While I appreciate Zach's arguments and absolutely see the merit in what he's saying, it would be difficult for me to willingly support taking power from the hands of Moderators in most any instance.
I will say that I have openly advertised a setup that I ran in the Micro Queue with an
explicit prohibition on hydras signing up and had no issues filling it. Likewise I have seen this happen on at least
one other occasion (and there have no doubt been more, those are only two that I know off the top of my head), and HC also had no problems filling the game up. Now, neither of these games were in the Normal Queue, but it should still be noted that games exist out there for players that don't wish to play with a hydra.
God willing, there will always be enough xenophobes out there like me and Zach that are scared of change and want everything to be like it was, lol. Seriously though, although I wish there was a more "level" playing field for those that want hydras and those that don't, I think we're in a fair place when we have Mods that can make those judgments themselves and advertise them openly.
In post 8, FakeGod wrote:
This is terrible mindset to be in and you should feel terrible.
Your hydra partner isn't some backup player that picks up the pieces when you flake from a game.
Both hydra players should read the entire game, and discuss fully before making posts that have game content.
Yes, it should take more time and effort to play as a hydra than it does as a solo.
Right, exactly. I don't even really consider myself necessarily to be anti-hydra, but I just do not like the way 95% of players approach it. And, Zach, I've got to say,
you and Sotty were guilty of such a crime.
That said, I admittedly have pretty high standards for players in games (standards that, on occasion, I regrettably don't even live up to myself), and, as FakeGod here is saying, it goes doubly so for hydras. I can count on one hand the amount of hydras I've played with that haven't, either inadvertently or not, sidetracked the game due to frivolity.
I'm well aware that I'm in the minority in this, but I don't want a hydra slot to be person A
and
person B. I want it to, as much as it possibly can be, be "one". So, no, I don't want to see your signature, I don't want to know what's going on in your hydra QT and I don't want anything else to get in the way of that illusion.