Tuesday, September 3, 2013  3.29. Entropy  Mature aids a group
of players from DoD to defeat Keristrasza without gaining more
than two stacks of Biting Cold, The Nexus  Too Lean a Mixture
Elites were making things difficult.  As originally designed, my
newly promoted "cream of the crop" players had been guaranteed a
spot in the weekly progression raid. The side-effect to this
should be obvious: the more spots that were locked-down each
week, the less flexibility I had to rotate lesser-ranked players
(Raiders) through. My two-cycle raiding engine only ran at 100%
efficiency if I maintained a healthy mixture of both Raiders and
Elite. If the fuel-to-oil mix was too one-sided, eventually
things would seize up. Part of what went along with this
understanding of my need for a balanced ratio of Raiders-to-
Elites was the hard truth: As I promoted more Elites, fewer
Raiders would get in. Every promotion had to be thoughtful. What
role was I locking down? What did the pool look like? Who would
be squeezed out by this