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Karangula: Do you calculate gameshape by the minutes played in a single week or do you take more than a single week to calculate gameshape? (208622.43)
I can't disclose that

Mod-Bballin: Why aren't Mods recognized as part of the staff? Im not asking for free supporter(although thatd be nice ;) ), but maybe a mention in the staff page would be nice (208622.48)
I guess it's because Mods don't have as much responsibilities as LA's and GM's.

Chekreyes: do the BB's plan on hiring any new members to help either with the much requested superficial artwork improvements or with public relations in the forums? (208622.55)
We are always on the lookout for new people that can help, but we have budget restrictions. Currently, new devs are our top priority, but working for BB demands a wide range of abilities and proficiency in many different programming languages, and that's not easy to find. Me answering these questions is our way of saying "we are working on our public relations"

RazorSharp: What is being done to attract new users to this game? (208622.57)
Some advertising campaigns have worked great for us in the past so we believe they will do so in the future too. Currently, we want to make sure that the users we attract, stay and spread the word about our game. The best way to do that is to keep our users happy.

profit007: What do you think about teams that win titles while using their saved money to pay excessive salaries? (208622.63)
I call that long term planning. You should be able to save and use that money when it matters most. The current system prevents users from dominating the competitions over the seasons (remember Toroo) and I think it's a good thing.

grullo: When a bench player subs an injured one, he makes his own numbers or he makes the numbers that would be done by the injured if he would have stayed in court?? (208622.69)
Yeah, he makes his own numbers.

Burninator: Are there any plans on changing the salary formula and what is weighted more heavily (208622.74)
No, nothing planned there.

Karangula: Did you make some changes in patient-offense? Before intruoducing these Isolation tactics, patient offense seemed to work differently. I still suspect you mixed up patient and outside isolation. (208622.77)
No changes in existing tactics were made. Also, I understand why they might seem similar, but I assure you, they are not mixed up.

Biffo: is there any chance to see implemented triggers? An option for garbage time would be just an example of this. (208622.83)
We have not discussed this option, but it does not mean we won't be open to it in the long run.


Cheers to all! Marin

I don't know what you mean by "apps".

I thought that would be a common term, especially for some software developers...

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_apps

I know some people won't like these answers but they are pretty interesting. Thanks for answering.

Well, I can't say this was exactly what I was hoping for, but honestly I'm just glad they answered some questions, even though half the responses were, "I can't disclose that information" or "No plans there." :D I love this game though, and hope that they are not lying to us about developing new features and some of the changes they may be making.

Last edited by SREZ at 2/20/2012 8:52:33 PM

Thanks for your time.

Are other BB's going to answer some more question or is that it?

I like the old forum day setup better.

Most of the questions didn't even get a useful answer. I just don't see the point in having a ask the BBs thread if you just avoid what is intended in this thread, ( answering our questions) this just looks like a collection of all the unanswered questions in the forum.





Last edited by whitemaggot at 2/21/2012 3:32:03 AM

I thought this was great, I mean really it's an improvement over not talking to the BB's at all. What fun would it be if we new every secret about BB and everybody knew the best setup to win? The fact that they are talking to us is great to me.

I see a repeat of the same thing that Charles said like 3 seasons ago-
We need to train players with more SB and JR. SB to stop inside attacks. JR to make outside attacks effective.

The issue is players without SB and JR have signifigantly cheaper salaries.

For long term and short term planning LI MtM remains the way to go. That will continue to dominate B3 if, as you stated in your answer, the BBs are committed to never developing the GE, salary formulas or training again.

Atleast we know to keep building for LI MtM if we want to win. Thanks!

Yeah, I mean, given the same starting point, two SB pops for a big man will raise the salary as much as one ID pop, one IS pop or one RB pop, but somehow SB is the expensive one. JR costs less for a PG than passing or OD, costs less for a SF than a JS pop, and is slightly more than a JS/OD pop for a SG, but JR is the one and only culprit?

I'm not sure how far out of date the numbers are, but I went into CP and created some test cases, two big men and two guards -- all with 17 in their primary skills and 7 in the secondary. I then set one skill to be 10 instead of 17 and the results are surprising at least to me:

guard 1: 17 in all guard skills, except 10 JR, 7 in all inside skills -> $212308
guard 2: 17 in all guard skills, except 10 DR, 7 in all inside skills -> $225755

center 1: 7 in all guard skills, 17/17/17/10 inside -> $260954
center 2: 7 in all guard skills, 10/17/17/17 inside -> $167936

I wonder how much of this is a self-fulfilling prophecy; 2-3 zone and outside shooting don't work because SB/JR are not trained because they're "too expensive" and they're "too expensive" because they don't work.

Thank you BB-Martin! Great answers! Thanks for spending your time to this :) This gave me so much hope in fighting against LI MtM.
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