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Then why is the nature of the game, IE the "smalltown community feeling," brought up at all? By bringing up these elements, it creates the implication that by adding new teams, we are introducing a potential problem to the setting. In other comments in this thread, anons have mentioned that everything IC and OOC works the way it is. These are points only made when the opposite or potential opposite is "new teams will change that."

Because if "add more teams" is the only solution people can come up with for being resentful of the queue, that's exactly what's going to change, because long-term adding two more teams hasn't fixed the queue either of the previous times it's been done.

Because we're already looking ahead to the point where it becomes an issue again. If your solution to "the queue is too long" is "add more teams" then that's going to keep on happening until the game is unrecognisable. Two more teams right now isn't going to change the nature of the game, but what about a few months down the track when the queue gets long again and you start saying we just need two more teams again? I don't object to 14 teams in principle as a game size, I object to it as a solution to the queue, because if that's the solution then the number is just going to keep increasing.

"A few months" is different from almost a year, and I personally think AJ and Zazzle are more on point with things enough to know that things should be stalled. Things have been stalled. The queue filled up in December. We're in March. They believed the queue would only stabilize. Unfortunately, it hasn't, a whole two months later. It has only increased as the weeks have gone on.

However, we don't know if it would be a solution that would help or not. Yes, we talked in the past about dealing with the queue, but AJ said that there was a chance things would stabilize within a month—and they did. In this case, it's well over that, and even the mods are looking for a solution. I think that is a sign that two teams are probably the only thing we can look to, because nothing else works right now. I don't think it is perfect, but I do think it's better than doing nothing, which is currently what is being proposed. The status quo isn't working, so we should look to something else.

The queue will continue to be a problem as long as more people are apping than dropping. Adding two new teams will shake the status quo for a little while, but then the queue will start to build up again and what worries me is the thought that we'll be right back... well, probably not here because traditionally this discussion takes place on the OOC comm, but we'll be somewhere having this exact same discussion and reaching the exact same conclusions and deciding to add another two teams just to shake up the status quo etc etc.

I'm starting to think it might be more productive to have a discussion about what the absolute maximum team we're comfortable with is. However many we have, the queue will still become a problem, but at least we won't be arguing over two more not changing anything anymore.

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