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Simplify Start of Game (Auto choose who goes first)
It would be really nice to just have the client randomly decide which player would go first each game. Having to see who will flip, then have someone choose who will go first, all this is a waste of time in my eyes. I understand there is some strategic decisions to make here, but I personally think it would be more beneficial to just auto choose. Would save minimum 30+ seconds of time each game, allowing us degenerates to play more games.
Having come from playing MTG Arena this whole start of game thing is unnecessarily long and tedious. If we can't skip the whole thing, maybe just randomly decide who gets the choice to play first so we only have one option to go through instead of three?
Again, it just feels like I'm wasting time at the start of each game.
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I don't see this changing since this it how it works IRL. But they can speed this up by reducing the amount of time people have, since you should know beforehand whether you want to go 1st or 2nd.
Give people 10 seconds to call heads or tails & 10 more seconds to choose 1st or 2nd.
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I never said I don't care. I'm just looking to speed up the most unnecessarily slow part of this game.
I just don't see the difference between having someone flip a coin to see if they get to choose something else. That is already a random result so why not just randomly choose someone to choose first or second or the start and skip the coin flip animation and choice?
Something like this at the start of game:
"Player 1 has been given the option to choose to play first. Waiting on Player 1 to decide."
Game would start in 5 seconds instead of 30.
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