Random so that the player does not know by game start what factions are in the game could be quite hard (depending on how its done).

However, i would simply propose a solution to make a game less "tedious" to set up.

Currently, if i want a game with 6 players (5x AI) i will need to click at least 10 times, navigating between 2 menu's to put unique factions in.

While this is not a problem doing this once or twice, it quickly becomes tedious if you need to "start a new game"

(which is surprisingly frequent in MP) (map generation is not always stable, and sometimes players lose very early on (first 10-20 turns), or sometimes they leave very early etc)

I however do not see why there is no option to "Fill" AI slots with unique factions in the lobby (before any generation gets done)

(if someone else joins or swaps factions to an existing one, i will simply press the button again. So there is also no networking involved, since it would be the same as the host assigning those slots manually)

Not top-list priority, but for a small amount of work id say its definitely worth it.

Amplitude has stated on numerous occasions that this is difficult to implement.

I dare say that I personally don't see it as a top priority.

I'd rather have them dedicate resources to an additional content pack (e.g. something similar to the Lost Tales) or some free content, or something else.

If you really wish to have random unique factions, you can for instance assign a number to each race, then generate some random numbers and thus have your set of opponents.

Here's something that may help : https://www.random.org/integer-sets/

I know it's not perfect because you'll be able to identify a race by just seeing its color on the map, but hey ... it's something ^^

Oft-requested feature, it's on our improvement list, but we're not sure we'll be able to implement it.

I would definetly be a good change... On a map of 8 I have 2 Vaulters and Mezari. While I could tolarate Mezari... why 2 Vaulters. Next to each other, non the less!

This is a must-have feature for all the Endless game and I hope if they add it for ES2 they will also update it in EL and ES1.

player1 wrote:
It is very strange, if such change would require extensive code changes. In fact, as someone with developer experience, I really doubt that.



I could write such code change in one afternoon (or a day more if specific code is not well maintained).



Essentially, each randomly rolled faction needs to be removed from the pool of factions that are used when random rolling the faction, for each successive roll.



Of course, adding this as toggle option would require a bit more time, due to additional UI and configuration changes needed in that case.

player1 wrote:
That's just... bad.



How in all playtesting for last 2 years no one raised important issue like this???



Please include it in future patch.

player1 wrote:
That's just... bad.



How in all playtesting for last 2 years no one raised important issue like this???



Please include it in future patch.