Posted by rugburn on 3/12/2019 2:17:00 AM (view original):
Posted by kcsundevil on 3/11/2019 2:20:00 PM (view original):
Make it easier to move up. No other fix matters.
Most noobs bounce as soon as they figure out how long it will take to get to the bottom of D1. True for both HD and GD.
And seble is wasting all his limited time for these games on spiffying up recruiting. Mind-boggling.
That doesn't fix anything. Assuming that is the reason noobs would bounce right away, then you can also assume they only want to get to D1 quickly to get to the top teams everyone knows, such as a Duke or UNC. Someone is not rushing to get to D1 so they can be UC Riverside. Once they realize those teams aren't opening up anytime soon, they would bounce anyways.
You're correct on the recruiting issue, because recruiting was never the issue with the game. It shouldn't have been drastically changed like it was. Minor tweaks, sure, but the major changes drove the game into significantly reduced populations.
All of this is wrong.
First paragraph, you’re using false equivalence and really poor reasoning. The game rightly doesn’t care about players not interested because they can’t start at Duke. Making it a reasonable amount of time to getting to a mid-major, or a low level Big 6 program from where they can *compete* with a Duke, or build their own Duke, that’s the sweet spot.
Second paragraph, recruiting absolutely needed to be rebuilt. It was unrealistic, gameable, and just all around bad. The old version was best characterized by forum vets telling new D1 folks they should set their alarms to wake up in the middle of the night, and/or illegally collude with others if they wanted to break into the top 20 cartel. The mistake seble made was in not fixing jobs and hiring to alleviate the issue in the first paragraph.
You are right that ultimately people leave because they don’t value the game enough to pay for it. Reducing the time and monetary cost to get people where they imagine themselves when they sign up is where effort should be focused at this point.