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Sorry if you have covered this topic, its been a while since I have been to this site.
I had a fairly long telephone chat yesterday with the Membership Manager for the Force. I asked particularly about the way seats would be allocated when we move to ME. He said that he would be the one handling that and outlined the process.
Obviously diamond members and sponsors are looked after first, then when it comes to the masses ..... Gold Members who have been members since day one get priority - they have recorded the order in which people joined and that is the order of allocation. Once all Gold members from season one have been allocated seats then they move to foundation silver, then bronze or nickel or whatever it is that comes next. After that its back to Gold members who joined in season 2 and are still members, then season 2 silver etc.
IMPORTANT: The foundation silver members only get priority for silver seats at ME, likewise nickel get nickel etc.
Eventually they will work their way down to recent Gold Members, by this time the ME Gold seats might have gone so they will have to go to Silver ...BUT, as above, long serving Silver members would already have been given the best Silver seats.
Sorry if I didn't explain it very well, basically you get rewarded for length of continuous membership, which I think is fair.
He also mentioned that as next year is season 5 they are looking at some sort of recognition for 'Foundation' members who are still hanging in there.