With the risk of being slightly inaccurate, I'm going to explain my personal reasons and explain how I view the niche each show represents.

To restate something Sarah mentioned, it's just not realistic when you're writing for other shows. If you're someone like myself who tries to write up to the RP limit every time, then you're doing six RPs a month for Warfare. It's a big demand, but certainly not undoable. But to also have a seperate show to compete in that's weekly? It's just not very appealing.

It becomes even less appealing when Anarchy was relaunched in its current form. Anarchy does lighter workloads considerably better, along with the chance that you won't RP at all in an Internet Division match. So, the show made for less work is quantifiably more work than a new show.(And the current Anarchy roster is telling of this idea to me.)

So, what you're left with is three shows that ideally want to fill different spaces. Warfare, the flagship, requires the most work over a reasonable amount of time and gives writers a lot of freedom with storytelling because it allows multiple RPs. Anarchy has a possibility that you won't RP at all and if you do RP, it's cut off at a 1000 words. On top of that, it has the same frequency as Warfare, so it has fully encompassed the spot of the light workload show. But Savage? Savage has a short deadline, three seperate RP limit variations, and a short amount of time to opt in because of it. Honestly, because it lost one of its big appeals to another show, it really only has speed going for it, which I don't think is super desirable for a lot of the writers currently here.

So, what's the solution in my dumb, uninformed, rookie opinion?

Fuck, I don't know. I think it would really help if we had more users. If Savage had a more consistently rotating roster, I don't think people would mind opting in as much. I would think maybe you could try to do what Anarchy does and have auto opt ins, so the GM team can have control on the workload for certain members. It's just a complex issue and I'm not really certain how it could be fixed properly.

"You can't run from yourself."