I feel like I've done pretty well in hbd and I've done it without tanking, running super high payrolls, world jumping, widow hunting, transacting lots of lopsided trades. Despite my success, I still don't feel I've done enough to land on Mount Rushmore. Especially if we're considering the WIS Mount Rushmore.
On top of HBD, I have played Sim Baseball and Gridiron. I probably need to play more Sim Baseball before I share my opinin on it. As far as Gridiron, I played it enough to understand the game and the culture within the game to share my opinion on it. I think the game does a pretty decent job of emulating real life College Football and that's why I dont like it. In real life college ball you pretty much have to be one of big boys to have any amount of long term success. Its not like hbd where you can do some clever, outside the box, things to build a winner and have a bunch of different types of successful teams. The teams that win titles in Gridiron are always the same -- stacked with top line players at every position. Then, the head to head matches are a bunch of cat and mouse tactics. I can see why people enjoy the cat and mouse game management aspects of the game. That can be fun, but, it is at the expense of any creativity with roster building. So, you work your way up to D1, then you have to compete with teams that are not in your stratosphere (blue chip schools) with the hopes of finally landing at a blue chip school yourself. Then you simply recruit every blue chip top line player within a close proximity to your school and nab some others further away. It seems really easy and really cookie cutter. I just don't find it enjoyable enough to keep playing.
If WIS had a pigskin dynasty that emulated the NFL and was more like HBD, id play that type of game even more excessively than i play hbd. Then, after a handful of years of playing that game, maybe id reviisit this thread.
Finally, as fun as this thread was, I find it rich that the user that started the thread has been accused of cheating by buying players from other teams with real life money, using an alias in a World to trade with himself and paying other owners real life money to take over his teams in the middle of a season when his team didn't perform well enough. Maybe we can have a separate Mount Rushmore for users that that are known cheaters.