WAR SEASON II: Discussion

[Siless]

Y'know guys, completely ignoring the point is rather insulting. Us on the smaller teams feel we're completely outclassed just by sheer numbers, that we'll barely be able to actually participate in a 'competition' that amounts to a grandmaster stomping a tournament of chess newbs, much less something resembling actual fairness. Participation is hard when you feel there's no point. I joined mostly to (hopefully work past anxiety) and try to have a fun roleplay while working with one of my friends, and yet the odds are stacked against us for making any meaningful contributions elsewhere by both running ourselves thin and being up against 10x the submissions.

PXR has 200 active members, according to the forum statistics. I'd guess about 1/3 has interest in WAR, maybe 2/5? That's a range of 66-80 people, of which 70 have attempted to join WAR by joining a team or team-in-making, and of which nearly 50 are on three teams. That leaves a miniscule amount of people that'd be interested in joining any other teams. We aren't (and haven't been) faulting teams for having large amounts of members, what we've been saying is that when other teams not only have more submissions but don't have to have their members spread themselves thin to maintain any semblance of a for-fun competition (which is what this is), us smaller teams don't really see much of a point to participating in most areas.

To be honest? I wouldn't have even made this post if it weren't for the attitude of those that are bringing these concerns up. They're legitimate concerns, and honestly I expected nothing to really happen this WAR about them, perhaps in the next or after. But people in here are claiming those with concerns are attacking larger teams and trying to make them feel bad? Not only are you misrepresenting those speaking out, you're silencing them out of what appears to be malice, and completely ignoring the actual concerns, and to say this makes me worried about the state of WAR leadership is an understatement.