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Except that wont increase your chances of getting a game quicker.

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27 Aug 2013, 21:18 PMJStorm

Except that wont increase your chances of getting a game quicker.

I suppose your not counting the time it takes for you to swap factions when you see 80% German and 20% Soviet. By the time you auto-match with random, it doesn't matter. Especially if it matches you with other random auto-matches.

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27 Aug 2013, 21:18 PMJStorm

Except that wont increase your chances of getting a game quicker.

Actually, you're wrong.
In beta, when we could read a particular game file, we could see that the longer you search for a game, the higher the elo spread between you and your opponent will possibly be.

Let's say you are elo 1000.
You start searching for a game as random, automatch will search for a german or soviet opponent between 950 and 1050.
Then 1 minute later, it will search for a german or soviet player between 900 and 1100.
Then 1 minute later, between 850 and 1150.
etc etc.

Now, without a random function, if you search as a 1000 elo german player and don't find a game, but with an other german player searching too with 1070 elo in the automatch pool. After x time you decide to restart the search as a soviet player, you'll have to wait at least 1 minute to be able to be matched with him.
While with a random faction button, you wouldn't have had to wait. You would have met him way sooner, 1 minute after starting your search.

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Hope this comes soon...

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How hard could it be to introduce?

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19 Sep 2013, 08:26 AMSgtBulldog

How hard could it be to introduce?

Apparently very hard.

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The thing about random faction is also that you may have two completely different rankings as Soviet and Ostheer.
So it could simultaneously look for e.g. ~1000 Elo Ostheer and ~800 Elo Soviet and different amounts of people may be online in both elo areas.
This is also why the amount of people looking for a game can suddenly be very different when switching sides manually.

This means GuruSkippy's example wouldn't be accurate but he is right: It'd be faster and easier for everyone.