REQUEST: Force no team change during game

[KnacK]

I just got finished reading an article on CS and how it was converted to the japanese market:
http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20060327/waugh_01.shtml

One item they mentioned was the locking in of players to preventthem from changingteams once they join a server.

I personally think this is a great idea ( as a server option) that would allow/keep players from jumping ship to the winning side and stacking the teams.

In order to switch sides, you would have to actually disconnect from the server and rejoin. Even then, you might not get put on the team that you want.

Just a thought.

[jitspoe]

I had a couple ideas for team autobalancing.  One would be a "loose" setting.  Players could freely join other teams, but any time somebody said "teams", the game would check for unbalanced teams and move some players over to correct it.  The advantage to this would be that it plays the same as it does now unless somebody complains.  This could be good when a skilled player wants to play 1vs3 or some other unbalanced scenario.

The other would be a "strict" setting, which prevents players from switching to a team that already has an equal or greater number of players and immediately corrects unbalanced teams each round.  Naturally these would be server settings, maybe g_autobalance 1 and g_autobalance 2 (for loose and strict).

[KnacK]

That's sounds exactly what I had in mind.  I really think it would help balance the play.

[WarWulf]

personaly i think u need to make a beter voting system and apply autoteam balance as a voting command that would be realy slick =P *writes that down into his games todo list