[quote author=Xenaero link=topic=433.msg4053#msg4053 date=1305530751]<br />People are talking about changes to the draft system when we don&#039;t have enough players [b]to[/b] draft. I would say I&#039;m surprised but I&#039;m not really.<br />[/quote]<br /><br />I have been around for a few years and it turns out that this community is just angsty and aggressive. We can chalk that up to people being young and stupid, usually. And we all find places that are less shitty of course. Some people like #unidoom some people like #jefferson, most people realize that #idl is just a place that assholes get at you or where dewww and whiteboy talk about inane movies. If you&#039;re smart or good at doom you can handle it. If you&#039;re bad and/or dumb then you get trolled, every so often. It&#039;s the right kind of conditioning from my view. I hate dumb and bad people and want them to change or go away.<br /><br />For example, I don&#039;t trash Godlike every time I see him. I don&#039;t particularly like or dislike Godlike, but when I play a 15 minute priv game that feels like a 3v2 I am compelled to say something to him so he realizes that, while he won that game, he was less than spectacular and needs to work on his game significantly. My exact words to him were &quot;the worst mid ever&quot; and while that is a slight exaggeration, it certainly isn&#039;t a character attack. It&#039;s like saying Shaq can&#039;t dribble well. It&#039;s player criticism as opposed to personal criticism. <br /><br />The thing that differentiates this kind of &quot;negativity&quot; from your run-of-the-mill Nautilus encounter is that I don&#039;t want Godlike to cry or feel bad about himself, I want him to get better. I want him to know that it&#039;s important in Priv to be a smart, team oriented player. And like any great coach I require accountability from the people on my team, in as much as I care about 1 game of priv. The extent is usually just a comment like &quot;that was awful mid&quot;. If you take that as a personal attack, I file you under dumb. As stated earlier, I want dumb and bad people to change or go away, thus my behavior.<br /><br />[quote author=MassVC link=topic=433.msg4052#msg4052 date=1305520347]<br />[b]Can the IDL be made completely even through a draft revision?[/b]&nbsp; Not entirely, no.&nbsp; A completely even league would result in a tie outcome for every game, and there would be no way of determining who makes it to the playoffs.&nbsp; This is stupid and, fortunately, impossible.<br />[/quote]<br /><br />The current methodology is a coin flip, all things being tied.<br /><br />[quote][b]The Major Issue at Hand[/b][/quote]<br /><br />[quote]I think Nostar&#039;s tier system is a good way of compromising between the solid objectivity of some skill difference comparisons (mine and Jenova&#039;s) and the fuzzy subjectivity of others (Naut&#039;s and Clim&#039;s).[/quote]<br /><br />I want to know from Bones and the board what changes are being made to the IDL draft. Is the snake draft staying? Are 12 teams for sure? Which captains have which picks? I want communication. Bones, you&#039;re trying, I thank you for that. dewww, goat, mantis, miek, you all blow so far. Legislate, post or please hand in yr resignations. There are people who want to do stuff and you guys are like floating logs in a toilet so far. If for some dumb reason you guys are being super active in private, stop it. We&#039;re the players and we want to know what is happening. I read the board where you guys make rules. It&#039;s barren and idle. The latest post is &quot;this forum is useless.&quot; Haha idiots. Post here and give us some indication you&#039;re not dead, or resign please.<br /><br />[quote]I think Nostar&#039;s tier system is a good way of compromising between the solid objectivity of some skill difference comparisons (mine and Jenova&#039;s) and the fuzzy subjectivity of others (Naut&#039;s and Clim&#039;s).[/quote]<br /><br />It is a good system. It&#039;s a system most people could agree with. As per my previous tirade I don&#039;t know if the board a good idea but I guess they&#039;re who we have right now.