=== Change for change&#039;s sake<br /><br />IDL changes all the time:<br /><br />&nbsp; - Draft system is changed practically every season<br />&nbsp; - Teams have been added/removed<br />&nbsp; - Franchising came and went<br />&nbsp; - Trading rules are constantly revised<br />&nbsp; - Maps are changed every season<br />&nbsp; - Map pool is changed every other season<br />&nbsp; - Teams are completely different every season<br /><br />Any way you look at it, change is an essential part of IDL.<br /><br />Furthermore, most of the changes the IDL admins can make won&#039;t make a huge difference in player count, so it&#039;s an issue of too much risk for too little reward.<br /><br />=== Ranking<br /><br />You&#039;ll often hear IDL admins say, &quot;we&#039;ll never, ever, ever rank players&quot;, and they have 4 reasons for this:<br /><br />&nbsp; - It&#039;s not fun.<br />&nbsp; - It&#039;s unfair.<br />&nbsp; - It doesn&#039;t actually solve anything.<br />&nbsp; - The tradeoffs aren&#039;t worth it.<br /><br />To avoid a novel I&#039;ll leave it at that, but if you really think about it, you&#039;ll realize I&#039;m right ;) .<br /><br />=== Draft<br /><br />The draft serves 2 purposes:<br /><br />&nbsp; - Avoid stacked/crap teams<br />&nbsp; - Be fun<br /><br />The draft pretty much already does all it (fairly) can as far as parity goes.&nbsp; Really the draft should be tons of fun, and we should do a radio show every week or something.<br /><br />=== Draft Changes<br /><br />It&#039;s not the best time to change the draft, and here&#039;s why:<br /><br />&nbsp; - Draft order is already known<br />&nbsp; - Almost all the captains are already known<br />&nbsp; - Making any changes at this point will seem biased no matter what<br /><br />Really, the draft system is largely OK, so pissing off a bunch of captains (who are already doing IDL a favor by captaining) for marginal gain is not very clever.<br /><br />=== Signing Up<br /><br />I will play in this IDL, barring some horrible thing happening.&nbsp; I think anyone interested in competitive Doom should sign up, because IDL is fun and this is what we do.&nbsp;  :-*