#and like even on competitive smps the solution isn't to Change Teams usually

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not to be a super complainer mid-liveblogging but i feel like having a faction draft is just such a bad idea. a lot of people are Very concrete in their ideals and each faction has their own agenda so i can't imagine it playing out well in the long run. not to mention that it'd create a lot of conflicting and confusing lore. i mean, green and yellow almost immediately chose to oppose one another (honestly mainly because of bad and foolish but i digress), it wouldn't make sense "in-lore" to have them all suddenly be jumbled up in patchwork factions?

if balancing is the issue then why not disband the factions and move on to the next thing. the primary excuse for "balancing" them that i could understand would be the fact that yellow has the strongest and most grind-y members so Physical conflicts would seem like an uphill battle to other teams. but then again, red and green have been successfully killing Yellow Faction Members every week and more ? there's other ways of dealing with problems than just hand-to-hand combat? quests are scaled per team and boss fights are supposedly scaled per-player so there's not really an issue there? i just don't really see the point in a draft lmao