What I propose, is instead of attempting to have host controlled Axis Vs. Allies
Games...
----In the center of Area 7 should be a PERMANENT waiting room.----
it never goes down (even when nobody is online)
it comes back up instantly when the servers are back online
basically... if a player anywhere can see area 7, he should see this waiting room
with varying ammounts of people inside (depending on player traffic at the time)

This "Waiting Room" will collect players, and it will automatically distinguish between
whether you are Axis (KM-IJN) or Ally (US-UK) and furthermore it will tag you with
what respective class and class number you are (CV-2... BB-4... CA-1)
Once you join the room and receive your designations the "waiting room" will
automatically begin a timer for how long you have been inside the waiting room.

So if you join this room and you are a US BB-5, it will wait for any Axis BB-5 to join
the waiting room and it will "band" the two of you together. Players who have been
waiting for longer ammounts of time will receive presidence over players who have
just joined.

Once you have a partner to cancell out your presence in the game, this waiting room
will begin dumping "banded" players into rooms that it will automattically open
(these rooms could even be invisible from the area 7 area because you wont be able
to join them without first going thru the waiting room, or perhaps the waiting room
could open them inside area 12, but have them locked so players can see how many
games are up at the moment to decide if they want to join the waiting room)

The waiting room will automatcally open-fill-autobalance-start GB style games with 6
CV's 14 BB's and any ammount of smaller supports ships up to a max player
ammount allowed in the game (i.e. 48)

Players will have absolutely no controll over how the games are setup, what maps
are played, who is playing with who... the only form of control a player will have is to
leave the waiting room (if he has a partner at that point that partner should receive
full credit for the ammount of time he had been waiting in the game instead of
starting over a new clock)

I imagine A waiting room in the middle of area 7 buzzing with joining ships of all
ranks constantly sending huge chunks of 20-40 players out all at one time to play
and then old Axis Vs. Allies games ending and the waiting room jumping back up in
population...

there is a chance that the ratio of Axis to Allies players online at the moment will be
unbalanced therefor making one side have to wait a bit longer than the other, But
that is what the timer is for. to make sure nobody has to wait an outrageous
ammount of time to play the game just because no good matches come along.

It would be really nice to see the old enemies back at it again instead of a slew of
mixed ships going at it... It would be much easier to explain whats going on to
people who are interested in the game but do not play... It would reveal balancing
issues between the 2 Powers that could be looked at and corrected... I firmly beleive
it would increase play time... In addition I think it would make the game much more
enjoyable and intense...

I know that there are 15 or so Axis.Vs.Allies posts already up, some with decent
ammounts of detail... i read them all. But none have this sort of balancing tool
suggested and I beleive that this sort of mechanism would really make this
gametype come alive. But none-the-less, let the Flames begin... just please keep in
mind, im not doing this for points... im like level 3 after a year and a half or so.

Thanks for your time in reading this, and any positive feedback or constructive
critism you might leave!
-imortalking