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These things are on our list:
The 99 minute problem should be an easy fix, and we'll get to that asap.
To skip ahead by game-time is actually a pretty tough problem, and we're looking into ways around it.
As for the countdown clock... it's on our list, and we hope to get to it pretty soon.

Sorry... we're short on developers, and we're trying to get everything done as quickly as possible. Thanks for your patience.

It'd be nice to have a faster version that just skipped to the next event.

Personally I can't stand waiting for a shot-clock to run down to the last 5 seconds or so for almost every offense. I understand that some people might like that, especially if they are watching their game "live", but when reviewing a game, I just want to know the interesting bits.

I'd rather watch my game with one of the pbp-viewers for SimulatedSports basketball any day of the week.

This match viewer bores me to tears.

Something happens.... wait.... wait..... wait... shot clock gets to 3... something happens.... rebound..... wait.... wait... wait.....Change screens, come back... what I can't even scroll up to see what has happened this quarter? Can I increase the speed? Can I review the game and see just the important bits? No, no, you just have to wait...

Its a better viewer than Hattrick, but its a long way short of "best online match viewer".

I'd rather watch my game with one of the pbp-viewers for SimulatedSports basketball any day of the week.

This match viewer bores me to tears.

To echo Domenico, this match viewer is pretty damn good.

If you need constant action, you can play PS3 or XBox.

We don't mind hearing constructive criticism, but the insults without any fresh ideas behind them are inappropriate.

but let's also admit that it's by far the best match viewer I've ever seen in an online game. EVER.

This match viewer bores me to tears.

Both of the above are opinions that have little to do with respecting other people's work.

I'm a programmer. I can appreciate how much work has been put into the match viewer as it stands. That doesn't change my opinion that it is currently a very boring way of representing a basketball game.

The inability to navigate through a game well, or speed up the viewer, or to represent more information between shooting/foul/violation situations is, in my opinion, killing your product. Yes I could have worded my dissatisfaction better, but I had just come from trying to watch a game in the match viewer and it had negatively affected my mood (despite the large win)

Oh and while we're at it. Lesson zero in gaming public relations. Don't tell people that you will rectify a bug, then don't fix it and offer no explanation. http://www.buzzerbeater.org/common/cn.asp?action=view&...

To echo Domenico, this match viewer is pretty damn good.

If you need constant action, you can play PS3 or XBox.

We don't mind hearing constructive criticism, but the insults without any fresh ideas behind them are inappropriate.

Try again.

"X bores me to tears" - is not an insult.

Reading between the lines my suggestions were as follows:
1) Go find out what they do at SimulatedSports. (An online basketball sim with a purely text inferface that I have played for over 6 years and one of only 3 online games I've ever given money too)
2) Provide a means of speeding up the viewer, watching it an increased rate, or only viewing the highlights.
3) Provide a means of scrolling back through the text portion of the match viewer so that you can read what has happened previously if you are browsing multiple screens (coz lets face it, people do that when they are online, particularly if they have to wait for something to load, which is essentially what the match viewer feels like between things happening)

So that'd be no insult, but rather a negative opinion. With ideas that are yet to be addressed and a suggestion for a place you can go and look for more ideas that hasn't been followed up.

Not that Naphtali2 needs me to fight his battles, but:

I have to admit, I'm a little bothered by the fact that Naphtali2 received so much flak for his comments:

1) This is a Suggestions forum -- users should feel free to express their opinions AND criticisms.

2) This is a game that can only get better from user feedback, both good and bad.

3) Naphtali2 offered suggestions for improvement.

I honestly don't think he had any intention of insulting the BB's, and to say that he did is a bit of a stretch...