Hydras in mini normals

[Alduskkel]

Is there anyone who is actually trying to find a game without hydras and is having trouble? Let's not act like there's a problem if there isn't one.

[Alduskkel]

[Alduskkel]

Knight-Errant 18p is not excessively large. Also JOAT SKs are awesome.

Not that I'm biased or anything.

[Alduskkel]

"Normal" is completely arbitrary in that it is based only on what the community expects/considers standard. Breaking or not breaking the normal rules means nothing because the rules can always be altered to whatever the people want them to be. For example, the only reason that Cults aren't normal isn't that they go against the normal rules, it's because the community has decided that Cults generally suck and should pretty much only be seen in specialized games.

Does the community at large think that

hydras

generally suck and should pretty much only be seen in specialized games? Probably not, but there's room for debate, hence this thread.

Perhaps a poll is in order? Although, you'd only be polling people who visit MD, so there would be some bias. (I would guess it would be against hydras.) The mods could make it a global announcement, but that's purely up to them.

[Alduskkel]

If you'll excuse me, this isn't true.

mith, the list mods (particularly me) and the Normal Review Group are the ones who define what is and isn't Normal. The community decides what is commonly seen in any game, regardless of Normalcy, and they can affect decisions on what is Normal (either explicitly or implicitly, by changing trends in games), but they don't have direct input on the Normalcy rules as they stand.

Sorry, I guess I didn't know what I was talking about, probably because there doesn't seem to be much difference between what the list mods say is Normal and what the community thinks is Normal. (Which is a good thing.)

So what is the stance of the list mods? Is there a bunch of discussion going on behind closed doors or something?