Remove the option to swap teams

Team swap is the only bad thing about this game currently and it completely ruins peoples fun. The only use for it is on a server like Aphelions roleplay server other wise the only other thing people use it for is switching to the winning team wich then means that someone on the winning team (usualy me) then get team balanced to the losing team ruining the rest of that round for them. I fall victim to this reguarly and is the reason i have lost 90-95% of my games, many other people probaly have fallin victim to this aswell so this means to give every one a bettter game this should be removed by deafult but server owners can turn it back on if they want.

 

Wait... are you also saying auto balance is bad? What is this thread...

It doesn't matter if you lose a lot of games because you get auto balanced, kag has no stats tracking...

 

What matters is whether people are having fun. It's not fun to build a bunch of stuff for your team, then get autoswitched away because some failure on the losing team decided to unbalance it even more instead of trying to help make a comeback. Nor is it fun to watch your team dwindle at the first sign of starting to lose, as the other team just gets stronger.

I'm completely in favor of disabling manual teamswitching for people on the currently losing team.

 

I always stay loyal to my color, I only switch to my friends (if they are on the same server ofc) before the Mighty Red Wall fades.

 

Are we tracking "losing" by players on that team, or by points, or by captured Halls and Flags, or by TDM frags?

 

I do quite like this idea, because it allows you to get on a team with your friends still in arranged games.
So what is it? Can't join the winning team, or can't switch after build time? What do we want?

Also my humble suggestion would be to make Builders the lowest priority class for team swapping, and make the system weight them so they are less likely to get swapped unless they just joined recently-- Knights and Archers do their thing no matter what, but a lot of effort goes into Builders' superconstructions and it's understandable they would get attached to them.

 

Team-swapping is a big problem; but I don't think completely disabling it will do any good. I voted yes to underline this problem, but not because I think this is a good suggestion.

 

Then more people will just quit the game instead.