cod4 server suggestion auto assign message on beginners

[Orcface]

I would love to see a message added about using auto assign when joining in. All this evening teams have been unbalanced. No one had an issue using it once it was mentioned so I'm not complaining about anyone I just think if the message was there as they came into the lobby it might reduce this a tiny bit. Also, being new to COD on PC myself I was confused about what nade switching was. Never had heard the term before. Once explained, easy enough but I'm sure other new players might question what it is as I did.

 

Anywho, just a suggestion Take care

[speedfact]

eh well most that dont know ask, if they dont ask they find out pretty quickly whats allowed and what isnt. Since autobalance is kinda self explained when you see "teams will be evened in yadayada time", then magicly teams are evened....

As for nade switching i dont think any admin has a problem explaining that to the curious minds.

[phil21191]

That's what auto balance is for, but I will agree there has been a lot of team stacking on beginners lately, including to the point of players swapping teams after auto balance has done it's job.

 

I've been asking players to stop the team stacking and if they continue after auto balance has kicked in then I've been issuing warnings. One warn usually has the desired effect.

[EmtHipple]

This happens on all servers at some point, team stacking is against the rules and should be handled as any lower level offense, IE: three warns, kick, tempban. Of course most times you can handle it by just educating players abut the rules  

Edited August 21, 2013 by EmtHipple

[Midnight]

Ah the age old topic.  Just follow admin protocol after spamming the rules and explaining things a few times.  This is the only real way people listen.  It's like life. There are laws and people might think these laws deter criminals, but the prison rate keeps rising...

[The_Dom]

I agree that it would be helpful to have a running message reminding people to be observant of it unbalanced teams and to auto assign. I know we admin it and try to balance, but we can't force people to do it we don't have a !putteam or whatever the et command is. Having a reminder for people, other than constant nagging from admins, would be helpful. Most often teams get unbalanced because of people not using auto-assign, not team switching (although it does happen).

[EmtHipple]

True Dom, I have a bind that reminds players to balance teams and keep them balanced, I'll throw that out a few times if the teams get stacked and then the rules come up. After I kick the first couple of stackers the rest seem to get the point and stop 

[putts]

since i am on Spetsnaz 95% of the time, i know people don't at the beginning of the map.

 

too bad autobalance doesn't take score into consideration. similar number of players does not equal similar score.

[Orcface]

Yeah I've got no issues explaining or asking these things of people. But i get you, even with them posted there will always be the people who still disregard or just don't read them in the first place.