I'm in favor of banner balance, but dislike one sided games.
So in short, if you could count an entire banner teams "Value", then you could put 4 tincan clan mates on one team, and 8 newbies/random people on the other, and the gold would roughly be matched evenly, also it would punish people for being bad, and bringing black armor when they cant even block without a shield.
At least in theory... thoughts?
-Ulrek-