Re: Team Switchers need to be PUNISHED!

certainly not against anyone just playing a plant or a zombie, the only thing I hate is when just before the end of a game they are about to loose they swap team to the winning side, this I feel is unfair and should be prevented after 5 mins of the game starting.

I understand what you mean now and Yes, I'm with you 100% on that. Plus, the same goes for the possibility of joining a match in its last minute, regardless of being on the winning or losing team. 

Sorry, but I don't agree that Team Switchers need to be punished. I always start out my day completing challenges. I limit my game time, so try to complete my challenges which usually require a specific thing. If it requires me to kill a specific character type, then I'm gonna keep switching sides until I'm on the side that will allow me to kill that type of character. If I play with friends, we all know the system is broken... I'm gonna switch sides to join my friends.

Now if you were to say, team balancing needs to be stricter... then yes, I agree. There should never be more than 1 player difference.

If you ask no team swapping in the last phase of a Turf Takeover match, then yes... I agree with that.

But to punish all team switchers, no. Hell, I'd wanna switch teams just to be on a different team than you now.

I would make it if you switch teams you only get half your coins

Team switching is already penalized by making it gain less coin. Howener team switching shouldn't be flat out allowed when team are even,that just dumb and make team uneven during the start of the match. Team switching for any another case should be fine (like when it wouldn't matter or to switch to a team with less player)

There also the fact that it appear that you still get the penality when you're switching to a team with have less player then your,which is also questionable if it do happen.

This is what I posted during the beta.  I seriously can't believe they still allow switching when teams are even:

Can still switch teams when teams are even.  This bug still exists in GW1 as well.  It has to be a bug and not intentional because it's obvious how unfair this is.  Turning a 4v4 game into a 5v3 game is ridiculous and should NOT be allowed. While you are fixing this single character in the code (should just be changing an = to a >), you should also limit team switching to only during the first couple gardens of a map AND only during the first minute or so on each garden.  It is ridiculous that someone can play an entire round on one team, then at the last minute switch to the winning team to get more coins.  This should NOT be allowed.  It is even worse when they don't wait til the last minute.  People who realize fairly early in the round that their team is outclassed will switch to the other team, thus making the original team even more outclassed.  I don't understand why so many people like uncompetitive games.  They are not fun on EITHER side.  Along these same lines, people who quit a match should get NO coins.  This quitting just imbalances the teams and needs to be discouraged heavily.

This still needs to be fixed.  Last night while playing vanquish confirmed for the epic quest I was in several 4v6 or 5v7 matches in a row because people kept switching teams.  This is utter garbage.  Until this is fixed I have to assume that the people at EA are in favor of unfair play or just ridiculously bad at coding. 

This weekend was particularly unbalanced on the numbers.  In one game, I was the only plant defending the Castle against 3 zombies.  3 zombies isn't great either . . . Another match saw a team of 4 plants against 1 zombie.   

Yep, this was terrible in GW1 as well and they never fixed it.  They must support imbalanced teams.  Really sad. 

Keeping people happy must be more important than having a balanced game...

The Irony of the statement alone!