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Quote from Rise_Before_Dawn >>

welcome to CAZINO HS, nobody cares - it's RANDOM

 Ironically, Bliz rigging things to ensure you go first sometimes would be *more* like a casino, not less.  Slot Machines and VLTs have fixed rates of payouts, and will ensure enough small wins to string someone along, to trick them into gambling more.

The main reason it's OK in a casino* and not in HS?  Because with these these casino machines a player is only ever playing against the house, and not another player.  The main reason HS shouldn't rig games is that there's always a player on the other end.  Getting knocked out of a BGs match because you've been targeted to get an auto-second would be wicked $#!##y.  Too many people already believe the game is rigged, and actually-rigging-it would be bad.

Folks asking for such a system would as likely be on the losing end as the winning end of any such scheme.

* In a lot of ways, it isn't OK.  Casinos deliberately targeting addictive tendencies in gamblers is scum-of-the-earth stuff.  Feels even scuzzier when state governments do it, IMHO, with scratch lotto tickets.

Quote from SummerWalker >>

It's battlegrounds who cares...

 If it's in the general HS forum, no one, and that's a fair comment.

If it's in the BGs subforum?  Well... the folks in this subforum.  Try to be a good guest. 

Quote from Toribasher >>

First attack is supposed to be a coin flip.  When you lose 3 winnable battles in a row because opponent attacked first, it feels bad.

The minions attack enough like idiots trying to throw every winnable battle as it is, letting every opponent attack first too is a killjoy experience.

This especially matters playing or playing against Pirates, but also in a meta where mega swipes are becoming common because of beasts.

Have some sort of counter that tracks "attacked first" and the player that has attacked first less goes first.

One of the better things about Battlegrounds is only bottom 4 players can fight ghost, they can fix this too.

 I see why you'd think that, but it's a bad idea.  There shouldn't be a pity-timer on going first.  It'd literally being Bliz rigging matches.  Just no. Separate RNG each time is the only fair way to go.