Team balance and the sad monkey.

[dublpaws]

CTF team balance. Teams are randomly generated. This is OK when all the players are of the same caliber. However, if there is a wide distribution of ability; inevitably, the generated teams will be lop sided, and for five minutes a handful of people are having a bad time - getting spanked like little inept crying monkeys.

So. This is a hack.
it's a python script that opens nexuiz as a subprocess and parses the output as the game is played

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-V-Benithil's 3 kill spree was ended by SEGABOY900
SEGABOY900 got the RED flag
DANGER0 has been vaporized by BLUDWERKS
BLUDWERKS has 8 frags in a row
Uncle Tux was riddled full of holes by J.Ker
dublpaws{X} exploded


It parses each line and determines basically what happened. It doesn't do anything too fancy, just ranks player based on basic metrics. When the program detects the end of the game - two files are generated - redteam.cfg and blueteam.cfg. Contained within readteam.cfg is a list of commands:

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Move <playerFoo> to redteam
Move <playerBar> to redteam


likewise for bluetea.cfg, and executes both scripts. (There are probably some timing issues here)

Not exactly sure on the syntax here, but have heard that whoever executes those .cfgs need root privs on the server, is that true?

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Do you have a copy of this python script? I'm not exactly sure what you are talking about but I would love to apply my balancing algorithm to it.

[Barfly]

Isn't something like this done on the beginners server?