TWLB squads

[Rumpnisse]

the new light...gonna fade soon?

[Stabwound]

Stop whining about Spastic. At least 1/2 of our roster is inactive and will never play or show up for a TWLB game anyway. We have played 1 BD game in the past 10 days because we never have enough online.

[genocidal]

Kings is just sad because whatever squad he's on sucks and he can't see his dick.

[Zerzera]

why the fuck did you dissolve incuria?

I didn't dissolve Incuria, I left it. I wasn't going to play that TWL, so there was no use having me on the squad really.

[Kings]

Wow, that sounds like the fun atmosphere of a squad I'd like to be on. I wasn't aware that we were supposed to be a farm squad for every other team out there.

You keep acting like these people don't have minds of their own. This isn't like we are collecting trading cards and not sharing them. Last time I looked, people had the right to choose their own squad. Most of them probably asked to join the one they are on. Why do you want to control them?

llater,
Tony

It's not about being on a fun squad, it's about being on a squad that you will play with. I personnaly don't care anymore with who i play and where i play. I just want to play, and have fun doing it. If my team and my teammates are having fun through the fun im having, so be it. If not, then it can always be worked out.
Just think about this situation as the urbanisation. One day, even tho it might be very very very far away, you won't have anymore farmers, nor wood choopers, nor anyone to work with machines. How will we get our wood, food and everything else we need so much?
How will you ever get new players when everyone will retire if you only have high ranked squads? It just doesn't work out.

It is now something you can't avoid. We have a decision to handle now between these two choices.
1) We make everyone elite and wait for everyone to get bored at doing the same thing over and over again through comfortable squads such as a-s and spastic etc and see the end of trenchwars in a near future.

2) We make things more interestings by keeping it tight and restrict squads. Sure, not eveyrone can be on the super elite squads, sure it takes a lot of patience and determination but by doing this, we can help in keeping a part of trenchwars for the far future.

[Jacklyn]

i really suck at bds and i would play when i can..if you take all the people that "suck/inactive" off roster.. there would be like 10 people left..

:, what are we talking about again?

[megaman89]

if u had ppl like me that are talented in every ship in this game...roster size wouldn't be a problem now would it B)

[Cops]

if u had ppl like me that are talented in every ship in this game...roster size wouldn't be a problem now would it B)

HOLY SHIT! EVERYONE BRACE YOURSELF IT'S AN EGO TRIP.

[Stayon]

I said rotate because in our case thats what we do..or maybe you should force people to leave

[Capital Knockers]

I just zipped through this cause I was at my dads house toking a bowl, and watching the hockey game (go canadiens!)

I agree with whoever said it's school and stuff, the roster stuff is just an overused arguement by now. I kinda got active, but because i've got work and school, and no internet until i move out now cause Bell Canada are assholes <_< I can't even go online at all for a while longer.

Roster limits are a quick patchup, experienced players from different squads, need to get a few core players, and start building squads with average players, and some newer ones. I like the fact that RV was like that, i saw Ajax, panhandler, and fit - and i thought, 3 good players, RB, Inc, and Diso, and a nicely mixed roster.

I think basers just need patience and a little work, and a bit less arguing and more action.

[Broly]

if u had ppl like me that are talented in every ship in this game...roster size wouldn't be a problem now would it B)

if we had people like you in our squads we probably would have killed ourselves already

[golden duck]

I think it would be boring being on a dominant squad all the time. It's like beating a squad 15-0 or 50-23, you just lose interest in the game. If players would get off the same squads and branch out a bit, competition would increase and gameplay would pick up.

Also, if older players would give newer players the chance to grow and learn, then you would create more of a competitive atmosphere, and ultimately increase growth.

[Ephemeral]

Down with 'governmental' and 'society' controls! Support the free market and competitive concepts! Look to nature for verification that the competitive mechanism works just fine. We don't need artificial constraints applied, let the mechanisms work as they were intended.

Players have free will, squads should be given latitude and autonomy. If it turns out that only a few squads are run in a manor that everyone migrates to them, is it really 'fixing' anything by artificially forcing players into other squads? This isn't just about quality players, it is about having long term quality squads (and leaders of those squads) too.

If the argument against having roster limits is that it allows 'hording' of quality players, I would suggest several other factors that are of much greater impact. Perhaps quality players are simply moving away from squads where leadership is greatly lacking. How many fairly good squads have we all seen that crapped out due to bad/dubious leadership? My opinion is quite a few. How many squads have pretty good leadership redundancy? Very few. Many squads have only a single 'mover and shaker', my opinion is that these type squads are more likely to fold.

So my opinion in this subject is that it is a 'reach' to try to say that a roster limit is not good for us. The responsibility of building competitive leagues and enjoyable long-term TW community is on us all. Pointing fingers towards not-quite-perfect rules only deflects and disguises the real issues. TW is mostly a mirror of ourselves. I believe that if everyone spent some time on holding back some emotion, channeling it into more sportsmanship and class, then TW would be a better place to hang. Seeking exploits as a player, being an irresponsible squad leader, lagging like a fool and not having the consideration to bench yourself, making excuses when you lose, bragging when you win. It is my opinion that these are the things that bring TW down and force squad turnover faster than the people working at McDonalds.

So if the desire is for balanced, competitive squads, then we should consider ALL the causes/solutions and not just reach for excuses that removes all responsibility from ourselves.

[Zerzera]

Yeah Eph, but I don't think we will make the next stage of the evolution

[Jeenyuss]

when life gives you dicks make lemonade