I think one would most likely play 3-player rengo with people you are familiar with, so possibly 4-player rengo beeing “the standard” and 3-player rengo beeing “the special option” or something might work out?
I think a quick fix would be requiring every player to explicitly accept the game to it to start. Now we have the equivalent of 1-1 matches where we let it start and anyone can cancel it at any moment… but personally I felt bad for the other people for cancelling everything just because the teams ended up in a configuration I didn’t want.
I’d expect not being alone in a team to be the default. And contradicting what I just wrote, I would prefer it starting automatically when the teams are complete. I would not care even if the teams were generated automatically taking into consideration ranks and blocks.
I was just about to observe that starting immediately was a thought-through decision, based on the awkwardness of waiting for a whole bunch of people to click accept.
That said, I will confess that starting immediately was also by far the simplest thing to do, and it is not set in stone.
Maybe for live games, an accept by each player makes best sense, and looking at what we have now I can see that it may be able to be done reasonably elegantly, so I will put that on the list.