On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 02:24:23PM -0400, Zach wrote: > How is this draft going to save time? Right now people join teams, and > in the worst case each captain must do a few commands of "trade > <foo>". I don't see how that is going to take longer than drafting 16 > slots! Please stop questioning and complaining about contributed works. It has been pointed out to you that this is a process that must be decided upon by both captains. You are rarely present and playing at clue games, Zach, so I do not believe you understand the amount of time it can sometimes take to balance. There are also those that are not ready for clue games yet read enough to be able to pass the clue check - a mini draft will help weed these people out, assuming the captains are aware enough of players abilities. It will also help weed out anonytwinking (semi) clues that might upset the balance. As the person currently calling the weekly games I welcome this change. Let's give it a try. John -- "I'm sorry but our engineers do not have phones." As stated by a Network Solutions Customer Service representative when asked to be put through to an engineer. "My other computer is your windows box." Ralf Hildebrandt <sxem> trying to play sturgeon while it's under attack is apparently not fun. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mailman.us.netrek.org/pipermail/netrek-dev/attachments/20070908/4b70daf3/attachment.pgp