... But what other ways are available? Make people drop faster? Make people feel bad for having an off week and they can't play, which ends up hurting their motivation to continue playing? Aather is already bad enough if you take a trip for a weekend and come back to it. It's a constant thing. People have tried narrowing down their registries. People have good ended before they were ready. There aren't ways to "speed up the queue" unless we forced people to drop out of the queue. And dropping thirds is not going to help, either. That will just create more feelings of people feeling bad. In the past, the mods pointed out how third players are active enough that they can't change it.

Personally, I think we need to look at helping game running and plot dissemination, but I don't think finding "other ways" to look at fixing the queue is a solution.