Posted by beachhouse on 2/16/2019 1:53:00 PM (view original):
Posted by Tuzotonic on 2/16/2019 1:17:00 PM (view original):
As a new member here and someone who just finished their first season with a complete rebuild I can see where a casual fan would get frustrated. It is going to realistically take 4-5 seasons to build a conference contender let alone one that can challenge in the national tournament. I am going to implement a new offense which adds to that. The Sim-Al had my team set to a Fastbreak offense and Man-to Man defense which to me do not work well together. I have decided to stick it out and see what happens. I realize it will cost a good amount to make them better.
Kind of to my point. For every dedicated new user, you probably have five or more people who aren’t willing to make that commitment.
I’m not concerned about retaining the new players for whom the game is too complicated. They’re not going to like the same sorts of games I like, and I will never advocate for making a game worse, for the sake of simplicity and popularity.
I am, however, very concerned about retaining the sorts of people who should like this kind of game. That’s why I talk so much about letting those folks play the game at the level they want to play, and not holding them back for the sake of sucking more money out of them at lower divisions they have no reason to care about.
That 4-5 season, $40-50 investment is just for starting to get a good *D3* program. If the player is like most of us, they came here wanting to coach at a high level, Big Dance, against power conference schools. If after one season they realize it’s going to take ~2 real life years and perhaps hundreds of dollars to sniff that, a whole lot of them are going to pass. It would be much easier to take if they can be coaching a low level D1 school after one season at a lower division, if they choose - at least then they have a reason to invest in the process, because they can at least build *that* program into the one they had in mind in the first place.
2/16/2019 3:02 PM (edited)