[MistaGee]

Hi,

I've enhanced the DoD:S Balancer plugin by dalto to take the players' score into account when switching people to the other team.

I basically checks the team sizes whenever a player dies, when they are uneven it chooses players to be switched according to this algorithm:

1. count players and sum up their score
2. calculate differences:
   1. dPlayers =
   2. dScore =
3. switch as many as dPlayers players, whose score is nearest to dScore.

Furthermore, this plugin should work on any mod.

The command sm_teams executes the team check right away. When using this command, the plugin does not wait for the players to die to be switched, but switches them immediately instead.

Credits:
dalto for making the original plugin, and Extreme_One and lambdacore for pointing me to bugs.

edit: (See changelog in the sp)

Greetz
MGee

[Extreme_One]

Cool. I'm putting this on my TF2 server now...

Any chance of granting immunity to admins?

[MistaGee]

They're already immune

Is it working? Haven't yet had the chance to test with TF2...

[StevenT]

hi MistaGee, very nice!
I bounced into this by checking the old DOD:S Team balancer forum topic.

Is it possible for you to make another Team Balancer based on DOD:S.

The special thing about dalto's plugin is that its based on games with only 1 round. (DOD:S or the mod Empires which i play).

1 round = 1 map, so there is never a round_end event (it would be changelevel then)

Anyhow, the Dalto plugin has this problem: it changes instantly, which makes it sometimes too annoying that players keep getting swapped over (sometimes 10 times swapped on the same map).

I wish you could just integrate a timer in the Dalto plugin so you can set it to check after 10 mins or 20 mins ... one round can take up to an hour easily.

Thanks MistaGee

PS: http://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?t=58059
that plugin has a time checker, maybe some idea for you on how to make those 2 into one great plugin

[MistaGee]

I've changed the hooks for DoD:S a bit, now teams are checked whenever an objective is accomplished. Implementing a timer is a bit harder, maybe with the updated hooks it's fine?

Greetz
Gee

[DontWannaName]

What immunity flag is it? What would be cool is a feature for donators to type !swapme in chat so they can change whenever they want and someone who isnt donator will be forced to move teams. I put this n tf2 and disabled the mp_autoteambalance cvar.

[FredJed223]

Originally Posted by DontWannaName What immunity flag is it? What would be cool is a feature for donators to type !swapme in chat so they can change whenever they want and someone who isnt donator will be forced to move teams. I put this n tf2 and disabled the mp_autoteambalance cvar.

Its the kick flag

And !swapme is used by another plugin. How about !swapteam

[FredJed223]

Also this doesn't seem to be obeying admin immunity.

[DontWannaName]

Sure but could you add a separate file for all the donators steam IDs? Helps keep them seperate from admins in admins cfg. So when a donator types !swapteam in chat is switches their team and if they dont have access you can make it show a message or do nothing, I dont know whats better.

[MistaGee]

Originally Posted by DontWannaName What immunity flag is it?

None, it simply checks if the person is any admin at all. Could be changed quite easily though.

Originally Posted by DontWannaName What would be cool is a feature for donators to type !swapme in chat so they can change whenever they want and someone who isnt donator will be forced to move teams.

I don't think a feature like this would make too much sense in this plugin - is there really no plugin which can do this?
Btw, I expect this to be abused for wtj all the time, so I think implementing such a feature is a bad idea altogether since it allows any donator to break teamplay whenever they want.

Originally Posted by DontWannaName Sure but could you add a separate file for all the donators steam IDs? Helps keep them seperate from admins in admins cfg.

That's what you can use Admin Groups for.

Originally Posted by DontWannaName So when a donator types !swapteam in chat is switches their team and if they dont have access you can make it show a message or do nothing, I dont know whats better.

That would be no different from the standard command implementation, where a user gets shown "You don't have access to this command" when appropriate.