drafting is for MW, if you allow drafting in PW you are killing this gal 
Reversed Drafting (for 5 players fams):
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1) Make a leaders' list
2) Each player wanting to play applies to 3 leaders' lists, can also post what's preferred role if any
3) Meeting of leaders on irc to choose players from their lists:
3.1 I randomize the order of election, any leader not present in the meeting his squad is chosen randomly from his list.
3.2 Each leader chooses 1 player from his list per turn, til 3, making a squad of 4.
3.3 I manage it all with a ball-pen and a paper, to get the squads designed.
3.4 The not chosen players in the pool get placed randomly (they are the 5th player of each fam, random factor)
4) Mods place the squads manually and remove ghost spots for any late empire wanting to random in the fams with 4 people only.
this might be for PW75 if the mod team gets lighten up
[edit] leaders' list for a tiny PW is 15 leaders * 5 players = 75 players
With this reversed drafting we make sure every fam has 4 active members = 60 players (yes MJ they can go inactive during the round but thats a normal game issue). The goal is to get rid of multis from the start. The 5th element CAN NEVER be a key player (unless he joins on a removed ghost spot, and that's random), he/she will have only 1 day to random in PW before the round starts, and if the fams get all filled, no new spots are added, joining PW gets closed.
