[Help] Probability Of Spawning As A Team/Team Balancing

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#1

Hey, I am new the world of Lua. I am working on a round based system and I wanted to implement a function that randomizes teams (game.Teams), has a probability of joining said team based off of the max/min and has a min/max amount of players for each team.

How would I do this? I looked at the Wiki for all types of different things I could use to help me but I am now sure how I could really get started doing this.

Thanks for any feedback

#2

How many teams would this have to support? 2? 4? Even more possibly? I can think of a system for 2 teams but not sure if it’s efficient with 3 or 4.

Something like this should work for randomizing players into 2 teams:

local teams = game:GetService("Teams")
local players = game:GetService("Players")
local activePlayers = players:GetPlayers()

function randomizeTeams(team1, team2)
    for i, player in ipairs(activePlayers) do
        if (i % 2) == 0 then
            player.Team = team1
        else
            player.Team = team2
        end
    end
end

-- And whenever you want to call it, for example after a map has loaded

randomizeTeams(teams:FindFirstChild("Team1Name", teams:FindFirstChild("Team2Name")) -- Would take in the two teams as parameters
#3

Well it’s an SCP genre game inspired by the game “rBreach”, it has 8 teams and you can spawn in randomly as 5 of them.

What would be the problem with more than 2?

#4

I also forgot to mention it’s not just a 50/50 chance spawn, for example there is a max of 3 SCP’s to start out as and cannot have anymore, same with one other but the rest are Random.

#5

Oh, thanks for the response. This info is very useful.

local teams = game:GetService("Teams")
local tInfo = {
    ["Team1Name"] = {
        MaxPlayers = 3;
    }
    ["Team2Name"] = {
        MaxPlayers = 5;
    }
    ["Team3Name"] = {
        MaxPlayers = 10;
    }
    -- etc
}

local function countTeam(team)
    local count = 0
    for _, player in next, players:GetPlayers() do
        if player.Team == team then
            count = count + 1
        end
    end
    return count
end

local function assignRandomTeam(player)
    local assigned = false
    while not assigned do
        local randomTeam = teams:GetChildren()[math.random(#teams:GetChildren())]
        if randomTeam and countTeam(randomTeam) < tInfo[randomTeam.Name].MaxPlayers 
then
            player.Team = randomTeam
            assigned = true
        end
        wait(.5)
    end
end

This code should work but hasn’t been tested. If it errors, the idea could be used I may have just implemented it wrong.

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#6

Oh I see, I will have to study this and get to know how it works better. Thank you very much!