So, first thing I do after that trade is go into a server, get a 19/4 score ( last 10 kills in the same life ) and dominate 4 people on a 12v12 server. They didn't seem to be f2pers.

Well, I'll add you t o my friendslist, and check for you whenever I get online in the future. We'll make this trade hapen.

Not nessecarily the "Top player" bit, though.
 

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Has this ever happened to you guys? It's certainly happened to me.

That is so annoying when it happens.

Worst thing ever.

I been on servers where I was auto-balanced in the middle of capturing the last point.
While I was still alive.
While writing my victory speech to the rest of my team.
AND THEY TAKE MY SANDVICH.

It's happened to me so many times where I break a Heavy/Medic combo, or destroy an engie nest, and basically guarantee that my team will push forward a good distance, only to be auto-balanced to the other team. It's also annoying when there's about 30 seconds left in payload and you push the cart to the next checkpoint (or within easy winning distance) only to be team-switched.

And yet other times when I'm on the team full of F2P players, where the second best score is 10 (compared to the other team's 10th score of 40-50) and it auto-balances to give us yet another F2P player with a score of 4 (and of course he's either playing spy or sniper).

The only thing I like about the auto-balance is being able to see how much of a force of change I am. On 2fort you can usually have one team controlling the bridge, and often if I'm switched from the controlling team then I just go ahead and push as demoknight to see what I can do.

And f2p players can be a pain in the ass. I was on 2fort one time, managed to get the intel all the way to that first doorway past the bridge on my side, then I die and the next person to grab it goes into the sewers where he gets killed while a heavy and scout guard the intel until it goes back.

The thing I've noticed about auto-balance is that it never tends to actually, y'know, balance. Like if one team's losing because it has a half-dozen snipers on it, auto-balance rarely seems to do anything to split them up, meaning you're either on the team with Bodyshot Bill and the Razorback Revue or you're on the winning team.

One time, I was a Scout on Well, and I managed to snag the intel twice before they got a proper Sentry nest (hooray Bonk! + Atomizer). We were playing to 3, so of course I die when the score is 2-1 and get put on the team that I had crippled. We lost, and I raged.

Another time, I was on Turbine (I think? The CTF map that's entirely indoors, with the enormous ventilation ducts). I managed to blitz their Intel room and capture the intel before they set up. I think I may have done it twice.

Then I died once, and got autobalanced to the team I'd capped from.

For bonus points? The team I'd been on was polite and efficient. The team I got balanced to had a dude slurping into his microphone, and at least two people defending him when I told him to stop. I didn't even stay long enough for us to lose.

Casual and hardcore are already big enough slices of Bullshit Pie, thanks
 

tap-dancing zombie Gary Gigax, Can this please NOT become a fucking -thing-