Never rotate someone just for the sake of doing it. Only be open to it. I think when there is a majority of squadrons wanting to fly one side or the other then there needs to be random choices made with everyone's name in the hat. Make sense? Do not want to start up anything more than that. Focusing up on this Friday.
See you guys up there,
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It does make sense and you have good points. However, the random drawing should come after dedicated squads are placed, in my opinion. Then, any squads who did not get their requested side the previous month, should be given their requested side this particular month. After that, it can become random. Although there is the issue of side balancing, so only so much randomness can occur.
I will also add a counterpoint to one of Devil's points. Updating the plane preference is often not done until a squad is assigned a side. While it makes sense to announce your plane preferences along with your side preferences, it is not always done in this manner. Should it? It would be helpful, but the Admins can see who changed their preferences and who did not. So, it is somewhat of a moot point. Then there are squads that have no preferences at all such as 9GIAP. They are almost always No Preference and do not prefer an aircraft. Squads such as this do not need to update because they have no preference. It would be unfair to "punish" these squads because they did not update.
It should be known that Admins try as hard as they can to get squads where they want to be. Sometimes it does not work out for a squad or two. The only thing we can do is ensure that these squads are given what they want next month.
