Poll: Roster Limit

[Witness]

It's crunch time!

I'm not one to be rushed, but if were gonna do a roster cap, I'd like to try it out during opening season (just after twl). In doing this I'd like to leave it up to the trenchwars community to some extent. I'm sorry I cannot go down to 25 players at this time, the reasoning behind this I and others see more harm then good. Yeah , some of you are all calling foul, but let me explain some of the reasoning behind this.

1. We have a ton of squads, if they were all active we wouldnt have anything to complain about. When you look at a squad with 40 members such as stoners and there last game was played in aug. what good is it gonna do to limit there squad roster?, I'm sure if there was a player on the squad that wanted to play they have already left.

2. What will be the effect on a squad with 25players when a player/s leave or are axed?. We can see more squad dissolving compared to a squad with 35 or 40.

3. Friends that play the game and are on that squad because there friends are (maybe they play once in while if theres not enough, or are just mediocre), if we limited the squad to 25 and the caps dont allow the friend to stay on squad because he isnt good we risk losing both players not just in twd but in tw itself. Yes you can say why wouldnt they just go to another squad? That is something that can be answered with only one good responce. Is it worth the risk of losing that once in a while (mediocre) player and possible the active player? What squad would want mediocre/once in while player?

I could keep going on & on with all the ?'s/answers that arise from making the roster cap to low. but i will stop.

As for info here's the roster sizes as they sit. Note: Only squads with 18 or more were added to list.

Ossify 60
Rabioso 55
Thunder 53
Paladen 53
Boss 49
dicE 47
Asians 46
Epidemic 45
Clawed 43
Lethal Dose 43
C H E E Z 42
STONERZ 40
Discombobulated 38
Devest 38
Brainwave 37
Anti-Scrub 37
Savanger 37
Penetrate 36
sage 33
Rapid 32
Respect 32
Blind 32
Ancients 32
Solar 31
Los Diabloz 30
Mad 30
Quicksand 30
Deliria 29
Ferous 29
Warpath 28
Dark 24
Disoblige 22
Next 21
Rhino 20
Chrondrite 18
-Defiant- 18
POUNDED 18
madeira 18

limiting to 40 roster yields: 96 players , of those that are active is another ?
limiting to 35 roster yields: 169 players , of those that are active is another ?


Just to make this poll fair.
No limit - wins but if it cant beat the total of 35 and 40 roster cap will be set to 40.
if 35 wins roster will be at 35
if 40 wins roster will be at 40

If the roster cap passes, Captains exceding the limit will be notified of the change and will have a certain amount of time to comply. Which has not been set at this moment.

[Zizzo]

if there is going to be a limit it should be like 20 or 25. but i vote no limit

[Sphinktor]

Obviously the idea behind the limit would be to create more squads and more competition, but it might also cause the squads that are around to be less active. So i am for the idea of a limit, and 35 seems like a good number.

[Displaced]

I personally don't see the benefit of restricting the size of the TWD roster. Lots of people pop in from time to time and want to play something.
With TWD roster limits, these people would be shunned, and would just drop off the grid altogether, which is something we can't afford.

TWL roster is limited, TWD roster doesn't need to be, keep it as is.

[freddie]

You should have included in title that this is just for TWD not TWL because some people uses New Posts function instead of browsing all forums separately. <_<

Anyway, capping TWD rosters is just dumb. And if you will cap it, why 35 or 40? Why not make it 25 then so it really has some effect too (something else than driving old players away)?

[Zeebu]

you poll is broken

give more of a range for limiting if you are going to

as in more of alower limit.

make it 20-40 by 5s

then maybe i will vote and your poll will be worthwhile

[RednaZ]

There's no point in voting if these are the options

[Turban]

Having a TWD roster limit is a GREAT WAY to drive away old players. Do you want that? No.

[Zeebu]

Having a TWD roster limit is a GREAT WAY to drive away old players. Do you want that? No.

this too

[Dreamwin]

There should be lower limit than 35. I think many players will agree with me. Set the limit to 25 or 30 at least.

[Arobas+]

A game of basing at 8s will be hard to get if the limit is set to 25, think about it. DD/JD only need 4, but BD need at least 6,7,8 to be fun. 35 should be enough, but not below or maybe 30?

And yeah, TWL roster is limited because we want active players. But don't forget that TWL can't run without TWD and if this limit can bring more squad, it means more competition for TWD, and TWL at the end.

[Jones]

There's really no need for more than 20 players for a three-league squad.

[Revolve]

i say 35 .. make more squads more competition etc..

[Turban]

Sorry, but putting a TWD limit would be plain dumb still in my opinion.

Limiting the roster capacity would take away a lot of the fun that makes TWD enjoyable, that is being in a big squad with a lot of friends and having fun with them. At least this it the case for me, I don't play in a competitive manner, I play to have fun. Taking away the fun would be a stupid move, and could be potentially lethal for the zones population..

[saetep]

No limit thanks. Being on huge squads is fun. I doubt setting limits on squad size would increase competition or squad activity. Squads with 60 players get three times as many games as squads with 20 theoretically in order to keep everyone happy. Plus they dont need to wait for a 4th wb or jav or baser to log on to get a game because chances are they either dont care or have enough players on already that they can rotate whoever they want. Roster limit is a decision for the squad captains to make. They decide who to recruit, who to axe, and who to play. If players dont like being on a squad with 30+ players then dont join that squad. If captains want a smaller squad then axe people. Gtfo government.