Why do I have to play rdm civ?

[TougherTrack508]

I think that’s the point though. Even the compromise solution that I’ve proposed a couple of times doesn’t satisfy the need

Stale Game - Random Maps and Random Civilization hardly played in favor of picking

For teamgames, a system where some of the players in each team can get a random civ should work, if that would be good enough for players like you (eg if in a 3v3 2 players of one team and 1 player of the other team take the option, 1 player of each team gets a random civ). For 1v1s I’d like to see a map in the pool with “force random civ choice” associated with the map. People who don’t want to play with random civ can ban the map.

People are sick of playing against Indians/Khmer/Franks/Britons/ Whatever it was you were picking. Your civilisation effects them too.