Help me with the CFG.

[rcon420]

Hey since you offered me help to help with config here is my current Server Setup.

It's Public Casual Server with some MM-based settings.
We currently got public 20 public slots and 4 Reserved 1 GOTV bot can be ignored ofc.

The team switch is blocked.

From my player Suggestions, the balance should occur every 3 rounds for the PLAYER SKILL Switch ( we are using Levels Ranks Ranking System our setting is XP based Get kill get XP, die lose xp,, the team lost lose xp so on)

We also got an AFK manager that means someone might get moved to the specs for sitting in the afk.

Also, get slayed for camping too much

Also, we have a map vote at the match point and game mode best of 30 rounds game on some mini-maps time-based with the team wins.

[NotJustin]

Sorry I write a lot, I come up with ideas of things I should change as I'm typing. I write it down so I can look at it again later.
Also, I do not understand what you wrote at the end: "on some mini-maps time-based with the team wins".

If a team balance works, teams should only need to be balanced once. If you balance teams, and then immediately try to balance the teams again, the result should be exactly the same. The only time balance should occur again is if data about the players/teams have changed.

Teams should be balanced again is if a lot of the players on your server leave and are replaced with different players. The teams are simply different from before at this point, so the previous balance is no longer relevant.

You can control this with the convar sab_balanceafternplayerschange inside of sab-checkbalance.cfg. If you want to use this, but do not want it to be aggressive, then you should set it to a high number. You have 20 slots, so I think at least 7 is good (~1/3 of your maximum player count). After I type that, I realize that a server's needs will change depending on how many players are online. I should think more about this.

Teams should also be balanced if the skill level of players have changed since the last balance. Currently, there is nothing in my plugin that checks for this. So, it is something I need to add :) I need to check if the difference in the sum of player ratings on each team at the end of each round has surpassed a certain threshold in order to check if the player's ratings on the teams have changed too much. I will consider adding this eventually.

Instead of what I wrote above, my plugin checks if a certain team has gone on a win streak, and then balances if that the win streak has passed a threshold. This is a very old feature and I don't think it is relevant anymore.

For now, I think a good configuration would be to set your config to something like the below. However, I will be working on a change to make this require a lot less configuration.

// This file was auto-generated by SourceMod (v1.11.0.6653)
// ConVars for plugin "sab-checkbalance.smx"


// 0 = Disabled. Otherwise, balance  teams when 'N' players join/leave the server. Requires sab_balanceafternrounds to be enabled
// -
// Default: "0"
// Minimum: "0.000000"
sab_balanceafternplayerschange "7"

// 0 = Disabled. Otherwise, after map change balance teams when 'N' rounds pass. Then balance based on team win streaks
// -
// Default: "0"
// Minimum: "0.000000"
sab_balanceafternrounds "1"

// If enabled, teams will be rebalanced at the end of every round
// -
// Default: "0"
// Minimum: "0.000000"
// Maximum: "1.000000"
sab_balanceeveryround "0"

// The amount to subtract from a streak if UseDecay is true. In other words, the ratio of a team's round wins to the opposing team's must be greater than this number in order for a team balance to eventually occur.
// -
// Default: "1.5"
// Minimum: "1.000000"
sab_decayamount "0"

// Amount of wins in a row a team needs before autobalance occurs
// -
// Default: "6"
// Minimum: "0.000000"
sab_minstreak "999"

// 0 = Disabled. Otherwise, this is the amount of time remaining before the map ends where balancing is turned off.
// -
// Default: "0"
sab_nobalancelastnminutes "0"

// 0 = Disabled. Otherwise, this is the amount of rounds remaining before the map ends where balancing is turned off.
// -
// Default: "0"
sab_nobalancelastnrounds "2"

// If 1, subtract sab_decayamount from a team's streak when they lose instead of setting their streak to 0
// -
// Default: "1"
// Minimum: "0.000000"
// Maximum: "1.000000"
sab_usedecay "0"

sab_balanceafternplayerschange is set to 7. In the future, I think I will have this be a ratio, like 1/3 of the current online players.

sab_balanceafternrounds is set to 1. At the end of the first round, we will balance teams. This is in case your server has no warmup. Actually, this convar also sucks. I think I will have a convar to ask if you want to balance after warmup ends, or after the first round in case you have no warmup. The purpose is to give players enough time to connect to the server before trying to do the first team balance.

sab_minstreak is set to 999. For now, I want to completely ignore team win streaks, and instead focus on only balancing as the players on server change. I will be working on a replacement for the win streak feature as soon as I can.

sab_decayamount and sab_usedecay do not matter because they are related to sab_minstreak, which I do not want to use.

sab_nobalancelastnminutes is 0 because I think you said your server uses best of 30 rounds, and not a timelimit.

sab_nobalancelastnrounds is 2, but you can change this to anything. Setting it to 2 means, if we are in the last 2 rounds of the map, we will not balance teams anymore (so in your case, it is specifically if it is 13-15, 14-14, or 15-13). I am not sure it it is better or not for me to instead do, stop balancing teams when one team is 2 rounds away from winning (so, when one team has 14 rounds, if it is 14-1 we will stop balancing, even if it ends up being 14-14 afterward).

[NotJustin]

I should mention, since you are using levels ranks, that my plugin is only as good as the data you give it. So, if levels ranks is giving it poor ratings of players, then the balance will not be very good.

I am sure levels ranks is an awesome plugin, and I do not want to take credit away from the author(s). However, I have not used levels ranks before, so I do not know how good it is at giving players rankings. Also I believe a lot of these ranking plugins depend on how you configure it.

For example, I use gameme which starts players at 1000 points. If I configure it poorly and I never reset points, players who are on my server all the time can go up to 20000+ points even if they are a bad player. Meanwhile, a new player can be very good and it will take them forever to catch up. The team balance will rate the new player very poorly even though he is very good, and the bad player will always be rated higher. The result is, team balance will be bad.

[rcon420]

I should mention, since you are using levels ranks, that my plugin is only as good as the data you give it. So, if levels ranks is giving it poor ratings of players, then the balance will not be very good.

I am sure levels ranks is an awesome plugin, and I do not want to take credit away from the author(s). However, I have not used levels ranks before, so I do not know how good it is at giving players rankings. Also I believe a lot of these ranking plugins depend on how you configure it.

For example, I use gameme which starts players at 1000 points. If I configure it poorly and I never reset points, players who are on my server all the time can go up to 20000+ points even if they are a bad player. Meanwhile, a new player can be very good and it will take them forever to catch up. The team balance will rate the new player very poorly even though he is very good, and the bad player will always be rated higher. The result is, team balance will be bad.

There is an option to use the ELO Systems Based on The gameME or HLSTATSX but I don't like it too much which starts from 1000 points because some people just never get out of their ranking

but with XP KDR based Bad players seem to stay in low ranks anyway because they win/lose points all the time but it's not that harsh like it's with elo system where they almost never get out of their rank.

BTW Level Ranks is Bassiclly 1-18 ranks Silver 1 to The Global. I would say this is one of the most used Ranking System in the European servers.

I don't have enough data right now on the server for the player ranking (because of fresh reset) but I think this could be simply adding a setting like this Everyone from Silver to the Gold Nova Master count as bad players everyone else skilled. TL;DR you could use some of the default points for a rank as reference.

OFc some people modify the ranking system by adding more ranks but the most common way is that server owners stay to the default settings.

Also on a Public server like mine, there is a huge Skill gap between players but the tendency is that people with less skill prefer to play on the community servers and barely touch match-making or for some people, it's just a way for the warmup before the MM game.

[rcon420]

Sorry I write a lot, I come up with ideas of things I should change as I'm typing. I write it down so I can look at it again later.
Also, I do not understand what you wrote at the end: "on some mini-maps time-based with the team wins".

If a team balance works, teams should only need to be balanced once. If you balance teams, and then immediately try to balance the teams again, the result should be exactly the same. The only time balance should occur again is if data about the players/teams have changed.

Teams should be balanced again is if a lot of the players on your server leave and are replaced with different players. The teams are simply different from before at this point, so the previous balance is no longer relevant.

You can control this with the convar sab_balanceafternplayerschange inside of sab-checkbalance.cfg. If you want to use this, but do not want it to be aggressive, then you should set it to a high number. You have 20 slots, so I think at least 7 is good (~1/3 of your maximum player count). After I type that, I realize that a server's needs will change depending on how many players are online. I should think more about this.

Teams should also be balanced if the skill level of players have changed since the last balance. Currently, there is nothing in my plugin that checks for this. So, it is something I need to add :) I need to check if the difference in the sum of player ratings on each team at the end of each round has surpassed a certain threshold in order to check if the player's ratings on the teams have changed too much. I will consider adding this eventually.

Instead of what I wrote above, my plugin checks if a certain team has gone on a win streak, and then balances if that the win streak has passed a threshold. This is a very old feature and I don't think it is relevant anymore.

For now, I think a good configuration would be to set your config to something like the below. However, I will be working on a change to make this require a lot less configuration.

// This file was auto-generated by SourceMod (v1.11.0.6653)
// ConVars for plugin "sab-checkbalance.smx"


// 0 = Disabled. Otherwise, balance  teams when 'N' players join/leave the server. Requires sab_balanceafternrounds to be enabled
// -
// Default: "0"
// Minimum: "0.000000"
sab_balanceafternplayerschange "7"

// 0 = Disabled. Otherwise, after map change balance teams when 'N' rounds pass. Then balance based on team win streaks
// -
// Default: "0"
// Minimum: "0.000000"
sab_balanceafternrounds "1"

// If enabled, teams will be rebalanced at the end of every round
// -
// Default: "0"
// Minimum: "0.000000"
// Maximum: "1.000000"
sab_balanceeveryround "0"

// The amount to subtract from a streak if UseDecay is true. In other words, the ratio of a team's round wins to the opposing team's must be greater than this number in order for a team balance to eventually occur.
// -
// Default: "1.5"
// Minimum: "1.000000"
sab_decayamount "0"

// Amount of wins in a row a team needs before autobalance occurs
// -
// Default: "6"
// Minimum: "0.000000"
sab_minstreak "999"

// 0 = Disabled. Otherwise, this is the amount of time remaining before the map ends where balancing is turned off.
// -
// Default: "0"
sab_nobalancelastnminutes "0"

// 0 = Disabled. Otherwise, this is the amount of rounds remaining before the map ends where balancing is turned off.
// -
// Default: "0"
sab_nobalancelastnrounds "2"

// If 1, subtract sab_decayamount from a team's streak when they lose instead of setting their streak to 0
// -
// Default: "1"
// Minimum: "0.000000"
// Maximum: "1.000000"
sab_usedecay "0"

sab_balanceafternplayerschange is set to 7. In the future, I think I will have this be a ratio, like 1/3 of the current online players.

sab_balanceafternrounds is set to 1. At the end of the first round, we will balance teams. This is in case your server has no warmup. Actually, this convar also sucks. I think I will have a convar to ask if you want to balance after warmup ends, or after the first round in case you have no warmup. The purpose is to give players enough time to connect to the server before trying to do the first team balance.

sab_minstreak is set to 999. For now, I want to completely ignore team win streaks, and instead focus on only balancing as the players on server change. I will be working on a replacement for the win streak feature as soon as I can.

sab_decayamount and sab_usedecay do not matter because they are related to sab_minstreak, which I do not want to use.

sab_nobalancelastnminutes is 0 because I think you said your server uses best of 30 rounds, and not a timelimit.

sab_nobalancelastnrounds is 2, but you can change this to anything. Setting it to 2 means, if we are in the last 2 rounds of the map, we will not balance teams anymore (so in your case, it is specifically if it is 13-15, 14-14, or 15-13). I am not sure it it is better or not for me to instead do, stop balancing teams when one team is 2 rounds away from winning (so, when one team has 14 rounds, if it is 14-1 we will stop balancing, even if it ends up being 14-14 afterward).

That's alright we are trying to help you make the best balance on the sourcemod and you seem very interested to do this don't worry about writing a lot.

To make things clear I do use Multi Config. De_ CS_ Maps have a best of 30 rounds. Small maps like awp_ aim_ are time-Based - 12 minutes because they get boring very fast if played too long and the map end winning team is the one with the most round wins in 12 minutes. So you might take into consideration that some people use multi config.

edit: I also have a Warmup after reading your post I think i should increase warmup time. because 60 second isn't really enough some players don't make it that fast.

[rcon420]

I'm not quite sure what is this but I get such error in logs -

03/14/2021 - 12:25:37: Info (map "aim_deagle7k") (file "/home/container/csgo/addons/sourcemod/logs/errors_20210314.log")
L 03/14/2021 - 12:25:37: [SM] Exception reported: Cannot push parameters when there is no call in progress
L 03/14/2021 - 12:25:37: [SM] Blaming: pub/sab-blockteams.smx
L 03/14/2021 - 12:25:37: [SM] Call stack trace:
L 03/14/2021 - 12:25:37: [SM] [0] Call_PushCell
L 03/14/2021 - 12:25:37: [SM] [1] Line 420, C:\Users\Justin\Desktop\Downloads_Uncluttered_spcode\spcode\sourcepawn\configs\sm_1_10_0_6478\sab-blockteams.sp::Frame_AlternateJoinTeam
L 03/14/2021 - 12:25:38: [SM] Exception reported: Maximum number of parameters reached
L 03/14/2021 - 12:25:38: [SM] Blaming: pub/sab-blockteams.smx
L 03/14/2021 - 12:25:38: [SM] Call stack trace:
L 03/14/2021 - 12:25:38: [SM] [0] Call_PushCell
L 03/14/2021 - 12:25:38: [SM] [1] Line 420, C:\Users\Justin\Desktop\Downloads_Uncluttered_spcode\spcode\sourcepawn\configs\sm_1_10_0_6478\sab-blockteams.sp::Frame_AlternateJoinTeam