Better Team Balance

Yet another autobalance mod. Except it's a bit smorter and comes with additional features. All with the overarching purpose of improving team balancing on a server, so that we might enjoy challenging and even matches more often. Relies on FSU for chat commands. Also you will want to disable FSUs built-in auto balance, as well as its team shuffle feature.

If you do not, this mod will now override those convars if a conflicting feature is enabled, in order to ensure proper functioning. This may not take during the first match after a server is started, however, so it is better to disable them using FSU's convars directly.

Get FSU here: Fifty's Server Utilities

Changelog

1.1.0

• New feature: Team shuffle between matches that will attempt to use stats from the previous game to create balanced teams
• New feature: The mod will now override FSU setting convars and disable a conflicting FSU feature, if the corresponing one is enabled in BTB
• Auto-balance now works immediately during the first 40 seconds of a match

1.0.4

• Bugfix - the mod now runs again

1.0.3

• Forced rebalance and chat suggestions can now both be enabled, with different activation thresholds
• Same as 1.0.2 but comes with sane defaults
• Note the changed convars in mod.json

Features

Balanced Team Shuffle

• Based on score*KD*25% randomness
• Player ranking information is saved into a convar at the end of a match
• At the beginning of the next match, the rankings are then pulled and used to inform the shuffle
• Accounts for players leaving/joining between games, by waiting until the next match to actually shuffle the teams

Auto-Balance

• When one team has too many players, one of them is swapped over on death (like FSU)
• Before doing so, will wait a moment in case new players join
• Wait is disabled for the first 40 seconds of a match, in order to quickly level team imbalances due to leaving players
• Disabled for the last minute of a match, no victories ruined by a last second swap over to losing side

Mid-Match Team Rebalance

• Rebalance teams based on score*KD in relevant game modes, otherwise only KD
• Redistributes points earned by players to their respective new teams (in round based modes, simply equalizes them)
• Can trigger on vote, and/or on crossing a configurable score imbalance detection threshold
• By default, only a threshold for informing players via chat about the "!balance" command, is used
• To activate balancing automatically, set the relevant threshold using the correct convar (check mod.json)

AFK Kicking

• Set a playercount, below which afk players waiting for the server to fill up, wont be kicked
• UIDs set as admin in FSU are immune

Check mod.json for all convars and config optios.