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Unfortunately, slots are always filled first come, first served. This is to avoid favoritism and to avoid DMs hand selecting their rosters. This won't change.

It has been explicitly said that the policy is to try and prioritize people who get into quests less, and I have seen DMs do this in practice.  So that is at odds with that statement. 
My complaint is based on being told that.  If it is just first come first serve, then so be it, but contrary statements about this have been made, and so there is confusion.

Sept 15, 2022 9:14:29 GMT -5 Tarostar said:

I'll try to translate a dutch proverb 'It's better to miss a target then to not take a shot at it at all.'

You never know what happens.

Honestly, the is a cop out, not a solution.

The point is, even if signing up after every slot has been filled (something that tends to happen within a half hour to hour of the plot being posted), works (and it mostly doesn't from my experance), people new to the server, or less experience with plot, will see this and feel they missed out.  And it IS disheartening to see.  It really makes it feel like it is not worth signing up.  Honestly responding to a concern about an issue with "You should just know to do something counterintuitive" is less than helpful.  Moreover, even if people would be swapped out later, if they sign up after it has filled, then the people who were initially get bumped out, that feels bad too.

My proposition would be a waiting period, before slots are assigned.  Plots are generally posted a week or more in advance, if the DM's running them simply waited till the next day to assign slots, it would save a lot of frustration.   It will let them better see who has shown interest, before filling the slots in, and it would give people who are not on discord/the forums the exact moment the plot is posted more time to sign up.

I would also add, that from my perspective, most spots in most plots go to certain group of people.  I see the same names calls for most of the announced quests.  I would very much like to see, if possible, more effort put into making sure those who get into plot less, get a chance.  For example, I, across all of my many characters, have 1 DM item.  It came from the festival.  I know people who have gotten four, on one character, so far, just this year.  

*Edit*
To clarify, when I say the slots go to a certain group of people, I do not mean to imply cliqueiness or favoritism, just that some people have an easier time keep an eye on the forums/discord, and thus tend to sign up more often, and get picked more often.  I realized after I posted that my wording might have been confusing <3