Either you don&#039;t understand something or I don&#039;t.<br /><br />[quote]&lt;@bones__&gt; if a 4th is there, the team will use them[/quote]<br /><br />The team must* use them.&nbsp; A team cannot use a sub if they can field 3 people.&nbsp; Fourths have priority and obligation to play before subs.<br /><br />[quote]Will Bones and board members always know who is on or who isn&#039;t?[/quote]<br /><br />I think you are suggesting, to use an exaggerated but relevant example, that there will come a day when LB, Star, and Bulb are on, but Gyross is not.&nbsp; LB and Bulb then conspire to hide Bulb so that LB can use HydrasFire instead.&nbsp; So, Bulb logs off IRC and HydrasFire plays in his place, thus winning DMR the Masterbowl.&nbsp; How will Bones ever know that Bulb is secretly online?&nbsp; Is this what you mean?&nbsp; In such a case it seems like LB should just trade Bulb for HydrasFire if he thinks he&#039;s a better player, and after using him twice, he will have to.<br /><br />How will we know who&#039;s on?&nbsp; We look in the game server at the time of the game.&nbsp; (What if no admins are on, although I don&#039;t remember the last time this happened--other players will look in the server and communally police.)&nbsp; Team players in the game server must play (unless there are more than three of them).&nbsp; Team players not in the server cannot play.&nbsp; What else could &quot;is on&quot; mean?&nbsp; Logged in to IRC?&nbsp; Some players go without IRC (see: Collision, who uses MSNIM instead).&nbsp; Sitting at a doom-ready computer?&nbsp; Indeed, how could we ever know that?<br /><br />I don&#039;t know what you mean when you say the change isn&#039;t necessary.&nbsp; If you mean there aren&#039;t a huge amount of forfeits this season, then you are wrong.&nbsp; If you mean that that&#039;s not a bad thing, then that&#039;s your opinion, but it&#039;s wrong.&nbsp; If you mean that this will not help solve the problem of forfeits, then it seems pretty clear that you are wrong.&nbsp; What else could &quot;necessary&quot; mean in a video game league other than solving a problem with exists and is bad?<br /><br />IDL players are flaky, and captains can&#039;t know which ones are going to be flaky when until it&#039;s too late.&nbsp; The league shouldn&#039;t be made to endure forfeits just because two players on the same team flake out in the same week.