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The emails were worse.

Hahaha! I use to skip through his messages :D

I believe I asked nicely for a response. Mere politeness warrants some sort of reply. Not replying seems ignorant at best. I find it very disappointing.

People have expressed concern. BBs; do you even care?

BBs; do you even care?

They do.
I guess you have read Perpete's post in the boycott thread? As for Marin I suppose he's busy with making sure the game runs smoothly. Or he to has been scared away from this forum section. Who knows.

Scared away from his own job? Hm, that's concerning.

BBs; do you even care?

They do.
I guess you have read Perpete's post in the boycott thread? As for Marin I suppose he's busy with making sure the game runs smoothly. Or he to has been scared away from this forum section. Who knows.

I had not. It was posted after I posted mine. If he is unwilling to reply here, and obviously unwilling to read anything posted here, someone else needs to do so.

The BBs policy needs to change. They absolutely need to start communicating otherwise a chasm will grow between the users and the management which will never be bridged. This thread, and others, show that many passionate users are worried about how the game is being changed. I can only speak for myself when I say I am beginning to doubt whether the BBs actually have any idea of how the game works, and what their changes are doing, but I suspect many others believe the same thing.

Perpete's post in the boycott thread

Perpete's posts in the last few days were all off topic. Without a single exception and they were even applauded by the GM cheering squad despite him being off topic, personal and lying with impunity

Time to look again at the news post.

First off, a few words about the current salary update. High secondary skills haven’t been properly represented in player salaries, especially considering their beneficial in-game effect, so a change was needed.

Initially this was all about SGs with IS. Which we mistakenly thought was an anti-LI move. The problem that has been pointed out to the BBs was free skills, which IS was, and their fix is to increase secondaries for every player. Oh well, at least salaries will go up. That's good for the economy.

This means that while some players have had their salaries upped due to having high secondaries, others have had them reduced, due to the lack of those same secondary skills. Globally, player salaries have been slightly reduced, which means that a general balance has been kept, or even pulled towards lower salaries altogether.

Oh dear.

While the implementation of this measure has been done gently, we plan on making it a bit stronger at the start of the next season.

Again, not clear. Does this mean secondaries will be further punished but salaries will go down again? Or does it mean that salaries will actually go up? Do the BBs realise that they are making one dimensional bigs the ideal build again?

Another previously mentioned topic is the so called micronations problem. We’ve decided on a specific solution (a merge of nations) and will try to test it out in a couple of seasons (S39 at the earliest, maybe even S40).

Necessary. Slow but I understand the reasons why. They can't afford a mistake.

will be explained in detail before it is implemented.

Hmm.

Details will be announced on time, not to worry.

Hmm.

In order to promote healthy competitiveness, the salary floor has been raised for divisions I and II, by 15% and 10%, respectively. While this measure alone might not discourage tanking, a new initiative has been announced by fan clubs all around BB; fans have decided that they will not tolerate long losing streaks if team has the funds to prevent them and will boycott teams that don’t have at least one victory in each third of the season or suffer the consequences of the boycott, severely reducing ticket income!

I think from other threads we can already see that this isn't going to work. The salary floor raise is good. The boycott is a nonsense that is so easy to get round that its just not going to be worth bothering with. If I was a BB I'd give up on it at this point. I doubt they'll do that though as it will involve backing down and their collective egos won't allow it.

The BB promotion and demotion system has stayed the same since season one, but this too is about to change, starting season 38. We are going to implement a hybrid Utopia/BB promotion system. More specifically, we are increasing the amount of promoted teams each season! This, of course, means that more teams will need to be demoted. Teams ranked seventh will be, just like eight ones, directly demoted, while fifth and sixth place teams will be battling it out for survival! Just like in Utopia, the extra promotees will be decided based on their success during the regular season, comparing their rankings to all the other teams in the same division! Exciting times are upon us, surely!

That last sentence is telling. Exciting times. Yes this is going to increase the meaning of late season games. I've already said I don't like regular season records deciding promotion but the biggest problem is with the increased number of promoted teams, all of whom will presumably receive the bonus. If Utopia caused inflation, the mind boggles as to what this will do.

Last season we had a case of a very self-destructive team going for broke in one of the most creative ways last season, buying every low priced player he could. In the crazy run on the biggest roster record, he accumulated more than one and a half thousand (1757, to be exact!) poor souls before going bankrupt due to the enormous financial strain their salaries have put on him. Seeing this, the BB commissioner has decided to limit the maximum number of players in a roster to 30

A roster limit was asked for many seasons ago. Had the BBs introduced one then this situation wouldn't have arisen. I'm hardly going to congratulate someone for closing the stable door once the horse has bolted.

The draft is a useful source of some quality players, but to be fair, most of them end up being fired, mostly because of their low skills and potential. The commissioner has decided to fix this by hiring better scouts that will ensure that the next generation of draftees has better skills and potential, especially in the low-to-middle range. As for future draft development, some other changes that will add value to the draft as a whole are in the works, so start investing in those draft points!

Two things. First the better quality draft players. Again, asked for many times and ignored till now. Second, the late hint about the future. Since its vague to the point of being meaningless what's the point of breaking the BB rule about revealing things in advance just to say that?

BB is a complex game, which means that new users can sometimes be initially overwhelmed. In order to ease their first steps in the game, we are working on a new beginners checklist/interactive tutorial

Don't know what this involves as I haven't asked any newbie but it looks like a good idea.

I think the major changes announced here are terrible. I'm not alone. The boycott is a waste of time, and the promotion changes are going to wreck the game.

I believe the BBs are attempting to change the entire nature of BB. They want upward and downward mobility, and are attempting to do that by reducing our ability to create/buy good players (expense of secondaries, removal of free agents, inflation etc) so that teams are closer together in ability, and by making promotion and relegation easier. If this is their intent they should have the balls to say so.

When they've succeeded in this and our teams are closer together in ability, luck will be the decisive factor in who wins Championships, not ability or game knowledge, as the vagaries of the schedule will become more important, as will game day predictions, and of course injuries.

I did write that I bit to his "positive contributions in the thread", didn't I (in the other thread)? But yeah I don't feel particularly great when I can't explain simple things to what should be normal people and when I react to arrogant or provocative behaviour by stepping down to that level myself. I know I'm prone to this kind of mistake, you don't have to rub it in.

Last edited by Lemonshine at 12/30/2016 6:21:11 PM