[Extreme_One]

The plugin works fine on my TF2 server.

The only thing is that the sm_teams command gives "Plugin encountered error 15: Array index is out of bounds"

Also is there any way to disable the message that states that the teams are balanced?

[CrimsonGT]

I can not thank you enough. I have started writing one of these for TF2 a couple times now, and just never had the time to finish it or would run into a stupid problem.

Future update suggestions I have for this regarding TF2...

1) Instead of checking every 2 minutes, why not just check if the teams are even, or 1 person apart on player death, then set it to balance in X seconds (15 or 30 probably) and after X seconds check to see if its still imbalanced, then balance them if its not.

2) Add an option for player balance immunity. The biggest problem right now is some people will just get switched back and fourth, back and fourth. Maybe add something that once a player is switched, they won't be switched again for X minutes (10 would probably be optimal, but making it a cvar would be nice). Could just make an array and add the players to it after they are switched as some sort of immunity list.

3) In the future a skill based balancer would rock, this might be a big enough addition to make a different plugin. But you could do it as easily as based on how many points they have, or do a more advanced version and do it based on a kill to death ratio, then take medics into account and what not. This would be on every server if done right lol.

[MistaGee]

DWN:
The line numbers listed in your post actually don't make sense. None of the line numbers matches with anything in my plugin... Maybe you don't have the latest version?

The checks I've added should prevent such errors from happening, if the latest version doesn't work either I'll add a few more checks.

Originally Posted by DontWannaName The auto checker spams chat a lot with failed to switch teams, they are full or w/e

What do you mean, I haven't implemented any such messages... Please post a server log or something...

Originally Posted by Extreme_One The only thing is that the sm_teams command gives "Plugin encountered error 15: Array index is out of bounds"

There should be a line number listed?

Originally Posted by Extreme_One Also is there any way to disable the message that states that the teams are balanced?

yes, delete the prints in lines 137/138. I might add a cvar or other parameter for that if requested.

[Extreme_One]

Originally Posted by MistaGee ... There should be a line number listed?

OK yeah I did get that info last night but forgot to post it.
I'll grab logs and post later.

Originally Posted by MistaGee ... yes, delete the prints in lines 137/138. I might add a cvar or other parameter for that if requested.

Thank you I can do that

Originally Posted by DontWannaName ...The auto checker spams chat a lot with failed to switch teams, they are full or w/e

Me plus DontWannaName = 2 requests for a cvar to have a cvar to disable chat for when there's no balancing required.

[MistaGee]

Originally Posted by CrimsonGT 2) Add an option for player balance immunity. The biggest problem right now is some people will just get switched back and fourth, back and fourth. Maybe add something that once a player is switched, they won't be switched again for X minutes (10 would probably be optimal, but making it a cvar would be nice). Could just make an array and add the players to it after they are switched as some sort of immunity list.

As you pointed out, adding such a feature is fairly easy. I just want to make sure the rest works, after that I'll implement that

Originally Posted by CrimsonGT 3) In the future a skill based balancer would rock, this might be a big enough addition to make a different plugin. But you could do it as easily as based on how many points they have, or do a more advanced version and do it based on a kill to death ratio, then take medics into account and what not. This would be on every server if done right lol.

It is already skill based... the algorithm in the first post describes how the plugin decides who to switch.

Besides, I don't think I need to take medics into special account, because they get scores whenever a player they're healing kills someone (I'm always in the top 5 of the server's scoreboard, and I play medic all the time )...

[FredJed223]

Updated my servers to newest version... Will post back with any results.

Thanks

[Extreme_One]

Originally Posted by MistaGee ... There should be a line number listed? ...

 27 "Fair Team Balancer" (2.4) by MistaGee

20:23:53 sm_teams
20:23:53 L 02/14/2008 - 20:18:20: [SM] Plugin encountered error 15: Array index is out of bounds
20:23:53 L 02/14/2008 - 20:18:20: [SM] Debug mode is not enabled for "fairteambalancer.smx"
20:23:53 L 02/14/2008 - 20:18:20: [SM] To enable debug mode, edit plugin_settings.cfg, or type: sm plugins debug 27 on

20:25:07 sm plugins debug 27 on
20:25:07 [SM] Successfully toggled debug mode on plugin fairteambalancer.smx.
20:25:16 sm_teams
20:25:16 L 02/14/2008 - 20:19:43: [SM] Plugin encountered error 15: Array index is out of bounds
20:25:16 L 02/14/2008 - 20:19:43: [SM] Displaying call stack trace for plugin "fairteambalancer.smx":
20:25:16 L 02/14/2008 - 20:19:43: [SM]   [0]  Line 123, /home/groups/alliedmodders/forums/files/2/1/3/1/23555.attach::PerformTeamCheck()
20:25:16 L 02/14/2008 - 20:19:43: [SM]   [1]  Line 101, /home/groups/alliedmodders/forums/files/2/1/3/1/23555.attach::Command_Teams()

[ThatGuy]

I find it rather annoying when it switches on events for TF2, or just when teams are fine.

For example..

It's 12 on 12. Red has 2 cap points blue has 3. Scores are almost identical.... The switcher takes the Reds BEST player and puts it to blue... causing the teams to be 11-13 and scores to be in favor of the blue team..

In other words, some times it actually unbalances the game when the teams are perfect, couldn't this be setup to only change the player if there's a 1 player difference? Also, would it be possible to have an option to turn on/off switching on events so we can just setup our timer every how many seconds we want? I don't think both are really necessary, especially if you set the timer to 30 seconds.

[lamdacore]

Originally Posted by Extreme_One 27 "Fair Team Balancer" (2.4) by MistaGee 20:23:53 sm_teams 20:23:53 L 02/14/2008 - 20:18:20: [SM] Plugin encountered error 15: Array index is out of bounds 20:23:53 L 02/14/2008 - 20:18:20: [SM] Debug mode is not enabled for "fairteambalancer.smx" 20:23:53 L 02/14/2008 - 20:18:20: [SM] To enable debug mode, edit plugin_settings.cfg, or type: sm plugins debug 27 on 20:25:07 sm plugins debug 27 on 20:25:07 [SM] Successfully toggled debug mode on plugin fairteambalancer.smx. 20:25:16 sm_teams 20:25:16 L 02/14/2008 - 20:19:43: [SM] Plugin encountered error 15: Array index is out of bounds 20:25:16 L 02/14/2008 - 20:19:43: [SM] Displaying call stack trace for plugin "fairteambalancer.smx": 20:25:16 L 02/14/2008 - 20:19:43: [SM] [0] Line 123, /home/groups/alliedmodders/forums/files/2/1/3/1/23555.attach::PerformTeamCheck() 20:25:16 L 02/14/2008 - 20:19:43: [SM] [1] Line 101, /home/groups/alliedmodders/forums/files/2/1/3/1/23555.attach::Command_Teams()

that is because he is counting the players being in spectrators, too. but the array for counting has only a size of 2 (for two groups and not three)
so the simpliest solution is to check if player are in a team greater than 1.

from row 120

        for( new i = 1; i < mc; i++ ){
                if( IsClientInGame(i) ){
                        cTeam = GetClientTeam(i);
                        // MOD BY LAMDACORE
                        if (cTeam >= 2) {
                                ++tPlayers[ cTeam-2 ];
                                tFrags[ cTeam-2 ] += GetClientFrags(i);
                                }
                        // END MOD BY LAMDACORE
                        }
                }

[raffe2]

When i try to use this on cstrike I get:
"[AMXX] Invalid Plugin (plugin "fairteambalancer.smx")"

You use include sourcemod and i play cstrike, is that the problem?
I use amxx 1.76 and not 1.8, could this be the problem?
Normally I get a .amxx-file, but his is a .smx-file, maybe it is that?