I suggest that the loading screen for random players, as well as the race in the menu in game shows ‘random’ to them when looking for a game and playing, as if the opponent was random as well.
This will not imact high level SC2 competitions as
a- most players do not play random in top grand master games.
b- most players playing random in top grand master know most of the other player’s race.
This will increase the quality of life for low level players playing vs random players that take advantage of the pre-scouting decisions a player has to make depending on the opponent’s race (even early scout, late scout or no scout).
If the argument is that there is no need for pre-scout information to play, then the random player does not need it either.
It is fine as it is. Random is a dice roll with certain builds if a player knows them well enough. Now players can do any build if they choose too there’s no need for change of what a player sees on the loading screen all because the top most players aren’t playing random. There’s no need to exclude players because of race there’s been many of talks on the old forum about that.
Players who pick a race good for them all random going to do is throwing a curve ball to make sure players cover the basis. Once a player scouted they know the random player. Mind games is part of the fun.
Information applies to all players regardless of race or dice roll. First you have to understand everything there is to know about random before suggesting changes that doesn’t impact the game.
You can cover all the bases, but all bases change depending on the race, and random players take advantage of that. Will a P player place their first pylon in the low ground vs terran? I’ve never seen it with very few cheese exceptions. Vs Z is the norm, so if you don;t do it they are in seriuos disadvantage. the problem vs Random is that the time the scout is done it is too late. And the scout time vs each race changes, and doing an instant scout is very bad in all cases and it is still too late. So either the race is revealed at the same time for all players (at the loading screen) or everyone needs to scout to know the race they’re playing against (random do not see the race they are playing against).
If you say that the change does not impact the game I do not see any problem on implementing it, at my level at least it would increase the quality of life of all players regardless of the race that play vs random.
This was of tremendous help, thank you. Now I’ve seen the light.