As far as i still remember...
Client/serverside functions of the skill queries changed with hive3 (different marine/alien//comm skills) and i had issues with getting them on serverside and displaying it on the client side, therefore the infomessages for the players (where to join, what are the team skills, etc) got disabled, and on decision of (allow the join or not) only the field-average is used.

Given how busted Thunderdome is at this time due to server performance and player dropouts I dunno I'd say it can't be compromised.

Can you explain a little more in detail what you mean by it having flaws with hive3?

Im sorry, this mod is discontinued cause it got too many flaws with hive3
and with thunderdome it also became obsolate, since NS2 now provides a way to play which cant be compromised,
Anyone is free to take the source, and use it for whatever he wants to.

Hey would you consider somehow making this auto draw or reset games that get close to a team winning from tech point death during Seeding. Feels like that's all part of the same loop that you're trying to fix here with the game auto resetting at desired player count for a real game.