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From: Shaq
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Date: 12/22/2007 8:47:03 PM
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During one match two of my best players were injured, one for 2 weeks and one for 10!!!! weeks. I figured I should get me a new doctor, as I only had a level 2 doc. So now I'm employing and paying for a level 5 doctor, but NOTHING HAPPENED!! No decrease of number of weeks of injury?! WHY WOULD I EVER NEED EXPENSIVE STAFF IF IT DOESN'T HELP ME IN ANY WAY?!

Same for my coach and PR officer, I have a level 8 trainer, but my players hardly advance in skills. And I do wonder about that PR officer too, now. Why not fire them all and employ level 1's?!

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10559.2 in reply to 10559.1
Date: 12/22/2007 8:49:38 PM
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it's your call..
i think that doctors serve more to prevent injuries than to heal them..

From: darykjozef

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10559.3 in reply to 10559.1
Date: 12/22/2007 9:08:29 PM
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Shhhhh.... Chill out for a moment.

Honestly, I feel for you; much like I've had sympathy for the other 40 or so teams who have started threads like this. I'm strongly of the opinion that the doctors need work, but I have the patience to wait for the developers (in your defense, however, I don't have a 10 week injury on my roster, either). They're overworked and underpaid, and I think that sooner or later they will get around to tweaking the staff; and I bet BB's health care system will come first.

As for the coach and PR: You may be right about the coach. It has yet to be proven that a lvl 10 trainer trains anything any faster than a lvl 1 trainer. The PR guy is harder to say, as you can't see your season ticket holders increase but once a season, and merchandise revenue fluctuates with wins and losses.

The problem with switching them all back to 1's (and one of my pet peeves about the staff) is that the same 3 staff members are offered to every team in BB every week, so while you're waiting for that lvl 1 to come up, someone else has an injury and is waiting for a lvl 6. I'd prefer to pick and choose to hire or fire who I need when I need. I'm a professional basketball manager, you think I can't find talent when I need it?

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10559.4 in reply to 10559.3
Date: 12/22/2007 9:54:48 PM
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indeed, nothing will happen instantly.

doctor helps preventing injury, and makes injured players heal faster...
I stuck with my level 1 Max Paine, but I can asure you, at this moment I'm waiting for 10 days for my injured player to get 1 week off his injury...

In my opinion the efeect of the doctor is not high enough, which is why I stick to Paine, but wanting that you see result the instant you hire a 'better' doctor is also unrealistic.
If you get injured and go to the doctor you won't be 1 bit better until a few days later. If you are treated good you'll be better sooner, if no treatment is done, you might end up never fully recovering from it...

as for trainer, I also don't know the influence on training, I feel for training the most important factor is playing minutes.
However I DID see an obvious improvement while playing games. A higher level coach is realy a better coach, I'm not sure if he trains better thoug.

PR man.... prety hard to see result of that, as the guy before me already explained.

Maybe BB shuold visualise more of the effects of the staff. They probably kept it all so hidden in order for us to take longer to find out how it works. If we find out, we'll publish it, and every team will ave the same level of everything... I think they like it better when we all have to guess and make a personal choice rather than listen to others what to do.
I also think that at this time they will have more pressing things to look after...
I think we all agree that we would rather have the site up and working, than that they turn their attention to the staff and the site crashes every gameday...

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10559.5 in reply to 10559.4
Date: 12/23/2007 12:45:01 AM
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as for trainer, I also don't know the influence on training, I feel for training the most important factor is playing minutes.
However I DID see an obvious improvement while playing games. A higher level coach is realy a better coach, I'm not sure if he trains better though.

From the rules:
Trainers assist the coach in making the most of the team training hours, both in-game and during the week.

The trainer trains. Everyone has the same coach.

Maybe BB shuold visualise more of the effects of the staff. They probably kept it all so hidden in order for us to take longer to find out how it works. If we find out, we'll publish it, and every team will ave the same level of everything... I think they like it better when we all have to guess and make a personal choice rather than listen to others what to do.
I also think that at this time they will have more pressing things to look after...
I think we all agree that we would rather have the site up and working, than that they turn their attention to the staff and the site crashes every gameday...

I completely agree. This game just got out of the beta phase a few months ago. All in good time.

Edited by darykjozef (12/23/2007 12:45:46 AM CET)

Last edited by darykjozef at 12/23/2007 12:45:46 AM

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