The Saint
I won't like you
I have to ask, did you even read this thread? This thread is not asking why 19s no longer pop.
This thread is about moving on and providing a suggestion for making everyone happy. This includes the highly competitive players that you speak of that are oh-so-numerous and the casual 19 twinkers who are in it for fun despite them apparently being so scarce. Nevertheless, I will go ahead and address your post:
You're incorrect and here is why:
If this is the case, why aren't these highly competitive guilds getting pops on their own? Why not even wargames?
These highly competitive players are the minority as it is unanimously understood and agreed upon. In every game this year I've seen perhaps 1-3 per faction in the entire game.
You can thank players such as Superstylin, Tellefella, Purj, Myrm, Myself, Shift, Awesome, Laurasia, and about 1-2 dozen players who I've never even seen before for the pops that we've had this year. You have not participated in a single one of the pops that we've had since December - March or so when we started getting more pops. If you had, you would see that the elitist / highly competitive guilds who you say " have been the guys making games pop since EXP off bgs started." Are not even present in the majority of these games, and when they are there are perhaps a slight handful of them.
If you leave pugs for the casual players / the "shit" players as you would describe them, and if these highly competitive players had the numbers to partake in wargames (which at this moment it appears they don't, wonder why that is? Minority?):
a. Competitive players will play competitive games with other competitive players and there will be no issues of class compositions / under geared players which appears to be the reason supplied by these highly competitive players for why games are no longer competitive and as a result they are not interested in 19s.
b. Casual players can also enjoy a game without getting gy farmed and being forced to afk and log for the evening.
Cheers,
Mocha
minority and majority are easily confused i s'pose...