Civ picking / random civs in a ladder

Hi

Today a discussion arose in some yet again discord and it has been on mind of many people around my level already, civ picking in ladder is getting troublesome and killing motivation to play in the ladder.

Issue is that back in voobly or HD you'd not play in a lobby where opponent is picking a civ, everyone mostly played random civ vs random civ for past couple years atleast. This was for a reason, barely anyone wants to play under unfair conditions or play mayans vs mayans constantly. It gets very boring very quickly. (Hunwar obviously is it's own thing for multitude of reasons, which we can ignore currently, since past is in the past.)

Currently you have only the option to enable random civs, if opponent has it enabled. However small improvement for this would be a three way toggle to the option.

1. Enable to be matched only with players who have random civ enabled
2. Both, be matched with players who pick civ or have random enabled
3. Disable, be matched with people who have random disabled

This way choosing option 2. could give you both games with random civ or civ picking, while players who hate civ picking could just play against random civ every game.

Feel free to comment your thoughts.

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Tldr; Random toggle into a three way option for the queue, only match with people with random civs, only match people with pick civ, match both of the previous.

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