Question to other game admins at PBW

[Gorgo]

"i discovered its best to take the first come first serve approach rather than holding the spot for someone who sounds cool, as either way you get the same odds that the person will stick around. in the junkyard game, i had two replacement players for the same slot, neither of them panned out, and i eventually gave up and clicked finished."

So you decide that on your own and don't ask the other players? Of course you're the game admin, otherwise it could be quite sexy to define a policy about this at the start of the game, like: only if the first (or second etc.) replacement player fails, the empire goes AI, so nobody can suspect the game admin is exploiting his position.

In Ender's game, we know have the third person for the same spot, and it's the empire that is second of five in the game, so I wonder what's the deal! Maybe they're disappointed because it's 2406 and not a single shot has been fired.