Watched two different groups form up this week, one small, one stacked past what felt necessary, and I keep landing on the same question. Does adding more people actually save time, or does it just mean more voices arguing about pulls before anyone moves.
Side one: bigger is safer. More bodies means a wipe costs less, mistakes get absorbed, and you don't need everyone to be sharp, just enough of them. I lean toward this one for anything with awkward trash density, where a single bad pull used to end the night.
Side two: past a certain size the coordination tax eats the gain. Someone has to explain the plan twice, someone else disagrees about loot or route, and you spend ten minutes talking about a pull that would've taken two minutes to just attempt.
I'd flip toward side two if someone can actually clock it, time from group being full to first pull, across a few different sizes on the same content. My guess is the curve bends ugly somewhere past the size where everyone still fits in one short voice exchange, but that's a guess, not a measurement, and I'd rather be shown wrong with a stopwatch than keep asserting it.
