Ape Balancer

[A^3]

Need a team balancer that accounts players using aliases.

[Scourge]

Need a team balancer that accounts players using aliases.

Who was that, even? The Chilean, I mean.

[A^3]

Not sure who your talking about but I see alote of aliases and teams being destroyed by it.

[Scourge]

Note that this was after two yellows left.

[~~D4RR3N~~]

Need a team balancer that accounts players using aliases.

Maybe if cookies are added by IP and not by NICK... Just sayin' :P

[Higor]

Note that this was after two yellows left.

Typed a debug command and saw 2 things:
- The teaminfos, are PureTeamInfo actors...
- These teaminfos, have wrong team size indicators.

Perhaps if we run a script that counts players and properly updates the TeamInfo actors every X seconds, 4 way team balancer won't be screwed up that much.

[SAM]

The 4 way balancer freaks out because nexgen doesnt register siege as elimination

[Higor]

I made a profiler.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/58384316/UT99/TeamProfiler.u

Requires someone to log as admin and summon it.
It will display all real and reported team sizes.
Must be done when NexGen fails to move players.
Needs no installation, just put it on /System and wait till a 4way game gets screwed up.

summon TeamProfiler.TeamProfiler
Just in case i'm not around.
If numbers logged to console don't match, then the whole problem is easier to fix...

class TeamProfiler expands Actor;

event PostBeginPlay()
{
	local Pawn P;
	local int TCounts[4];
	local PlayerReplicationInfo aPRI;
	local PlayerPawn Spawner;
	
	ForEach AllActors (class'Pawn',P)
		if ( (P.PlayerReplicationInfo != none) && (P.PlayerReplicationInfo.Team < 4) && !P.PlayerReplicationInfo.bIsSpectator )
			TCounts[ P.PlayerReplicationInfo.Team ]++;


	ForEach AllActors (class'PlayerReplicationInfo', aPRI)
	{
		if ( aPRI.bAdmin )
		{
			Spawner = PlayerPawn(aPRI.Owner);
			if ( Spawner == none )
				continue;
			if ( TCounts[0] > 0 )
				Spawner.ClientMessage("== Players counted on red team: "$TCounts[0]$" ==");
			if ( TCounts[1] > 0 )
				Spawner.ClientMessage("== Players counted on blue team: "$TCounts[1]$" ==");
			if ( TCounts[2] > 0 )
				Spawner.ClientMessage("== Players counted on green team: "$TCounts[2]$" ==");
			if ( TCounts[3] > 0 )
				Spawner.ClientMessage("== Players counted on yellow team: "$TCounts[3]$" ==");
			if ( TeamGamePlus(Level.Game).Teams[0].Size > 0 )
				Spawner.ClientMessage("== Team info for red team's size: "$TeamGamePlus(Level.Game).Teams[0].Size$" ==");
			if ( TeamGamePlus(Level.Game).Teams[1].Size > 0 )
				Spawner.ClientMessage("== Team info for blue team's size: "$TeamGamePlus(Level.Game).Teams[1].Size$" ==");
			if ( TeamGamePlus(Level.Game).Teams[2].Size > 0 )
				Spawner.ClientMessage("== Team info for green team's size: "$TeamGamePlus(Level.Game).Teams[2].Size$" ==");
			if ( TeamGamePlus(Level.Game).Teams[3].Size > 0 )
				Spawner.ClientMessage("== Team info for yellow team's size: "$TeamGamePlus(Level.Game).Teams[3].Size$" ==");
		}
	}
	Destroy();
}

[][X][~FLuKE~][X][]

Why not use a system similar to how ACE bans are made..... use machine ID's instead of user ID like nexgen does, this would always point to that one machine regardless of what the name or nexgen ID is.

problem with a balancer on siege is the fact you can lose your builds which will cause rage fits.

[SAM]

Balancing is impossible in siege and is just undesirable due to the reprocussions. There is no way to keep everyone happy really....i spoke to Higor about possibly 'granting' game changing items though on switch ie nukes, invis etc and if owner of live tele is moved they should auto destruct....