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Hi all, My name is John, 48. I live in a small village in Essex, England. It is about 8 miles from the exchange and feels like my village has a hamster on a wheel sending messages via pigeon with a data card on its leg. I have recently joined the game again after about 15 year absence realising this is still the best game out there (for me). If you have played with me on the servers you know my motto is "Teamwork/Objective is first and killing/glory seeking is second". The best players I have encountered on any of the large servers have been on Team Muppet servers. I would like to thank TeamMuppet for providing excellent servers for us to play on. The team is very nice and created a great community on their servers which keeps people coming back. Keep up the great work team.

Surely you mean rate 25000 ?

Nice words are well deserved for people who have kept this game alive. Aside from keeping up good spirits and skill sets. I would like to add, during the day (9-5ish GMT), my better half goes on VPN for most of the day which makes my crappy connection unbearable. Hence when you see my typing "GF on VPN" it is what it says on the tin. I have to wait for her to get off VPN before I can play. I was reading on the site of ways to improve my connection to take my delay from 2 seconds(ish) to 1 second. It is very hard to play this game these days. Hoping to improve as time goes by and contributing more in games. Additional: I know of at least 2 people that have come back to this game after many many years, it is amazing the power of ET.

Problem is the vote system. The most ppl which like playing Axis like to defend...so they vote "Allies" Maps. So obviously do Allied Players. I for myself prefer Allies as well, but if there is an imbalance i dont hesitate to switch. I also then vote for Maps on which Axis attack but lose the Vote by Miles. With Map Voting this will never happen. The best chance to have this happen is on the Campaign Server where the Admins could carefully choose a balanced Campaign.

As you and Stumpel have pointed out there is a pro-allies bias with a lot of players (myself included) both in low-player matches and high-player matches. This bias inevitably unbalances the teams; at first for low-player matches, and over several matches for high-player matches. I don't think it is a distaste for the Axis side, but rather a preference on the part of many players to be on the attacking side, especially for those who value objective play. The solution, therefore, seems simple: ensure that there is a balance of maps - as close to 50% of maps as possible should allow Axis to attack; meaning both teams get to attack and defend with greater regularity.

I don't think if it's possible in ETLegacy. But i know it's possible in NoQuarter. When you join a server loaded with bots, you always have one less slot in the team with lesser players. So you must join that team or else you can't play. So for example when you join you got 6 allies (3 real players + 3 bots)- 5 axis (2 real players 3 bots) going on. If you You don't have a choice to join Allies. Maybe that could be a solution for this.

As long as no Member is there the best thing that can be done it to talk to Players to try and convince them to switch...i know there are many which dont care at all, they just want to win in any way possible. You can also try and pass by on our Discord Channel and see if someone can help you out (Members can put Bots to other Teams).

No Offence intented - If they join your Team making it unbalanced, why dont you switch over? I know i prefer being Allied as well because i prefer attacking but if its uneven i switch anyway, since it will make the Game more enjoyable for everyone. Its just an ongoing thing which we cant do nothing about when no Member is on the Server, but the Regulars themselfs can do something about it. The Bots cant be set up this Way that they leave like this. They only leave when 12 Players are playing and replace them.