Battle for Stormgate

[Strylian]

I don't think drafts that take days to complete are good for Alamaze.  Somehow there has to be a way that it gets done in no more than a couple hours.  I really hate expecting most players to hang around waiting to pick because they don't want to hold others up (as well as anxious to make their pick), but if one player is unavailable, we have 11 other somewhat irritated players.  A draft like this starts at noon, a player is still waiting to pick at dinner time Saturday?  Maybe they had plans and now they look bad for being out.

I think 10 minutes is plenty of time when the draft starts, ala the NFL.  Maybe when we fill the 12 spots with draft position, the draft starts 6pm the next day.  Then you either attend the draft live on the forum, you have submitted a list to a friend or support, or failing that, your pick is made for you at random, or you slide down until you make yourself available to make the pick.  Probably the last rather than random pick.  You just keep sliding down until you pick if you haven't submitted a list or enjoined a surrogate.

Could you give the computer a first 3rd and second choice region/kingdom choice? You put it in as soon as you sign up and the computer stores it. when the spots are filled the computer randomizes the order and picks from your list. You could even do something like. If the region is this I want to play that sort of thing.

I am just spitballing. I am not sure of the mechanics of it. Particularly for new players. new players don't know the players or regions. So they just want to play.