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From: CrazyEye

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Date: 3/23/2011 3:45:21 PM
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Maybe, maybe not.

Buzzerbeater isn't shrinking currently.

Well, if you look here http://www.buzzerbeater.com/country/95/overview.aspx there are 19 "active" teams, but only five have logged on lately. And so it is most all over the community.


and before a month it was 1 or 2 active team ;) And it is quite normal that just a small part of new user stay, probadly it is possible to increase those number but even a perfect free game will loose a lot of the new customer who just want a short impression of it.

From: chihorn
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Date: 3/23/2011 4:17:12 PM
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One time I thought I was shrinking in size, not just any one part of me, but all of me, like from head to toe, and doors and chairs and everything just seemed larger than I remembered them, and I wondered if taking up drinking coffee maybe had something to do with this so I quit drinking coffee, which wasn’t a big deal since I don’t like the taste of coffee, but it seemed as if I was shrinking because my environment was just getting bigger all around me even after I quit drinking coffee and watching reruns of video feed from the security camera I had secretly installed outside my door, which I love doing since I have the wackiest neighbors who do things like when they open their doors they sometimes turn their doorknobs and then push the door open with their shoulders and then wait until they’re all the way inside to flip on a light switch, but then I noticed a screw under a cabinet and I didn’t remember putting the screw there and that’s when I had the thought that either it fell out of something or that somebody must have accidentally dropped it and when I asked the guy with the longer gloves about it he just took the screw away and wouldn’t talk about it and I thought it was strange how he seemed to be shrinking in size, too, and not just a part of him but all of him, and that’s when I realized that it must have been another experiment and that they were making everything just a little bit bigger every day while I was sleeping to make me think I was shrinking, and I have to say that this was not as bad as the time when they did that experiment with the drunk camel they doused in coffee, the one that gave me the idea to start drinking coffee.

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From: chihorn

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Date: 3/23/2011 7:17:24 PM
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Archive what? You aren't going to take my head are you?

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From: brian

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Date: 3/23/2011 8:19:41 PM
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Congrats on the GM!

What's next, they going to reincarnate Andy Kaufman and make him police chief?

edit - after the making-you-feel-like-your-shrinking expierment..of course.

Last edited by brian at 3/23/2011 8:22:05 PM

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Date: 3/23/2011 9:33:38 PM
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First I was a bit discouraged by the cartoon faces. Now I hardly see them, but it can be a repellent to a new user. I gather they're completely random. It could be interesting to randomize faces according to their skills and positions/heights. i.e. Defensive players with bigger chick bones, Outside shooters with bigger ears:), Centers with bigger jaws, Good passers with bigger eyes etc. At least then when you're looking at a cartoon face it tells you something. Of course all the skills would be relative to this player, so a well rounded player would have an "even" face.
The faces could be updated once a season, - more off season excitement!

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Date: 3/23/2011 10:00:11 PM
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That's pretty funny! Evolving faces based on skill development.

John Stockton has kind of smallish beady eyes, though, and he was a pretty darn good passer. Maybe legendary dunkers should have extended tongues?

Nice point about the cartoon faces on the intro page. I never really thought about this before, but I can see how cartoon faces might not be the best first-impression to give prospective new managers since they don't really communicate "realistic basketball simulation", it looks more like "arcade basketball circa 1991". It's definitely something that should be considered if BB ever goes through an image overhaul.

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From: Milly

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Date: 3/24/2011 2:44:34 AM
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Jepp, and if they have a good impression, they stay?

Older than the rest ...
From: CrazyEye

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Date: 3/24/2011 2:57:58 AM
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but not everyone search the same, when he registered here ;) And sometimes also the complexity scares people, but it is also the reason why we had veterans here.

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Date: 3/24/2011 6:37:53 AM
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i actually love the cartoon faces

i have quit at least two other bb manager games because of the bad faces and have you ever played hattrick?

From: Milly

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Date: 3/24/2011 6:06:57 PM
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i actually love the cartoon faces
No! NOT!

- but it is also the reason why we had veterans here
That's me! But I really work for my time here ...

Older than the rest ...
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