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The map would be selected randomly, but the settings for that map would be the most popular used for that map. (Speed/Casual excluded)
This will improve the following aspects of the site:
I know there were previous suggestions to have the "most popular" be the default, but I did not see this specific suggestion. When the Random feature is expanded, I think this would be a nice variation. Just as an example, the AOR maps would almost certainly be played fog, though I don't know how many players, etc. Some settings might be a big "crazy". I understand Doodle 8 player is pretty popular, for example. However that would be part of the fun.
Because the map will be randomly selected, it would help get around the problem of people using certain settings for "farming". Chances are good you will be playing with people who might not ordinarily choose those settings. It would give people a chance to try the various maps with the most popular settings for that map, giving people the "most popular" experience for that map and likely helping people to expand what they play a bit.
All other settings (Assassin/Terminator/Sequential; # of players; fog/no fog) would be set. I would prefer to exclude Freestyle/Sequential, simply because I (and I know other people) have time problems playing Freestyle. However, either way would be fun and likely popular. Teams might be an issue. If teams is the most popular setting for any map, then the teams would have to be randomized. Since that possibility does not exist yet, team games might come out skewed. Then again, since no one would know what the settings (what map) would be in advance...it might work out just fine.
The biggest problem here would be finding what the most popular settings are. Doing a true, "real time" count of the most popular settings might be hard, but you could take the "most popular on x day" and then update it every week, every month or every 6 months (? though that seems a bit long). Also, to prevent this self-perpetuating a particular style (that is, this would automatically increase the number of times the most popular settings are played), you would want to have the "most popular" removed from the decision on what is the most popular style for each map. (though if that's technically difficult, I would still like to see this implemented) (you would probably have to add a code to the record to distinguish it as a randomly selected map ???)
