The way the current plugin seems to work is as follows:

Let's call M the number of marine players and A the number of alien players.
- If a player chooses to join Aliens, and M <= A, the plugin intervenes and the player is automatically added to the marine team.
Else, if M > A, the plugin passes this through to NS and it handles the join normally.
- If a player chooses to join Marines, the plugin passes this through to NS and it handles the join normally.

What this means is that when a player chooses to join Marines and M > A, when NS handles the join normally it blocks the join and informs the player that the selected team is full, etc, etc. Wouldn't it be better for this to also be the behaviour of the balancing plugin when the player chooses Aliens and A >= M?

I think it would be better this way because:
- The current method makes it difficult to choose the team you want to play on. It is hard to choose to play on the alien team even if the necessary number of players do want to play rines. Before the match starts, you have to hold up the scoreboard and time your join appropriately. Either that or you repeatedly hit F2, F4, F2, F4, etc.
- Informing people of the fact that marines get the extra before they join the game will make them aware of the steps that are taken on this server to improve gameplay. Also, if extra rines are needed midgame, players may already be aware of it when they are asked to switch.
- For someone unaware of the plugin, it's confusing that joining the alien team sometimes causes you to join marines. One wonders if there's a bug in the program, server, map, or whatnot.

Thoughts?