[quote author=ThatsJustPrime link=topic=589.msg5989#msg5989 date=1327179276]<br />Situation # 1 would never happen because a server in the west coast would never be approved by the IDL administration due to the lack of being a central server. [/quote]<br /><br />I&#039;m not sure exactly what inside line you have as to what the IDL administration will or will not do. If Unfy offered West Coast servers to IDL today I can&#039;t see any reason we would refuse them as an official set for IDL. We approved RN (last season I think?) and Jenova&#039;s Ohio server and Beast&#039;s Wisconsin server at different times in the past few seasons. The IDL has surprising few requirements for an official server set. We&#039;re working on more of a definition for the prerequisite of Official IDL Servers right now actually. Suffice to say your first point is wrong.<br /><br />[quote author=ThatsJustPrime link=topic=589.msg5989#msg5989 date=1327179276]<br />As of situation #2, it could easily be resolved.<br />[/quote]<br /><br />The situation is currently resolved. <br /><br />[quote author=ThatsJustPrime link=topic=589.msg5989#msg5989 date=1327179276]<br />As a captain, I know that I would have no problem playing on TT if Montreal was down. [/quote]<br /><br />Unfortunately you&#039;re not the only captain and some captains, if their home field server was down, would be far less understanding about using a server that is worse for their team. It&#039;s an administrative nightmare.<br /><br />[quote author=ThatsJustPrime link=topic=589.msg5989#msg5989 date=1327179276]<br />This situation we have now is counting games on the default server (TT) when players can&#039;t even move properly because of problems with the server. [/quote]<br /><br />If this ever happens we have provisions for this in the rules:<br /><br />[quote author=IDL Rules]Should the hosting server become unavailable during a scheduled game time, that game will be postponed. [/quote]<br /><br />[quote author=ThatsJustPrime link=topic=589.msg5989#msg5989 date=1327179276]I believe that if we put in this situation of &quot;Home/away&quot; servers, it will beneficial for the IDL population as a whole and it will help us reach this idea of &#039;parity&#039; that everyone always seems to be talking about. [/quote]<br /><br />You don&#039;t know what the word parity means apparently. Parity isn&#039;t fairness necessarily. Parity has to apply to something. League parity usually refers to the collective records of all the teams. I think the word you&#039;re looking for is fairness.<br /><br />[quote author=ThatsJustPrime link=topic=589.msg5989#msg5989 date=1327179276]Why should a few people benefit from a default server that is better for them and all the others who have bad connections to TT suffer? Because the IDL board refuses to reach parity because these servers are better for them? [/quote]<br /><br />The IDL board is made up of Xen, Dewww, Mikehail, Nostar and MassVC. Of those people TT is better for Mikehail (westcoast) and MassVC (Michigan). Both dewww and Xenaero strongly prefer to play on Montreal. This point fails to stand up.<br /><br />[quote author=ThatsJustPrime link=topic=589.msg5989#msg5989 date=1327179276]I have no idea, but if your excuse is I that you don&#039;t want to put in effort&nbsp; in reaching parity(&#039;don&#039;t want to open that can of worms&#039;) then that is pretty pathetic.<br />[/quote]<br /><br />Again you don&#039;t know what that word means. If you&#039;re asserting the board or myself give a sub-par effort in maintaining the league, running the league or bettering the league I gladly invite you to submit all of your credentials and a list of your prior efforts in contributing to IDL. <br /><br />[quote author=Mantis-X link=topic=589.msg5993#msg5993 date=1327191783]<br />Regardless, again we are arguing advantages between servers. No server set will please everyone. I&#039;d like to see us better take advantage of multiple server sets. As it stands now, caps who get decent connections cap because they can compete. The caps who don&#039;t unfortunately don&#039;t compete. Just take a look at the standings and how most of the previous seasons went down. <br />[/quote]<br /><br />I would also like to see this happen. I personally believe that if TT is really as bad as people say captains will agree to play elsewhere. The staggeringly low amount of games played on a non-TT server indicates to me that there is no consensus or even majority of people who want to play somewhere else. Look at the captains this season. Montreal specifically is better for maybe 3 of the 12 captains. That is 25%. When the consensus changes I imagine we won&#039;t need anything legislatively at all, people will just play on something else.<br /><br />[quote author=Mantis-X link=topic=589.msg5993#msg5993 date=1327191783]<br />Also, I am in favor of a &quot;fallback&quot; server. If a servers goes set goes down, play on the other fallback servers. The current way of doing things is you are locking TT into the only servers that will stick around for the IDL. Why would anybody else host servers that get next to no playtime because of the current rules? Montreal has what... 1 game played on it so far? I surely wouldn&#039;t host servers that nobody used. [/quote]<br /><br />I like the idea of a fallback server. I&#039;d have to consider the ramifications of it but right now the only issue I can see is potentially server shenanigans. If you&#039;re hosting servers for IDL solely on the basis of them getting use then you probably shouldn&#039;t continue. If you&#039;ll remember Totaltrash started as an alternative server in season 3 or 4. I would advise any server admins who want to contribute servers to IDL that the IDL does not owe you IDL games. That is just silly in my opinion.