[quote author=Fastidious link=topic=179.msg1606#msg1606 date=1267326736]<br /><br />I thought I would just say if you guys haven&#039;t figured it out yet I&#039;m fanning the flames on purpose for a reason.&nbsp; So people take action and do things.&nbsp; Demagoguery is fun.[/quote]<br /><br />Okay, by &quot;I do this once a season&quot; do you mean complaining a lot? Actually 4/5 times I try to argue with you I find that you are unwilling to actually respond to my questions about your ideas and revert to telling me I just don&#039;t understand. This is most likely because you don&#039;t think out your ideas very well, at least not enough for you to articulate them. Your ideas so far by my count are:<br /><br />Get rid of Ralph<br />Get rid of the board (for league voting?)<br />Player voted maps<br />Weekly format changes (4v4 sometimes? 3v3 others?)<br />No franchises<br />No unfair games<br />Less &quot;competitive&quot; league (more flexible less rules)<br />Use SmartCTF<br />Get rid of Demo rule (in favor of what?)<br />Shorter Seasons (4-6 weeks)<br />Weekly map pool selection<br />Get rid of captains<br />Be more inclusive (add players, no invite list)<br />Adjust draft order based on Captain skill? (see SPE in W2010)<br />Flexible scheduling<br />No BYE week<br />Let the board handle server selection<br /><br />[quote author=Fastidious link=topic=179.msg1606#msg1606 date=1267326736]<br />The board and Ralphis have a conspiracy going<br />[/quote]<br /><br />What have they done that makes you think this? They tried to save teams that had legitimate problems midseason. The put Nautilus on a team with me and Envy (wow you think that helped us?). Seriously if I hadn&#039;t been traded from that team I might have not played again. It was damn near unbearable. To my knowledge that is all that you&#039;ve mentioned and those are both really retarded examples; baseless and without ramification. Did you want Naut on TMNT? We should have traded. Oh and franchises being political and stuff. Yeah, people like to play with people who are not only good at doom but also people they like. If by political you mean merit based and friendship then yes, politics governs IDL. However I would say that rarely are politics defined as merit based systems or friendship. It&#039;s what happens as a result of those friendships that would or would not be politics, and since no members of the board are on the same team, I will again call your claim baseless.<br /><br />[quote author=Fastidious link=topic=179.msg1606#msg1606 date=1267326736]<br />[quote author=Ralphis link=topic=179.msg1585#msg1585 date=1267232320]I&#039;m sure that my situation has likely held the league back in terms of growth as time has passed and I&#039;m sure a bit of selfishness plays into this on my part.[/quote]<br /><br />Just a bit?&nbsp; ;)&nbsp; Hopefully this will not be an issue in the future.[/quote]<br /><br />You&#039;re being a little bit too literal here. Think about whether or not IDL would exist without Ralphis. Then consider how much time and effort he has put in over the years and then after that throw him under the bus like a total jackass. I mean I&#039;m all for having the IDL advertised. I talked to Chain about this before season 5 I think and completely agreed. Don&#039;t mistake me for a Ralphis fan, I&#039;m not. But I really don&#039;t feel right about excluding him seeing as this league exists and has persisted in large part because of him. We&#039;re doing things now to make the league more public, and it&#039;s working without Ralphis being fucked over.&nbsp; Yay league.<br /><br />[quote author=Fastidious link=topic=179.msg1606#msg1606 date=1267326736]<br /><br />I don&#039;t think the IDL player base is going anywhere too fast.&nbsp; We have proven to be remarkably resilient.&nbsp; I think we can risk some meaningful changes.&nbsp; Have faith in the player base. [/quote]<br /><br />So either we&#039;re bleeding players and need to kick Ralph and advertise... OR we have a resilient and steady player base and need to do drastic things to keep them. I&#039;m again quite confused.<br /><br />[quote author=Fastidious link=topic=179.msg1606#msg1606 date=1267326736]<br /><br />Some people will argue until anyone else gives up.[/quote]<br /><br />You. You are one of these people. If you feel like you&#039;re right you basically just tune out the other sides of the argument. And I&#039;m not faulting you for this. I&#039;m saying you can&#039;t be upset when people who you&#039;re arguing with do the same thing to you. It&#039;s call being headstrong and it&#039;s part of the reason we need a league administration to help reduce this tendency by one or many people. Collaboration is a good thing. Ralph isn&#039;t that hard to work with, it&#039;s just you and he share a temperament.<br /><br />[quote author=Fastidious link=topic=179.msg1606#msg1606 date=1267326736]<br /><br />Also Ladna I know you play politics too because you offered to let me upload a fake demo and I refused your scum bag ass.&nbsp;  8)&nbsp; Yeah but politics are all just conspiracy in my mind, huh? [/quote]<br /><br />I don&#039;t even know what to say. How is that politics exactly? I mean I really don&#039;t know what that example accomplishes except to call someone out. There wasn&#039;t any politics. It would have been unethical if anything had actually occurred but I wouldn&#039;t have cared. Fast, do you want to league to be more flexible or do you want the rules to dictate? Please get back to me.<br /><br />And after all that, I agree there is no reason to take any of this personally. This whole post was just me trashing Fast&#039;s ideas because I feel like he&#039;s exaggerating things and making some very illogical arguments. I don&#039;t hate Fast, I think he&#039;s good for the league both as a player and with his ideas. The last post was me trashing Chow, but I feel the same about him. I do think they need to be reigned in when they calls shenanigans on one of the fairest most active people in IDL though. Ladna is a saint. Do not impugn his honor!<br />