Auto balance hilarity
Yes I’ve had similar experiences and I’ve been counting how many games I’ve had this occur to me and that has been 7. Seven times today, I’ve helped the initial team I’ve been on to get to 400-1xx score, and guess what, 4 players from the other team leave and I’m moved over with 1 other person to the opposite team to ‘balance’ the teams.
Honestly this is a really bad design that ANet should address, instead of letting people leave whenever they want, they should have a 20 second timer in at the beginning and the end to allow them to leave. Otherwise it should LOCK these players into the match so that they are not allowed to glory farm and then just leave their records ‘untouched’ by abusing this system.
Please ANet look into reviewing this system, because as a player, I don’t feel like I have that much incentive to pub anymore since this system makes it very unfair to players who stick throughout the entire match to see their labour rewarded at the end of the match as a pose to being switched over to the other side and getting a loss for it.
People should be able to come and go as they please. ANet should just turn off autobalancing as soon as one team reaches 400 points. Also, an individual player that volunteers to switch teams when they’re unbalanced should receive a glory bonus as incentive.
Simple solution to Autobalance issues:
- When somebody volunteers to join the other team, they automatically receive the win bonus regardless of game outcome
- You do not get autobalanced off if your team has 400> points, unless there’s less than a 25 point difference between the two.