The council is honestly nothing more than a mailing list of info, and an advisory group to GS/Priit. They can vote on things, and I had seen it many times in the past, ignored. Like there was large support in game, and on the mailing list for setting up a secondary biller for non ssc zones. Something to unite them, and try to give them a central database to help them develop. We even had begun discussing ops, how to run it, etc. BD Vine shot it down, and said anyone who disagreed with him could e-mail him, and he'd explain why it was not needed (Speaking of which, he never did reply to any of us). Now that doesn't mean we couldn't continue and do it on our own, as we had the ability, but we had hoped to just use a copy of the SSC biller to make the transfer flawless for zones (commands/power levels would be the same). But just is an example of how the council can decide something, and yes 90% of the time GS and such comply, but that it can also be ignored or shot down.