BG team imbalances

[Former-GM-Salt]

Neither suggestion would be significantly harder to code than the other. Another way would be to do a hybrid of the two where if it picks a support job it could first check if another of the same job is available, and if not then look for other support classes to put in the other team. We could also try to balance it so teams get about an equal number of trans and non-trans classes. Or balance it based on how many bg points you have accumulated, since persons with higher bg points are more likely to be experienced bg players than persons with low bg points.

But any of those ways would be relatively complex to code right. The picking algorithm can't just go "oh I just randomly picked a sinx, and hey there's another sinx that signed up so lets place that one in the other team" because that would affect who gets left out of the fighting when more than 14 persons sign up. If two sinxes and one priest signed up the sinxes would both have double the chance of the priest of getting into the fight, since if one of them got picked the other would too. This would be very unfair.

That being said, it can be done fairly too, if the code was split up into two stages, one deciding who gets picked and a second stage that assigns and balances the teams, instead of doing it at the same time like its doing now. But neither suggestion would be a simple fix if we want to do it right.

Changing the picking algorithm will be considered, but I can't promise anything, and right now there are other things are higher priority.