I've noticed that early in the mornings the server will have one or two players. They're capping all of the flags, switching to the other team and repeating the process. Have you guys thought about requiring te server to have a certain number of players before the round begins?
Minimum number of players for a round to start?
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Simpson, Glitch and I basically started the server this morning and it was balanced until the last hundred tickets. That's when I asked people to back off. I switched at one point to help balance it out too, but I don't think you were in game at that point.
I wasn't even referencing that particular match. The games after you left were way worse. I watched two people in a heli take all the flags, switch sides and repeat.
That's unfortunate but raising the minimum would make it much harder to get the server started in the early mornings. Although proper team play could avoid that. Two guys with stingers, IGLAs or soflam in a tank would shut that down very quick.
Team play would be nice but I haven't seen that much in the mornings. I haven't found the early morning games to be much of an enjoyable experience. The autobalance is way out of wack. You might have 5 guys on each team but 3 of them on one side never spawned in so its really 2v5.
I rarely play in the mornings either because of work, surf, or skateboarding. The few times I have played in the morning, like this morning, I realized quickly the game play is drastically different from the evenings when the server is full. I'll admit I was more focused on keeping it balanced and not capping everything, rather than taking and holding objectives. Balancing issues are much harder to deal with when you have 8 or 10 players on the server. No auto balance program will ever fix guys joining but not playing.
Mayne maybe not. Its a very different style of play. Slow and mellow for the most part. Reminds me of Walking Dead where Im wondering where everyone went.
Interesting. I've definitely done some 1v1s on the servers first thing in the morning.
seeder accounts don't play so that's possible as far as game play in the server goes
If the match or game is already running or started then You can fool you into thinking that it started with less than four people. After the server reboots it requires at least four players to start a match properly
This morning I did some early morning play, SirRoberts was on but not playing, I guess one of those phantom spots along with the other 2. It let me play and capture flags while I practice using the little bird. when I crashed, yes not very good at flying, I joined the other team and grabbed some flags. looked like an even game and Roberts showed up and had a blast killing each other. I think that if people see a game going and not at 1400 tickets they will come. Then power went out and had to reboot. I gave the BF1 a try after the reboot. There were a lot more people there.