Yes, ideally it would be that size, but I don't believe that it can be that size and still stay a small game. Adding two more teams isn't even going to get through half of the app pool. You would still end up hoping for people to drop just to see new faces eventually. People are well aware that apping requires a long wait and they are still choosing to do it. It will eventually reach a natural equilibrium point when people stop apping because they don't want to wait that long. I totally agree that there are a lot of problems with the way things are, and I don't think that adding two more teams would impact on the feel of the game or make it much harder to run games. But adding enough places to mean there are enough characters that there's always turnover would change the game completely.
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