Exactly (in regards to allowing ppl to keep playing if they don't want to switch sides). As a player, I don't really mind unbalanced games... except for the spawn dilema. As an admin, I don't mind getting rid of folks who are obviously trying to cause problems, but I'm loathe to force players to be courteous to each other.
What's good about this option is that you don't have to force a balance, and it's not really changing up the dynamics of the game (ie, if you die, you still have a price to pay by having to wait for a respawn) nor is it tipping the balance in one side's favor (like my initial thought was to suggest a health or damage modifier).
Looking at the wolf source, though, I can't imagine how you could implement a way to set up a sliding scale like this cleanly.
Maybe if you took the imbalance, turned it into a percentage, and then just deducted that from the standard spawn times it'd be enough. Like:
Axis = 10 players
Allies = 4 players
Both have respawn times of 30 seconds.
Since Allies are at 40% the strength, they get 40% of the spawn time. So they're back in the game at 12 seconds while the Axis stays at 30. Then all the sudden one of the Allies decides to switch sides and it becomes 11 to 3 (Alies are now down to 27%)... Axis stays at 30, and Allies would drop to 8 seconds. And so on.
Basing it on a percentage would get reduce the config problem down to just setting one cvar (although it's probably not going to help the dude in a 1 vs. 63 fight too much
).
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