So I am confused, I am not trying to flame or be a jerk I am just having a very hard time understanding why these rule changes are bad. As it currently stands...Any one player can Have 4 6th level characters with the Current Amount of low tier play adventures (this is not including the 5+ tier mods, and it is omitting all the retired season 0 mods). It of course requires that the player steps up and GMs/plays the mods that are currently available.
Let me continue with this, my FLGS in my area runs Pathfinder every two weeks...the game nights are on Mondays and a game day on Saturdays. Mondays is always 3 full tables (diffrent mods) with new players every week, and Saturdays is usually 4-6 full tables (diffrent mods) again there are always new players, at these tables. So in a month an average of 16 mods being run. Not a single player has complained about running out of things to play, nor have we run into PPP more then maybe half a dozen times.
Have the same mods been run? Yes they have but without fail, if a player has played the mod they bow out and allow a new player or a some one that hasn't yet played the Mod to sit at the table. We have weekly sign ups handled via a yahoo group (soon to move to Warhorn or so I am told), and a very good Event Organizer who handles all the sign ups. They pull from the entire play community to get GMs and make sure to do their best that no GM has to run the same mod too many times.
The PFS community here as a whole steps up to the plate and makes sure everyone can have a good time, new and old players alike. So my confusion stems from how is it that you have run out of MODs? However if a player knows what MODs are gonna be run and he has run and played why would he show up and take a spot from a player that hasn't, to me that is selfish behavior, and not being a part of the playing community.
I fully understand not wanting to turn customers away from your store. Your in business to sell games, and turning away a customer is a terrible thing. But you are equating PFS players to being a customer every time they walk in the door. I am a gamer, I play at home and I play at my FLGS, and I know for a fact every time I play at my FLGS I don't always plunk down money to buy something. So really some nights, I am a freeloader for 4ish hours. However because my FLGS provides me a place to play, I will support my store with all my gaming purchases (books, dice, other kick butt stuff my store offers), I am not always a customer. And EVERY single gamer is in the same boat as me I think in this regard.
Going forward you should tap your community, because now you can play/run a PFS Mod in any order. Reach out to you base...ask the "Hardcore" guys to run some mods. They can Play and Run a MOD for credit...so if these guys have all played but never run, tap them to do that now. Grow your community by getting everyone involved, old and new players, to contribute to the continued success of PFS at your store. That is what has happened at my FLGS. Unless I am way off base and your player base is super small, but being in Philly I can't see that. Denver is much smaller and we have about 6 very active FLGS running PFS regularly and the player base bounces around to all the stores to play. And were still not losing players, nor are we running into situations were we run into replay. Heck sometimes I have to sit out for a night. I am okay with that because I want PFS to continue to thrive. Take what I said with a grain of salt, I might be off base.