22 Aug 11, 03:03AM
The problem that everyone is forgetting is that pubs NEED an autoteam feature. Using forceteam is all well and good when you are playing with mature players who are familiar with the game, but in a pub filled with random people it will never work.
The pubs are just there for fun. That is the only reason for them. TyD and other ladder servers are the only exceptions, and autoteam should obviously be disable for them. However, in a pub, there is no reason to play if you are not having fun. If a team is losing, even if its not badly, they won't be having fun, and they will take one of two courses of action to fix that: shuffle the teams until it's in their favor (or have autoteam do it), or they will quit. They will not play harder; if they aren't already playing as hard as they can, they are just there to screw around and won't play any harder.
Yes, autoteam needs improvements (especially not shuffling flag carriers) but it should not be removed.
The pubs are just there for fun. That is the only reason for them. TyD and other ladder servers are the only exceptions, and autoteam should obviously be disable for them. However, in a pub, there is no reason to play if you are not having fun. If a team is losing, even if its not badly, they won't be having fun, and they will take one of two courses of action to fix that: shuffle the teams until it's in their favor (or have autoteam do it), or they will quit. They will not play harder; if they aren't already playing as hard as they can, they are just there to screw around and won't play any harder.
Yes, autoteam needs improvements (especially not shuffling flag carriers) but it should not be removed.