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From: raonne
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Date: 8/6/2007 8:17:42 AM
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Dear BB's.

I received some complains about last season's Draft. Some people were saying that the draft system requires the user to be online on the week of the draft, which contradicts with the initial idea that such thing should not be required. JudgeNik was going to post here about this (he was traveling in the week of the draft and got completeley screwed). But since he didn't yet, and now there is already a huge discussion about this same thing in the Brazilian forum, I decided to post.

Our suggestion is that instead of showing the players and their info only in the end of the season, you should show that every week.
Every week, on the training update, the info about players discovered by your scout in that week should be added to your draft ranking list.

From: Borobia

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646.2 in reply to 646.1
Date: 8/6/2007 3:12:19 PM
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Or if not possible to show weekly, maybe after the half of the season so we have some weeks to see the players that our scout saw :-)

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646.3 in reply to 646.2
Date: 8/6/2007 3:21:44 PM
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the problem with gradual reveals is that people can then collaborate to adjust their scouting in order to better reveal players.

I think we could extend the reveal to 2 weeks though.. if we do it right after the economy update the last week... i'm not positive about that though.

the other option is to have a default ordering that just orders them by grade, unknown grades going last.

From: raonne
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646.4 in reply to 646.3
Date: 8/6/2007 3:37:21 PM
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I don't understand what do you mean by people colaborating. How would they do that?

and even if there is a way, it doesn't matter when the information is presented. If they can do it now they will also be able to do it in the last 2 weeks.

I don't agree with this argument.

I think showing the scouting every week would be the best solution.

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646.5 in reply to 646.4
Date: 8/6/2007 6:49:28 PM
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let me explain more clearly.

Your friend invests in scouting heavily, and discovers after 2 weeks that there are 2 A+ players available. He tells you this information, and you having happened upon 2 A+ players yourself, reason that you have probably got the best of the pool, and can safely invest less heavily in the future.. or inversely, if you haven't you know its still worth scouting more as there are good players to be discovered.

If all the information is revealed at once at the end, then your friends information can't influence your future investment in scouting resources.

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646.6 in reply to 646.5
Date: 8/6/2007 6:50:32 PM
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btw i think if you don't login once in 2 weeks that its not bad for you to have a disadvantage, we cut your account off after 7.

From: johny13
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646.7 in reply to 646.6
Date: 8/8/2007 12:33:05 PM
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I do agree with you BB Forrest, 2 weeks is 14 days, I´m sure you can find some time to logg in!

From: raonne

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646.8 in reply to 646.7
Date: 8/8/2007 1:18:51 PM
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some people can be traveling, or without internet for longer than that.. and 2 weeks is much less then 7.

and anyway, there is no argument to not show the players weekly.

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646.9 in reply to 646.8
Date: 8/8/2007 2:49:30 PM
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and anyway, there is no argument to not show the players weekly.


This looks like an excellent argument:

Your friend invests in scouting heavily, and discovers after 2 weeks that there are 2 A+ players available. He tells you this information, and you having happened upon 2 A+ players yourself, reason that you have probably got the best of the pool, and can safely invest less heavily in the future.. or inversely, if you haven't you know its still worth scouting more as there are good players to be discovered.

If all the information is revealed at once at the end, then your friends information can't influence your future investment in scouting resources.

NO ONE at this table ordered a rum & Coke
Charles: Penn has some good people
A CT? Really?
Any two will do
Any three for me
Any four will score
Any five are live
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646.10 in reply to 646.9
Date: 8/8/2007 4:36:40 PM
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well, in my opinion it is not, because there is no way that in an early point in the season you will be able to know that you have already found all level 5 (or A) players that will be available. There is no way to tell how many players of each level there will be there.

but anyway, I personaly decided that when people (or me) suggest something here and other people start being very defensive about it, I'm no longer going to spend any more time in these discussions. So i stop here in this one. For me personally doesn't matter, since i will be online always, but I was posting this (as I said before) because there were A LOT OF PEOPLE ASKING FOR THIS AND COMPLAINING ABOUT THE WAY THINGS ARE NOW (via BB-mail, messenger, some in person even, and a whoel thread about it in the brazilian forum - 4th biggest community on BB), so I was jsut doing my part as a GM.