Hello,
this is an experiment, I don't like stacked teams and try not to stack myself, but maybe because of telling people about it helps to do something against it. There are basically two ways to join a team before everyone else can, by console spaming or by going in and out of the team join zone in ready room fast.
- after a match or during a match, check the scoreboard what players are the best, try to remember to top players of each team; often, it is enough if the two best players join one team, this team will almost certainly win
- in ready room, check the scoreboard while people join up, pay attention if the majority of players join one team
- open your console (~ key or the key left of 1)
- type j1 to join marines, j2 to join aliens
- press enter
- if it says "team is full", repeatedly spam up arrow and enter in console so you join the team as soon as there is a free slot
Voilà, you joined the stacked team.
Conclusion:
- disable "priority joining" via console
- disable "priority joining" by quickly going in and out of the join zone in ready room
- pick people by chance out of the team join zone in ready room
This would already make it very hard for people to join in a stacked team. Instead, when the best players try to join one team, you would now see the whole server awkwardly standing arround in the teams join zone and noone could join any team. Maybe the good players in ready room would now decide to also join the other team, balancing the teams, instead of standing around in ready room together with all other people.
Disclaimer: I'm not saying all people always stack, often people really try to balance teams. But I think that the console spaming option is not known by new players, thats why they end up in the team that has free slots - the team that noone wants to join - while all people that know how to join via console can join the "good team".
this is an experiment, I don't like stacked teams and try not to stack myself, but maybe because of telling people about it helps to do something against it. There are basically two ways to join a team before everyone else can, by console spaming or by going in and out of the team join zone in ready room fast.
- after a match or during a match, check the scoreboard what players are the best, try to remember to top players of each team; often, it is enough if the two best players join one team, this team will almost certainly win
- in ready room, check the scoreboard while people join up, pay attention if the majority of players join one team
- open your console (~ key or the key left of 1)
- type j1 to join marines, j2 to join aliens
- press enter
- if it says "team is full", repeatedly spam up arrow and enter in console so you join the team as soon as there is a free slot
Voilà, you joined the stacked team.
Conclusion:
- disable "priority joining" via console
- disable "priority joining" by quickly going in and out of the join zone in ready room
- pick people by chance out of the team join zone in ready room
This would already make it very hard for people to join in a stacked team. Instead, when the best players try to join one team, you would now see the whole server awkwardly standing arround in the teams join zone and noone could join any team. Maybe the good players in ready room would now decide to also join the other team, balancing the teams, instead of standing around in ready room together with all other people.
Disclaimer: I'm not saying all people always stack, often people really try to balance teams. But I think that the console spaming option is not known by new players, thats why they end up in the team that has free slots - the team that noone wants to join - while all people that know how to join via console can join the "good team".