Have to agree with Panromir, I think all the servers could use the scramble from #3. If its balanced now that is? Have been busy with some other shits lately so not had a chance to check back =)
I fill from top to bottom. AM1 first, then 2 then 3 then 4 etc etc. Not excluding any of the AM servers on purpose.
Since thats completely useless during the day. AM3 wont fill itself, the other AM's are. Put two or three spectators on it and often it will fill. AM3 needs active players imo.
btw, about the scramble, just because you move 2 good players to a completely retarded team doesn't make it balanced.. thats the hard part. Maybe we should look at moving the lowest players to the other side
is there a perfect balance? can you achieve something like that trough a artificial program? (i bet my life) the people making the scramble plugin tought the same thing... some people are just IDIOTS (sorry for beeing rude but come on who the hell sucks in TF2??????????????????) if even auto team doesn't work (it works most times because on AM3 it's 70% regs so you'll have players who know what to do so if it's unbalanced... you AND/OR your team sucks) a good scramble doesn't exist (or do you scramble in PCW's to?) so we just need to find what "works" BEST because we ALL know if you see some people scramble and you look at the scoreboard 9 out of 10 it's THE engineer or the sniper (on attack -> with the lowest score) who says the team sucks... and all this is from a medic's point of view (and i'm FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR from beeing comp material) but i think souljah is going to bump me on this one... you need a leader or some folks who know what to do...
ye and im always trying to teach the nubz what classes the team needs, and to have a look at the teamsetup. Maybe my voice already annoys the hell outa ppl, but from the medic point of view bukkit is right - sometimes u heal snipers, scouts and spies and u dont have a proper pocket that takes care of the meds in the team, so ubers get lost...and even with regs on im trying to "form" an inferior team into an unit to attack together. but somehow the ballance in the last 2 days was pretty good (AM1, 3).
So lets hope the current gScramble settings work a bit. The perfect solution does not exist so lets hope the current set approaches that as much as possible.
if the server will fill... been idling all day and nobody came. so i played some on AM1 and got anoyed like hell by critspam even going to make a fail movie full of noobcrit kills (think i have enough to fill 10 minuits only from today)
Well, I stay with the argument that there are too many servers and people got spread too much. And then school started. But the little experience I got on the other servers is that yeah, crit sucks and I want the glorydays back. Not fun to chill on a server after a match if there's crit on! :|
like i said to a friend i have around 10GB of demo's with crit deathts i want to edit hahaha in the beginning crits where just lame, now it's just anoying spam... (can't even tell if kritzkrieg or noobcrit half the time)
The fact that AM3 fills slower is just because it's the only server where there are so many old chaps on it. regulars, who have a more than average skill. So the average players leave because they can't get many kills. They like to play where they get more kills. Them being damn lucky crit kills doesn't matter... I don't like the autoteam join actually, but i have to admit. It's better to spread the players randomly. Dominating friends is fun to 8)
if i didn't instal the autojoin myself i wouldn't even notice it on AM3 haha other server i would because like taz said the skill lvl goes WAY down