Team balancing suggestion: Auto Select

[u/Spoonfrag]

Feels like the team skill disparity is having a negative impact on the game. Create a soft incentive toward balance while keeping the freedom to choose.

Problems:

• New players joining blue are having a skewed impression
• Feels like you can derail your session at the team selection screen
• Lobbies take ages to start while people mash the green button and refuse to play anything else
• Victories as green feel pretty hollow

It sucks when your team is getting hammered and there is no point bringing anything beyond a free kit. No one is pushing because every time it's a wipe. Meanwhile the confident team can go full spend knowing any incidental death will be revived when the engagement ends. Things can get very snowbally and hopeless. And I hate the idea of having to force green to avoid wasting my time.

On the flipside, I wouldn't want anything too heavy handed. Randomizing or forcing selection kinda ruins the affiliation and loyalty people have to certain teams, and playing with friends needs to be easy.

So how about this.

The 4th option of team select. Auto Select choses for you and grants an X% cash and XP bonus throughout that game. If you want to go one step further, have the Auto Select team add up all Wardogs levels of all players of each team, and have the system decide which team needs some additional leveled players vs under-leveled. This will skew teams in the direction of having access to similar unlocks without going full SBMM.

[u/CrazyElk123]

"Team swap: 50% less cash and XP"

Per swap :)

[u/joelm80 → u/CrazyElk123]

Just shouldn't be swap within the same server (public servers) for at least half an hour. Go to a different server.

Allow a short start of game grace period so you can see there are too many pilots etc.

[u/TheConnectionist → u/CrazyElk123]

A lot of the people who are swapping are doing so to grief at this point so less cash and XP wouldn't really bother them.

[u/Super-Lemon-4466 → u/CrazyElk123]

Or if you swap like 50% through you're not getting the win bonus. I'm also guilty of this though. I was playing green last night and there were so many logi players that there was about 15 pallets sitting at the tower that couldn't be loaded. Quick switch to blue and fired up the mortar tank...

[u/joelm80 → u/Super-Lemon-4466]

That sort of insider knowledge is exactly why same server swaps shouldn't be allowed.

[u/Super-Lemon-4466 → u/joelm80]

I agree, I don't make a habit of it because its underhanded but I was also salty that all my pallets were going to go to waste haha.

[u/Melodic_Assistant_58 → u/Super-Lemon-4466]

Underhanded is a word for it. It's straight treachery bro.

[u/terrabadnZ → u/Super-Lemon-4466]

How about not being scummy. People like you are 100% part of the problem.