Generally (e.g. in ABLENS.net server) ladder players selecting one side and the others (noobs)selecting the other side .

May be there could be a plugin or code to teams like this.

(*) At the begining of the game, system sorts players according to their skills which is available on the server. e.g.;

1. player 1 10000 TEAM1
2. player 2 8000 TEAM2
3. player 3 7500 TEAM2
4. player 4 4500 TEAM1
5. player 5 3500 TEAM1
6. player 5 3000 TEAM2


(*) Then first palyers randomly decided rine or allien e.g. TEAM1

(*) BTW plugin auto- balances next 2 players to TEAM2 and next 2 players to TEAM1 bla bla.

...... TEAM1..............................TEAM2.........
1. player 1 10000 .......... 2. player 2 8000
4. player 4 4500 ........... 3. player 3 7500
5. player 5 3500 ........... 6. player 6 3000
-------------------------------------------------------
TEAMSKILL 18000 ............................18500


This much more better then random teams. Server also must allow only auto-balance.


What do you think ?

Tactical Gamer has such a plugin.

The german server [SEK2000] or someting like that has a similar feature.

We use nearly the exact same method for the plugin that is running on the YO-Clan servers. I am thinking of releasing the plugin to the general public soonish as there seems to be plenty of interest for it.

Here's a random nobody giving his support for your plug in.

"Skill" is always a hard quality to quantify. I'd be against this if it were required for all servers.

YO clan has a system that i guess must work like this but in practise it's broken for good/popular maps as all the good players get shunted to one team, but bizzarely seems to work for the bad maps.

you also need to take roles into account. as frequently happens on the above server, the only guy willing to go commander might get forced onto aliens, the only not-newbie lerk might be put onto marines, etc...

please release the plugin could be good on some of the servers i play on

Does a good gorge have a good skill too?

The basic idea of having balanced teams is good. And the idea sounds pretty good too. But if you havent played it, you have no idea.

For this kind of plugin there should be maximum skill. Like 1 to 5. Why? Here's why:

I once played in SEK2000 servers because i really liked this mod, but then one time I did some total pwnage and my skill raised to 25. Which meant Im as good as 25 regular players. After this I got always kick banned for unbalancing teams