See, I figured I was a good source of drama every now and then, but [b]this[/b] takes the goddamn cake. This is absurd and out of control. You should all seriously be ashamed of yourselves for taking this retarded argument [b]this[/b] far. I&#039;m just gonna put in my opinion and not quote anyone else because that will just stir things up even more and that would be bad for the league in general. More animosity towards each other is not what we need. I dunno what happened to everyone&#039;s sense of logic but it&#039;s tearing IDL apart and driving players both veteran and fresh-blooded off the scene.<br /><br />There is no such thing as politics in this. All it is is players vying for opportunities to help them succeed which is perfectly normal. What isn&#039;t normal is to throw hot water on the league administrators because [b]you[/b] don&#039;t get your way. That&#039;s not being political. That&#039;s being a goddamn whiny manbaby. Cut it out, because it limits IDL&#039;s full potential as a league that welcomes all players in this slowly dying community/port. You&#039;ll never get new blood if you keep going for the jugular on each other. Get it? Get it?????<br /><br />Another thing, I think people get the wrong impression of how I captain. I made choices this season based off performance and activity in the month or so before draft happened. I inquired individual players and did my own research. In hindsight, this was not too stable of a method as things obviously change after a player gets drafted. Their interest may wane, their priorities may change, who knows, right? Let me set the record straight, I&#039;m in no way, shape or form, denying that EBL&#039;s performance is not my fault in part or full. I made some bad choices without thinking a whole lot about them. For instance, instead of franchising a player who had attendance issues, no matter his reassurance to his activity on EBL, I could have foregone that and entered the draft to get a higher pick, just like some other teams had. It could have gotten me into a much higher position with players that could have seriously helped EBL.<br /><br />What I&#039;m saying is most of what happened to my team is my fault, not the league&#039;s. And things also just happen. It&#039;s how it is. I myself have lost interest for numerous reasons that I&#039;ve harped on endless times in Doom in general. Like you know, the poor netcode, lack of practice, etc. Mostly netcode cause it pisses me off to no end. So what? That&#039;s how I operate. I could have practiced with my team more past the first few weeks but at that point I had deemed it such a miserable effort I figured it not worth it overall. Collision was traded for Strangle and that did help, although it wouldn&#039;t save the team, I didn&#039;t want to scramble for 3 players every week.<br /><br />I made no petition to the administration about mid&#039;s activity. Why would I? I made that choice to bring him on board, and the rules prohibit trading franchises. If he vanished then I&#039;d have to figure something out, but this late in the season there is zero chance that EBL could make it into the playoffs so it&#039;s not a big deal anyway. Like a billion people have told me when I get frustrated: It&#039;s a game. I&#039;m a competitive player and obviously I care about my standing statistically and my reputation amongst other competitive player, as well as my perceived skill level. It&#039;s no doubt that I&#039;ve practiced my nuts off time and time again. I admit I won&#039;t be as good as some players, but I don&#039;t let it keep me down. It&#039;s entirely possible that I am just not a good captain. Who knows! It could be a big string of bad luck. I&#039;m still undecided over whether or not to captain next season. It&#039;s not out of rage, it&#039;s simply that there could be someone who utilizes that spot better than me.<br /><br />Either way, this whole &#039;favored treatment&#039; for teams argument is absolute horseshit and you should all be pointing the fingers at yourselves, not others, for starting this.<br /><br />You expect a professional level of rules and gameplay in a league for a game (excuse me, MODIFIED via source port game) that&#039;s over 15 years old. It&#039;s not going to happen. There are no sponsors or cash prizes, so what are you expecting? Calm down and play somewhere else if the progaming matters that much to you. Call me a hypocrite if you want but you have to admit that&#039;s the logical argument here. You can practice and compete all you want but the level of fun for [b]everyone[/b] drops significantly when bullshit like this happens season after season.<br /><br />As for the league policy itself, I feel that a fair adjustment to the rules would be to have unlimited trading up to the end of Week 8. Yes, week 8, not week 9. The week before the last week! Week week week...<br /><br />I&#039;m not saying that because I want to trade people. Well, I might in future seasons, but the current cutoff seems to limit major fuckups to happening only in the early part of the league. To be fair the idea did spring up when I realized I could have traded for a better player past the deadline. I&#039;m sure other teams have come to this conclusion in the past to try to save their ailing team. To be truly flexible, it would be nice to have this option available for teams to use. This change in the rules would not only put in place future safeguards against players dropping for whatever reasons, but also addresses the core problem a lot of you seem to be bickering over. Trades [b]rarely[/b] happen so the chance of &#039;abuse&#039; is slim to none. I&#039;m not even making a reference to NS there. I want to pose a question on how you can abuse something that is sanctioned by the league as a valid tool for captains to use as they will. Of course, the matter of players intentionally hindering their teams to &#039;exploit&#039; this is a different matter and should be discussed as such in a separate thread of conversation.<br /><br />And I want to point out that someone could have written up an idea just like I did instead of causing a huge shitstorm that could probably fill a book that&#039;d make Tolkein blush.<br /><br />If you&#039;re going to trash other people do it in-game, not here. IDL has turned from a great gathering of competitive players with a touch of trash talk to [b]this topic[/b]. Cut it out, and let&#039;s improve shit instead of causing shit.