Below is the list of skills/abilities you can buy and a video showing how they're used, they all cost 100 points:


Self -  Abilities that affect the player only such as the immunity abilities, silencer and so on

Fire immunity: Gives you temporary immunity to fire (5s effect, 20s cooldown) Video
Explosion immunity: Gives you temporary immunity to explosions (5s effect, 20s cooldown) Video
Curse: Applies effect to yourself, while the effect is active (15s), if you're killed, the killer will be applied a "curse" effect that will shake his screen (10s effect, 30s cooldown)  Video
Silence: After activating this skill, the next shot hit on an enemy will silence them, making them unable to use skills for the effect duration(20s effect, 20s cooldown) Video


Infantry - Abilities that allow a player to place bombs, mines, gears etc., and anything else self-serving around your personal weaponry

Mines: Allows you to place mines that will explode when enemies touch them(35s cooldown). You can also remove them using the /delmine command Video
Cameras: Places a camera that will point to your position. You can switch to the camera viewpoint and back(30s cooldown) by pressing the skill hotkey. The camera will always point to the position you were in when you placed it. It can also be destroyed by an enemy when shot at, or you can destroy it yourself with the command /delcam Video
Mines on shot: Allows you to place mines that will explode when shot(35s cooldown). You can also remove them using the /delmine command  Video
Vehicle bomb: Allows to place bombs in vehicles and detonate them remotely(20s cooldown) Video


Team - Any ability that serves your team such as the healing the regeneration of health and ammo

Bullet heals: Your shots will heal your teammates (20s effect, 20s cooldown) Video
Portals: Allows you to place portals (30s effect, 30s cooldown) Video
Heal sphere: Allows you to place a sphere that will heal you and your teammates 10HP per second (30s effect, 30s cooldown) Video
Ammo sphere: Allows you to place a sphere that will re-stock your and your teammates ammo (10s effect, 30s cooldown) Video

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I've made a change to the script so that when it's counting players, it will consider players who have been spawned in the past 2 minutes ( or less ), as players who are "alive", so when the players die during the round it will not mess up the balancing. Of course if a player stays on the spawn screen for more than 2 minutes, the server will consider them AFK and will not count them as part of the team. I think this is a good middle ground between avoiding user manipulation and maintaining balance.

Yes as I said in my previous replies I am already aware of the situations the current implementation can cause. What Im trying to explain is that the suggested solutions are susceptible to user manipulation (something most people in this post seem to forget)

That said, the idea I have in mind is what I said in my previous posts, which is to consider players who have been spawned in the last 30 to 40 seconds as players who are alive so the script can count them and avoid issues. But this needs some more thought as I'm trying to create a solution that doesnt simply balance the teams but also make sure it's not too easy to manipulate. While it's not 100% impossible to manipulate,  it's still not as easy to manipulate as only couting the players assigned to each team.

Regardless, I won't be making any changes to the script until probably next week since I'm on a business trip right now and I'm not home.

UPDATE: Didn't forget about this but haven't had the time and probably wont have much free time any time soon either. There's a few other bugs ELK reported to me that I need to look into and there's also CTF6 which has been ready since May2020 but I've been too busy with IRL stuff. Not sure when I'll pick this back up.

I made multiple suggestions ingame, and most of the time no body from part of the staff have heard me, now that a player arrives with my words on your topic you appear to "understand" the mistake.

Not really, just read what I said to his reply:

I am aware of the described situation. That is not new information, once again, the autobalancer is working as intended.

There is no new information in this thread that I wasn't already aware of. I know my approach can cause unbalanced situations, but so does every other suggested approach.

Another suggestion that could help is that when its "unbalanced" assign a team to the player who tries to spawn, and make it permanently until round starts

That's unecessary because the round doesn't even start unless the teams are balanced, or atleast close to balanced in the case of un-even number of players (off by 1 player)

You still seem to not understand that some of the aproaches you suggest have flaws too because they can be easily manipulated by malicious players or even by players who just go AFK.

As for away players on spawn screen, We can maybe switch their player class and team to Builders by script? I find it a perfect solution but not sure how would it go practically.

If we're gonna switch the skin of players who are on the spawn screen for the script to exclude them from being counted, how exactly is this different from excluding unspawned players? It's exactly the same thing....and it's what the script is currently doing.
Also I dont recall how the autobalancer system worked in CTF4 because I didn't make it, but if it counted unspawned players, then it's also failing to balance teams correctly, players just never noticed because they keep looking at the scoreboard to see players on each team, but they dont know who is actually spawned.