Whats everyone's thoughts on the Auto Balance System? Apparently it can yank you off the Blue team and put you on the Red team and vise versa during the game......Would you be happy that youll get more "epic" battles? or upset that you worked hard to cap points for the wrong team?

I'll wait for clarification from someone who follows this game more closely. Cause that sounds too stupid to be real.

Originally posted by Foomerang

I'll wait for clarification from someone who follows this game more closely. Cause that sounds too stupid to be real.

No, what OP states is correct.

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Originally posted by nomss

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Originally posted by Foomerang I'll wait for clarification from someone who follows this game more closely. Cause that sounds too stupid to be real.

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No, what OP states is correct.

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I'm just gonna go ahead and duck out of this thread now :)

I personally don't like it.

I've always seen a prompt that asked if anyone on my team was willing to volunteer to swap teams.  Whoever clicks yes may get transferred.  This seems to kick in only if someone on one team leaves the game and the spot remains vacant for several seconds (Ie. couldn't be filled autotmatically by new players.)  Done like this, I like it.  

What I definitely did not like was that when I queued to pvp with a few friends, or if friends used the handy "join friend in pvp" button, we'd get to play in the same match, but weren't always placed on the same team.  That was definitely frustrating.  I mean it's definitely fun to bombard your friends with a trebuchet from time to time, but sometimes you just want to work together using some strategy.  

I didnt like it at all. This was the one part of GW2 that was completly casual, I could log in for just a few minutes and have some fun before going out or whatever.

I will just ignore this part of the game.

Originally posted by Homitu

I've always seen a prompt that asked if anyone on my team was willing to volunteer to swap teams.  Whoever clicks yes may get transferred.  This seems to kick in only if someone on one team leaves the game and the spot remains vacant for several seconds (Ie. couldn't be filled autotmatically by new players.)  Done like this, I like it.  

What I definitely did not like was that when I queued to pvp with a few friends, or if friends used the handy "join friend in pvp" button, we'd get to play in the same match, but weren't always placed on the same team.  That was definitely frustrating.  I mean it's definitely fun to bombard your friends with a trebuchet from time to time, but sometimes you just want to work together using some strategy.  

Sorry bud but that is wrong, you are "automatically" switched to the other team, no warning, no nothing.

the game asks you  to volunteer to switch sides.  i've never been "yanked" off of a team.  that being said i don't like it.  sometimes the matches are like 6 v 2 of 7 v 4.  i'd rather wait a few minutes til both teams are full.

Originally posted by Adalwulff 

Sorry bud but that is wrong, you are "automatically" switched to the other team, no warning, no nothing.

My personal experience confirms what he said though.  Whenever I've seen it happen, it's always asked for volunteers first.

During the stress test, I spent the entire 5 hours in the sPvP, and I got yanked off my team many times.

So I dont know what you guys are talking about.

Originally posted by Adalwulff

Originally posted by Homitu

I've always seen a prompt that asked if anyone on my team was willing to volunteer to swap teams.  Whoever clicks yes may get transferred.  This seems to kick in only if someone on one team leaves the game and the spot remains vacant for several seconds (Ie. couldn't be filled autotmatically by new players.)  Done like this, I like it.  

What I definitely did not like was that when I queued to pvp with a few friends, or if friends used the handy "join friend in pvp" button, we'd get to play in the same match, but weren't always placed on the same team.  That was definitely frustrating.  I mean it's definitely fun to bombard your friends with a trebuchet from time to time, but sometimes you just want to work together using some strategy.  

 

Sorry bud but that is wrong, you are "automatically" switched to the other team, no warning, no nothing.

Sorry, but there is always a prompt that asks for volunteers.

Originally posted by Mexorilla

the game asks you  to volunteer to switch sides.  i've never been "yanked" off of a team.  that being said i don't like it.  sometimes the matches are like 6 v 2 of 7 v 4.  i'd rather wait a few minutes til both teams are full.

I've been yanked off a team before when no one, including me, volunteered. It's happened a couple of times.

Originally posted by colddog04

Originally posted by Mexorilla

the game asks you  to volunteer to switch sides.  i've never been "yanked" off of a team.  that being said i don't like it.  sometimes the matches are like 6 v 2 of 7 v 4.  i'd rather wait a few minutes til both teams are full.

I've been yanked off a team before when no one, including me, volunteered. It's happened a couple of times.

If no one volunteers, someone is chosen at random I believe.

Yeah, it prompts if too many players drop out from one team before it yanks you. If no one chooses to swtich, it will yank. But who would want to drop out of the winning team anyway. I played a lot of these battles last BWE due to having little time overall and it was very annoying. However, on that same note, they made it so that every match kept switching around members of both parties anyway so after 10 straight matches and the same people playing, we got the chance to pretty much play with everyone anyway. If they are going to have this type of e-sport pvp, they need to have a teams option where you enter with your team and your team can't be swtiched for the duration of your run unless someone drops out from your team. At least thats my opinion.

if they are going to have this, then i dont see any serious team-based ePvP happening. would suck if you go in with your pre-made team and all of a sudden you have to fight the same team you worked so hard to learn to play with. i hope they remove this, it does not provide a 'fun' feel

Originally posted by xm522

if they are going to have this, then i dont see any serious team-based ePvP happening. would suck if you go in with your pre-made team and all of a sudden you have to fight the same team you worked so hard to learn to play with. i hope they remove this, it does not provide a 'fun' feel

this doesnt happen in tournament play. 

Originally posted by Mexorilla

Originally posted by xm522

if they are going to have this, then i dont see any serious team-based ePvP happening. would suck if you go in with your pre-made team and all of a sudden you have to fight the same team you worked so hard to learn to play with. i hope they remove this, it does not provide a 'fun' feel

this doesnt happen in tournament play. 

oh, ok, thank you for the clarification :)

I hope this is brought up in the Official Forums~

Why is that a problem to annyone?

I can see that it might suck when you are bout to win a game and get swithed to the other team
but this system is in place to balance teams. Would you rather remove it and end
up playing games where it happens to be 1vs5 or 2vs5?

Many games especially shooters also do this but they usually don't even ask for volunteers.
The only thing i would like to see is some kind of punishment for leaving games early
to reduce the amount of people leaving games before the end.