Currently the poll stands at 22 to 11 in favor of an organised server schedule, however, after reading all of the interesting posts in this thread, to which I thank everyone, most thoughts on the matter appear to be somewhat to the contrary in one respect or another, which is a little confusing.
For example, lets suppose Admin Teams A,B,C and D are all working on server campiagns.
Admin Team A posts their server is going up on such and such a date. Admin Team B sees this and says, ok, will go after them. Admin Team B posts in a seperate thread that their server will go at such and such a date. Admin Team C (who didnt see either post), puts up a post saying their server will be during both A's and B's campaign, again, in another thread. Admin Team A contacts team C and respectfully asks them to change their server dates, because they are overlapping. Team C shifts their campaign to follow Team A's and makes a post. Team B then contacts Team C, as their server's now overlap. Team C is getting a little annoyed, but respectfully pushes back their server date.
Team D comes along and announces their campaign dates, they havent seen the other threads. What do you think is going to happen? Well, Teams A,B and C are all eventually going to have a dispute with Team D, who realising its going to be six months before running a campaign, decide to hell with it and put their server up anyway.As for the players, most of them are now confused as to what server is running is when.
This is just a hypothetical example of course, but is obviously, a logical possibility given the current structure. Now, to leave things up to random chance and hope that all the cards should fall in order on the table, is somewhat optimistic in my view. These things simply don't order themselves, let alone in a fair and efficient way. In the above example, why should Team A go first? because they posted first? Team A could have been the last to start work on their server. Team A could post a year in advance of planning a server. What is wrong with the above picture? Is it the responsibility of every server admin team to go around contacting everyone else they know in order to get their 'approval' before putting up a campaign? What happens when Team E comes along and wants to put up a server? Do players have to scout and search through several websites, a dozen forums, and who knows how many posts trying to find a server schedule? How is a poor newbie player supposed to make sense of all this, who has no idea of even where to look?
It has been suggested that this style of self-management is all that is required. Perhaps this is so, and has worked in the past with a larger playerbase. It is not a democratic system, however, and is mediocre at best, imho. Let's give it another week and see what the poll results are then.
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