[EricH]

Originally Posted by Tassemet

We allowed it seeing as how the programmers would sit bored for hourrrrrs while the engineers fixed something. Then when the programming came, 2 second fix and they went back to magic or minecraft.

That means that you weren't giving the programmers enough to do. Have them develop the skeleton of yet another automode if you have to--but if you're allowing gaming, and non-team members are taking advantage of that (as well as team members), then you may need to impose it--and find something else for the programmers to do while they wait.