Problems with Open and Closed Leagues

I realize that this topic has been brought up in the past, but I feel it deserves some more acknowledgement.

When iTrials first came out, I ran a lot of them as closed leagues. At some point months ago, closed leagues became bugged such that members in excess of 19 were booted from the trial upon loading and unable to rejoin. Not only that, but the league leader and teams would scramble. The team scramble is much more of an annoyance than anything else, but the fact that members over 19 are kicked is a huge problem. This is effectively limiting the number of people that can participate.

I noticed that the "19 kick bug" didn't happen on open leagues. For a while myself and a lot of other leaders switched to open leagues to avoid the issue entirely. Open leagues worked out just fine until I ran into issues with players using the vote to kick option to grief another player. This player was booted from a few trials by anonymous parties (since it doesn't say who initiated the vote). Additionally, the system is registering votes without players actually voting. It even told the player who was kicked that he had registered a vote to remove himself from the league.

This has basically left me with two highly unattractive options. 1) To start a trial as a closed league and tell people I'm full at 19, even in a zone full of people looking to join. 2) To run as an open league and allow my league members to be kicked at random due to a personal grudge or conflict, with no way to establish who is doing the kicking. So far, I have chosen to limit all my leagues to 19 people. I don't enjoy doing this, but I'd much rather limit my league size than deal with anonymous griefers.

As stated above, these are not new problems, as they have been going on for months. They were also discussed here, here and here. I have sent bug reports in game to help identify the above issues. So far, I have not seen these issues on the Known Issues list or receive formal acknowledgement. I understand immediate fixes are not always possible, but it would be nice to know if progress is being made. Alternatively, I would be more than happy to provide additional information regarding the circumstances of the bug if it would help to identify and fix it.

(If I have overlooked something, a link would be much appreciated.)

The "vote to kick" problem has been addressed and should be fixed on the live servers.

The issues with the closed leagues are being looked into.

This irks me quite a bit, but Tex coming here saying they are aware of it makes me feel like they are going to address it at some point. Hopefully the tray issue is addressed as well soon(tm).

We are aware of the power tray issue.