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The BBs answer threads when they can, but the grand majority of their time is spent working on the site and the game.

Yes, we know! And we appreciate that. But ringo and Burky and alexis and Unkel and yodenden and Basic and Boogz and all the rest do have a point, and as a matter of fact we like to be or at least I like to be a little rough! Ok? ;)

I do not agree with you, yes the BBs should work on improving the game and not answering messages all day, but, part of the game is the connection with the community. I do not say that they should write a lot, but they should read all messages in here and answer some of them when answer is needed, like in this case.

If the game loses its reality and logic it will die in the end.

I never said that they never have time, but if they feel a comment is necessary, they will make one.

If they commented everytime someone said they should, nothing would ever get done with the game.

I am disgusted. My 9 week injured player went down in stamina the first week, fair enough! Was told this would be a small decrease so it was likely something about 0.02% of a pop. NOW imagine my surprise!!!! The second week, same player decreases again. This means he will go from a great shape profesional basketball player down to basically a weezing fat kid who does nothing but eat burgers and sit on a couch. He's not Sean May!!!

A decrease of one or two stamina after a long injury makes sense, but a complete crash for a player means that my whole team's training will be messed up for almost a whole season, every time one player gets injured. Otherwise I have to sell a player every time he gets injured or retire him? On top of this I have a great doctor I pay lots of money and he hasn't sped up the recovery by a single day yet, monitoring the weeks counting down, it's been 7 days for both. What do I pay him for?

It is truely ridiculous. I am considering quitting a game I love as this is a GAME BREAKING 'FEATURE' that everyone has been pointing out for a couple of weeks.

Edited by michaelowe (12/21/2007 12:39:04 PM CET)

Last edited by michaelowe at 12/21/2007 12:39:04 PM

I agree the situation with stamina is marasmic, i spent 3 weeks to up the stamina of my key players before, now one of these players is injured and he has already lost 3 levels of stamina, therewith the time which is required for recovery is too much in spite of high levels of the doctors...

we've reduced the effect on the stamina again by about a factor of 4. You should see the differences soon. A couple of our developers and we only have a handful are on vacation this week so things are a little slower than normal around here.

i'd say they are reduced roughly by a factor of 4

I have stamina drops regularly too, but I do not mind that much. I didn't see too many negative effects on players with very low stamina.
I do agree that if you do find stamina very important for your players, it is realy hard that his stamina is gone after an injury, and it takes too long to recover it for just 1 player.

However I read 1 post that said he trained and got 1 pop, while 2 players dropped in stamina. I think he trains something else than stamina? if not, my next sentence will be void.
Stamina trains much faster , so it's totally not bad to have 2 drps on stamina while you get a pop in an other skill, you can easely train 1 week stamina to recover the lost stamina of the last 6 weeks, and then go on training the thing you where training again.
This was the point in the first place, to force managers to interupt their normal training and make them train stamina once in a while...

Maybe it wouldn't be so bad to attach a background stamina on newly generated players. when the player is fit, and does not train stamina, he will go towards that background, if he gets injured, he drops, but after recovering, he starts going back. In real life all people are diffrent, some have beter stamina then others, they are 'born' with it.
Training stamina will make him rise quicker to his background, and if he reached it, he will still get better, but slower.
Players that get stamina training on regular basis might see their background rise, players that never receive stamina training will see their background drop.
This way, a player does not nessecarily need to train stamina in order to recover his form, but players who do train stamina every so often will improve over time...

we've reduced the effect on the stamina again by about a factor of 4. You should see the differences soon. A couple of our developers and we only have a handful are on vacation this week so things are a little slower than normal around here.

Just to clarify:
Should I take "reduced by a factor of ~4" to mean
--a player playing 12minuts or less per week reduces stamina? or
--a player playing 24 minutes or less can now expect about 25% of the previous drop to stamina?

I'm kinda hoping its the latter.