[quote=&quot;Legion_&quot;]im not sure how the words &quot;why not&quot; can be construed as a joke but ok I&#039;ll bite<br />I think the true joke is people not signing up because they are uncomfortable with odamex. it does not take a long time at all, and with sufficient effort and getting your head in the game, it can be a very quick process<br /><br />odamex isn&#039;t a bad port at all once you get used to some of the silly quirks. I see a bunch of people in #idl who haven&#039;t signed up. is it really that difficult to devote a few hours a week to a competitive league[/quote]<br /><br />I questioned your initial post because upon quoting me, you changed my name to &quot;anyone.&quot; I&#039;m not really sure what you&#039;re trying to imply honestly.<br /><br />I don&#039;t think Odamex is a bad port. That has absolutely nothing to do with it. I&#039;ve played the game for almost ten years, I spent 4 awesome seasons playing in the IDL and finally captured the crown last winter. <br /><br />Last season was a wash. In retrospect I wouldn&#039;t have played last season. The previous 4 seasons I played in, I never missed a game and made no excuses. Last season was different. I accepted an invite when I had no motivation to play. I declined later on only to allow people to &quot;talk&quot; me into playing. What you saw from me last season is what you&#039;ll see from anyone no longer interested in playing: they&#039;ll get easily burned out and give no effort when it comes to practicing and games. Who would you rather have? An old, burnt-out player who doesn&#039;t care or a some new, excited young blood looking for his chance to shine.<br /><br />TL;DR: I&#039;m burnt out and it&#039;s time for new-blood to shine. <br /><br />[quote=&quot;Ru5tK1ng&quot;]A lot of true shit.[/quote]<br /><br />Seconded.<br /><br />[quote=&quot;Ralphis&quot;]I know I&#039;m apparently the only one that thinks this out loud but I&#039;m happy to see the players that seem to not have fun in the IDL over the past few seasons finally leave. I&#039;d much rather play and build up newer players than have to keep listening to the same blow hards or have people who start leaving mid season. I love having veteran players back but if they are going to be detrimental to the league by negatively affecting it through actions (signing up and not showing for your squad after two weeks, captaining a team and pretty much up and abandoning it a few weeks in, etc) then I&#039;d rather they just buzz off and enjoy their league retirement.[/quote]<br /><br />It&#039;s funny that you say that. You were one of the people who hassled me last season when I decided I wasn&#039;t going to play anymore. I couldn&#039;t join #IDL without hearing you talk about how I&#039;m being a pussy and backing out. I didn&#039;t want to play, regardless of my reasoning at the time, you should have left it alone. Your new players could have had my roster spot. I guess getting fresh newblood play-time over washed up has-beens wasn&#039;t what you wanted then. Maybe it is now, who knows.<br /><br />[quote=&quot;Ralphis&quot;]As far as losing a lot of &quot;important&quot; players moving to Odamex, the only important player I really think that the community lost was Ladna who hadn&#039;t even really played in the league while it was on ZDaemon in the final seasons so it was more of a loss of a very intelligent, contributing community member rather than just another &quot;important&quot; player. Even then, Ladna definitely didn&#039;t want to play on ZDaemon either so I have to wonder exactly how important these other people truly were.[/quote]<br /><br />Nostar wasn&#039;t important? Chewy? Jenova? mikehail? Mass? Mantis? I could go on for awhile. Losing important players sucks and undervaluing the contributions of players in the league prior to the Odamex shift is exactly why you&#039;re losing players now. And if I was a player who wanted to play this season but didn&#039;t play last season but played the previous season in ZD, I wouldn&#039;t play after reading this. <br /><br />[quote=&quot;Ralphis&quot;]<br />It&#039;s ok for people that have been playing for years to leave and new people to get a chance to occupy roster spots and get their shot. Plenty of veterans who actually want to play have returned this season along with many new signups. This is one of the most diverse IDL free agencies of all time in terms of geography and skill levels. I&#039;m excited for this season.[/quote]<br /><br />And that&#039;s exactly why I&#039;m not playing now. So this super duper awesomely diverse group of dumb foreigners can have that opportunity to prove themselves. I don&#039;t want to steal roster spots when I&#039;m not interested and you shouldn&#039;t want veterans to. I agree with this, I&#039;d be excited for new blood, too. <br /><br /><br />So basically that&#039;s it. Like me. Hate me. That&#039;s my opinion. And Legion, I hope that explains why I&#039;m no longer going to play. Have fun. 