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For me the best manager ever in BB in manager of BC Torooo :)

I guess I'll chime in here to the points that have been brought up many times. Why not give my 2 cents on the actual topic.

1. BB is struggling to get it's name out, so lots of people who just join and never login don't exist on BB anymore.
2. When people look at the forums if they're new and they see that the user size has been reduced in half in about 3 years, they don't know if it's worth investing (donating) or even spending their time on the site. Sad, but true.
3. The user number will eventually plateau. Although it seems bad right now, lots of us are still here and are active, so that's a plus (yes I know this has been stated).
4. As bad as I look as a manager, I've been here for a while. And I just finally understood why the game is so good. It took me forever, but I realized training is actually fun rather than thinking I found a stud because he had legendary jump shot and was 33 years old. My point here is that some people really struggle to understand the game and it's all about patience, this isn't 2k, you can't just simulate. I spent 3 months tutoring my friend on BB, and I'm proud.
5. Kind of piggy backs from #4, but I really think there should be a summary you're directed to (NOT THE MANUAL) when you first login about how leagues work, players, training, and all of the other stuff. I dont remember what the warm welcome is for BB when you join other than the manager checklist (hooray.) and I really think it would be amazing for BB to get volunteers who speak the language of whoever joins to send a new person a message offering them help and telling them about the forums. I know you get an auto mated message from someone when you first join, but seeing some kind of auto - message from someone like EBW (first active person I could think of) saying something about the forums and how BB is a slow paced patience game.

Those are my views... Looking back at it I really rambled on 5 and basically made a suggestion. Oops.

Hello Guys... i just want to share my experience with the game and give a personal point of view about what could be good...

this is my third team in the game, the game is awesome i find it interesting, difficult and the moat important thing... Funny!!! however it's popularity is decreasing fast. So the new ppl find it... boring... difficult to understand the basics, and is not fun when u dont have ppl to pkay against, here in colombia there are just 42 active teams... for me is bored to play against bots... so that keeps taking your attention away of the game.

So for me if they want to boost the incoming of new players. They need to work hard in the development of an app. the ppl now loves to use a tablet or a cellphone rather than a pc. BB is akready great and packed in an app would take the game to every person willing to install it and discover this. The mentor option comes here! trying to catch the attention of the player.

Im just a dreamer..
who loves the game..

Thx for the time..
and excuse me for my extremly poor english i jusr wanted to show my opinion. Good Luck for everyone.

And Greets From Pereira, Colombia

It would be like a Hoe Run!!!...

more simple? this game is as easy as managing game can be. quit it if its to hard for you.

I love the game. But I think it's too hard to start from nothing in this game. New managers fall out quickly, ecpecially if not BBall fans. I made a "Mentor scheme" in Denmark. Worked well. some of the managers that entered have beome really good. I think this is one of the ways to keep new guys playing.

But it's also a lot of work for the mentor.

Once players are hooked, it's a great game. So it's about getting them hooked before they quit for some reason.

There is a continuum of types of gamers, ranging from those who want something NOW, whiz bang smash ratta-tat-tat kaBOOM ... to those who are looking for something more gradual and complex, something that rewards intelligence, reasoning, patience. For those looking for an arcade game that starts and finishes fast, BB is not their cup of tea. For those looking for a complex strategic game, BB is a gem.

Any marketing should be directed at the latter type of gamer.

Once players are hooked, it's a great game. So it's about getting them hooked before they quit for some reason.

There are many managers who have played this game for years who still dont understand it.

I reckon having more visibly available resource tutorials on how to play the game, would help get new comers up to speed quicker thus getting them hooked.

Perhaps "sequence the learning" in steps, from basics such as gameshape and enthusiam to the more advanced stuff.

Whilst written tutorials would help, I reckon that youtube video clips, (perhaps interviews from successful Managers) would even be better although of course written words are probably easier to translate to other languages than what verbal voice might be