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Ok, I've just had 3 games of turf.
Ist game: Was on Turning Point as a zombie in what started as a full lobby.
The zombies of course did the usual holding the plants at the bottleneck. A couple of minutes in, I checked teams & noticed plants were now a player down.
I tried swapping teams & got the usual "Are you sure you want to change teams? You may lose coins blah blah". I selected continue, but got message saying I couldn't because the other team had too many players . . . I double-checked & plants stll had 7 players to our 8.
I would've said my team had a larger amount of higher ranks as well - but I know that rank may not be used as a way to gauge balance in teams.
Game finished predictably & boringly at first base.
2nd game: Game started 8 zombies to 7 plants, zombies attacking, but we very quickly lost 2 plant players. A new player came in & they were added to plant side - whether that would've happened if there had been space on zombies, I can't tell. Lobby filled up & ended 2nd base.
3rd game: Found I'd been put on plants again, but plants were * still a player down. I don't know if I was moved because doing so meant that I was separated from a player who had just joined the lobby & was similarly ranked - the two of us were the highest ranks by a considerable margin.
That other player turned out to be a long-time nemesis from GW2 & by the time my team lost at the end of the game, I'd had enough of PvP experimenting!!! 😭😂
Would be interested in other people's observations!
* added
@ToastedSarnie Did the weekly event today (finally got around to it), the lobby numbers varied/fluctuated a lot. It was hard to really tell, but there was this one game which actually started as a 5v5, it did not change until people started leaving, then when the lobby started filling again, than it stayed around the same! I found it hard to determine whether the update was active (on team swap and whatnot). There were no stable numbers of people as people kept leaving and joining.
There was one game where it was 5 plants VS 2 Zombies (I was on plants). I'm pretty sure the lobby started at 5v5 in this game, but than zombie players started leaving (plants kept dominating on this game mode).
Probably good to keep an eye on this! 🤨 👍
