Possible solutions?

Didn’t know where else to post it, so here’s a new topic. Solutions, or at least my attempt at a couple or three.
My first offering is frankly selfish, as I cannot make alternate weekends, but how about before organisers put on an event they run it by the regulars to see if they are going to get plenty of support and bookings? If 90% of the regulars can’t or won’t attend then perhaps the organiser can look at alternate weekends, venues or kit requirements?

The dangers are I suppose obvious, that people will say they will come and then won’t. That we will become a horrible clique and put off new recruits, etc. However, would the benefit outweigh the problems and allow more events to get up and running?

I try and do this, but frequently find that there is only 1 weekend available - plus it creates chop-and-change problmes with site hiring. I tried to liase with a few people and the organisers over Messina, but we were forced into that date.
Then again what if you are only available on X and Yith only on Y? Do I have to choose between you? It is not a bad idea on principle but requires a much free-er amount of space to really work I think.

My next suggestion is kit. It is great seeing everybody in the proper kit, but does it really matter? No camouflage I can understand, the look is wrong for a lot of events, but no SS? Now I don’t like the idea of playing SS, but my point is from a distance field grey is field grey no matter what badges you have on it. Does it matter if it is badged as SS? Similarly is khaki not just khaki from a distance? I humbly suggest that the ‘look alike’ idea needs resurrecting as I think it is being lost to an extent. Why not state that you would like people in proper kit but that look alike will be accepted. Ask punters to clear it with the organisers even and then perhaps they can point the ‘kitless’ towards sad people like me with extra kit? A lot of that is presentation as I think 'look alike' is often embraced, but I suspect it is not seen as being embraced by people new to this.

on the SS question only my game doesn't have them for a specific reason- the game has elements of espionage and all the fascist countries maintained seperate inteligence aperatus to their national service. There can not be SS for the game to work in the longrunning story.

On the fieldgrey question you are right. But likewise simply removing patches makes an SS fieldgrey uniform into a non ss uniform if, as at Messina, they were not in the theater. The only reason for someone to have a problem is that they will only play SS and this, like with the 101st, is a problem. If people are not willing to remove badges for a scenario then that is an issue, but not an issue with the organisers to be honest.

There is also an assumption in regards to unifroms requirements - which is why I always write them lawer-esque - which makes "prefered" a problem. I remeber a post about HBTs/wools abot Messina, but there was no prohibition on HBTs at Messina, just that wools were prefered.

Finally, and another selfish one I guess, to make it all more interesting (if you will pardon the expression, I don’t know how else to put what I mean) can we have more engineering tasks thrown in? Ariel was excellent for the mine clearing and the like. Great fun. More of that please.
Thoughts?

This is actually really common now, most games have a minefield to be cleared. But that does require props. When organisers are working on really tight "only just getting enough to cover the site" bookings it is hard to buy a load of props.

Non are terrible ideas, some are good, but they all have little issues that crop up on the organising end.