10:55AM		Training starts.
10:55AM		Training starts.
10:55AM		Day off. Health +10, Morale +10.
10:58AM		Medium training. Health -10, Morale -5.
10:58AM	Player	Player attribute up: Stanley Shelburn (78)'s speed skill went up 1.
10:58AM	Player	Player attribute up: Tihon Savelev (73)'s strength skill went up 1.
10:58AM	Player	Player attribute up: Gerard Arnell (75)'s passing skill went up 2.
10:58AM	Player	Player attribute up: Jon Kahrs (69)'s faceoff skill went up 2.
10:58AM	Goalie	Goalie attribute up: Dave Levinthal (72)'s stamina skill went up 2.
10:58AM	Player	Player attribute up: Ervin Babauta (79)'s speed skill went up 2.
10:58AM	Player	Player attribute up: Hugh Buntin (79)'s defense skill went up 2.
10:58AM		Your team gained 60 points in Shooting and 5 points in every other team strategy.
12:00PM	Player	Player attribute up: Krejci Crabb (76)'s shot power skill went up 1.
12:00PM	Player	Player attribute up: Tihon Savelev (74)'s speed skill went up 2.
12:00PM		Short training. Health +0, Morale +0.

I have no idea what's going on.

but the script finally ran!

i'm going to add one more sim (and hope that it takes at the top of the hour), and then if able I'm pushing the start button today.

damned can take the place of a sim if he gets a team in.

Looks like Season 6 might be cancelled. It's one of those infamous bugs where ghost teams play each other all season. 

Yeah, we're in serious trouble. 

I see two options.  We wait this out and use the season to train (those of us with outstanding loans are fucked if we don't have the cash to cover them), pick things back up next season (which is what that one group did who reported this same bug).

Or we start from scratch with a new league.  Which I'm sure everyone is going to be plenty ****** about, me included.  But it is an option worth considering.

Anyone who feels this is a last straw, I'd hate to lose you but couldn't blame you if you just called it quits.

We should all feel free to use brian's trick of spamming the hell out of bcartfall, but I have a feeling we're fucked this time.

How I wish WIS had a hockey dynasty.  I'd start up and manage the **** out of a league. 

I'd be okay with starting over from scratch, if I hadn't just joined Probie's league. If his league runs into this same problem, then I will call it quits.

my players are unhappy after all that training.

Whiny *******. Make 'em practice more. That's what I'm doing. Going with long practices for the entire season since we won't be playing.

Posted by pttsbrghkid on 7/12/2010 8:04:00 PM (view original):
Yeah, we're in serious trouble. 

I see two options.  We wait this out and use the season to train (those of us with outstanding loans are fucked if we don't have the cash to cover them), pick things back up next season (which is what that one group did who reported this same bug).

Or we start from scratch with a new league.  Which I'm sure everyone is going to be plenty ****** about, me included.  But it is an option worth considering.

Anyone who feels this is a last straw, I'd hate to lose you but couldn't blame you if you just called it quits.

We should all feel free to use brian's trick of spamming the hell out of bcartfall, but I have a feeling we're fucked this time.

How I wish WIS had a hockey dynasty.  I'd start up and manage the **** out of a league. 

i agree with those last 2 sentences.

If there are any more idiot addicts such as myself that will live with the headaches because it's free to play and there isn't a good alternative, I've created a new league.

league name: whatifpeeps 2
password: puckhead

I don't expect to get 20 teams.  But that's ok.  I'll create sims to make up the difference.

And no, I haven't signed any players yet.  I think I'll wait until everyone else has filled up and take the leftovers.

So we just killing the original one?

Posted by tdkienholz on 7/13/2010 11:07:00 AM (view original):
So we just killing the original one?

I'm not going to delete it.  But from what I've read on the forums, we are likely losing this entire season.  We may be able to salvage it next season, but by then some of our teams may be bankrupt or unable to resign any players.  This potentially could kill the competitive balance.  I'm willing to ride it out and see where we stand on the other end, but some folks may quit now or quit then.  Gregos, for example, has already emailed me saying that this error will pretty much destroy his franchise financially and as a result competitively.  I'm sure he's not alone.  I will be in the red in a few more days and my loan won't yet be paid off.  A whole season of loan collections and no revenue is a clusterfuck.

My hope is that once we can move past the anger of losing all the time and effort put into this league, we can start fresh and use any wisdom gained in the process to better prepare our teams in this new leauge.  The whole situation sucks balls, but with user support basically being non-existent, what choice do we have?  Walk away?  Sure, and anyone who feels that way is ok in my book.  All I can really speak on is my personal feelings.  I'm a hockey dynasty junky, and at the moment this seems like the best option for me to compete with other real people.

I have only $15M myself. Whether or not that will be enough to re-sign anybody at season's end remains to be seen. I'm kind of torn though. Like I said, I already have a new team started in Probie's league and I'm not sure I want to be starting 2 teams from scratch simultaneously. At the same time, I'm not sure I can just walk away after all we've been through with our original league to this point either.