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From: artryx
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61865.127 in reply to 61865.11
Date: 11/30/2008 12:36:09 PM
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Woe?

How about not getting any training pops on three runs of the training update? Level 5 trainer, optimal minutes. On the first run, I thought it was just the glitch. When you fixed it and still no pops, I was resigned to it. But you had to give me false hopes by giving us that last chance. Now I'm off to buy that level 7 trainer and spend 3mil on it.

From: BB-Mark

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61865.128 in reply to 61865.127
Date: 11/30/2008 4:35:36 PM
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For the record, there's nothing that says a player needs to pop after x weeks of training. The numbers are all stored in floating point form, and will increase whenever you train something. Training also depends on how high related skills are and how many minutes your players play, so there are a lot of factors going into it.

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61865.129 in reply to 61865.128
Date: 11/30/2008 10:56:50 PM
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It was a stormy night and my office in the ACME building was dark, except for the glow of the computer screen illuminating my face.

My name is Gilbert Noir, private eye.

[cue saxophone]

Before signing in, I noticed the schedule for the Salisbury Auerbachs had become my landing page for Buzzerbeater.

"Strange," I thought, but dismissed it.

I clicked into my roster page, expecting multiple bumps in shotblocking for my young trainees, but didn't see them.

"Strange," I thought, but again, dismissed it as a Beantown aberration.

That's when she knocked on my door.

She was a leggy brunette, the kind the fighter pilots used to hang in their lockers back at squadron HQ. The smoke from her cigarette curled from her lips like a Siamese cat. Man, did I want to be in that smoke.

She explained that she was missing some training, too, and wanted something to be done about it, and before the Thanksgiving weekend was over.

I said I'd take the case.

Just then, the phone rang. I answered it.

"Guy, I told you not to call me at work," I said. "I don't care what Mother says. You can start without me."

"My brother," I explained. "Wants me to come home for Thanksgiving. Let's see if we can solve your case in time."

"So, where was the last time you saw your training?" I asked.

"Two weeks ago, two pops in rebounding, but this week, just stamina pops," she answered.

"Better than a drop in stamina," I thought to myself before saying "And you're sure you didn't change to stamina training last week?"

She looked at me in a way I'll never forget. It's that look your mother gives you when you try to pull one over on her, not knowing she knew the truth even before you started telling your version.

"Guess not, " I said and scribbled into Notepad.

"Now let's see here...." I said as I navigated around Buzzerbeater. "Seems here's a clue. BB-Charles is actually in my league."

She drew her chair closer to see the monitor and I could smell her perfume. Eau de Spalding, I believe.

I showed her how my team also lost training that week, and so I could sympathize with her plight.

"I just sold off some trainees, and bought a new shooting guard," I told her. "At first, I thought it might be an effort by Charles to keep the Magic a step behind Walking Through This Door, but now, with your predicament, I guess I'm not the only one affected."

"Guess not," she said. "And I really need help in the rebound department. You see, I just broke up with my boyfriend."

"That, I can help you with," I smiled.

It was a dark and stormy night in Marietta....and the monitor wasn't the only thing turned on in my office on Church Street.

[cue saxohone]

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Date: 12/1/2008 10:33:49 AM
1986 Celtics
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ladies and gentleman.. your new leader...

From: Thijs

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Date: 12/1/2008 11:05:08 AM
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This one belongs in JuicePats BB's yearbook!! Big thumbs up!! :D

From: Emilio
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Date: 12/3/2008 7:37:33 AM
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There is a spanish user: (26083), who was training Stamina last week. He says that he used the "keep stamina training" button and now all the pops on stamina have disappeared.

Coud you help him? Thanks.

Last edited by Emilio at 12/3/2008 7:38:02 AM

¡Me aburro! (Homer Simpson)
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61865.134 in reply to 61865.129
Date: 12/3/2008 9:04:35 AM
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LOL, fantastic! What's next, a Hollywood screen adaption? :-)

BBs: Give all 5 packages to this guy and hire him to write some more! ...and BTW, great work to give this story a happy ending. Hopefully, in time you'll be able to pull some serious $ from your efforts to bring us this great game!

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Date: 12/3/2008 10:23:54 AM
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Brilliant! So vividly written Noir that I could almost sense the smell of cheap whiskey, backyard garbage and old urine.. mmMM mmMM MMMMHH!
10 thumbs up for MagicMan (Now you see me... now you don't...)

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61865.136 in reply to 61865.133
Date: 12/3/2008 6:19:16 PM
1986 Celtics
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when he said.. keep stamina training.. he actually selected rerun training using stamina.. and as there is a small random component in stamina improvements/decreases.. whether he got pops or didnt get pops and on which players he got pops could vary, but be assured all his players got improvements in stamina. Just because it didnt pop doesnt mean it didnt improve.

note: this is only true for stamina and form.. other skill advancements are deterministic so this shouldnt apply. if we had to do it again we would have done with stamina what we did with form... but it was late and we overlooked it. I can assure you thought the difference is minimal. though even if we did that he would have still reran training on stamina and thus gotten a different result the second time.

Last edited by BB-Forrest at 12/3/2008 6:22:08 PM

From: Emilio
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Date: 12/3/2008 7:41:09 PM
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Thanks. I will explain it to him (he cannot speak english, that's why
I helping him).

¡Me aburro! (Homer Simpson)
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