[quote=@Krayzikk]
This is absolutely true. And now that it's been brought up, I'm perfectly content to let anyone who wants to chime in do so, and Lugu to maintain or modify his decision as he sees fit.

All I would like to see, honestly, is some consistency with whichever path is taken.
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RWBY's one cardinal rule in an entire host of contradictions and loose lore elements is that at academies, all teams have four members. If that's changing, then I don't particularly like it, but whatever. It's the fact that up to this point, every other person who has disappeared from the game, with advanced warning or not, has gotten totally screwed out of their spot and replaced, and the fact that VGNB filled up OOC with "please please please please please" until they got a fifth member doesn't sit well with me. A lot of those guys are my friends, but it's the truth. It doesn't sit right with me.

But if that's changing, officially, then fine. As long as, after this point, people who fall off the map aren't summarily replaced and assumed to be dead, missing, or dropouts wandering the streets of Vale penniless, and are left available to return in the exact same way. If that's not the case, then this decision was made in pretty poor taste, in my opinion.