Jman5, on 06 May 2017 - 07:39 AM, said:
Usually I find in situations where a unit is always slow to ready up and start, it's just 1 or 2 people who are often the problem. The difference between units that have this problem and units that don't is that someone is willing to confront the issue. Most of the people in the group are just as annoyed as you are. Once I get to know them, I have always told people (politely) that if they aren't ready we'll be happy to pick them back up next match. People start to get the hint eventually and soon you don't have ridiculous wait times anymore.
This worked (or variations of this) back in my days in HARDCorp. Since we dissolved, I've been a guest of other units, and it's been the lack of this that has kept me from desiring to sign on, in many cases. Sometimes the personalities didn't click or other issues, but too often it was the slow dropping. I suppose once enmeshed in a unit, I would have the place to speak up again, but that's the part that falls back on me..... since the burnout of 2013, I haven't had any desire to have to take the lead.
Even in CGBI, I very much make it a point to just be a bullet.
Mind you, I play mostly casual these days anyhow, but I am a firm believer that if a unit is going to take the time and energy to drop in FW, you can't do it "casual", but you need to nut up, have a plan, discipline and go. I'm all for the casual mentality for small groups in FW (which coincidentally seldom have the issues..... unless CK has gotten distracted reading WoT forums again), but I digress.