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Having the teams without a SC highlighted in yellow is a Supporter feature, yes. It saves a click.

I have, however, found it more efficient to refresh the Manage My Team page several times -- I usually get enough teams to use all allowed SC invitations to -- and they're also all online at the time.

My 2 cents

I don't care about the thread "players for sale" closed or not my life will be the same but I speak about BBs, I think that an happy community can bring you more money and more satisfaction compare to another community. Probably the success of BB in Spain and Italy is due to the "good feeling" of our national forums. If a community somewhere is happy spamming porn sites I think you should let them free to enjoy, if this create a problem you've to take a decision. The new system to make advertising (players and scrimmages) is horrible, not easy to find for new users and useless but once again no problem about it, I can only remember you that the speed limit is not the same in all the world.

Last, I personally think that there are too many posts cancelled here in global (I'm not speaking about this thread), are you happy to keep alive threads like "the most sexy player in BB" or do you prefer to discuss about some aspect of this game even if this can create some "work" to mods or gms?

what about 2 auto-generating threads (maybe only in global), created with the ads collected with the new sistem?
they could auto-update 1-2 times every day, no more than one scrimmage ads user/week, no more than one ads user/3 days.
could you (also other BBs) give me your opinion about that?

By far the best suggestion.

I don't really like the new system but I understand why we have it. The new system is not good because you can't browse all the ads that have been made. Instead of reading all those you have to hope that you're lucky to see some ad that's interesting to you.

4 scrimmage ads and 2 transfer ads are just not enough to even think about writing an ad, imho. It's just pure chance that someone might see your ad...

4 scrimmage ads ... are just not enough

Those ads change at every refresh, and you have a maximum number of challenges you can issue (15, I think). Therefore, after 4 or 5 refreshes of the Manage My Team page you should be all set. Takes a couple of minutes.

One of the comments Ned made in his thread was:

The new system to make advertising (players and scrimmages) is horrible, not easy to find for new users

I honestly prefer the new system, I think it has helped me sell more players than any Transfer thread ever did. However I really agree with Ned's comment that the Ads are not easy to find. I think to make it easier for new players to place and utilize these ads is to add an option to put an ad on the player your selling right on his player page or in the drop down menu on his page. As for the Scrimmage ads perhaps having an option for it below or near where the main page suggests teams to scrimmage.

While this isn't a solution for Italy's woes it's progress and might help make the game easier for New Players

One of the comments Ned made in his thread was:

The new system to make advertising (players and scrimmages) is horrible, not easy to find for new users

I honestly prefer the new system, I think it has helped me sell more players than any Transfer thread ever did. However I really agree with Ned's comment that the Ads are not easy to find. I think to make it easier for new players to place and utilize these ads is to add an option to put an ad on the player your selling right on his player page or in the drop down menu on his page. As for the Scrimmage ads perhaps having an option for it below or near where the main page suggests teams to scrimmage.

While this isn't a solution for Italy's woes it's progress and might help make the game easier for New Players

i honestly don't like it.

i can see only 2 players and i must refresh several time to view approximately 10 players. why?

because users who use this system are few.

if all of us will use this sistem, we must in any case refresh the same page

i think if we all keep on refresh the same page several time we overload the server, as well as we read 20 message in a forum with 2 click...

Last edited by ÐΞﮎ@þiﮎA at 2/8/2010 7:39:49 PM

I think it's probably time for me to leave the thread for a while and see if some good ideas develop.

Starting with this one: How about scrimmage and transfer ad pages presented like the newspaper ads in Street Rod I & II? (At approx 0:45 in this video) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqpr7K4jf2o)

lol.

that's fine :D

Improving where ads are located will increase the number of people who use the system.

It increases the visibility of players Worldwide to all players new and old not just those who check a thread on the forum. The bottom line is the #1 place to find players will be the transfer list itself. All other things are just increasing the visibility of the player. The transfer thread lets you see a bunch at once however not everyone checks it, the new ads force everyone to see your players. Neither system is perfect yet one is gone for sure we can either debate on how to improve the new one or work to find an alternate solution.