Why don't more squads want to participate in SDL ?

[Yarbles]

SDL is the squad duelling league where squads fight best of 5 matches against eachother in identical planes and the winner of course is the team that wins the most matches at the end of the year.

With so many squads in the game I am surprised more squads don't join in.

Can people give reason's why they dont join and make consrtuctive suggestions how to improve it if they don't like the current arrangements that might get them interested.

[fudgums]

In

[kilo2]

I have one for us that is BBS friendly. We got kicked out woooooooo!

[phatzo]

For starters, the Prawns are lucky to get six people at a pub with free booze at the same time. The problem is getting enough guys to comit to it.

[phatzo]

I have one for us that is BBS friendly. We got kicked out woooooooo!

lol realy, good answer.

[JOACH1M]

For starters, the Prawns are lucky to get six people at a pub with free booze at the same time. The problem is getting enough guys to comit to it.

This is the case for most squads....

[Gemini]

For starters, the Prawns are lucky to get six people at a pub with free booze at the same time. The problem is getting enough guys to comit to it.

Is this through a lack of organisation or a lack of interest? One can be worked on the other cannot.

[Yarbles]

Perhaps the Bar could be lowered to minimum 5 or 4.

4 People turning up form a squad of 10 has to be as good as 6 turning up from a squad of say 2 wings and 40 plus players.

I think everyone who can raise 4 should put in at the start of the season then have a random draw for the season with fixtures. Under the current system the whole thing needs constant ongoing organisation.

If squads can't make fixutres they would default but so what as long as a squad fights the majority of its matches no problem.

As to numbers if two squads turn up with 10 players its 10 v 10 or if a squad turns up with 6 and another with 10 6v6 and the squad with ten can choose to rotate if they want to.

If people don't get their heads too far up their behinds about winning this can be for me anyway the most fun event in the game.  

[Lusche]

With so many squads in the game I am surprised more squads don't join in.

I wonder of many of that "many" squads in game are really squads beyond the "some squeakers stick together for a few weeks before disbanding again" type?
Most old, "regular" squads indeed seem not to have that many players online at the same time anymore... but that's maybe just my perception.

[phatzo]

we had nine on two or three weeks ago, it was a bit of a record and something I haven't seen for a few years.

[Noir]

Most old, "regular" squads indeed seem not to have that many players online at the same time anymore... but that's maybe just my perception.

That's my perception as well...a few of them moved to FSO only.

[Gemini]

If squads can't make fixutres they would default but so what as long as a squad fights the majority of its matches no problem.

This is also a bit of an incentive to try harder to field a full team too. Sometimes teams would have to default but that's life.

[zack1234]

SDL in my opinion is poo

[Debrody]

Luck there is at least one squad what has no problem with the numbers.

[Shuffler]

Well the 80th is a squeaker squad and not capable of flying far enough from the base to fight. That is the ones that do eventually get airborn.

Just last night one of our numbers was going to drive his plane through a hanger to thwart off vulchers and get airborn....... after a short time he said over squad channel that next time he will chose a hanger that has both a front door and BACK DOOR.