First of all, i quite like the site, having played here for 5 years. I have ran into the following situation, which really has not happened a lot, surely once in half a year, but always leaves a really bad taste in my mouth and makes me want to quit the community.
Joining a public game and forgetting to check the players backgrounds you spawn in the game between 2 or even 3 people from the same country as you(different) and you can quickly deduce who they will eliminate first: the person not from their country.
Last game i played, we had 2 people from country A, 2 people from country B and 5th and 6th person were from differing countries to everyone else. The 5th/6th person were pretty much losing on turn 4 due to getting no help/getting straight ganged up on by the people in the same country. This made the game a 2v2v1v1 as soon as the houses got randomed. Im not saying this happens on the regular, but it really feels like players had no chance in this situation.
Ive never and doubt i can ever play with my countrymen on this site, i know they exist but the chances of running into each other at the same time is astronomically low. So im left with playing 1v2 against people from more populous countries.
Whats the fix? I guess i can only propose to hide countryflags, which is sad because it makes the community feel diverse and is otherwise a cool addition. And even if countryflags got removed, certain people can still easily find each other based on language/username and still team up.
Can someone help me understand if im salty and need to accept this or is it unfair?