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[Ephemeral]

I think what is trying to be improved falls into one of two categories. First, increase diversity and competition in the leagues. Second, make it easier for new squads to form and become competitive.

Although simply reducing the roster size works toward this important improvement it does have some short-comings.

Was any consideration given to running the league ‘types’ (basing, birds, and javs) under distinctly separate rosters? This would be much different than simply allowing a larger roster size for a squad that wants to compete in all three. It also resolves the issue of players getting rings for a ‘type’ they didn’t really participate in.

Perhaps a configuration such as one that limits Basing roster to 16 players, Bird and Jav rosters to 10 each. Squads would have separate rosters for each ‘type’. A player could be on more than one ‘type’ in any one squad but the roster softlock and hardlock would still apply. A player could not ‘float’ between roster ‘types’ on the same squad during the season.

Obviously this means that a squad could have a total of 36 different players in the same chat but in reality players are actually competing for spots in a much smaller segment. It is very possible that a player who wishes to play in all three ‘types’ might not be able to do that on a powerhouse squad, they well may have to find a squad that isn’t as well established to secure a spot on all three roster ‘types’.
But most importantly, a new squad or one that decides to specialize in just one ‘type’ is still able to compete for players against the powerhouse squads. Basically you are getting the value of a roster limit while still supporting single squad chats/friendships/etc.
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[Tiny]

Basing squads also have a hard time finding matches because there's not so many left. In fact I'm pretty worried about this years TWLB, even though I don't care about TWL at

There are no squads left to face these "basing squads" because they are all on about 3 squads. If they were to split up these squads instead of 20+ basers on 1 squad. You could get games with...3,4,5 basers and some duelers. Believe it or not, duelers like to base too, but no basers want to join a dueling squad. The problem is getting these packs to split up and continue to play.

[fiS]

Not everyone is as actively playing TWD as you, Tiny.
You need to face it. It's dying at a pretty fast rate. We already are and we must continue to rely on these "occasional" players, which we are eliminating with this step.

Remember what happened to the last roster cap? Exactly.
I'd guess it'll take around a month until the cap gets entirely removed again or increased by a lot, so that active squads can carry and maintain to have some weaker/more inactive players on their roster.

It's TWD after all. TWD has become casual, and there's no need to limit the squads while the spots for TWL are most likely not even getting filled.

EDIT:
Also, Tiny, I don't think it's all about the basers. Basing squads also have a hard time finding matches because there's not so many left. In fact I'm pretty worried about this years TWLB, even though I don't care about TWL at all, I think it'll be sad to watch.

[glavitik]

This is dumb. Setting a cap for TWD is not gonna make it more active. The guys getting axed now, are not gonna make a difference on a smaller squad, nor will they go and start a squad. Just accept the fact the game is dying, and let people who have lives, log on to an already established squad to get in a few games before they go inactive for weeks at a time.

[Tiny]

I think you need to take it a step further. You should make the teams earn those 25 spots by competing in more than 1 or 2 leagues, whether they win or not. 25 spots is for 3 leagues squads. There has got to be some way we can make it to where if a squad doesn't participate in more than a certain amount in a particular league, then they lose those roster spots. Albeit, I think there should be a little buffer between twd and twl, for example 25 for 3 league squads in twl and 30 for 3 leagues in twd. The whole point is to get people to participate in more than one league and stop hoarding players and diversify the teams. If you noticed, the teams basing right now are the teams who have recruited nothing but basers. Those squad need to get rid of some basers and pick of some other players that play other ships. It would be great if I could run a squad that had 30 javs on it and we did nothing but jd all day (I've done this before). The times have changed though and it's the critical time for TW, and I would hope I'm not the only one who doesnt want TW, TWL, and TWd to die because people are too stubborn to play against your friends as opposed to with them. The first complaint is going to be, we don't have anyone who plays wbs or javs and we just want to base. Too bad, so sad imo, learn other ships or recruit different people. In a time of small population, people need to be more flexible if they want this game to continue on, or we continue being ignorant to the fact that we caused this problem in one way or another so we must fix it. My 2 cents, troll on.

[Crescent Seal]

have you useless fuks learned nothing yet? take a fukin vote/poll before pulling shit like this maybe?

[Zeebu]

Don't be a bunch of idiotic fucks. I already log on about once a week. All you're doing is driving players like me away. I'd say don't do this, but it won't matter. I'll come back and find out I won't have a squad anymore. Thanks g.

[Infrared]

just kidding

[Spock!]

No.

[Conspiracy]

Greetings! We've been discussing how best to proceed with TWD. Effective next Friday (the 13th *insert scary music here*), there will be a 25 player cap to each squad's roster + 5 back up players is being allowed. Please fix your squads ASAP. -DSB

new to the game squads are not having roster cap. they are here to learn the game so i allow them have as much as they want