Posted by crabman26 on 9/1/2016 4:39:00 PM (view original):
Posted by flageezer on 9/1/2016 10:07:00 AM (view original):
OK, doing away with finish money would mean in RL that Florida International and Marist have as much chance as Duke and Kentucky to win the NT. Drastically cutting down the money needed for recruiting actions at distance means Florida International and Marist can go after elite California players. Means a D1 team would have to search countrywide in scouting, and consume untold hours. Not to mention that the system is convoluted and really time consuming even if you recruit at D3 level. Many of the users have lives--jobs, families, other interests that limit the time they have for HD. Can see those staying that used to field six teams cutting down to one or two, in addition to those dropping. Was all this change due to one headstrong programmer who didn't listen to anyone except a few people that agreed with him? When revenues drop as new people are bewildered by the complexity of recruiting and quit and old hands cut back will WIS be pleased? Will HD be 90% sim? And shelved? Still trying to get purchase in the new system, but I can't even figure out how to give attention points, which you are supposed to be able to use during scouting. I think. All trial and error. They took the only college BB game on line which had a few flaws, and made it into one with multiple flaws. Dealt with a lot of programmers in my working life, and they always made the interface harder to use, but said now it was "elegant".
Do we know for a fact that Florida International and Marist can have as much a chance as Duke and Kentucky to win a NT? We have very little evidence currently to definitely say this can happen. And even if they can, is it a bad thing? Do we want a built in ceiling in the game on where people can take their schools? How cool would it be to take your alma mater, Marist, to a NT? I go back and forth on this, just playing devils advocate...but I think part of the fun of this could be to turn one of the smaller schools into a power house. I dont know, maybe thats an unpopular opinion...
Prestige still matters, so it is inaccurate to say
"that Florida International and Marist have as much chance as Duke and Kentucky to win the NT." But I did find one accurate sentence in that post:
"Many of the users have lives--jobs, families, other interests that limit the time they have for HD." The rest of the post, not so much.
And, debater, it
isn't just the game. 3.0 is just an excuse for loud, petty, self-indulgent departures, as well as the occasion for some people to leave who were contemplating it already, as they have posted. But there has always been a type of person who takes advantage of the anonymity the Internet gives him, and there always will be. (Edited to add): Scroll down several posts to the one with all the red print, and you'll see a perfect example of what I mean ... angry, bitter, toxic. The best you can do with a post like that is treat it as merely background noise.
9/1/2016 10:06 PM (edited)