Randomize Players should respect game type & selected players

[mikeage]

For example, if I'm playing a 2 team game, and have selected players 1, 2, 3, 9, 10, and 11, then randomizing players should make sure I wind up with three on team 1 and three on team 2.

[rmick]

Fair call, but damn I don’t want to go there 😎

[mikeage]

Ok :-)

I added a quick patch that only randomizes players 1-16 in a 2 player game (I didn't disable randomization on a 0 team game, although maybe it should be...), but getting the list of selected players is slightly less trivial. I'll try to do it anyway.

[rmick]

Ok I am ready to start on this now.

How should it work?
I will only shuffle selected players, but should we also keep team numbers constant if they are offset? If Team1 has 5 players, and Team2 has 3 players, should we keep that ratio, or just go for random, so they might be 3/5, 4/4 or 5/3?

[mikeage]

Interesting Q. In LTAG type games, I would think we should probably keep even teams, as the general reason to have something like 3 vs 5 is if the 3 are better, but once we're shuffling, that no longer applies. For game types like HUNT... I have no idea; never really played them.

[rmick]

I think also that if you have 3/5 players you should be using the Handicaps to even the players out, so lets just go with even teams.