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by xnorswap 1481 days ago
I love Geoguessr but it has a distinct randomisation problem (certainly in the competitive pool) that it hasn't solved.

If you play regularly you'll begin to notice that around 1 in 10 cities are in fact Vienna.

I'm not sure how it chooses, I suspect it first picks a country, then picks a city.

Without weighting for population or other factors, you end up with a significant number of Taiwan, Singapore and Vienna, far more than their populations or areas should suggest.

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Which game mode are you playing where you have that issue? I've played countless hours of Geoguessr and haven't noticed that
The competitive mode in which you try to guess before your opponent, it's the standard mode now. (They've rebadged the old mode "geoguessr classic".)