New idea: customized random civ pool

Age of Empires II: DE II - Discussion
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Hello all. im a ‘‘new old’’ player.

From time to time i play games on the ranked ladder. i want the game to surprise me by random selecting the civ for me before i go into the game because that is fun. The problem i have is that i learned a few civs that i know pretty well but there are too many civs now to learn all at once.

for me it would be nice to be able to select a pool of civs that the game can randomize for me. so i can random between a few civs i learned. That will give me a better playing experience because the total number of civs and their possibilities are totally overwhelming me and going random civ just isnt fun for me at this point because when i get a civ i know i win and when i get a civ i dont know, i lose,

I want to be able to random between the10-15 civs i learned. and when i have more time i can learn an extra civ and add it to the civ pool.

I like to random between some civs but i dont want to be forced to learn 30+ civs. Also i unfortunately dont have the time to learn that much information about the game right now in my life (i own a company and have a wife).

Maybe this idea is a good way to make all the civs less overwhelming for new players.

If this idea would be implemented i would certainly play more games.
this would make the ranked ladder experienced more enjoyable for me

Greetings from a 20+ year aoe2 lover and casual ranked player,

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I understand your idea, i think that would be pretty cool!

One thing you can do, for the meantime, is assign a number to the civs you like, and then use Google “random number generator” to pick the civ for you :smile: Or maybe there’s an app for that.

for example:

1-britons
2-franks
3-ethiopians
4- slavs
5- celts
6- burmese
7- portuguese

Google picked 2- Franks… yay :expressionless:

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I think this is a great idea, and one that wouldn’t be too hard to implement. There’s already a similar system for random map pools.

Also, glad to see another “new-old” player. I first played AoE2 when I was a kid around 20 years ago, and I’ve been a casual player ever since (mostly playing the campaigns). Now, my wife and I play games against the AI in the evenings.

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This would be helpful in other scenarios to like wanting a random Archer civs or random cav civ or random nomad civ etc.

It’s been suggested before and quite a few people seem to support it every time. Fingers crossed dev implement it.

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