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I am also playing another manager game. There they dont even have breaks. I like it very much. when the first quarter ends, immediately the second quarter starts. This way the games doesn't need soooo long.
much more time to spend, on other things than sitting in front of a computer....

I think all thing is all right here...

Well, you all need no break but with a " pause to get a beer" button so ;)

in my case I'm most anoyed with the 3 minutes breaks.
1 minute is short enough to stay put and wait. 15 minutes gives you a chance of doing something in the meantime, so that's fine too.
I say skip breaks that are between 1 min and 15 minutes, replace them with 1 min or 15 minutes...

I think the pauses are just perfect as they are. Who's be seated the whole match in front of the laptop anyway? And if someone does, he really needs any break there is!

maybe my idea is crazy
but it would be nice if they put a kind of show in the half time like i dont know cheerleaders or something to make it more real
and probably be the 1st sport net game to do that :P

I agree with Steve, 15 minutes is too long. It could be better 3 or 5 minutes not more, it's a waste of time for me.

- a waste of time - ?

- playing a game - and you feel that 15 minutes FREE from the game is a waste of time - ?
Sorry, but a find it hard to believe you!

Why is it that hard?

Seems like there's a lot of people that don't want to have 15 minutes of no action while watching a game.

Why is it that hard?

Seems like there's a lot of people that don't want to have 15 minutes of no action while watching a game.

that might be true.

but I don't see any of those suggesting anything usefull either.
Sorry I do not find substituting 15 minutes with 5 minutes a good option, au contraire (on contrary for the English) 5 minutes makes you stay at your pc, unles you want to risk loosing some action, 15 minutes gives you time to fetch a drink, go to the toilet, scrol through your stats and economy and stuff, or all kinds of other things one might want to do...
A quick calculation makes me conclude this: 5 minutes break: 5 minutes of waiting. 15 minutes break: go to the toilet, grab a bag of salts, get a glas of soda, get a new hankey to dry my tears, feed the anoying cat that gets in my sight if I don't give her attention,... good well, nicely, there's 40 seconds left... wich makes the wait 40 seconds. I'd rather wait 40 seconds than 5 minutes...

I am not against dismissing the 15 minutes, but I don't want to see it replaced with a worse solution.

Either keep the 15 minutes, or make it 15 seconds.
Be a little honest here everyone will you. Are you seriously wanting to wait 5 minutes, wait 3 minutes? NO ofcourse not, you don't want to wait at all, you want to game to get on, see what happens, 15 seconds is torture enough to let you wait. So please do NOT propose a time which you will find too long as well. Don't settle for 'less wait is a better wait' it is still wait! If you want to get rid of the wait, ask for 15 seconds, if you like to take a break, keep the 15 minutes so people can actually DO something in that time. Well 10 would do I think, but no less, anything less would force you to not leave your pc, making it a 'forced' wait.

At least, that's what I think. ;)

Why is it that hard?

If you go by train and come to the station and there get the message that you have to wait one hour for the next train. Do you feel glad for an extra hour that you can freely use for what ever you will? Or do you get angry for this hour wasted?

Hard to tell who acts like the first and who act like the second. I am so old that every minute (or year) is some sort of bonus. So "waste of time" is a non-existing possibility.
To me Unkel is on the right track. Keep on!


Last edited by Milly at 3/2/2008 11:54:37 AM