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This game is still very healthy, sometimes it runs a little slow, but this site is getting up there in age. I think they do a wonderful job of keeping this up, sorry to be insolent and churlish but most of you are nitpicking.

Game wise I think it has never been better, adding GDP and the nuances it creates to how the drama can play out in a single night is compelling.


What is even more amazing it that this game is still around and truly DOES continue to evolve.

Yeah, it's really weird. Maybe because I wrote a mini-essay, I don't know.

Wholeheartedly agree with your posts. I'd give you 10 balls per post if I could. I raised some of the issues you touched (more eloquently and with less vitriol) in the past, so it's good to see others mentioning this as well.

Spot on. Any way we can help new managers by letting them know: 'yeh this guy is decent' before they have to work it out is a good start. As well as giving them at least one decent starting player in the first place.

I think they can easily implement some kind of rating system based on salary/potential, possibly linked to the fan survey, where you get:
- Fan favourite star rating (based on current skills)
- Prospect star rating (based on age+skills+potential)
Obviously this would be based on current roster, so for someone the fans' favourite player is a 5k salary PF and for someone else is a 240k salary PF.

Last edited by Lemonshine at 8/16/2015 7:53:14 AM

Come on, they were talking about making the game more palatable for newcomers. I completely agree with them and I think something visual to help them understand what to look out for might help.

I've always been extremely critical about the way the game don't cater for new users and the seemingly lack of focus on user retention, you may say it's wishful thinking, but at least is something. Say you retain 1% more users: it's still positive and a step in the right direction in my opinion, because, numbers aside, it would show commitment to improvements in a key area.

Ty, is good too see we're in sync and other people see the issues as well. Hopefully the staff will listen and one day things will be easier for newcomers.

What I really love to see for us veterans and newcomers as well is an indicator, a number or something that tell us that a player is being trained and growing towards the next skill pop-up. Seeing our players growing towards the next pop up each week gives us a sense of progress that can be quite addicting and satisfying. Currently as it is, seeing our players popping up each 2-3 weeks is a bit saddening and increases the perception of slowness of the game.

I think that might have intentionally or unintentionally the purpose of that training history tool that was introduced during the last offseason.

I don't think they will ever give away sublevels, but what they could do is represent training which has not resulted in a pop in the bar chart which is already in the player page. In this chart the new pops are highlighted as new 'bricks' on top of the skill set as of the beginning of the season (in red the more recent and in purple the oldest), while skill drops are faded blue bricks. Maybe they could add a partial green brick for the main skills which have been trained, which fills up the closer you get to a pop. The green partial bricks should representing a value close to that of the sublevel (with some margin of error).

They would just need to rework that chart to make a bit larger and to prevent showing sublevels for untrained skills and for skill drops (assuming training affects skill drops). Since it's a chart and not a number it should be acceptable.


Last edited by Lemonshine at 8/17/2015 8:20:54 AM