KDR_11k
03-21-2011, 01:03 PM
Well, people leaving mid-game is a pretty big problem for Crasher since a lot of it relies on having equally sized teams. There's no way people can be prevented from leaving, real life is always going to interfere at some point. So let's make the best of what we got...
Mid match auto-balance
Easy: If too many people on one team quit then people from the other team are transferred over until the numbers are even +-1. The problem is that nobody likes being autobalanced, especially since people tend to ragequit when their team is losing and others get forced from the winning to the losing team.
Allow joining mid-game
Currently a running game accepts no additional players. Having people quit out wouldn't be half as bad if somebody else could just take their spot. Since there are no bonuses for playing a match longer (like a per-match experience system) that shouldn't be problematic. Of course in CBA a new joiner would not spawn until the next round.
Buffing smaller teams
A small team is at a disadvantage in general but especially in CTC it's problematic as the capture mechanisms work purely by the number of players. A first step would be scaling these mechanisms so they don't go by the absolute number of players but the percentage of the team that's attempting the capture so in a 4v2 match each player of the smaller team captures with the strength of 2 players of the larger team (because they represent half the team each). Further adjustments could be things like bonus health and damage to help against the combat imbalance. This would be very difficult to balance correctly though.
Penalizing quitters
Whatever is done to them it would discourage people from just raging but it would not help with people who have to leave for real life reasons and in the end the game is still ruined by the quitter.
Any other ideas?
Mid match auto-balance
Easy: If too many people on one team quit then people from the other team are transferred over until the numbers are even +-1. The problem is that nobody likes being autobalanced, especially since people tend to ragequit when their team is losing and others get forced from the winning to the losing team.
Allow joining mid-game
Currently a running game accepts no additional players. Having people quit out wouldn't be half as bad if somebody else could just take their spot. Since there are no bonuses for playing a match longer (like a per-match experience system) that shouldn't be problematic. Of course in CBA a new joiner would not spawn until the next round.
Buffing smaller teams
A small team is at a disadvantage in general but especially in CTC it's problematic as the capture mechanisms work purely by the number of players. A first step would be scaling these mechanisms so they don't go by the absolute number of players but the percentage of the team that's attempting the capture so in a 4v2 match each player of the smaller team captures with the strength of 2 players of the larger team (because they represent half the team each). Further adjustments could be things like bonus health and damage to help against the combat imbalance. This would be very difficult to balance correctly though.
Penalizing quitters
Whatever is done to them it would discourage people from just raging but it would not help with people who have to leave for real life reasons and in the end the game is still ruined by the quitter.
Any other ideas?