>>41 Personal opinions are only non-constructive to authors who don't know how to interpret feedback constructively. It helps if you stop making up ridiculous excuses to disqualify criticism. Anyway, I really don't mind that the ships in this story are very typical. Yes, the drawing results struck me as being very convenient, but I never honestly expected the author to actually pull names out of a hat. I saw the "sex hat" device as being meant to break a glass ceiling and get the team evaluating each other as more than teammates, rather than as the framework of a random prompt challenge, so I wasn't exactly disappointed. That said, while I do like the idea of using the sex hat to set standard ships to sail, I think it could have been done without the obviously non-random random drawings. You could have started with random-seeming drawings, and from there let people barter and seduce their way to more compatible partners as they start thinking and learning about each other from a sexual perspective.