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137889.1
Date: 3/27/2010 6:56:50 PM
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I think it'd be a cool idea to be able to pay a certain amount of money to control an extra team. The site would get a lot more money and some people would probably enjoy having another team to control. This idea has been used in another online basketball game I play(court rivals), and it worked very well. Any thoughts?

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137889.2 in reply to 137889.1
Date: 3/27/2010 7:57:09 PM
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Letting people have more than one team promotes cheating in that they transfer all the cash to their one good account.

I can't see this idea happening as it then gives people who is willing to pay an extra advantage

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137889.3 in reply to 137889.1
Date: 3/27/2010 9:58:55 PM
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Unfortunately this is unlikely to happen, as it violates two major policies of ours:

#1 One person, one team

#2 People who pay will never get an in-game advantage.

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From: yodabig

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137889.4 in reply to 137889.3
Date: 3/27/2010 11:25:44 PM
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#2 People who pay will never get an in-game advantage.


I think this is a really huge and positive feature of the game. Yes I do pay as a supporter but I quit a couple of other basketball manager games soon after starting when I learned that you could just buy your way to victory and you were at a huge disadvantage if you didn't pay at least a little. Having heaps of asthetic features for supporters is cool, advantaging them is not.

PS: I don't get your team name. Are you myenteric plexus? A floodmeadow brook? I am confused. And your picture is really cool. It looks like a four leaf clover but at other times it looks like an Owl to me.

Last edited by yodabig at 3/27/2010 11:29:43 PM

From: Edju

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137889.5 in reply to 137889.4
Date: 3/27/2010 11:38:53 PM
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The town I'm from is Salisbury, MA

Auerbach is for Red Auerbach:

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Auerbach)

NO ONE at this table ordered a rum & Coke
Charles: Penn has some good people
A CT? Really?
Any two will do
Any three for me
Any four will score
Any five are live
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137889.6 in reply to 137889.3
Date: 3/28/2010 5:39:01 AM
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How would you get an advantage by owning a second team?

If you allocate those two teams in one account, you could easily block intra-team transactions + if you allowed users to get a second team in another country the smaller ones would be filled up really quick.

I know this from anther game too, it worked really well for the owner of the site and doubled the number of registered teams in a short time (those were paid teams too).

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137889.7 in reply to 137889.6
Date: 3/28/2010 6:34:37 AM
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Definitely should not be allowed another team, especially if the second team is in another country! If that were the case, people would get second teams in countries so that they can spy on their National Teams. Not the way to go.

From: yodabig

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137889.8 in reply to 137889.5
Date: 3/28/2010 10:08:11 AM
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Ah, obviously I knew who he was but didn't put two and two together. Now it all makes perfect sense. So I read the article and this bit stood out.

After getting a green light to rebuild the team from scratch, Auerbach traded more than two dozen players in just six weeks, and the revamped Blackhawks improved, but ended the 1949–50 NBA season with a losing record of 28–29.


Tell me that isn't just like a lot of BB managers?

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137889.9 in reply to 137889.7
Date: 3/28/2010 11:57:25 AM
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I got my roommate almost to register for the game but he did not want to play in Austria, so having the option to have one more team might have solved this - I don't see that "spying" issue but as you all 1-balled my post I obv. am the stupid donk again. pfffff...

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137889.11 in reply to 137889.3
Date: 3/28/2010 12:04:30 PM
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Unfortunately this is unlikely to happen, as it violates two major policies of ours:

#1 One person, one team

#2 People who pay will never get an in-game advantage.


#3 It could make NT Elections problematic

#4 Pool of players for NT purposes it given by number of managers playing in that coutnry and seasons played i.e. more people = more players to choose from; second teams would ruin that

#5 why not third team then? ... road to hell