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I think most people like buzzerbeater because it's a fast paced game. It's not like some other online sporting simulations where everything takes months to happen

Wow, my opinion on this topic is really the oppsite. I think BB is a very slow game, a season takes three months - and if you want to develop a player from scratch you can make plans for the next year or two. Thats a pretty long timespan imo :D

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I think the shorter the offseason is the better, as there is nothing to do at the moment I don't see us profit from an extension to two or three weeks unless something pretty important is introduced, like summer leagues and/or training camps, on the other hand those things seem to be pretty useless as many teams depend so much on their revenues that there could be serious financial problems for some of them.

Just imagine you spent all your seasons income to get some better players before the trading deadline to go deep in the playoffs, lose in the first round and spend three weeks without income...

if you think buzzer is slow, what about hattrick, teahHB, where it takes 5 weeks for a single stat raise?

concerning the spending and income during offseason, well that's a risk...
there must be risks in games.
in first person shooters you die, here you go bankrupt or have to sell players.
good financial decisions are part of the game and what separates good managers from bad ones.
also, the offseason needs to be this long, the BB need time to prepare drafts, relegations and promotions, NT elections must be held and people must have time to present their cases, it can't all be done in a week.

if you think buzzer is slow, what about hattrick, teahHB, where it takes 5 weeks for a single stat raise? :)

I you are used playing offlien-manager games where a season can be finished in 1-3 hours, or other online manager games where a game daily happens and a season is about a month long, BB is a turtle-paced game :D

if you think buzzer is slow, what about hattrick, teahHB, where it takes 5 weeks for a single stat raise? :)

in this dimension, what effect has one skill playmaking in HT and one SKill JS in Buzzer for example, i think the general player improvement isn't that different.

Last edited by CrazyEye at 12/31/2009 7:14:51 AM

if you say so
I was just saying what friends that play both told me...

in this case the off season, would be as "short" as ever but more fun for teams who are out of competition.

In RL, players that play in the playoffs get playoff experience, and players on teams that don't make the playoffs usually just get an earlier offseason. Maybe instead finding things for the 5th and 8th place teams to do to make up for the "penalty" of lost training minutes and income, it would be a little more realistic if instead teams that played into the postseason had more of a fatigue factor (and injury risk) in the following season, which is something that does happen in RL. (Granted, the effect is not quite so noticeable, like say would happen to a baseball pitcher logging innings in the World Series rather than resting a tired arm for an extra month, but maybe there could be an adjustment in Game Shape. Of course, then really Game Shape would need to account for cumulative minutes over the course of a season in addition to previous season playoff minutes to be more realistic... oh bother! I'll leave the details to the smarter folks here and just leave this post with the basic idea of not worrying about 5th and 8th place team penalties since that's just the way it is, and if anything should be done about this, it should be something more realistic such as something affecting Game Shape somehow, however the BB geniuses figure it out.)

I'd just like to tell you, paragraph your sentences.
Use punctuation marks, new sentences, new lines. It's a bit hard to follow what you're saying this way