army of nobunaga wrote:1)there is a pattern that occurs when he starts a 4 or 5 man feudal map
True. It's a quite random assortment of opponents with about the expected number of newbies.
army of nobunaga wrote:2) this pattern doesnt exist with any random subset of ppl I randomly checked before I created this thread
Seems like you made some poor assumptions that led you to some incorrect conclusions. When looking at other relevant games created by other players the same pattern does in fact exist.
army of nobunaga wrote:All I fucking ask was a statistical lopsided join rate be looked into.
What you think is lopsidedness actually has some very simple and logical explanations.
Lastly I hope that achilles and the rest of the mods take a moment and reconsider the farming rule (not that it should be completely scrapped but some definitions might need to be looked at) and the effects of the site enforced restrictions on newbies.