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[old_codger]

Yup, just tried it one more time, even though there are equal players in the teams and the blue team is losing, next player will be red. So I was right all the time.

Yes. I just tried it as well and it seems to be the same as pressing the first button which, presumably, is the red one. I always use the auto button and, like es, assumed the space bar did the same thing without ever really trying it.

Tried it again tonight. It DOES select blue if there are less blue players so it clearly isn't the same as pressing the first, (red?), button. It must just put you in the lowest number of players catergory or red if there the same. However, it obviously doesn't take any account of score or anything else... as we thought.

[ai]

Tried it again tonight. It DOES select blue if there are less blue players so it clearly isn't the same as pressing the first, (red?), button. It must just put you in the lowest number of players catergory or red if there the same. However, it obviously doesn't take any account of score or anything else... as we thought.

First button? The red one? I'm talking about the auto button (space). And yup if there's less players (red or blue) in one team it goes to that team when pressing auto (space).

[morfar]

AFAIK. Auto might not be Space. Space might be red... Can someone look at the code?

[divVerent]

Yes, red was the default button. Fixed in next release.

[old_codger]

First button? The red one? I'm talking about the auto button (space). And yup if there's less players (red or blue) in one team it goes to that team when pressing auto (space).

No, I know. ES suggested it might just select the red team as being the first button but that's not the case and I just wanted to confirm your observation before I forgot.

Hey! it was late, y'know?

[old_codger]

Yes, red was the default button. Fixed in next release.

When you say 'fixed' do you mean it will take account of scores when allocating players as we've discussed above?

[esteel]

No he just means that 'pressing space while the team selection menu is shown' will trigger the auto button and the autojoin function instead of the red button and joining team red..
The other thing is a bug that needs seperate fixing.

[KadaverJack]

Just pressing space does indeed put you on the red team, for a very simple reason: space just "presses" the highlighted button and if you don't change anything, the "red team" button is highlighted when the menu is created.

I changed the menu code in SVN to select the "auto" button by default...

[divVerent]

The other thing actually isn't a bug but a quite complicated feature that we would all like but nobody knows exactly how to do it.

Please tell me some methods for that decision, maybe one can get in, but probably not into 2.2. However, the RBI server will try them out.

[esteel]

Well it should simply put the new player on the smaller team or if they are equal in numbers in the team with less scores. Right now it seems to prefer the red team if they are equal in numbers.
Maybe thats easy to change, i'll take a look at the code in a few hours.