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Who watch his scrimmages live?

I do sometimes. I do log in every day to BB, why shouldn't i watch an available game when i am on my computer ? i'm more often avaialbe to watch a game on saturdays and tuesdays.

I think is mire importante to propose solutions or ideas and not discuss about who watch scrimmages or whatever...
Please, (for everyone) try to help.

BB-Justin,
Thank you for taking on the difficult task of creating the BB app, I wish you more success than the previous attempts. There are two valuable additions I would add to bb. First is making a way to trade players with my friends. I understand player for player swaps create a chance to cheat and create more than one account, but if you can find a way to prevent that on the app, it would take the strategy of BB to the next level.
The second is a small request. It would be that there was a weight next to each player. It would be an interesting stat that would help me envision my team much better. Thank you for your time.
-Hoops Warlord

Adding weight would be interesting if it was added as a training coefficient similar to height. "Heavier" players maybe train faster in inside skills whereas "lighter" players train faster in outside skills. This might lead to different player builds.

However finding the balance between the height and weight coefficients would be the challenge.

I guess you realize that 200 users in an Internet game is a ridiculously low number. Also, I guess you realize that in a strategy game, the hard work has to be done IN ADVANCE. So, it is normal that the season you have the team built and you are winning is possibly the less time demanding. Anyway...

Now, other IMPORTANT factor.
When server is accelerated, people will start complaining their players age too quickly.
Users are used to take love to their players. When they see players are old in a few months after being finally trained ... they will start asking for later aging.
Now players reach their primes at the ridiculously high age of 34!!! (hi, Marin, hating your "solutions" again). What would you do? players starting to age at 40? 50?.

The discussion definitely misses the main point. I hereby remind all ladies and gentlemen that this is about the development of an app. It is not about discussing the speed of the server. I don't see any direct connection between the development of the app and the speed of the server.

As far as I understand it, the app is supposed to be another access option besides the common browsers (or mobile browsers) for BB or I'm wrong?

If your players are hitting prime at 34 you are doing something wrong

My HOF players hit their prime at 27-29

They are gaining experience, and I guess you train group training while your are competing at the top. Nothing worsen until 34. So the best season is at 34 years old for ALL players, maybe even 35 if you are lucky and train stamina/FT.

So you are obviously incorrect.

I totally agree with you. BB is a great game! It is just old... needs some freshness. We shouldn’t be talking about speed. Long term it would do more harm than good. Maybe more games, but her is supporter and second team option (6-8 games a week...)!

We should talk about how to represent fresh BB to a new player on app and here. What the page might look like, what can we add to it, etc.. But the game should stay the same!

Some quick ideas:

1.As we have already written, no one watches the matches... How to make them more "watchable" (so managers would watch their game like @VLRnr does)?
Can we add something to a viewer? Or just refresh it as much as possible...to attract more users.
Better chat, easier and more useful (it looks like we are in 2007).
2.How to represent BB to new user? There should be more videos and better guides (how to manage a team, train players, change logo or playing court...guide must be good! This is the first impression!).
3.How to make everything more accessible. We can find some hidden corners, but there should be none!
4.We can add more statistics. Half of managers use bb-manager...why? We can give users more info.

BB should present as it is. Slow but good simulation manager game. We dont need 50k users, who stop playing after a month (having 1-2 game a day makes the game boring after a month or two.).

You shouldn’t rush with the app and add things little by little. We are late already anyway... It is better to focus, so the application will be done well!