Like most people, I'm just trying to figure out my chances of transferring into another base, and/or upgrading into that base. (I have my base trade request in, and there is one matching trade request on the most recent trade request snapshot. But it looks like if I traded, I'd be the most junior guy in BES, and I believe that isn't allowed, correct? I'm not sure if that aspect of UPA23 has been implemented yet.)

I guess the tricky thing with the snapshot is that it has no way of predicting how many people will successfully bid into a new BES, thereby freeing up their spot for someone else who wants it. So for example, in this current bid, there are no NBCA vacancies listed. There are only WBCA vacancies. However, it stands to reason that at least some of those WBCA spots will go to NBCAs who bid it, thereby freeing up NBCA slots and allowing people (who aren't currently NBCAs) to hold those slots. But there's no way to know that until the bid closes.

The other thing that confuses the heck out of me is, the bid notice indicates that there are a lot of NBCA slots being freed up because they were initially awarded to new hires who decided not to keep their CA awards. Yet if you look at the snapshots, the number of NBCA slots listed is far fewer than the number of slots mentioned as being available. Totally puzzled. Is the answer simply that Manpower Planning has the *ability* to award up to XX NBCA slots that were released by new hires, but due to company needs, has decided to actually award fewer slots?