The basis of this topic is Mass&#039; challenging us in a previous thread to do more to encourage IDL sign-ups and growth. While I disagreed and argued some of his points at the time, I totally agree with him in regards to encouraging other people to sign-up and play. Thus, that is why we are here.<br /><br />We all have made it clear that last season was tough and lower on talent than what we&#039;re used to. Part of the problem I saw with it was the lack of excitement going into the season. It was a total downer almost. Nobody seemed excited, nobody seemed involved and overall, it was just [b]boring.[/b] It&#039;s not anyone&#039;s fault in particular and I am not suggesting we debate that. <br /><br />What I am suggesting is people coming up with ideas on how we can advertise IDL some more to other DooM communities. From simple binds being spammed in Public CTF&#039;s in ZD/ST to literally tracing down every player and talking to them about the league, there&#039;s probably more we as a community can do to help get a few extra people signed up. This isn&#039;t limited to new people either; in fact, go to some old veteran&#039;s and see if they&#039;d be interested in coming back if you have any way of contacting them. You&#039;re probably not going to find a player of Nostar&#039;s caliber in random pubs&#039; but there are some decent players who&#039;d make respectable starters in the IDL with some time. <br /><br />Another thing is priv. We don&#039;t always do the greatest of jobs to encourage growth for players in priv. If two players who aren&#039;t all that good get selected to cap, we usually just recall caps. While the intention behind that is to keep the level of play fair and team&#039;s as most balanced as they can be, I suspect most people aren&#039;t doing this to become caps themselves in that round to pick the new people. In fact, very few people even go out on a limb to get new guys some playing time when they&#039;re around. Lately it&#039;s just been most of the old faces in priv but perhaps we could go to ZDIRC or ST&#039;s public channel and try and find some faces we recognize and get them into #idl. <br /><br />But yeah, what I&#039;ve suggested thus far is very vague. I&#039;m trying to get the ball rolling on this and maybe someone can come up with some creative ideas. The biggest thing I want to make clear is that I don&#039;t think we should have to be afraid of going around asking people in ZDaemon if they&#039;d like to be a part of the IDL. I&#039;m not implying you make forum posts about it or highlight everyone in ZDIRC for a priv (although that would be downright hilarious), but I don&#039;t want zd pub players to be considered off-limits either. After all, maybe some of them want something more than just random pub but aren&#039;t aware of a league being around such as the IDL. The only way is to go in and give it a shot I suppose. 