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Personally if I was given a choice between quit my job or quit BB...well giving up my team seems an obvious decision. So I think its within reason, assuming all teh BBs are paid, that they agree not to play the game with us and focus 100% on developing it for us in exchange for a paycheck.

How can you compete on the same level as me knowing sooo much more about how everything works. YOu know things I am not suppose to know. How is taht fair? I don't know how much age affects training.

I don't know how much trainer level affects training .

I don't know if spending more to get at 18 or 19, or level 6 versus7...I don7t know. Sooo many things you know that I don't. How on earth is that fair?

How does a developer ignoring aspects of what is behind the curtain HELP US? I need you to know exactly waht trainer level does, exactly what age does, exactly what a win or a loss does to attendance. Exactly teh difference between 18bucks for a bleacher and 19bucks, and how that affects attendance. I need you to actually know these things in details, so that when we suspect something wrong you can look and see, clearly what the problem was.

Now if you know all this, then yo uwil lset the perfect arena price for your team, in your league etc.

You know how much merchandise you are suppose to get,

yo uget NT plaeyrs taht matter,

perfect roster number,

If you DONT know all these things, then you don't knwo the game well enough to develop it IMO, and you should be trying to learn all this stuff. If you DO know all this stuff then you can't play on a fair field with me.

maybe you are right it is good you were/are a player too...but maybe you should quit the game once you became a developer and/or you should run a team in a test environment. like a 16 team league, 16 BBs and GMs have teams there and compete with eachother for fun, but everyone knows everything, so less aobut strategy, which yo ucan calculate perfectly and more just luck of the random stuff, like draft and lucky bounce.

Yes, it is a matter of time and energy. I'm not saying you can't do it at the same level as a professional, I'm saying you wont. However good the volunteers are, give them 8 hours a day and some green backs....they'll be better.
LIke if 40hours a week is done by 40 GMs, then in 20 weeks they all have 20 hours of experience...and its like a guy still in his first week on teh job. If one dude does it, then in 20 weeks, he will have 800 hours of experience. Also, by about hour 100 he doesn't need procedures to make the same decisions (right or wrong) every time. Asking GMs (who have high turnover as well) to follow a procedure and be consistant is just unrealistic. Also I bet that if one guy was working the tickets etc. 40 hours a week, after a few weeks he would get really good, and really fast. He'd probably get more efficient.

on the other topic-
I guess tickets are never really erased? Its kinda like police work and evidence though. They put it all in boxes and stuff it in giant warehouses. Sure anybody can go back and review, but doesn't mean they do or will. Over 100 bans a week, I hate to even imagine how many tickets get handled a week. Not suggesting that people look over them twice or everyone get paranoid and start checking eachother. Simple solution to stop cheating, is remove the motivations and abilities to do so.

New thought-
Perhaps though if BBs and GMs were told not to ahve an account, nothing stops them from making one on the side. I now think I have changed argument 100%

If BB-Anthony hadn't had his own account we may never have caught him as the actual culprit per se. Have BB- or GM- next to your team, atleast we know its yours. So yea BBs and GMs should definitely still have teams. Probably just no fun for the BBs considering the argument I just laid on Marin about it not being competitive. Him playing BB with us is like me challenging my 10 y/o to a foot race. The only fun part in it for me is getting him to run as fast as he can and/or letting him win or not at the end. Only fun for him if he likes being patronized.

So yea I am now 100% for BBs having accounts of their own. Perhaps though, GM actions should be shared more publicly in some way, so that we can police the police. And perhaps BB's need to work in some procedures to keep new guys on a short leesh and tell us about it. I think if they ensured us they'd put some steps in place that they would catch an incident like this if it ever happened again, we'd feel more secure. Like they could just log all BB activity and review eachother every once in awhile, a small sample.

judging by history, i'd bet they'll invade his country

Several people have straightened you out on GMs in ways that I think completely disrupt your argument about them, but just to clarify an important one I haven't seen mentioned: you can't investigate teams in your own division (I imagine there must be tiny exceptions to this rule for countries with only one active league and a very distinctive language that no other country speaks). This further limits one's ability to abuse of the GM position.

Also somebody mentioned this, but the appeal system *does* work quite well. When I was a GM and I told people to appeal to my decisions when they disagreed, I'd sometimes get responses like: "ah, that will take months".

That is *not* the case. Appeals are processed rather quickly and by people with a higher standing than ordinary GMs. I have even appealed the unjust cancellation of one of my forum posts!

Disagree, the appeal system is totally useless, most of the times they don't answer.

From the game manual:
In the unfortunate situation that your account is banned, you may appeal the decision by sending an e-mail to appeals@buzzerbeater.com. All of these appeals are read, and each situation will be carefully reviewed again by the BB Staff. If your account is unlocked (this is VERY rare), you will receive an email letting you know; if you do not hear from us, it is because your appeal was denied.

You can use the same useless assumption to say that the cheating ticket system doesn't work. You won't get any response to your cheating ticket although every single one of them is being taken care of.

So do you know the skill weights per positions? Do you know what skills and by how much get boosted, using different tactics?

I did, but he shouldn't be able to do that. If you have 150K in your bank it shouldn't be possible to bid three million on your player.