• When the game selects antagonists for a new round, instead of being completely random chance, it will be based on how many previous plays as that antag type you have had before. This allows people with lower selections to play something they haven't been lucky enough to get before.
  
• Caveat: The system needs data to function as expected, so you probably won't notice any change for the first little while (days or weeks, unsure).
  
• Also, there remains a low chance (10%) to ignore weighting for an antag pick and just select any old shmuck.
  

• The idea is to limit the "I never get picked for X!!" complaints, which I feel are valid given a reasonable chunk of the "fun" derived from this game is in playing as an antag. It can also be a little disheartening to just never get picked ever.
  
• The end goal is just to make things a bit fairer for everyone.
  

• Brand new players get overwhelming priority for selection (given they have an assumed history of "never played X"). This can be fixed with a byond account age check or a "we ever seen this dude on goonstation?" check, but will require a sizable code refactor given the godawful mess that is the gamemode setup code. - Partially solved with a requirement that players participate in 5 rounds before being considered for weighting.
  
• Over longer periods of time, highly active players will accumulate so many antag selections that they will have far too slim chances at getting picked again (unless everyone else currently on the server has a similar amount of selections). This can be solved by recording the "last selected" timestamp and adjusting the weighting in their favor if it's an appropriately long time since they were last selected. - Solved with the whole percentage target refactor thing.
  

(06-09-2017, 12:17 PM)Arborinus Wrote:

(06-09-2017, 09:08 AM)Wire Wrote: I considered a probability system for antag roles based on the player's history of antag selection, granting a higher weight for future selection the longer it's been since any selection at all.

Thoughts?

How would this affect late-joining antags? They occur even if you have all antags turned off in preferences (pls fix). Seeing how that by itself would cause a long break between selections it would select you for late join a lot.

(06-19-2017, 04:38 AM)Sov Wrote: Suggestion, the weighting system uses a rolling 30 day window. This would help with veterans getting abysmally low chances while also avoiding having to re-prime the system from something like a monthly clean slate