The dead time is the worst between the end of your current season and the next, with it being up to 10 days before you see any action. Any thought to HS post season tournaments where talent could be evaluated, battles seemingly won/lost, etc. Not that coaches in real life get to coach in these tournaments, but many of next year's assistant coaching talent move on to schools along with the star player. Just a thought, mostly because it is boring right now.

I mentioned this earlier in another thread. Last day I had anything to do was 12/2. Recruiting Session 2 starts 12/16. That's a long wait for what is essentially a 50 day season.

My two cents would be to possibly move recruiting session one up to the conf/national tourney dates.. Although i kinda like it as it is.
The only way to cure the boredom would be having a team in a different world.

I used to have several teams, but cut back to one with the launch of 3.0

No way I have time for 6 or 7 teams in the new scouting regime, but it can be fun to have say two teams on different cycles to avoid long downtime. give it try

The downtime is way too long

Maybe for those few coaches for can't make the postseason despite in a world with only 90 humans....

Posted by metsmax on 12/15/2016 8:48:00 PM (view original):
I used to have several teams, but cut back to one with the launch of 3.0

No way I have time for 6 or 7 teams in the new scouting regime, but it can be fun to have say two teams on different cycles to avoid long downtime. give it try

This is silliness. I think you have like 78 days to scout before RS1. And you don't have time?

Posted by mullycj on 12/16/2016 6:44:00 AM (view original):
Maybe for those few coaches for can't make the postseason despite in a world with only 90 humans....

if you're in the title game and you don't change jobs and have zero/minimal recruiting left in session 2, you still basically have 8 dead days. sure, at D1 you might have 1 day of session 2 recruiting in there to finish a battle for a "late" recruit or pick up a scrap for your EE; at D2/D3 you may battle for a day or two (unsure since I mostly play D1 in HD3). of course, it's much longer if you don't make the postseason or lose early. i got upset in the first round in Smith this season and added, what, another 4 days to the dead time? I changed jobs in another world a couple seasons back and didn't make the postseason, lost in the first round of the CT, and just sat around for 2 weeks not playing that world.

essentially, the majority of your users are looking at 20-25% of the days in the entire season are just dead time. that's a lot of time to do nothing as a player, and, from WIS' perspective, I'd think they want to keep people more engaged. I'd probably cut a day from the 2nd recruiting session, a day from job changes, and that weird day at the beginning of the season...do new coaches really need a day at the beginning of the season to sign up? can't they sign up any of the previous 40-50 days? that's 3 days you save right there.

Posted by MikeT23 on 12/16/2016 6:49:00 AM (view original):

Posted by metsmax on 12/15/2016 8:48:00 PM (view original):
I used to have several teams, but cut back to one with the launch of 3.0

No way I have time for 6 or 7 teams in the new scouting regime, but it can be fun to have say two teams on different cycles to avoid long downtime. give it try

This is silliness. I think you have like 78 days to scout before RS1. And you don't have time?

OK, I checked. Here you go:

Wednesday	11/2	4:00 PM		New coach signups end
		6:00 PM		Exhibition game scheduling starts
		6:00 PM		Non-conference game scheduling starts
		6:00 PM		Recruit scouting starts
Thursday	11/3	2:00 PM		Exhibition games start
Friday	11/4	1:00 PM		Exhibition game scheduling ends
		2:00 PM		Exhibition games end
		11:59 PM		Player position change deadline
Saturday	11/5	2:00 AM		Non-conference games start
Monday	11/14	2:00 AM		Non-conference games end
Tuesday	11/15	2:00 AM		Conference games start
Sunday	11/27	8:00 AM		Recruiting period 1 starts

You have just under 25 days to scout. I'm not going to believe that it's THAT time consuming. RS2 started this morning in my world. Took me less than 10 minutes to scout over a dozen players. And, as anyone will tell you, I don't know anything about the game and haven't won ****.

Posted by bathtubhippo on 12/16/2016 7:12:00 AM (view original):

Posted by mullycj on 12/16/2016 6:44:00 AM (view original):
Maybe for those few coaches for can't make the postseason despite in a world with only 90 humans....

if you're in the title game and you don't change jobs and have zero/minimal recruiting left in session 2, you still basically have 8 dead days. sure, at D1 you might have 1 day of session 2 recruiting in there to finish a battle for a "late" recruit or pick up a scrap for your EE; at D2/D3 you may battle for a day or two (unsure since I mostly play D1 in HD3). of course, it's much longer if you don't make the postseason or lose early. i got upset in the first round in Smith this season and added, what, another 4 days to the dead time? I changed jobs in another world a couple seasons back and didn't make the postseason, lost in the first round of the CT, and just sat around for 2 weeks not playing that world.

essentially, the majority of your users are looking at 20-25% of the days in the entire season are just dead time. that's a lot of time to do nothing as a player, and, from WIS' perspective, I'd think they want to keep people more engaged. I'd probably cut a day from the 2nd recruiting session, a day from job changes, and that weird day at the beginning of the season...do new coaches really need a day at the beginning of the season to sign up? can't they sign up any of the previous 40-50 days? that's 3 days you save right there.

Add a second team and you have 0 off days then

Posted by MikeT23 on 12/16/2016 6:49:00 AM (view original):

Posted by metsmax on 12/15/2016 8:48:00 PM (view original):
I used to have several teams, but cut back to one with the launch of 3.0

No way I have time for 6 or 7 teams in the new scouting regime, but it can be fun to have say two teams on different cycles to avoid long downtime. give it try

This is silliness. I think you have like 78 days to scout before RS1. And you don't have time?

you think you can say that it is silly that someone else has limits on the amount of time he wants to spend on a game? really?

I said that I used to have lots of teams and hence avoided dead time - and then suggested that a second team would be a way to fill the downtime

I dont have time for 6 or 7 teams because each team takes a bunch more time for scouting in 3.0. I dont want to spend that much time on a game. Yes, there are plenty of calendar days - for me, the new game demands more time for scouting and so I dont want nearly as many teams.

Posted by MikeT23 on 12/16/2016 8:06:00 AM (view original):

Posted by MikeT23 on 12/16/2016 6:49:00 AM (view original):

Posted by metsmax on 12/15/2016 8:48:00 PM (view original):
I used to have several teams, but cut back to one with the launch of 3.0

No way I have time for 6 or 7 teams in the new scouting regime, but it can be fun to have say two teams on different cycles to avoid long downtime. give it try

This is silliness. I think you have like 78 days to scout before RS1. And you don't have time?

OK, I checked. Here you go:

Wednesday	11/2	4:00 PM		New coach signups end
		6:00 PM		Exhibition game scheduling starts
		6:00 PM		Non-conference game scheduling starts
		6:00 PM		Recruit scouting starts
Thursday	11/3	2:00 PM		Exhibition games start
Friday	11/4	1:00 PM		Exhibition game scheduling ends
		2:00 PM		Exhibition games end
		11:59 PM		Player position change deadline
Saturday	11/5	2:00 AM		Non-conference games start
Monday	11/14	2:00 AM		Non-conference games end
Tuesday	11/15	2:00 AM		Conference games start
Sunday	11/27	8:00 AM		Recruiting period 1 starts

You have just under 25 days to scout. I'm not going to believe that it's THAT time consuming. RS2 started this morning in my world. Took me less than 10 minutes to scout over a dozen players. And, as anyone will tell you, I don't know anything about the game and haven't won ****.

thanks for checking - your data is irrelevant. There are plenty of calendar days. I dont want to spend so many total hours on scouting for this game - and so have cut back on the number of teams.

I cant do what I regard as thorough scouting in ten minutes - but good luck with that - maybe you can, thats great

No, you are welcome to spend as much, or as little, time playing an internet game as you choose. This is AMERICA!!!! You are FREE to do what you want. Unless you're an illegal. Then Trump is gonna send your *** back to Mexico where the Mexican govt will force you to build a wall that you can't climb. Unless a fence will do in that specific area.

But pretending like there just isn't enough time to scout is ridiculous. As I've said several times, real n00bs read these threads. You make it sound like HD scouting is akin to real life scouting. It isn't. It's a few clicks. The parameters of what you want to scout are pretty well-defined. Only want D1 projected SG/PG within 100 miles? 4 clicks. Found five? Want to scout them to the next level? 7 clicks. It's a matter of minutes not hours and damn sure not days.

Facts for Mike and any noobs

In my experience, under 2.0 I could do a full season of scouting in 30 minutes. I often joked about wanting a superturbo world which, rather than just two games a day, would play a game every two hours - one hour recruiting cycles.....ultrafast.

In my experience, in 3.0, I need to spend a few hours to feel that I have done a good job on scouting. There is more to it. Thats how long it takes me. I am a very experienced player. I bet i could blast through it faster and it would be okay. I bet that if I continue to play for many seasons, I will get more facile at it.

But, for Mike and any noobs it is not silliness to think that having teams in 8 or 9 worlds as I once did in this game would require more effort than some users - like this user- want to devote to a game.

It isnt silly and it isnt pretending. It is my experience and my preference. Mike, you really need to look into the meaning of words like pretending before using them.

Posted by MikeT23 on 12/16/2016 9:56:00 AM (view original):
No, you are welcome to spend as much, or as little, time playing an internet game as you choose. This is AMERICA!!!! You are FREE to do what you want. Unless you're an illegal. Then Trump is gonna send your *** back to Mexico where the Mexican govt will force you to build a wall that you can't climb. Unless a fence will do in that specific area.

But pretending like there just isn't enough time to scout is ridiculous. As I've said several times, real n00bs read these threads. You make it sound like HD scouting is akin to real life scouting. It isn't. It's a few clicks. The parameters of what you want to scout are pretty well-defined. Only want D1 projected SG/PG within 100 miles? 4 clicks. Found five? Want to scout them to the next level? 7 clicks. It's a matter of minutes not hours and damn sure not days.

Is that satire? I mean only a delusional inbred idiot would think Mexico is going to pay for a multi-billion dollar fence. Not to mention, if you just do a little reading you will see that most undocumented immigrants are not from Mexico so I am not really sure why you would send them back there. It would be much easier to just send your *** back to Russia.