@CruncciRoller said in #10:
> I must respectfully disagree with you regarding the difficulty of invoking such a feature
The feature exactly as you imagine it might not be extremely difficult to implement. But there are plenty of other conditions other users would like to impose on their potential opponents, just as legitimate (or illegitimate) as yours. (An example: just yesterday, someone came with a request that it would be nice to be paired more often with players who are likely to accept a rematch request.) Implementing only your idea and disregarding the rest makes no sense, why should your request be more sensible than all the rest? And implementing complex filtering according to all possible quirks people might want would be way too complicated.
And that's only part of the problem. Another problem is that if these were implemented and a substantial part of lichess users started to imposing their conditions, pairing would suddenly become way harder than it is now. Even now, you can wait for minutes just because you like an unpopular time control. Imagine what would it look like if one player chose to avoid "queen pushers", another "pawn pushers", another "weird openings", players who play too fast, players who play too slow, players who resign too eagerly, players who never resign, ...
Not to mention that the very idea is rather dubious. When you play OTB, you also cannot impose conditions that you want to play only those who play the way you like. Why should it be possible on lichess?
> I must respectfully disagree with you regarding the difficulty of invoking such a feature
The feature exactly as you imagine it might not be extremely difficult to implement. But there are plenty of other conditions other users would like to impose on their potential opponents, just as legitimate (or illegitimate) as yours. (An example: just yesterday, someone came with a request that it would be nice to be paired more often with players who are likely to accept a rematch request.) Implementing only your idea and disregarding the rest makes no sense, why should your request be more sensible than all the rest? And implementing complex filtering according to all possible quirks people might want would be way too complicated.
And that's only part of the problem. Another problem is that if these were implemented and a substantial part of lichess users started to imposing their conditions, pairing would suddenly become way harder than it is now. Even now, you can wait for minutes just because you like an unpopular time control. Imagine what would it look like if one player chose to avoid "queen pushers", another "pawn pushers", another "weird openings", players who play too fast, players who play too slow, players who resign too eagerly, players who never resign, ...
Not to mention that the very idea is rather dubious. When you play OTB, you also cannot impose conditions that you want to play only those who play the way you like. Why should it be possible on lichess?
