Nooooooooooooo

Not a good idea.

Great idea! unless you need 4 people to win. New players logging into a TEAM REG server facing 4-5 seasoned teams of 4? You guys are pathetic. Make this happen.

More big streamers like exec would like this.

No need to call people pathetic for disagreing with you Krax.

Doing this would basically turn 80% of team games into DUO games, how popular have DUO servers been in the past?

I can see a few players who don't play in big teams loving this idea (exec included) but a large majority of the playerbase who regularly team not liking this - and I think that could be harmful to the playercount.

Look. How inviting is it in attracting new players to the game when they run into a team of 4 on a team reg server with 20ppl. This community and the people playing are not going anywhere. They'd be gone already. I don't personally see how winning a team game on a team of 4 is still an 'accomplishment'. And I do, I think it's pathetic to think that it is. Currently a games start with maybe 5-7 posing teams. 3 teams of 4, some duos and maybe a solo or two. Or the same game could start with 10+ "factions" vs just 5.

Can just as well rename all the servers to "Team Duo" then if that is what you want Krax.
I can't see how this benefits the game at all, forcing teams to split up will only make it harmful in the long run here. Team games are filling up daily is because people like to play in teams, It is not just the gameplay itself, but also the other interactions going on on ts, discord etc.
Turning team games into duo games will most likely lead to players leaving in the long run. Forcing people to decide who to ditch from a team when you normally are 3-4 regulars that play together can only harm this in the long run.

You are completly missing the point of why some people play games Krax. I don't care about 'accomplishments' I just want to chill with some friends, shoot some guns and have fun. Instead of trying to ruin other peoples fun just because you only play with 1 other person, why not look at better ways to make more people play in groups - the way team games are meant to played. Find one of them other duo's, group up and fight the team of 4's with a full team. Everyone i've met in this game is through playing with new people.

And the whole "people playing are not going anywhere" just doesn't make sense. They have not gone anywhere because there are team games to play.

I think that the goal should be to attract new players to the mod and not worry about pissing off the current addicts that are (lets face it) not going anywhere. Nobody will ever like ANY changes. Thats just how people are. Thats why I never liked the (TEAM) nomenclature on the server names in the first place. This, IMO fractured the community way back when. It means that if you are a NEW player trying BR solo for the first time that "this is not for you" since there are no SOLOs loading. Literally. You browse the servers and see 'TEAM'. When BR first came out there was just REG or HC thats all. "Teaming" was just something frowned upon but not explicitly forbidden and there was always only one winner. Some individual had to get the pinned win. Nobody really cared if they ran into a team of 2 or 3. Then the servers split and the population split. At the very least the "TEAM" nomenclature should be removed from the server names to not act as a subliminal obstacle. But in all seriousness. Do you really feel accomplished winning a game as a member of a team of 4 with the situation the way it is? I know I don't.

We have players not addicts, piss them off and they will leave. Saying “lets face it” won’t change that. And people don’t like changes… You know a patch with a tonne of changes just came out and boosted the player count, right?
Sure, TEAM games maybe split people up into teamers/solo’s more, it also gave the game the largest boost in players in its history. There a lot of people who play games for “team” experiences, this is why the vast majority of online games are team based.
And again, I don’t just play this game for accomplishment. But I do enjoy my time playing, and I’m guessing all these other so called “addicts” do as well.
Yes, we have an issue with new players, but ruining fun for current players is not the solution. This game has a steep learning curve and the average player has 2k+ hours, new players will always have issues.

I would like this. But I know a lot of people unfortunately wouldn't.

it would mean that 90% team reg would become duo reg

Quite simple, at the start of the round just put players that isn't part of a team into teams, and make and option for people that want to play solo to opt out from this process.

That would make more people join solos. Which i disagree with. As team servers will suffer. Team size based on population of server is a solid move. . . Did, did i just help team reg servers. yikes.

The game is now essentially either SOLO HC (1st person) or Team REG (3rd person). There is no solo reg play outside the Team servers which is fine, but I don't see why the TEAM nomenclature is even necessary in the server browser regardless of max team size. If somebody is lucky enough to find the mod in the workshop and lists BR servers, there should be no reason for them to not join "(REG) Bozcada" for example. Sure the ability to form a team once there would make it apparent to the player that teams are present, but it doesn't forcast the possibility that only teams are encouraged to play on the server. Unless that's how it is. Then it becomes just ARMA 3 BR REG or ARMA 3 BR HC with a max team size of 4 and none of this solo vs team stuff. It just become BR 1st person and BR 3rd person.

0-20 players - up to 1 player in the team
while you're at it. ;)

im not really against this idea, but team with 4 players game will fully disappear with this system, unless the player population multiplies by four, which I don't think that's gonna happen.
we only reach 40+ players when 2 servers finish at about the same time. This is very rare.

I will add that even in the case of a game with more than 39+ players, there will always be solos / duo and trio.

Lets be reasonable the threshold for allowing team sizes can be adjusted. It doesn't have to be what is posted by the OP. Maybe 0-22 max team size 3. 23+ max team size 4?. and 15 and under we have the serves start but force solo play. This is all debatable but also may pose more challenge that worth it. But I do want to remove obstacles for new people joining BR servers. I'd like to ditch the (TEAM) word entirely from the name of the server in the Arma server list. Why can't it just be "(REG) Battle Royale - Map Name"? We can maintain the ability to declare a team of up to 4, but we're not explicitly advertising these games as (TEAM) 'only' servers. Teams, Duos Solos all play on them. If you're new, loading in solo, I don't want to discourage these players when all they see is TEAM TEAM TEAM loading with a bunch of dead SOLO servers in the list. I'd like to take it back to the way BR was initially where you had teams and solos playing on the same server. We've fixed the majority of the problem by allowing teams to functionally group up and solo players have a good advantage as far as placement points on the leaderboard, but I feel that the word 'TEAM' on the server list is unneeded. I feel this is a good compromise without changing team sizes or thresholds.

To be honest, new players have a far better chance of learning the gameplay of this mod by playing in team servers. For players that is new to this mod, learning it by playing in solo servers would take months or even years with the current amount of players online. At least in a team match you have a chance to spectate the gameplay after dying, and maybe pick up a few pointers from your teammates gameplay to survive the next round.
By teaming up the guys that isn't in a team at the start of the rounds eliminates solo guys in the team servers, and by letting people opt out from this process if they don't want to team with anyone benefits the solo players.
It's a win win for everyone.
I have no problems to remove the "Team" tag from the server name, It doesn't really matter at all since the core players that fill servers on daily basis will still fill the servers that is "Team" servers.

Let the team games stay the same way. Better idea would be to promote more duo game for streamers.
Teamers are mostly 4-man and they wanna play this way.