For those of you who weren&#039;t around for this season and for those who actually were, here&#039;s a break down of why everyone pulled out their hair. I will also load up storytime.exe as well.<br /><br />In case you haven&#039;t read the other topic I posted, what essentially happened during week 1 of the season sealed the fate of the entire season. For the first few days before and after the draft when people were playing priv and teams were practicing map06, there was a bug that caused the server to crash after a map restart had passed. Alexmax set up a debug server and I was able to crash the server and get the info of what was going on. Alex coded a single line fix and told Jenova to update the servers. Some how he updated from the trunk(?) and applied not only the crash fix, but a bunch of other untested bugfixes. This fact didn&#039;t come into light until way into the season.<br /><br />What followed was a shitstorm of bitching from a lot of players and a bit of bitching right back. Ultimately the core reason of why Bones moved the league from ZD to Oda deteriorated. The sometimes peaceful and often times not peaceful relationship between players and devs ended in spilled blood and bare scalps. One side saw too much bitching and screaming and the other side saw too little dev action. Regardless of who was at fault, the end result is this: [b]The devs don&#039;t really give a shit about what happens to the IDL and they will continue to code and develop according to their own time table The players do not want to have anything more to do with the port and most have probably have ran uninstall.exe by now[/b] (which means they&#039;re fucking stupid since the manual zip approach is much better).<br /><br />So the whole &#039;CHANGE&quot; campaign that was launched back in the summer of 2012 has backfired in quite a comical way. The whole reason IDL moved from ZD was because what was once a decent working relationship between the IDL administration and the ZDaemon devs turned 180 to the point where the IDL was unwanted. I was absent from mid 08- mid &#039;10 so I don&#039;t know about that middle history of IDL too well. But from what I understand, it was Kilgore who coded the voting system by request of IDL as well as a few other things. I don&#039;t know exactly what went sour (there&#039;s probably already a topic about that somewhere) but believe it or not, people were allowed to post about an upcoming season on the ZD forums at one point.&nbsp; Anyway, near the end of it, there was the option of the IDL going public and thus being allowed to advertise and get full backing from the ZD admins (or so the story goes) and the only thing that need to be given in return was Ralphis&#039; head on a platter. Even though Nostar and Mass tried to find a way to appease Kilgore, the deal fell through. Yes, they were actually considering going from private servers to public ones with Ralphis being banned and unable to play in his own league (yeah his team could have played their matches on priv servers and what not but everyone knew he wasn&#039;t going to do that at all).<br /><br />Aaaannnnnd fast forward to summer 2012 where the only options were: Stick with ZDaemon 1.08 and it&#039;s glorious bugs that were never going to be fixed since the source is closed or gamble with the 1.09 beta that sucked massively because all the attention was on Double Domination and we all know that went over as well as 4-way CTF. Ok there is more to the 109 story.<br /><br />At the end of the Winter 2012 season, people tried to get the 109 server binaries from the devs so we could pretty much get accustomed to the new version. But, the devs were only handing them out to select individuals and server hosts. So, IDL was stuck with no server binaries and no known release time table for 109. In addition, there was a story/rumor/whatever going around that the devs were actively looking for a way to nuke private servers in some fashion (someone chime in if they actually did do something in 109). If that is true, then they were basically saying: we don&#039;t want you faggots playing on our port at all. <br /><br />So yeah, IDL moves from ZD to Oda with the promise of a better future and here IDL is back at square one. What is the next step? Two bridges have already been burned and who knows if crossing the last bridge will even be worth the time and effort. Evidently, the Commissioners need to make a decision soon and end all questions. Will the IDL move to Zanbabwe or just die. Will Watermelon and Jenova actually help code and put up a site and working stats mechanism or are they just all talk? Will there be a working relationship between the IDL and Zan devs or will the IDL be hated from day one? If there is a working relationship will history repeat itself?<br /><br />It&#039;s easy to say, lets move to Zandro but there are a few things that need to be sorted out: sites, stats, demo repo etc. If the IDL leaders aren&#039;t going to be 100% committed to moving, then there is no point at all in considering a move. So hopefully soon everyone will get an official statement: Move or die. Even death wouldn&#039;t be a bad thing. If IDL dies completely, [b]a whole new group of people[/b] can enjoy running a CTF league on Zanzan or there will be no more leagues, CTF dies and everyone will finally find new games to play. So Bones and Dew, what&#039;s it gonna be?<br /><br />/storytime /srsbizness