Hi Zuperman,
I have one suggestion regarding team balancing just check whether it’s of any help to you.
Suppose a pilot playing for a long time accumulate coins, what do you think his first option to spend the same?
Either upgrade his present plane or go for new one. In both the conditions he will stick to either upgraded plane or the newly bought plane. It will take another 15-30 days at least to accumulate coins (If he not buy coins from store) for next upgrade.
Problem: 1
Here let us consider a player who bought DVIII Siemens.
Now he entered the game and your system allot him ally (non German Side) which means that he is not going to fly his DVIII. So what he will do is to quit his present game, relogin again and again to same server till he get the German side so that he is able to fly DVIII. This is the main reason people going to german side (because they have invested their coins on that particular plane) even if your server allot him ally side which in turn create the imbalance in team.
Solution: 1-1
Let the pilot select which plane he want to fly irrespective of side (German or Ally) and then server allot him any side. What I think it will minimize login and relogin thus reducing the load on server to calculate which side to allot to the pilot.
Solution: 1-2
Fixed the side of that pilot with whatever server allot him. Means if the pilot got ally side in a particular server, he is going to get that side only till the game ends irrespective how many times he logout and relogin. This way pilot will know that he is going to get the same side for that game and in that case he’ll continue the game or leave the same (in case he is plane specific).
Solution: 1-3 (Squad Fight)
People are talking about squad fight and you must be working on it also but you can give them a feeling of squad fight by your existing system also in following way.
Suppose there are 16 squads, divide them in two teams daily on random basis (so that every squad has the option to play as ally and opposite to the best team). Just let squad members know which squads are on A Team and which squads are on B Team for that day. When the player enter the server, the player is sent to A or B Team as per the daily division. Now they will be fighting as Team. (Consisting of 8 squads on Team-A and Team-B each. Now when player joins a game they will join as per their squad Team.
Let the players have the option to select whatever plane they want to fly. This way squad will be fighting with each other with their best planes making game more competitive and interesting.
Server Allotment:
Squad Fight Server-2 Nos
Will be used for Solution: 1-3 (Squad Fight)
Surprise Server-2 Nos
In this server the player will be allotted random plane (out of the in Hangar planes only-it can be any one from the basic one to the best in Hangar-means no option to choose) with random side irrespective of their rank. No option of switching. This way the game will become more challenging.
Common Server-2 Nos
Will continue to work as present server. Can be replaced with any one of the above servers if successful.
Thank you for taking out your time to read.
With wellness wishes