This seems to be happening more often recently, people join the server on the wrong team. Tonight on roadhouse the Ts were 4 - 0 up (at least) when people joined the server on the T side!!!! :twisted:
Can we all try and fall into the habit of joining as a spectator and looking at the score, watching the round for a short while and then making a reasoned judgement as to the most sensible side to join?
Things to take into consideration are:
Which side is winning - join the other!
Which side has most dMw members - join the other!
Which side is Stryker on - join the other!Please do not look too closely at which side has most people. Yes, it is a factor but making it balanced is more important than keeping the teams the same size.
Eye Thenk Ewe!
Normal service is now resumed.
Interesting that it was roadhouse. Every time I've played de_roadhouse here recently, one of the teams has been carrying the game by a large margin - scores like 11 - 2 stick in my mind. It's not always the same team, but it does seem to happen more on roadhouse.
Or maybe I'm just imagining it. Whee! Eet mor chiken!
- CiM
I didn't manage to play Roadhouse... :( By the time I finished dl'ing it the map had changed... I was looknig forward to it as well... :evil:
While balanced teams are critical to good PCS play, it's often tough to know which team to join on unfamilair maps. I've played roadhouse maybe four or five times in total and I still can't say if it's a T or CT biased map, if it's biased at all. I obvioulsy want to do the right thing but sometimes I might join the smaller side and try to balance the play, when I should be joining the other team at the map is heavily biased against them :?:
Blueball is right though that it's hard to justify joining a team that's four nil up on any map
The other thing to bare in mind is that the scoreboard can actually be showing the new joiners a totally wrong score. I believe this happens when players swap sides.
I suggest that the best way is to make a judgement on which team to join based on all the things mentioned above but, and here's the important bit, as soon as you're in game ASK if you've joined the right team.
one new problem at the moment is that when you are stuck as a spectator, because there are no free slots :( . it turns in to a bit of a race to grab the next slot that comes along. :( That's what happened to me in roadhouse anyway. it was my second map in a row that I could not get a slot. so I hit first thing I could :(
If the server is full Im pretty sure everyone would prefer you playing instead of just sitting there waiting for the right slot on the right team. Thats why I think the asking if you are on the right team is a good idea. If you know you have definitely joined the wrong team, say that you know you have joined the wrong team and will swap at the nearest possible point.
If servers full, I can't see any other way of doing it... (Other than admins force moving people, which is tedious for them.)