people changing teams when losing to be on the winning team is annoying, insulting, and unbalancing; yet locking people to a team at start is impractical and limiting. so i say switching teams should bring you down to 0 points. it still gives the option but should prevent the mid-late game switching that usually seems to happen.
0 points is very extreme. BUT the idea of a penalty of some sort is interesting, to say the least. Maybe not 0 points, but like a 1-5 point penalty? idk. I'll think about a number, but the principle seems good. oh, and lets not let this devolve into a flame war / clan battle. Yeah, seeing as we know who this suggestion is about.
isnt it simple enough to make a check function to see if the team that the player is from outnumbers the other team or not ? calculation.... will this action uneven more than 1 as in uneven by 2 players or more = loss of points nad uhmm.... maybe the person being able to take friendly fire or something
add [Muppet] or something to the person's name - and maybe not allow them to change name for a while. It could stop the 12 man spectator team feeling so pleased with themselves watching the 16v4 fight going on for a while. Should it even be possible to move from one team to a larger one (other than spec)? if its 5v10 and the 5 can join the 10 thats just silly isnt it? The bit in the ready room where you choose your team's portal should just say 'this team has too many players' , 'this place is a mess' or some such.
It would be a very handy feature to be able to enable when leaving servers unmonitored. I think unfair play can make many new noobs leave after a while after release as it happened alot during the grand days of 1.071 and still does even in the mainly veteran player based server. hmmm maybe also incorporate something that clearly shows what is going on as there are VERY often like 2 or 3 new noobs who will go WTF TEAMS, STACKING, THIS SUCK, like OH WOW you could win when its like 15 vs 4!!!!11!1!!11 because everyone left to spectate the defeat.
this quote ftw.. and buttery, hash isnt the only person who abused this.. ive seen many people do this
im not focusing this at anyone, but it is a general problem. i didnt think about people switching in order to preserve balance (doesnt happen as often it seems). maby you only lose points if you switch to the team with more ppl (even if it went from 5v6 to 6v5). and i do not think being droped to 0 is too large of a penalty. this is a lame move just 1 notch shy of an exploit, the only reason it is not an exploit is because it can be done on any game. and as for it being a server issue, there is an official server so the flagship server should have options in place to maximize game play, even if they are only server options.
