IMPORTANT: TWD Reset, Rule change, Roster limit.

[Jerome Scuggs]

I agree, this should of been done years ago when TWD just cameout...

Im pretty sure he didnt mean activity in general bozo! He like most of us are looking for more activity in terms of more squads hopefully being formed, as well as more competition coming from this in terms of more viable squads in TWL... Also hopefully some growth in terms of newer players being able to get more playing time once they do join a TWD squad... I mean You/ur squad is the perfect example to prove his point... You guys use to have a buncha noobs and trained them by implimenting them into the game with a mix of experienced ppl, which i feel you's did a really good job of introducing new players into Organized basing and squading... now its rare to see a noob even in for Tenure... Now i love ur sexually appealing squad with the exception of royst/phren ofc, FU PHREN!!.... but squads got crazy outa hand this TWD and theres no benefit to 4-5 squads having like 60+ ppl on rosters :P

Also i think that in TWL the limit is 35 isnt it??? So i dont see why that # wouldnt work here :P

edit: LOL BOZO FUKIN LUV THE IDEA -TENURE-4LIFE

howabout a roster cap for the the amount of periods cig uses

[Heisman]

yea diakka portal would prolly be the ONE squad not affected by this change due to the incredibly high number of people with NO LIVES on portal. Other than that squad however.... Every thing in Jasons post is pretty dead on accurate. How do you expect the people with lives who come on the game in the little spare time they have be able to be on a squad with this new rule. Kthx pretty on point with his posts too. No one wants to axe players from their roster for no reason either. Have become friends with these guys and some are just hanging around until next season starts. Now captains have to axe these players and explain "u were too inactive, sorry." Just sucks :/ if it were made to 45 it probably wouldn't be to big of a deal. But regardless no more than one "new squad" will form. Just the facts.

[Diakka]

Its not playing games 24/7. Most players dont trust activity will come back to their squad so they just leave. Everyone wants to play now. Might as well go with mattey's idea of making 2 massive squads.

[Burnt]

Why the roster limit?
- This will create more twd squads and create more activity and games, we hope. We will see. If there is something wrong with the roster cap, we can always adjust it. Just be patient.

You hope it'll create more activity (i doubt it) but are you tracking TWD activity so we'll know?

[kthx]

Yeah until they burnout from playing games 24/7 and your entire main roster stops showing up.

[Heroin Bob]

Lots of those names in your axed list appear to be quite inactive. sorry danyell <3 :P

thats my point, those people will log in from time to time and have a game to play in, being our 4th or 5th, now, they are a nothing. that TOTES MCGOTES helps twd

[Diakka]

I have been keeping my roster at or under 35 and have not gone over since we started and have been one of the more active squads in twd. If you cant be active in 3 leagues with 35 people you should not have a squad.

[kthx]

I think 99% of captains would rather tell you that they would rather axe some newbie on their roster who is getting a chance to learn how to play over axing someone who logs in once a week to chat because hes been playing this game for 10 years heh. Man this is retarded.

[kthx]

Yeah this is basically borderline retarded.

Go look at all the people who were axed, name one of them capable of captaining a squad in twd.

Can't? Right, fucking retarded.

[Pressure]

I think what people don't understand is that come TWL time, squads will shift and there will still be 8+ squads in each league, like there is every year.. just because rosters are huge now doesn't mean much. There's a roster cap for TWL for a reason; the players that want to play TWL but aren't useful for squad will leave to start elsewhere. TWD is good for practice, and to get people's name out there. Jason's post pretty much sums it all up.

[Infrared]

Will be interesting to see what happens.

Bitchez should stop complaining though, if it isn't working out it will be raised/removed

[Crescent Seal]

im 50 50 on this, it might be interesting to see what happens....we always assume the worst but we won't know until its done

if it fails we remove it, simple

[Jason]

so i just came back from a weekend of painting the new house i'm about to move into...

my squad (expert) apparently merged with another squad (mute). this was probably done because expert was primarily a basing squad, whereas mute was primarily a dueling squad. that's just a guess/presumption on my part, but it makes sense for the two to get together so they have an overall decent mix of players.

now here's my issue. this new roster limit has totally fucked me. after the merge, mute's roster is currently sitting at 50 players. they're already going to have to boot 15 and i haven't even completed the change-over myself yet.

i'm the kind of guy who is getting pretty long in the tooth when it comes to spaceships, so i'm not crazy super active. however, i do log on here and there (mostly late weeknights or on weekends) looking to play a few twd matches. what's a guy like me supposed to do with this rule change? with the new roster cap, everyone is going to be looking for especially active players only, leaving a guy like me to only be able to find other guys like me, and then we'll all be a bunch of guys who aren't all that active and we'll never be able to get games.

just a little miffed that this was done so abruptly. and i honestly don't think it's something the majority of us want. the people who are saying it will be good for the zone seem to me to be naively optimistic, but i suppose i'm been around too damn long and that makes me especially resistant to change.

in my opinion, we simply do not have a large enough active (key word alert!) player base to support such a rule change. this is not going to promote more competition. it's going to kill off even more of the stragglers who have been clinging on year after year while this game dies just a little bit more and more.


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tl;dr

make an exception to the roster cap rule for guys like me who have been playing this shit for over a decade so we can hang out on a fully rostered, active squad and hop in a match now and again at our convenience. speaking on my own behalf, i think my longevity and continued dedication to the game earned me the right to a little leeway.

[Pressure]

i agree, 40-45 limit.

[Rasaq]

BTW, Xog, I'm pretty sure we agreed on roster cap last year with about 10 different polls.