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Backalleybuttlove
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Crack-Powered Capper

P: 09/09/2021 06:39 EST
   
Insomniac wrote:
Quality over quantity only goes so far. You can't help people who play a capture the flag game like a death match game, and you can't help people with 100 hours played compete with people with thousands of hours played. The balancing the server does seems to work well enough most of the time, but there are times where it does get silly and stops making sense.

Balance in this game is nigh impossible, because of the skill gap between newer players and those that have been playing for a long time, the game is over 20 years old now. Adding to that is the disappearance of most other servers, so all skilled players are more likely to spend their time here, further widening this divide. There are no good answers to this problem, but if you take away player control, you have to get it right.
I think this is a fair criticism. Sometimes the balancer gets it right such that there's both even teams (quantity) AND even amount of god-tier, mediocre, and noobs on each team (quality). That's what I like best. Sometimes though you'll have say 20 people on the server and the balancer will put 7 god-tier players all on one team against 13 misfits. Often these sort of matches will result in a stalemate as the god-tier team will create an iron clad defense but sometimes I've seen the all-star team pull off a surprise flag cap despite being out numbered by 5.

  
straightcashhomie
P: 09/09/2021 09:16 EST
   
Matt_tfc wrote:
Vishus wrote:
Matt_tfc wrote:
Check this one out from last night..

https://ibb.co/d46Tfxz
7 vs 14.. teams are fine!
Why do you play under the names of other players?
To fool certain players who are obsessed with me. It works pretty good - shoutout to gaba for the idea.
I guess I should change my name to matt since you're about like thanoulis in comparison to me.
  
Vishus
Super Regular
Killer Scout

P: 09/09/2021 14:20 EST
   
Matt_tfc wrote:
Vishus wrote:
Matt_tfc wrote:
Check this one out from last night..

https://ibb.co/d46Tfxz
7 vs 14.. teams are fine!
Why do you play under the names of other players?
To fool certain players who are obsessed with me. It works pretty good - shoutout to gaba for the idea.
Why not just use a different name? I would not be impressed if I discovered that someone was pretending to be me.
  
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