TrueBalancer 0.5.3.0

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Originally Posted by grizzlybeer*:

 

TrueBalancer for BF3 and BF4

 

INSTALL

1. copy TrueBalancer.cs to Procon\Plugins\BF4 and/or Procon\Plugins\BF3

2. restart Procon Layer Server

 

WHAT DOES TRUEBALANCER DO?

YouTube - Explanations & Tutorial

 

 

Plugin Description:

This plugin is used to autobalance Teams in BF3 (All modes except SquadDeathMatch)

There are 3 major parts within TrueBalancer:

 

1. PlayerNumber - Balancer

- The PN-Balancer try to keep the teams even by playernumber. Eg: 30vs30

 

2. Skill- Scrambler

- The Scrambler trys to even out the teams at roundend by skill. Eg: Even out the teams by SPM, Skill, K/D...

 

3. Balancing Guard

- Balancing Guard trys to keep teams even by skill during the game. He sorts new players to the teams they fit best and doesn't allow players to switch into the other team if they would unbalance the teams by PlayerNumber or Skill. In all Conquest Modes and TDM - Modes Balancing Guard doesn't allow winning team switching.

 

IMPORTANT:

If you are running the plugins in sandboxmode, make sure you have these ports open:

https://battlelog.battlefield.com 443

http://battlelog.battlefield.com 80

 

 

InGame Commands

@scramblenow: Will scramble the teams now. Use with caution. This will make players angry.

@scrambleround: Will scramble the teams at roundend.

!tb-move

!tb-fmove

 

Some BalancingGuard - Examples:

 

1. BalancingGuard trying to even out the teams. A bad new player (Skill: 185,76 and is below 292,06 -> declared as bad player) joines the server. He would have gotten into the bad team but is moved to the better team to even teams out.

 

[14:55:04 03] *** New Player ***: [yyy]XXXX--- From: 0.0, to: 1

[14:55:04 04] Player's Skill: 185,76

[14:55:04 04] Good Player Skill: 486,76 --- Bad Player Skill: 292,06

[14:55:04 04] Team 1: 27 --- Team 2: 28

[14:55:04 04] Score 1: 402 --- Score 2: 458

[14:55:04 04] Skill 1: 399,56 --- Skill 2: 422,05

 

 

[14:55:04 04] Player Data: Rank:30,00 - Skill: 185,76 - SPM: 281,46 - SPMcombat: 170,19 - K/D: 0,57

[14:55:04 04] Team1 Data: Rank: 50,19 - Skill: 399,56 - SPM: 317,39 - SPMcombat: 173,29 - K/D: 1,12

[14:55:04 04] Team2 Data: Rank: 62,32 - Skill: 422,05 - SPM: 439,36 - SPMcombat: 225,71 - K/D: 1,47

[14:55:04 04] Bad new player moved to other team to balance the teams.

[14:55:04 04] ************************************************** ************

 

 

2. Balancing Guard does not allow winning Team switching. Here we have a TeamSwitcher (a pretty god player) trying to switch into the winning (better) team.

[14:57:38 61] *** TEAMSWITCHER ***: [yyy]XXXX--- From: 1.8, to: 2

[14:57:38 61] Player's Skill: 562,13

[14:57:38 61] Good Player Skill: 493,54 --- Bad Player Skill: 296,13

[14:57:38 61] Team 1: 30 --- Team 2: 30

[14:57:38 61] Score 1: 252 --- Score 2: 427

[14:57:38 61] Skill 1: 381,01 --- Skill 2: 408,66

 

 

[14:57:38 61] Player Data: Rank:60,00 - Skill: 562,13 - SPM: 415,89 - SPMcombat: 198,61 - K/D: 2,18

[14:57:38 61] Team1 Data: Rank: 49,83 - Skill: 381,01 - SPM: 321,06 - SPMcombat: 174,19 - K/D: 1,19

[14:57:38 61] Team2 Data: Rank: 61,87 - Skill: 408,66 - SPM: 432,75 - SPMcombat: 224,86 - K/D: 1,41

[14:57:38 61] You are not allowed to switch into the winning team. SHAME ON YOU!

[14:57:38 61] You are switched back into your squad: 1.8

[14:57:38 61] ************************************************** ************

 

3. Balancing Guard and WhiteList. A VIP Player is joining. Nothing happening to him.

 

[15:16:37 66] *** New Player ***: [FoC]HRPanter--- From: 0.0, to: 2

[15:16:37 66] HRPanter is VIP.

[15:16:37 66] ************************************************** ************

 

Known Issues:

- While BalancingGuard is turned on, no players can be moved by an admin, if the admin would unbalance the teams by playernumber or skill with that playermove. Solution: Turn off BalancingGuard while trying to move players and than afterwards turn it back on or use TB's own movecommands ingame.

 

Version History

0.5.3.0

- NEW: Added Gamemode Chainlink. Chainlink is treated just like Conquest.

 

0.5.2.0

- Fix: Balancing was not working for Carrier Assault. Carrier Assault will use Conquest settings. On Carrier Assault its not possible to stop balancing once a certain point is reached (no proper way to detect for plugins)

 

0.5.1.1

- Fix: Commanders and Spectators are now excluded from balancing

- Fix: Persona ID could not be found for some players

 

0.5.1.0

- NEW: Automatic Update Check

- Fix: Domination settings block

- Fix: confirmation msg when scrambling at roundend requested by admin via procon

- Fix: Settings for game mode Obliteration could not be altered.

 

0.5

-NEW: BF4 compatibility

 

original thread:

showthread....812-09-2012%29*

 

patch thread:

myrcon.net/.../truebalancer-0530

 

Attached Files:

• TrueBalancer 0.5.3.0.zip

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Originally Posted by Talzac*:

 

Why use this instead of multibalancer?

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Originally Posted by lordicon*:

 

im setting it up and checking it out now just to see the difference.

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Originally Posted by rowlf-dk*:

 

Great to see that True balancer is back, it is a fantastic balancing tool, we used it in BF3 with great pleasure

 

I have one question, I can't find Domination game mode in the plugin, is it going as Conquest or has it just been forgotten in the making?

 

And thanks for releasing this plugin for BF4

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Originally Posted by grizzlybeer*:

 

Why use this instead of multibalancer?

truebalancer and multibalancer provide functions that are similar, but they differ in some details.

 

tb tries to balance players also when they are joining the server (fetching their stats and analyzing it). this is done by a thing called tb-value consisting of your rank, skill, kd, spm and combat spm.

so balance is asured right from the start.

 

multibalancer is a live balancer. it will balance players depending on their in-round stats (correct me if im wrong).

 

both provide pros and cons, let me give you some examples:

tb provides decent balance based on stats. so teams will be equal. however if good players just fool around and bad players have a really good this might not work 100%.

tb does not provide balance based on in round stats.

 

if you are using multibalancer and you are happy with the result, you can stick with it. its good.

if you have been using tbin bf3, you should defenitly try tb for bf4. tb has been providing awesome balancing since the start of bf3

 

Great to see that True balancer is back, it is a fantastic balancing tool, we used it in BF3 with great pleasure

 

I have one question, I can't find Domination game mode in the plugin, is it going as Conquest or has it just been forgotten in the making?

 

And thanks for releasing this plugin for BF4

np :-)

yes domination uses conquest settings.

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Originally Posted by originalhandy*:

 

I used true balance in bf3 and was just saying a few days ago I wish I had it for bf4. Guess what im installing tomorrow =)

 

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Originally Posted by Gazovik83*:

 

works fine! thnx man!!!

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Originally Posted by IAF-SDS*:

 

Once again, thanks for the great work Grizzly.

 

Looking forward to your updated Cheat Detector for BF4.

 

Do you have an ETA on CD? It will be nice to have it once again catching the cheaters.

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Originally Posted by Talzac*:

 

Can you use both the multibalancer an true balancer ? Can they be configured to complete each other?

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Originally Posted by Talzac*:

 

Can it be made so that the true balancer only works on join and between the rounds? And that multibalancer handles the live play? Perhaps you can add this in an future update?

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Originally Posted by Tomgun*:

 

I use the multibalancer to unstack our clan with low numbers and allow it with high numbers in the server

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Originally Posted by kcuestag*:

 

Will give it a try, thanks!

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Originally Posted by lordicon*:

 

I tried it for my BF4 server and it seems to NOT work, I watched your videos and configured all the setting correctly however there was no display of any moves at all and the teams ended up really unbalanced.

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Originally Posted by grizzlybeer*:

 

Can you use both the multibalancer an true balancer ? Can they be configured to complete each other?

dont know about that. would not recommend it for now

 

Can it be made so that the true balancer only works on join and between the rounds? And that multibalancer handles the live play? Perhaps you can add this in an future update?

could be done but nothing planned

 

I tried it for my BF4 server and it seems to NOT work, I watched your videos and configured all the setting correctly however there was no display of any moves at all and the teams ended up really unbalanced.

if all debug modes are off (5. debugwindow output) no msgs will be shown at all, except for errors.

 

moves will be shown in the chat window like this:

[13:48:21] AUTOBALANCING [Player: LeonBanker]

[13:50:37] AUTOBALANCING [Player: VP_RIMPAC]

 

for rounds ending up not being balanced: tb tried, i can asure that :-)

if you want numbers turn on debug mode for balancing guard, then you can see the tbvalue (and kd, skill and so on) for every player and the whole team in the plugin output. like mentioned above somewhere balancing by stats has pros and cons. but be sure that tb will make the statistic difference between the teams smaller. you probably would have experienced an even more unbalanced round without tb

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Originally Posted by angeldark182*:

 

nice very nice balancer works great:cool:

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Originally Posted by jking54*:

 

grizzly, any good recs for a 1200 tic CQ 64?

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Originally Posted by Vailos*:

 

Thank you grizzly that you keep that great Balancer alive.

I install it on our CQ Server and it works good!

 

The only problem i have is that i cant change the the Player Treshold in Obliteration Mode. I want to change it to 32 but everytime it switch back to 24. Am i so stupid or is it an error?

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Originally Posted by tarreltje*:

 

Getting some nice close games with the balancer!!!

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Originally Posted by PHX_Big_Deal*:

 

What does "CQ-Player Threshold" = 24 stay for?

Thx

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Originally Posted by Hutchew*:

 

What does "CQ-Player Threshold" = 24 stay for?

Thx

It's the above/below threshold for team size differences. Below "24" is one setting, and above "24" would be the other.

We run ours at 32, 1 player diff below, 2 player diff above, and it works well like that.

 

 

@Grizzly..........THANK YOU! DONATION SENT!

 

*PS....Could you please put version # in thread titles for your various plugins, please? Makes it a lot easier to tell what/when updates come out.

 

Thank you again!

 

Hutchew

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Originally Posted by jking54*:

 

grizzly, with Manual commands via procon it asks if you're sure about scrambling, when I select yes it reverts back to no, is this a bug? Also, could you make debug adjustable so not so much spam, I do like to see what's happening but normal balancing seems to go berserk with output.

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Originally Posted by PapaCharlie9*:

 

grizzly, with Manual commands via procon it asks if you're sure about scrambling, when I select yes it reverts back to no, is this a bug? Also, could you make debug adjustable so not so much spam, I do like to see what's happening but normal balancing seems to go berserk with output.

Not to mention the plugin itself. Your GetPluginVersion should return "major.minor.patch.rev" format, e.g., 0.0.5.0, in order for the anonymous usage statistics database to work properly.

 

Currently returns: "0.5 RC".

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Originally Posted by jking54*:

 

Not to mention the plugin itself. Your GetPluginVersion should return "major.minor.patch.rev" format, e.g., 0.0.5.0, in order for the anonymous usage statistics database to work properly.

 

Currently returns: "0.5 RC".

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Originally Posted by grizzlybeer*:

 

Not to mention the plugin itself. Your GetPluginVersion should return "major.minor.patch.rev" format, e.g., 0.0.5.0, in order for the anonymous usage statistics database to work properly.

 

Currently returns: "0.5 RC".

roger that sir :-)

 

grizzly, with Manual commands via procon it asks if you're sure about scrambling, when I select yes it reverts back to no, is this a bug? Also, could you make debug adjustable so not so much spam, I do like to see what's happening but normal balancing seems to go berserk with output.

by confirming the second question "are you sure_". you tell the tb to scramble the teams when this round ends. there is no confirmation in the debug window output but only ingame.

 

the debug output could use a makeover

 

It's the above/below threshold for team size differences. Below "24" is one setting, and above "24" would be the other.

We run ours at 32, 1 player diff below, 2 player diff above, and it works well like that.

 

 

@Grizzly..........THANK YOU! DONATION SENT!

 

*PS....Could you please put version # in thread titles for your various plugins, please? Makes it a lot easier to tell what/when updates come out.

 

Thank you again!

 

Hutchew

thank you very much for your donation :-)

i will update my threads the next days to show the current version number in the title. good idea thx

 

Thank you grizzly that you keep that great Balancer alive.

I install it on our CQ Server and it works good!

 

The only problem i have is that i cant change the the Player Treshold in Obliteration Mode. I want to change it to 32 but everytime it switch back to 24. Am i so stupid or is it an error?

nice to hear its working for you :-)

i will release an update tomorow fixing that. for now you cant adjust that setting im sorry. its a bug

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Originally Posted by Mandizzy*:

 

It's a great plug-in but I hate having to use its own move commands. It'd be nice if you could detect when a player was moved by an admin using regular move commands and abide by the move instead of over-riding it.

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Originally Posted by kcuestag*:

 

It's a great plug-in but I hate having to use its own move commands. It'd be nice if you could detect when a player was moved by an admin using regular move commands and abide by the move instead of over-riding it.

Agreed, can we have the traditional move commands (From In-game Admin plugin) instead?

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Originally Posted by tb2571989*:

 

Very odd question I know, but can I set all players to spawn on the US team? I'm in the fairly unique position of running a server with the Test Range map, but although it works players that start on the Chinese side are unable to spawn and there is no option to change teams in the "esc" menu.

 

Thanks for any suggestions.

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Originally Posted by grizzlybeer*:

 

Very odd question I know, but can I set all players to spawn on the US team? I'm in the fairly unique position of running a server with the Test Range map, but although it works players that start on the Chinese side are unable to spawn and there is no option to change teams in the "esc" menu.

 

Thanks for any suggestions.

that would be beyond the scope of this plugin sorry.

you should be able to move the players with procon gui or with the ingame commands

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Originally Posted by jking54*:

 

Did I miss something, there doesn't seem to be a setting for Domination?

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Originally Posted by Vailos*:

 

Domination = Conquest Settings... So use this for your domination server