Some of these are sorta interesting and others just don&#039;t make sense.<br /><br />[quote author=Fastidious link=topic=178.msg1629#msg1629 date=1267905153]<br />-No invite list, open sign ups to anyone and everyone all season long<br />[/quote]<br /><br />There sorta was a reason for the invite list, at least imo, as it would help stop some of the more lame gaming due to fraudulent or inactive players.&nbsp; This was set up not to exclude players as I imagine you think, but rather to bring a certain level of quality in the available talent.&nbsp; Sure some players might be really good but to me it seems a little crazy to expect every captain to know which players are active/inactive/etc where I feel the invite list is quite lenient but still allows captains to know, hey, this guy has played doom more than once in the last 6 months.&nbsp; I await some crazy conspiracy response though, maybe a combination of idl board behind 9/11 and jfk?<br /><br /><br />[quote author=Fastidious link=topic=178.msg1629#msg1629 date=1267905153]<br />-Teams with worst record given priority on selecting players from the reserves<br />[/quote]<br /><br />This makes no sense to me, we do not have a MSD.&nbsp; Any team can select a player from the reserves at any time before the deadline, how would we prioritize this??&nbsp; We could perhaps make the deadline later, or allow more trades per week or per team, but I am not sure how much this would help, since we have unlimited trading in preseason and I think in the entire IDL history we have not seen more than 2-3 preseason trades (all suc related I believe)<br /><br />[quote author=Fastidious link=topic=178.msg1629#msg1629 date=1267905153]<br />-Remove player bans in the future unless someone cheats or does other major disruptive behavior<br />[/quote]<br /><br />Again, not really sure what you are referring to, the only players that have ever been suspended WERE suspended for cheating/disruptive behavior.&nbsp; Dragan was suspended for 4 seasons for cheating and Blair was suspended for an entire season as well as you (though I believe ladna granted you some sort of amnesty during his commissionship??)&nbsp; I cannot think of many more bans, much less any wrongful ones, so please give me an example I can work with.<br /><br />[quote author=Fastidious link=topic=178.msg1629#msg1629 date=1267905153]<br />-Remove franchising<br />[/quote]<br /><br />I would like to remove franchising if possible, it was responsible for some of the best teams to play in IDL but I also feel its a negative factor on our growth and takes a lot of the mash up draft randomness I am so fond of.&nbsp; However the draft order would need to be tweaked to give those low pick teams a little more of a fighting chance.&nbsp; While we are talking about draft order, there are a few things I am interested in.&nbsp; One of these things is moderating new captain entries to an extent, for example SPE and SUC were first and last seeds this season.&nbsp; Denny and Ralphis both took over a team that had a very good/bad draft order they didn&#039;t earn.&nbsp; I would say any team in the 1/2 or 7/8 draft order spot would be given a +/- 2 to their draft order, thus landing them anywhere from 3-6, instead of on some extreme they very probably didn&#039;t earn.&nbsp; Taking this even further, we could randomize the entire draft order, or even apply a random +/- 1 to each team but this seems a little pointless and nefariously motivated.<br /><br />[quote author=Fastidious link=topic=178.msg1629#msg1629 date=1267905153]<br />-Expand to 10-12 teams if possible<br />-No conferences<br />-Two divisions<br />[/quote]<br /><br />More teams certainly is more fun, if a little less (or maybe more?) competitive at times due to talent distribution.&nbsp; I feel like we have a pretty strong player base and it is a move we can afford to make in order to make things more interesting.&nbsp; As for conferences and divisions, I would certainly be for having only 2 divisions/conferences if we had 10 teams, but I would certainly prefer our current setup of having 4 divisions within 2 conferences with 12 teams.&nbsp; This just seems a little more exciting to me, I would feel pretty bored stuck in a division with half the league and it would certainly make rivalries much less influential.<br /><br /><br />[quote author=Fastidious link=topic=178.msg1629#msg1629 date=1267905153]<br />-Six teams make playoffs, three from each division<br />-Playoffs are setup as Div1 #1 vs BYE, Div2 #1 vs BYE, Div1 #2 vs Div2 #3, Div2 #2 vs Div1 #3<br />[/quote]<br /><br />However, if we have 12 teams I would definitely want a 8 team playoff with no bye weeks to weed out any of those crappy seed1 teams that coast into the masterbowl and do shameful there.&nbsp; This is the playoffs, I think having each team play at least 2 games to win the conference championship can only be a good thing.&nbsp; As for mixing playoffs between divisions, this sounds like an idea that could be prone to abuse.&nbsp; If one side is noticeably weaker maybe a team will throw a game to get a better chance to make it to the masterbowl.&nbsp; Maybe this wouldn&#039;t be a problem though, who knows.<br /><br /><br />[quote author=Fastidious link=topic=178.msg1629#msg1629 date=1267905153]<br />-Six week regular season with no BYE week<br />[/quote]<br /><br />6 weeks is rather short, I think an 8 week season allows for meaningful games without ruining your season if you get a single loss.&nbsp; I personally like the bye week as a time to get ready for the next week and to simply sit back and watch a little without having any IDL commitments, but if everybody hates it lets get rid of it I suppose!<br /><br />[quote author=Fastidious link=topic=178.msg1629#msg1629 date=1267905153]<br />-Schedule is broken up into two week chunks with two specific matches due by the end of each two weeks<br />-Teams can play matches earlier than the schedule if they want<br />[/quote]<br /><br /><br />[quote author=Fastidious link=topic=178.msg1629#msg1629 date=1267905153]<br />-Player voted map list before the season starts.&nbsp; People would post suggestions on the forum and we&#039;d all get together and play test maps.&nbsp; After that goes on a for a while we hold a big vote and the top 32 make it in the IDL wad.&nbsp; Top five vote getting maps are used in playoffs.&nbsp; If people don&#039;t want to participate then their loss<br />[/quote]<br /><br />I would love to have IDL help us test maps and give us feedback, as it can sometimes be difficult to get the entire board for a 3v3 test.&nbsp; I would be reluctant to give the players total control over the maps since tastes differ so radically and I think the maplist would quickly become stale if we weren&#039;t able to select at least a few new maps to shake things up.&nbsp; Also this voting can create problems either through a low turnout which would not accurately represent what the players want, or alienating players who get their favorite map edged out by something they deem to be CRAP.<br /><br /><br />[quote author=Fastidious link=topic=178.msg1629#msg1629 date=1267905153]<br />-Teams can choose any map in the IDL wad for their matches<br />-Matches are still three rounds.&nbsp; Each round is a different map, tie breaker would be random pick but can not be the same maps as teams already played<br />-Teams must pick a different map each week, so once you use a map it&#039;s gone for your team.&nbsp; Playoff maps can be used in the regular season<br />-Teams pick playoff maps as such:&nbsp; each team tosses a map out of the top five, then each teams picks a map they want for their round.&nbsp; Remaining map is tie breaker.&nbsp; Masterbowl could be best of five<br />[/quote]<br /><br />It is already annoying enough learning 1 map, now you want teams to learn 2??&nbsp; Now you can spend all your time learning one map to reach the tiebreaker and get thrown a random map you are not prepared for and lose, thus wasting all your practice time.&nbsp; IDL is about fun and competition, this doesn&#039;t sound fun nor competitive to me at all.&nbsp; What if a team submits their map choice late?&nbsp; Would they have to submit it at all or do they just say lets play mapxx when both teams show up??&nbsp; I think having mapvoting for playoff maps is even more open to abuse.&nbsp; I would also certainly not want to change the masterbowl to best of 5 either, why do you even play the regular season if you are going to change the game format for the final, most important game??&nbsp; I am not a fan of any of these ideas.<br /><br />[quote author=Fastidious link=topic=178.msg1629#msg1629 date=1267905153]<br />-No 1v1, 2v1, 2v2, 3v2, 4v3, etc.&nbsp; All matches played 3v3 or 4v4, 4v4 only if both teams agree.&nbsp; If you can&#039;t get three to a scheduled match your team forfeits<br />[/quote]<br /><br />Ladna already talked about this briefly, IDL has to be one or the other, why would any captain with a weak 4th ever play a 4v4 to increase their teams chances of losing?&nbsp; Unfair matchups are pretty lame, but they do exist for a reason, most often because of a poor captain or an emergency.&nbsp; Its really sort of unfair to punish and waste the time of one team simply because the other team isn&#039;t ready or is unable to play.&nbsp; If its such a big deal players should regulate themselves or refuse to play in unfair matchups.&nbsp; If a team is not ready to play, whats to stop a player from just leaving so they can force a schedule for a later date?&nbsp; You appear to be offering a lot of ideas but nothing really solid to backup these ideas.&nbsp; A lot of these ideas just seem reactionary without any sort of real thought behind them at all, but you want to say the board is full of corrupt morons because we actually talk about the pros and cons of these ideas and try to be as fair as possible?<br /><br />[quote author=Fastidious link=topic=178.msg1629#msg1629 date=1267905153]<br />-Captains selected by player vote, if you sign up you agree to captain should the players vote you into that role<br />[/quote]<br /><br />Popularity should never be valued over skill.<br /><br />[quote author=Fastidious link=topic=178.msg1629#msg1629 date=1267905153]<br />-Multiple servers selection teams/players submit their average pings at the start of the season and these are used in general for selection.&nbsp; Only in cases where there is a drop in connection quality to a certain server would they be ignored.&nbsp; Teams should not be arguing or jumping back and forth between servers.&nbsp; When the schedule is set the server should be select as well.<br />[/quote]<br /><br />I am sure it already bugs ladna enough to try to assess Xenaero and my own connection woes, I do not think anybody has the desire to inform players how good or bad their connection is and again this idea seems open to some severe gaming.&nbsp; If an alternate server is to be used, both teams should agree unanimously otherwise it cheapens the game.<br /><br />I might add some new ideas later, not sure yet.