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Could someone explain to me how promotion will work this season as a result of the changes? And what kind of record would you need to promote to d3 without winning the championship?

The changes in promotion/demotion begin next season.

Could someone explain to me how promotion will work this season as a result of the changes? And what kind of record would you need to promote to d3 without winning the championship?

It's not uncommon for BB's to make a midseason announcement. (just before/after the allstar games). Instead of panicking or making wild assumptions, let's await that midseason announcement and see if that doesn't clarify things or atleast provide us with enough information to understand the changes they intend on implementing ;)

if you haven't seen an announcement within the next 2 weeks, then you've got a good reason to start being concerned ;) but for now, keep the head cool and wait to see if they'll provide an official explanation/announcement.

Instead of panicking or making wild assumptions

Nobody has panicked or made wild assumptions until you made us think about something that could lead to panicking or wild assumptions. Do you know more than we do? If yes, what is it and how does it affect me?

I would further add that we've had several weeks since the start of the season when these changes were originally announced in a rather vague fashion. Lack of clarity inevitably leads to people hypothesising about what these changes will do. In the absence of clarity we're forced to assume. Why were the announcements made if the way the changes were going to be made was uncertain? Wouldn't it be better to wait? And if there was certainty, why wait till mid season to fill in the gaps of the announcement? All round a very haphazard way to do things.

Of course I no longer expect to see a response from the BBs. Nor will I ask for one. But I will continute to point out their shortcomings.

Instead of panicking or making wild assumptions

Nobody has panicked or made wild assumptions until you made us think about something that could lead to panicking or wild assumptions.

gonna help you out here:

defenition of an assumption:
An assumption is something that you assume to be the case, even without proof.

i'll just point you in the right direction: (284507.4). so i'm well within my right to refer to wild assumptions that are being made by some users, which lead to panic for other users.

Do you know more than we do? If yes, what is it and how does it affect me?

If i did, it would mean that i'd somehow obtained information that should be common knowledge. As already repeatedly said by Perpete, Manon and the rest of the staff, we don't get any information before you guy's. In my entire history as GM, there hasn't been one single time where i've got information ahead of the community. I have once been given a clue about something, but that was because i potentially found a last minute flaw in a potential change, but that clue was more to ensure that the flaw i discovered wouldn't be implemented. The clue in itself didn't provide me with any final answer, other than the fact that i didn't have to worry about the potential flaw and i still had to wait (like all the other users) for the official announcement to be made before getting a full idea of how that particular idea would be implemented.

So do i know anything that you don't know? No
Does it effect you? i haven't got the slightest idea, since my previous answer is no.
Could i have informed the community about the clue? yes, but then i would have had to make an assumption, which then risks to be misunderstood, meaning that the announcement would then have to be made to revoke any assumption i made, based upon a vague clue that i got to ensure that a flawed situation couldn't produce itself. Had i spilled the beans, people would have made wrong assumptions. So i wasn't any wiser than the rest of the community was and would have been horribly mistaken if i had shared the conclusions i made from the vague clue.

So taking that into consideration, until you (and i) hear an official announcement, it's all speculation and assumptions that are being made. i dislike assumptions and therefore go to great lengths to avoid them!

I hope that satisfied your aggressively formulated forum post. Now you can rest in peace that you nor i know more and if you have some decency, you'll apologize for your aggressive tone in your forumpost.

Last edited by AthrunZala at 1/23/2017 10:34:47 AM

An assumption is something that you assume to be the case, even without proof.

As I said in another thread, there's at least some evidence in the news announcement, which is enough for an intelligent hypothesis.

Ah thanks, didn't see that until now.

Last season the mid-season post was a week after the all-star games. This season the pre-season post showed up after the first games of the season. I'm hopefully we get clarity soon but the recent track record isn't promising.

i'll just point you in the right direction: (284507.4). so i'm well within my right to refer to wild assumptions that are being made by some users, which lead to panic for other users.

We all saw what happened with the Utopia promotion money, as we are suffering from the aftershocks right now. Imagine what happens when you expand this system to the WHOLE economy instead of just a 1k team nation. So instead of calling it a "wild assumption", I'd rather say its a VERY educated guess of what will happen. We are talking about additional BILLIONS that will flood the market, in a shrinking environment with the dryest transfer market for quality players in AGES.

if you have some decency, you'll apologize for your aggressive tone in your forumpost.

My decency died 2008. If you feel offended you know what tools to use.