User blog comment:IonMapping/About the current situation of map games/@comment-5590986-20160910213410/@comment-25923362-20160911034259

Applications could work, but only if the hosts of the game actually enforce them. Your point about successfully applying = more obligation is a good point. However, this is definitely not newb-friendly. Newbs would be less likely to join map games because of the fear of applying for the first time and the additional barrier for newbs (hosts will most likely prefer experienced players than newbs). Also, unless there's an actual regulation requiring all map games to use applications, then I don't think it'll be a good choice to just sit here and magically wait for people to start using these new rules.

Your point about map games being hosted on another wiki is, in my opinion, not something to worry about. I mean, right now, map games are dying quicker than usual, which is already a good enough reason to convince people to start map games on other wikis, but we're not seeing this happening. Just because the active map game limit is lower and there's a filter doesn't mean will start to stray away from this wiki. There's only two reasons if they host their map game on another wiki:

1. They don't have the patience for waiting in the queue. Honestly, right now under the 5 map game limit there's a queue too, and even if they get their map game out earlier in the current system, it'll die.

2. Their map game cannot pass quality control. The standard for passing for the council, I can imagine, will be quite low actually. If their map game cannot go through the council, then I don't think we'd want this map game on our wiki either.