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I don't think that an app would change anything.
The current user base are for 99% old players who play this game already many seasons. New users who will come threw the app will find the game old and slow. And I can't blame them, 2 games in a week and if you have a cup/scrimmage you will have a third game. If you think that this game is based on de NBA, you should have more games in a week, lets say 4 games and cup/scrimmages as a fifth game. Also 1 week training is particularly boring. I trained a player to the NT for 8 seasons to get 140 skill points. That's way to long for new players to do the same. It means that you will have to train minimal 2 years to get the same result. I don't see new(young) users have so much patients. Training is in my opinion to slow and you should get training every day or after every game. Also game shape should not depend on how many minutes al player play's in a game. I don't have a solution how is should be, but for now it is sometimes impossible to let a player play 2/3 games in a week and still have a good game shape. For example you don't see Le Bron miss a game or play from the bench for a couple of minutes. You should be able to play with your best squad every game. If you don't fix these problems and make the game faster than you won't get new users an app will not make any difference.

I love the ideas presented in this topic by everybody. I've been part of BB since season 4 as a free user (that's another story, another day) although I'm not nearly "active" as I was when I began here. I completely agree that for the mobile-user, the current structure of the BB season is too slow and boring. As we move forward in our lives, we get busy and sadly (yes, very sadly), BB takes a backseat to higher priority items. I have forgotten on numerous occasions to login to BB to set lineups and my player's game shape suffers because of it.

I have daydreamed over the years about how awesome it would be if BB would provide us a game (either mobile or on the computer) that was like Front Office Football where I could play it offline (or online). I do not necessarily have to play in a league of real players although that is a great bonus. There are times where I just want to be the owner of the league and simulate a game, make trades, fire and hire staff, etc. and I want to do it in rapid fashion. I paid for FOF and I likely would pay for a BB version (ratings system and all) if it meant I could play the seasons at my own pace, or even create a league with my own close friends/family. This is a game that my son would enjoy if we could do it at our own pace and following our own set of rules.

And when the game become faster for new young users what would happen with the old ones? If there is a huge change in the game structure, I will leave. What about the others?

The last posts are full of terrible suggestions, IMO

Players will grow much faster and we will seen benefits of training much quicker.

And also they'll grow old much faster and the skilldrops will be quick ;-)

BB is a game of delayed gratification not instant. For the first couple of seasons I had a team I really did not get into it because of the languid pace. But once I got used to the pace it made a lot of sense, I actually have come to really appreciate the ebb and flow.

What needs to be done is to find a way to give us more between contests. I think this site should make moves towards being more about basketball in general, IE news/opinions from around the globe, there are lots of guys who will do write-ups for free and having this turn into not just a game but a site for international basketball news would give us the potential to reach a whole different audience. Plus that could be done without monkeying around with the GE. I think this combined with a soft sell approach to join the game will bring us more users.