One_Medic_Army wrote:Unfortunately having one person switch isn't generally enough when one team has the lion's share of experienced or regular players.
Sometimes true sometimes not, I've seen it both ways.
When the swap is very well organised (eg. 1st place on BLU switches with last place on RED), I've actually never seen it fail. But then I've only been able to see that kind of swap a few times.
somedude wrote:Just throwing this out there, but what if you set it up as an option for gold members just like votekick is? Seems to me like most gold members are regulars, and would be able to discern when there is truly a need to instigate a scramble, just as with a votekick.
Only if it doesn't reset the map timer. As has been brought up before in this thread, scrambles often don't fix the problem, and would be very counterproductive if it results in another 20 minutes being added to the timer. I don't have any objection to automated scrambles that don't fix the problem provided that it doesn't end up extending the map longer than it will already run.
In some very extreme cases where the stack is really bad, I have sometimes put up a vote to skip to the next map to get out of the stack, but only in the absolute worst of the worst cases.
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I really think that the reason that scrambles so frequently fail is because people try to build intelligence into scramble algorithms by taking first place overall and putting on team BLU, then putting second place overall in team RED, and so on, where there are often reasons other than skill having a high individual score. I think a truly random scramble would have a higher success rate than one based on an algorithm.