DOD:S Team Balancer
 

DOD:S Team Balancer

Current Version: 1.0

Description:
This team balancer for Day of Defeat:Source keeps the teams the same size by moving dead players from the larger team. Admins are immune.

Planned Features:

• If there is sufficient demand I will turn this into a skill based team balancer

CVar's:
sm_dods_balancer_version: The version number
sm_dods_balancer_enable: Enables the plugin

Changelog:
1.0: Initial Release

Re: DOD:S Simple Team Balancer
 

Finally someone that paid attention to this great game, thank you!

Re: DOD:S Team Balancer
 

Approved, sorry for the late approval.

Re: DOD:S Team Balancer
 

I want to request 2 things to this plugin.

1 Only admins with global immunity are immune against balancer

2 Can you make a messege in the chat when a player is moved by balancer

Example: DOD:S Team Balancer: (username) was moved to balance the teams

Re: DOD:S Team Balancer
 

Immunity in SourceMod has been modified for 1, and for 2, this plugin is being HEAVILY worked on.

Re: DOD:S Team Balancer
 

Thanks for this plugin. Great work so far.

It would be nice if you build in a delay (with countdown in the chat area) before the plugin switch a player. There are often players who want to change the team but don't notice that the teams are uneven.

Re: DOD:S Team Balancer
 

Nice Job,

would be great if you could implement the balancer skill based. :)

Re: DOD:S Team Balancer
 

That is planned for a future version, though dalto has been very busy with his job lately. Him and I have been working on the balancing algorithm to work for dod:source better as well as counter-strike source and hopefully down the line some other mods/games.

Re: DOD:S Team Balancer
 

Any Update? :oops:

Re: DOD:S Team Balancer
 

wish I could say haven't seen dalto online in forever :(

Re: DOD:S Team Balancer
 

great plugin, helps alot, dalto are you back???? if so or someone else who could fix this , when this plugin swaps the dead player it is displayed that he was killed by his own team, another words when the allies need a player and the next axis is killed and sent to the allies the death listing has it that an allie killed an allie, could this be made to display that in fact that player was on axis when he was killed, it drives people crazy thinking they tked someone.

Re: DOD:S Team Balancer
 

This works for TF2 as well. It does the same thing as the built in balancer does though, only instantly.

How would one modify this to grant some kind of immunity to a player that has been switched so they won't be switched again for X minutes?

Re: DOD:S Team Balancer
 

That would be great! This plugin rox only i cant use it because it keeps switching some players too often, breakes teamplay

Re: DOD:S Team Balancer
 

I've made a plugin (based on this one) that switches players at the end of the round instead of instantly (problem with that was, that players sometimes got a TK because this plugin switched players too fast), and that takes the players' score into account when switching.

http://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?p=583663

Hth,
Gee

Re: DOD:S Team Balancer
 

is it possible to give other groups immunity to the auto balancer or do they have to be an admin?

Re: DOD:S Team Balancer
 

they have to be admin, but they don't have to have any admin flags :)

Re: DOD:S Team Balancer
 

thanks.

I have one more question, I have all sourcemod plugins disabled except the hlstatsx and melee only(I run mani for admin). so what plugins need to be enabled to get this plugin working and have the admin file read.

Re: DOD:S Team Balancer
 

only "Admin File Reader" as far as i know.

Re: DOD:S Team Balancer
 

admin-flatfile?

Re: DOD:S Team Balancer
 

Hello, i uploaded the dodsbalancer.smx but it doesn't works, maybe i've to do something else?

Re: DOD:S Team Balancer
 

Does this currently work for dods final?

Re: DOD:S Team Balancer
 

It's a damn shame that Dalto is not updating this. With Mani having issues and the fair team Balancer not being fixed for Admin exceptions there does not seem to be a god working team balancer for DOD:S

Re: DOD:S Team Balancer
 

Hi folks,

I added "sm_dods_balancer_maxteamdiff" to reduce too agressive teamchanges.

default: sm_dods_balancer_maxteamdiff 1
allowed values 1-5


ideas for further updates: warning text msg if teams are little unbalanced. How about a GPL version?

It works in DOD:S... so far

Re: DOD:S Team Balancer
 

Good work, nicely done. One question: I didn't understand what exactly this new command does. can you explain it to me? Are this values in seconds??

Re: DOD:S Team Balancer
 

with sm_dods_balancer_maxteamdiff you can define how many player difference between the 2 teams is allowed:

example: 16 players
team red: 7
team blue:9
sm_dods_balancer_maxteamdiff 2
result: team difference is 2 -> no change

example: 15 players
sm_dods_balancer_maxteamdiff 2
team red: 6
team blue:9
result: team difference is 3 -> next killed player from team blue is switched to red

Next update comes with text warning if teams are unbalanced. Switching players against their will is not a nice thing. Perhaps text warning helps to avoid trouble on the server. Player is killed.. "Teams are unbalaced, do you wanna join other team press 1.. no press2" well something like that

Re: DOD:S Team Balancer
 

Thank you for the info. One thing that is bothering me is that when you kill someone and this person goes to your team because of unbalanced teams, it counts like friendly fire. You should fix this too. ^^

Re: DOD:S Team Balancer
 

does it count as ff or is it just the symbol?
I had problems with symbols showing ff but atac is fine, this was due to DoD:S though and I doubt the plugin had anything to do with my issue.

Re: DOD:S Team Balancer
 

Doesn't count as FF, but appears as FF. People in my server complains about this anyway. I was just warning the author to fix this if possible.

Re: DOD:S Team Balancer
 

It looks like ff but it is not. I only added one little feature at this plugin, Im not the original author. At the moment Im super bussy with our new dod servers.. but I wanna try to develop this plugin further.

we run a 32 slot server and sm_dods_balancer_maxteamdiff 2 looks a good solution till the next update brigs a better solution

Re: DOD:S Team Balancer
 

There is a new plugin called Day of Defeat TeamManager Source that has much more features than this one and works better.

Re: DOD:S Team Balancer
 

nice, use it :) have fun

Re: DOD:S Team Balancer
 

Since INS works like dods, would this work with Insurgency to? Could it be edited easily for INS? Insurgency really needs a team balancer.

Re: DOD:S Team Balancer
 

No idea,ve never tried it on INS MOD. I had a quick look at the code and it looks really basic with two teams. If the team is unbalanced it switches the next dead player to the other team.

At the moment I dont have much time for tests with other mods. the only offer I can give is... try the plugin and report the errors here in this forum

Re: DOD:S Team Balancer
 

I modified this plugin for myself, but I thought some other peoples might like what I did.
Antithasys was helping me with another plugin, and I thought i could do the same to this one. I was changing another plugin to just look for the a admin flag for reserve.

I also added a chat notification to say that "username was swapped to balance the teams."

I made the swap delay 1 second so that in the hud, it will no longer show you killing a teammate as he's getting swapped.

so i:
- changed the immunity to look for the reserve flag
- made the switch delay 1 second to prevent 'team killings' in the HUD
- added a chat notification saying someone got switched

Re: DOD:S Team Balancer
 

hello guys am new to all this

would like like to know how to install this plugin or where it should be put

many thanks in advance

DB

Re: DOD:S Team Balancer
 

I love your Plugin.

It is simple, it is effective, it is stable.

But one question:
Can you add a command like balance? So I can type sm_balance in chat and the teams are balanced? Sometimes the "wait till someone dies" Function isnt working, because no one dies. This can take much time if a team is noobish. So they get rushed and frustrated.

sm_blance is provided by Xaiders Advanced Commands, but I am not willing to install this just because I need a balance

Re: DOD:S Team Balancer
 

I need help how do you put mods on DODS

Re: DOD:S Team Balancer
 

DOD:S Team Balancer Fix for SourceMod v1.11 or v1.12

Re: DOD:S Team Balancer
 

Hi,
Another version that handles humans and bots separately.

First it balance human, secondly it balance bots.
And third if there are 3 humans in team 1, 2 humans in team 2 and the total number of bots and humans is 9 players, will balance by putting 1 bot in team1 and 3 bots in team2.
Which makes Team1=3+1=4 VS Team2=2+3=5.

And there is a translation file for english and french.

The first zip is compiled with sourcemod 1.11 6502 and contain all files.

The last zip is for french translation.

Re: DOD:S Team Balancer
 

great work both