Your autobalance is garbage across BF4.

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Used to like your servers, now I intentionally ban myself to avoid them. Your plugin kills people while alive to balance teams, will not allow a player to switch to the less player team to be with friends because they are 5 tickets ahead, it makes it impossible to play with friends regularly. Its literally a mini-game of figure out its logic and exploiting it to be able to squad up with friends.

Its all around a terrible experience. Nor do they work. There is a screenshot below that shows you just how shitty your plugins are at autobalancing. Anything it uses to balance the server can be negated by a person talking on the phone or going AFK. Its a useless endeavor and it cheapens the BF experience of TEAMPLAY.


http://imgur.com/9dU2F6p

Not one is even remotely balanced, and your all 30 maps server is now at a 500 ticket deficit. Your metro server is literally a 1000+ ticket deficit.

Edit: Additional link to reddit, to show you how much the community dislikes this broken feature. http://www.reddit.com/r/battlefield_4/search?q=autobalance&restrict_sr=on&sort=relevance&t=all

Oh, and I got myself banned for using a racial word. I'm no asking to be unbanned because I don't think you will change anyways, but I figured it was worth it to bring it to your attention for the better for all players. Eradicate this garbage from BF once and for all.
 
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I will tell you that the server balances last joined and lone wolves first. When balancing at the end of a round, it will move entire squads, not break them up. It will NOT let you switch teams to the winning team within a specified number of tickets from the end of the round. If you join on your friends from battlelog, if there is room in their squad, you should be able to.

I will also say that IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO BALANCE THE SKILL OF A GIVEN TEAM. Some high level players can have an off round, a noob can have a great one. If you can write a better balance program, do it.
 
Did you consider a constructive post to see what we could make better instead of this negative one? No need to be an ass.
 
Complain to the plugin developer? Complain to dice for a horrible method of interfacing with the servers?

We've tried probably 5 autobalancers in the last 3 years and while they all can be configured differently they are also generally the same.

Waiting for death can be very bad. By the time the person to be balanced dies the server could have gone lopsided and half emptied. Most of these plugins have the fatal flaw of getting hung up on the first person they try to move. Which was fun when BF4 got released and there was no way to identify who was a commander.
 
I told you numerous reason why the plugin is not good, and ultimately hampers teamplay, if you, the head admin can't understand that, I think you are in the wrong position. I posted examples of your servers being imbalanced, and numerous other threads about the same topic. If you can't take negative criticism as criticism, do you listen to anyone else?
 
MacN8r said:
I will tell you that the server balances last joined and lone wolves first. When balancing at the end of a round, it will move entire squads, not break them up. It will NOT let you switch teams to the winning team within a specified number of tickets from the end of the round. If you join on your friends from battlelog, if there is room in their squad, you should be able to.

I will also say that IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO BALANCE THE SKILL OF A GIVEN TEAM. Some high level players can have an off round, a noob can have a great one. If you can write a better balance program, do it.
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Exactly, so why have such a tough autobalancer that ultimately fails? Why hamper a players ability to play with friends for no reason other then to feel good?
 
DU_HA55T said:
I told you numerous reason why the plugin is not good, and ultimately hampers teamplay, if you, the head admin can't understand that, I think you are in the wrong position. I posted examples of your servers being imbalanced, and numerous other threads about the same topic.
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Do you have a solution instead of mindlessly complaining?.

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RainMotorsports said:
Complain to the plugin developer? Complain to dice for a horrible method of interfacing with the servers?

We've tried probably 5 autobalancers in the last 3 years and while they all can be configured differently they are also generally the same.

Waiting for death can be very bad. By the time the person to be balanced dies the server could have gone lopsided and half emptied. Most of these plugins have the fatal flaw of getting hung up on the first person they try to move. Which was fun when BF4 got released and there was no way to identify who was a commander.
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I complain to you because you are the ones that enable it. You are the ones who ultimately choose to use the plugin.
Also the game includes an autobalancer, it just realizes that there is no way to balance a server of 64 people with any sort of accuracy. They will put you in a game and move you to your friends team when it makes since, other wise it will disperse players evenly. It will not kill or move a player while they are alive.
 
Soulzz said:
Do you have a solution instead of mindlessly complaining?.

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Yeah, don't use invasive autobalance just to get the illusion of a balanced server. Its really that simple.

So, giving examples, reasons and other's opinions is mindless? You people are a trip.
 
200ticket difference is actually not bad, and normal for BF4. We have !surrender option for the losing team. I have played in every one of our servers, the team balance issue is this: You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.
If you dont understand that then:
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We can't control how people play, we can only make sure the teams are even as far as numbers go. You write a script on how to balance non-teamwork playing ass campers and play styles, you let us know!
 
"You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink."

Thats the point I'm trying to make. You can try and balance the server all you want, but it doesn't mean that people will play well. Your plugin hampers teamplay more then it encourages it. You keep friends and clan members from playing on the same squad as one another.
 
We're looking into the script right now, as it happens. Looks like it might have been going haywire lately.

It's a shame you banned yourself over what seems to have been a configuration error.
 
Not really. Saves me time from dealing with it. That was the point. I typed an obvious racial slur in chat to get banned. I knew what I was doing along with two others leading up to me being banned. Check the logs. People are fed up with being separated from their friends for arbitrary reasons. Keep the ban, remove the ban. Doesn't matter to me.
 
To me and this is just my opinion you are one less douchbag that wont join our servers. There were other ways to approach this issue but you showed your true colors so thank you. No need to waste any more time on you. Feel free to get yourself banned from the other servers.

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