Bumping for bump's sake. I want to know y'all's opinion's on my 4 team idea

I'm not talking about auto balancing. The maximum number of players in a map is 32. There is no reason to have more than 16 players to a team

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There is an auto balance. Sometimes they are disabled.

Updater: I think having an additional program that automatically installs updates would be awesome. Having to reinstall/repair every update is a pain in the ass.

4 Teams: Adding maybe a Red and a Yellow team would be awesome. Not every game would have 4 teams, obviously. Some maps couldn't fit them all. I think the server host could decide if they want 2, 3, or 4 teams. Additionally, teams could form an alliance with other teams, by a voting system (similar to the votekick) that could be initiated by anyone. Teams that are allied could still kill each other, but would not receive points for the kill. Also, they would be able to see the other team's location on the map. Allied teams cannot capture each other's intel.

Permanent Team Choice: One thing I've noticed (and am guilty of) is player's switching teams mid-way through a game, either because the other side is winning, to grief, or to maybe make the intel more accessible to their original team. Once a player joins a game, they should be made to stick to their choice.

Team Player Cap: This one should be obvious, and I don't know why it isn't standard. No one enjoys 25 on 6 match-ups. Make the cap like 16 or something, for fairness sake.

Finally, I would like to be able to know who I'm shooting at on the other team. You could have their name pop up either in their team color or red for enemy, like if you were looking at a teammate.

Make it optional. I seriously hate that 1337, i was on at the time and p0rtal (its a he) was in the vent with me, he was mad about it. Then again i am an admin on that server now so :P

Over-complicating this in my opinion.

Maybe the game could ask every player with some kind of popup if he/she wanted to change. I'm just guessing, but the would probably be a player who would accept the request. If no one accepts then it would force-move someone at random. If it got to force-moving it would still be unfair but everyone got a chance to prevent it. I don't know how easy it would be to implement (I am a noob when it comes to code) but I think it might work.

Force-moving players would just get people to rage. There'd be no fair way to judge which person gets switched.

@1337101 I agree, I don't know how it would work out to be fair.

I just don't care what team I end up on. If they are a bunch of idiots that grief then I vote kick them. Also I just thought of another thing. If enough players leave the server to unbalance the teams, then the game can just move a player to the unbalanced team.

Yes, I hate the PySpades balance forcer as well. It needs some room for two reasons:

1. It's possible for even-numbered teams to be imbalanced. If one team has more "useless garbage" builders and the other team has more pros, there's a huge imbalance and none of the pros can teamswitch to make things more sporting and fun.

2. It's not possible for two people to trade teams. Once P0rtal and I wanted to switch team spots... I had a few nice sniping posts for punishing the team I was on, and P0rtal wanted to work on a fort he (or she, I don't know) had started earlier on the team I was on. Despite all of our efforts, we never were able to trade.

So a four-player tolerance, (or a one-quarter server tolerance for those dull five-on-one matches) would be a good idea.

Even then it might be best to have that as an optional setting, for when server owners want to allow everyone absolute freedom of choice.

I hate being forced to play blue and would rather choose a new server than be forced to play on a team I do not like.

Sitting there waiting for someone to leave green for 5 minutes is boring.

Yeah I don't really care what the difference number is I just want this crap to stop. Thanks for your reply :)

it should be with in 4 people diffrence

I know. I think the game should have it by default so ALL servers can have it. Thanks for your reply :)

Pyspades servers already have "team balancing"

I went and made an account just to post this idea/suggestion because this is really starting to piss me off. Ever since I started playing this game there has been issues with the teams being unbalanced. It gets really frustrating on maps like Hallway because it gets to the point where you get spawn killed with in the first 5 seconds. I think the game should not allow team changing if the team has more than 3 players more than your team. Of course you can join a team with an equal amount of players or less. What do you guys think? Should this be implemented into the game? I sure do.