who knows about section, of fourms , but as for random play i use that because i belive in building up stratergys with all fleets, and yes i have noticed what you have that i get more human and advent type fild when random i only get tech a few times, when your randomizing only 3 species or 3 of anything your mostly going to get 2 that are the most common, and then with the 3rd well if you have played around with random number's then youll know what i mean.