maybe a server side option to only allow you to go random team? unless there already is one.

Pulse · November 2002

God, Ive never been so torn between bliss and utter frustration before in my life, out of 20 something games 2 had fair teams, those 2 were the most fun Ive had in years, but the other 20... If I see another marine stack up I'm going to take a knife and create some nice red decals on the walls of my city's most populated areas.

Dezmodium · November 2002

I dont think auto balance is the key.... we just need to give it some time.... let the lag problem get fixed and then well see what happens in the next few weeks. poeple will fall into the game

I LOVE NS! <img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'>
<img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/skulk.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='::skulk::'> <img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/asrifle.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='::asrifle::'>

just sneak up on those fleshy treats.

Stalker · November 2002

Neither team has a destinct advantage over the other but when it comes to teams the Marines always have 2-3 more peeps (from what I've observed). I have only seen 1 game actually won regardless of the stacking, its just fallen into stalemate. I think that when peeps actually play the aliens they will learn to like them and maybe **Maybe** the balance will swing the other way.

What I would like to see is an auto-balance that takes the status of the game into account. example: marines are getting wuped but they have 4 more peeps than the aliens. In that case teams shouldnt balance out (infact maybe an alien should get auto switched).

We need auto team-leveling

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