What do you think about autobalance by banner?

[Harpag]

What do you think about autobalance by banner?

I think, that this is the coolest and best change that was introduced to cRPG. If you come in a few or

a dozen or more, and everyone will be on the same team, the game turns into a organized clash with   

tactical licks, etc. Great! We'll try to come on EU_cRPG_4_BT1 about 21 (mon-fri) We've seen organized

DRZ (as always :-) Pecores and Shogunate. Thanks for playing! And where is the rest of the clans or

groups? Try it and you will not regret it.

PS. For players without a clan, this situation should also be interesting.

[Phazey]

I love autobalance by banner. It's great fun to fight together with your clanmates.

And the autobalance is a harsh and relentless mechanism. If we manage to win a few rounds, the enemy team's ranks often swell to up to 50% more players than our team.

I've seen teams like 22 vs 35.  I think at one point the player count was pretty close to 1:2.

Also, i noticed a general increase in the use of tactics. Teamplay ftw!

[Joxer]

Like the concept. Hate the TS cheaters.

[Nindur]

Banner balance is the way the game was meant to be played. Love it!

[Sir_Ironlake]

Most awesome feature ever.

Locking camera to team view would go well with it though.

[Vance]

People that want to play together are suddenly allowed to, it's fantastic. The effect on teamwork in general is pronounced and extremely positive.

Locking camera to team view would go well with it though.

That would be excellent, good idea.

[3ABP]

"Balance by banner" is Nr.1 of all new improvements added by last patch.
But it must work more strong.
And if players quantity allow - force all players of one Faction to play in one team.
Let firstly team will be spitted by "banner balance" and only then (other player) will be balanced as earlier.

P.s. btw - "ballance by banner" is wrong name (if think about it).
Here must be something like "Faction balance".
I mean players from one faction must play on one side.
And it will be nice to implement even in cRPG engine - new ability to create cRPG faction (like in Strategus).
Targets is to disallow to player to take any banner (of existing faction) what they want.
And let only real faction members will be allowed to wear faction banner.

[Dexxtaa]

Hell yeah. Love BannerBalance. Going 3 map rotations with a x5 multiplier? Kickass.

Unbalanced? Maybe, but the "Your Team : Enemy Team" netXP counter does a really good job balancing the Character Levels.

To say nothing about player skill though. I remember doing work as a level 2 peas-o (2 kills 3 deaths, wooden sword yo)

But it's a total blast looking around and knowing that your buddies are gonna be right there with you on spawn, and it's awesome time.

[Gorath]

Banner balance?  Best thing to hit cRPG EVAR!

[Bothersome_Aldryk]

I love it. It's a massive improvement.

[SeQuel]

Step in the right direction, allows clans to work together and have fun.

[Bill The Butcher]

It's great, I changed my banner to one I always see winning now the 5x is rolling in! 

[UrLukur]

It's good in theory. In practice it should not make clan+clan vs randoms, but clan+randoms vs clan+randoms.

[Tristan]

Its an awesome feature... that can be improved.

First to prevent non-clans to take specific clan banners, secondly to arrange clan vs. clan not clans vs. randoms.
Moar banners are needed...

[Punisher]

In theory it's a great idea, allowing clanmates to play together but the implementation is bad. Balance shouldn't be made by banners, but by faction (you should have a faction field in your cRPG char page, just like in Strategus). If you take a look at the EU servers, at least 50% of the randoms are wearing Mercs or DRZ banner.

The balance system itself needs tweaking, quite often I saw situations when a team has 2 clans (10+ clanmates) and the other one is a bunch of randoms. Guess who wins 5 times in a row