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Originally Posted by bwind22
V - The inactive players are ruining your excellent game. Can't you just toss them all out and let the people who actually want to play do just that? If there's no new rule to get rid of inactives (or at the very least to not penalize their active teammates that have no control over their actions for their inactivity) I wouldn't even consider joining BR4. This is getting ridiculous.
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Well, I reluctantly have to agree.
BR is a team game till 10 players are left. And unless and until I receive some sort of confirmation from a player that he/she is dropping out, it would be slightly unfair to penalise them for one, or even two, no-shows.
I agree the whole team shouldn't suffer for a no-show, but another point has to be covered here. Sometimes players deliberately don't send in their entries - maybe with the in-politics of the game - and it has happened before in BR. Sometimes team members don't communicate with a player resulting in their no-showing. There are all sorts of factors to be considered. Someone confirms their participation then doesn't send in their entry, or sends in one for one Challenge and none for the next one...it's tough to judge if they are still in or not? Or if they are doing it deliberately?
In the last 2 BRs I was lucky to have handy replacement contestants who gladly took over someone's position when they dropped out (like Roderick Usher did both times, and someone was willing to take over). The problem this year is the lack of attendance at HDC. There was simply nobody I could call upon to participate. Rayne saw my problem and got many of her friends involved in the initial stages, some of them still alive now, but everytime someone didn't show up and didn't even post their confirmation of dropping out it was always hard to find someone else.
One of the reasons why I finished off BR II the way I did last year.
The main reason for this BR III resurrection was to improve SOME sort of traffic this year. But alas, it has failed to do so. Even confirmed participants were being continuous no-shows...which is saying something.
I don't think there will ever be a BR 4. Really. Think this edition will be the final one. For good.