Simply put, when was HD at its best from a game/engine standpoint?

there were always problems.

The Golden Age was when I won my last Championship.

The question was when was it at its best...of course there have always been problems/shortcomings.

Right now! HD in my opinion has been getting better all the time. There have been and will always be bumps in the road, but those bumps are leading to a better game.

Quote: Originally posted by colonels19 on 2/24/2010Simply put, when was HD at its best from a game/engine standpoint?

IMO, 2ish years ago. Before potential, solid recruiting, 2 different pull down options (evals/phone calls) and lots of competition. I remember always up at 11 reading the pbp and hitting every recruiting cycle.

The pulldowns with phone calls were a joke, I don't think that added anything to the game what-so-ever.

Granted, I only played 5-10 seasons pre-potential, but I think this is better.

I think it's better now than it was at any time before, but I would like to see significant improvements from where we are right now. Also, I feel in certain ways (but only a minority of ways), we have backslid to an extent.

better now than ever, but it may not feel better than ever because we expect/hope for improvements.

it may have been more remarkable when I first played it and found all the texture and elements that one could control - now I/we take a lot of that for granted and expect improvements and solutions to the 2nd and 3rd level issues

Yeah I basically agree with everything everyone has said , now is the best ever , but the reason so many are unhappy is because of how much improvement could have been made but really nothing has been. It is all of our passions for the game that upset us not directly how the game works (unless you 're gfox finding ways to lose in round 1 as a 1 seed )

I think I've seen the game engine spit out more moronic and unexplainable results lately than in all the time I've played HD (about 4 years now).

Quote: Originally Posted By emy1013 on 2/24/2010I think I've seen the game engine spit out more moronic and unexplainable results lately than in all the time I've played HD (about 4 years now)

clearly you are a victim of selective memory/nostalgia. I actually keep tracking threads that stretch back as much as 3 1/2 years and there were always those results.

There have been lots of improvements to the game, without a doubt, but I don't think that makes today the golden age of HD.

To me, the golden age was when a new world opened up and you had to jump on a team with almost the first 30 minutes or you got shut out of starting on season 1.

When Crum opened, it was the 7th world at the time and it was regarded almost as a who's who in HD as many of the veteran coaches (and by veteran, keep in mind, the other worlds had at most a 4-5 month head start.) from other worlds tried to get a team at the ground floor.

Back in that golden era, you had MANY MANY guys widely admit to staying up late to check their scores almost every night or getting up in the middle of the night to run to their computers. Some may still do that now, but nothing like guys used to admit to doing.

Also, if you walked away from the forums for a few hours, you could easily miss threads that had started and been already moved to the 2nd page. There was TONS of activity and it was not uncommon to have multiple threads reach dozens upon dozens of pages all at the same time.

Now, it seems once a week a hot topic comes along that gets that kind of activity.

So, yes, the game has improved greatly since those days, but to me at least, the golden age was when we all started this journey together and we were all so hooked that we spent TONS and TONS of time on the site in the forums and checking scores.

If anything, all of that excitement and enthusiasm from the early days has allowed us now to be a bit more on cruise control and to nitpick about tweaks to improve the game here and there.

I'd say it's at a decent point now, but WAS better in the season or two before potential. Much as I like the game now, FSS has helped kill D3, and I'm hoping some solution can be implemented where that doesn't funnel up and eventually REALLY thin out D2 and D1.