Originally Posted by
sailingfun
The bid is going to pose a challenge for crew planning. With more vacancies then displacements they have to make sure the vacancies don't stack into a couple of categories. How they backfill will determine that but will have to be done by hand.
Exactly, that's why it takes days to proof read it. I'm sure the hampsters running the wheels that power DT's super computer can knock this out in 5 minutes or less. But then the humans have to tweek it and double check all the awards/displacements, before they publish it.