Can we have an auto-balance option in custom games?

Paqi·3/27/2014, 4:33:41 PM·6 votes·1,789 views

Would it be possible to add an option (maybe a button?) that would take player's hidden elos for the relevant map into consideration, and balance the teams that are about to participate in a custom game?

Background: Because of the way draft-queue in Dominion was killed off, I started encouraging people to join custom games every Monday that would enable us to play Draft matches of Dominion. This past week we actually had great participation, but had the unfortunate downside of teams being ridiculously unbalanced, due to huge variations in the player skill-levels.

Once the game is filled up, it'd be great to be able to click a button and have the client automatically swap players between the teams to balance them as much as possible. I'm sure this could come in handy in custom games of the other map modes as well.

Thanks!

11 Comments

Penteano3/31/2014, 3:00:44 PM3 votes

That would be great :)

Malah3/31/2014, 6:15:49 PM3 votes

I would actually bother with in-houses if they didn't take an eternity to set up because we have to guesstimate all of the mathy work of (the non-existent) draft queue matchmaker ourselves.

I do miss draft queue so much.

CaptainWednesday3/27/2014, 6:01:10 PM2 votes

Ehhhhhhh... that would be difficult. One, because MMR is different for each game type. Two, people would get a general about their "hidden elo" which is suppose to be well... hidden. Try captain picks or balancing the game yourselves.