OK, I successfully casted Arma, and spent a some time balancing teams

Here is my proposal:

Teams look fairly balanced, now how are you gonna balance the whole batch of new players?

The era hasn't ended yet. I say we put leaderships up for votes.

put a mod in charge intitially and let the kd vote by themselves. the mod can then hand the leadership to whoever wins

told you this is what happens when you put ppl into tiers. VUers have inflated egos!

I'm number 1!!!!

However, in my ignorance. You lot may not be the guys from Qua :)

hillwood, thanks for your idea, but there are world other than GvE for you to make that offer. GvE was intended for be a massive kingdom 1v1 world only. we aren't trying to have ANY untagged players. 

The GvE provides players to everyone to improve their game play across the board, sadly that you are not willing to make an effort to attempt to play in a massive alliance with a number of the most experienced players that can provide essentials of mechanics and growth that they can provide. This is what this world was for, to share the "secrets" and/or knowledge to provide to the newbie and the other experienced players. 

Persona non grata, cést moi

Just have Barny and Binh as the team leaders they just so happen to be first, and i would like to believe both of them are respected members of the community enough to choose good vices and to help direct there kingdoms to the best of there ability. 

I believe the best would be coming to a decision on who the 2 captains should be based on history (so they know most players) and performance.  Those captains can take turns picking players 1 by 1 out of the players who played in the current GvE era and let any newcomers just get shuffled onto each team.  They could just privately do it over skype so it goes quickly.  

I've been pretty busy still (will be very active next era on Round 2 GvE, busy with wiki/otherstuff) but that list looks fairly balanced, good work Horus.

Minor points worth discussing before next round:

1. If I am more active than Binh next round (I suspect I might be, as I will be pretty active) then Team A might be slightly more active than Team B as a whole, but I see skype users on both teams which is good and it's really hard to make the teams much more balanced than this.

2. I have 3 new players/friends I am working closely with- someone I live with (and thus he can't play GvE as he must use a character on my account) and Lampercut/Dwarf Dwarf. Dwarf Dwarf is more active (not on the list yet) and I don't want to be on the same team as both of my noobs or against both of my noobs, so we should split them accordingly and probably put me on the same team as Lampercut to balance activity levels across the teams.

It would imbalance the teams if my 2 noobs ended up being active/highly impactful next era like I suspect and hope they will be, so I'd like the less active of the two (and subsequently the less experienced) which is Lamperkat.

Excellent Penguin is going to give my less experienced noob some help if I don't get on his team, ty Penguin!

If only TBL were here, maybe one of my noobs could teach him the game?

Shatteredworlds again? Isn't the map on rotation?

You people keep asking for captains and a draft. ... you are falling to realize that binh and barn DON'T WANT TO BE LEADERS. 

it looks good on paper but we dont know how active these ppl are going to be

Anyone who wants to jump to Kingdom of Good just send in an app I will accept it and add you to our skype chat.

Please try and join a kingdom, we are trying to play GvE as it was intended, only 2 kingdoms.

You got the wrong team mate.

Panic said:

I am glad to see people actually moving around.

Kingdoms

i know it appears very unbalanced but alot of people in Evil are newer players/inactive. 

Good should be actively messaging and seeking out untagged players that have spawned around them like 'Romulas' and other people that I assume are outside of Evil's line of sight (N-not that we aren't all-knowing and all-seeing!).

There are about 4 kdless players near Evil and one of them has joined us and is immediately going to contribute to the kingdom, last era Evil took in 6~ kdless players (new players/returning vets) during the era and I think Good took in less than 4.

Evil also has a Skype channel with a few people in it again, I hope Good at least has some sort of optional skype/irc set up.

Assuming those things are done things should be relatively close but slightly favoring Evil based on spawn location (less open core) and player numbers.