Team Auto-Balance, On or Off?

A recent spell in Gravel Pit had myself thinking about the use of team auto-balance in maps.  Like most players I had found team auto-balance to be one of the essential things to having a fair game considering most players like to stack one team and just rampage others with auto balance off.  Which in the end doesn't make much sense for the individual as it wouldn't increase ranking or team work in any way really (at least on a larger scale).

But what happens when a person switches teams to even out the player difference and not necessarily the score.  The influence of just one more player to these games always seems critical, especially if they know what they are doing.  Does it create any sense of betrayal for the other team? (Players switching teams can always point out where any hidden sentry guns are).

It would be interesting to hear everyone's stories on their experiences with team balance and how it has effected their play and their teams play.  What do people recommend and how often do they go to ranked maps with auto-balance off?

if the auto balance is off and one team has 14 players and the other has 1 i always change teams to the underdogs. If my team is winning and suddenly the other team switches to mine (which really pisses me off) i either change and kill them or i don't bother and just carry on.
BTW
thanks for adding me rednut!

I prefer team balance on games, however I'll play in an unbalanced game if it is a map I like and there is nothing but 2Fort in the balanced games.

I like auto-balance but I think it's retarded the way it works. I mean, one team is getting its ass kicked so people start leaving. Then, the few people the losing team can kill, are statistically more likely to be the less good players. So, the less good players are the ones who usually get moved to the losing team. So, the good team gets better, and the bad team gets worse. Stupid.

@killcrazy
same here
BTW why have you been online for about a week now not doing anything most of the time?

I don't know.

mabe my network connection is going kaput

I was surprised not to see more complaints about the EA network recently.

I hate when I get team-swapped because I'm usually defending as engie. I see our defense on the other team and say "I worked on that so I could die from it?"

Someone told me today there is a bug. If you have too many people in your friends list your account can't connect to the EA server. I deleted about 8 people with whom I have never exchanged messages (or for over a month) and I was able to connect very nicely.