Team autobalance has been suggested for a long time - maybe now we can finally put it in.

This has been discussed as far as a sourcemod plugin goes, and the problem with disallowing switching to the 'losing' team is trying to define losing. What if it's OvD and the score is 100 to 0? How would you determine who goes where? So then maybe it should be based on Fortress points instead. but that would require them to be balanced enough to where amount of caps is close or equal to how well the defense is doing.

Another thing is this already exists via sourcemod, where you can't join a team that has more players than the other team, and or you can't switch teams if your team is does not or will not have enough players once switched. Hlstriker(clowneh) created this and I think is available on the e0 server if you want to test it.

The e0 Server has an auto balance team right now where you can not switch teams. Been working nicely.

Some form of this autobalancing is most definitely needed.

I've lost count of the amount of times I've repeatedly killed people only for me to see them pop up on my team a moment later. This often makes the teams numbers such as 9 v 6 or 11 v 7. There is no way to stop the 10 v 9's or 7 v 8's but you can stop the difference being so dramatic.

If you're going to auto balance then something based upon fortress points seems the most logical choice, although you might run into issues with class limits on some maps/servers.

What if I was a sniper on aardvark and the server chooses to autoswitch me to the opposition who already have a sniper. Will I still be a sniper or will I be stuck without the class I chose? That's one potential problem I see arising anyway.