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sorry, LA since you all lost me with all these essays...

You outline all my points in one in that post.

Before I do comment on that, I'll mention a point of difference in how you described it to how it works in reality. In this game, there is a lot of staring at the TL and making sure you're there to check to see if a player is at a reasonable price to buy. Either that or sometimes waiting up to a certain time so that you can list the player at the time which is the best to list (and then sell).

This may not be how it is once you're in the top league. You may be already set. I don't know. But in the lower leagues, to earn the money you need to get above others, it seems important to do this.

Back to how you've summed everything up so well. You've basically stated that BB is an attempt to get the feel for some of the concepts of real basketball team management, by sometimes using some concepts that don't exist in reality (eg. in professional basketball leagues players have contracts and are not traded like they are in BB). In real basketball team management, there is a lot of scouting, communicating, watching, stat crunching. The Spurs (my fav team) seem to have done an amazing job at this over the past decade and a half.

The peeps at BB have done a great job. I love almost everything about the game, just not the fact that good traders get an advantage over the rest.

Is that fair?

If I write, "Superfly is a jerk. Just kidding." And you only reprint, "Superfly is a jerk,"

What? Superfly is a jerk....only if I have to play him in the cup next week and he goes out and buys a team with his 25 million...Until then..He's just Superfly..the punk a** Biatch because he supports Liverpool.....hahahahahahhaa
PS...This is a joke and should not result in a 30day forum ban..He is even on my buddy list..

I'd like a GM to look into this please. I am deeply offended.

PS. Can you rig the draw so I play you at home next week.

PPS. I was more scared of Albanian Mafia in week 1 - I might even lighten the load and sell off 1-2 key players before we lock horns :D

It's penalty enough that he supports Liverfool...

I suggest this thread be closed if even the GM's can't remain cordial and insist on going off topic.






Select Edit (please add :p at the end of the above sentence!)

There are three times in your sentence that the word 'it' is used, and the first two undeniably refer to the game engine. If the third is meant to refer to the game itself you would be well served to use a different word than one you have already used twice in the same sentence to reference a different thing (a game engine).

Now, if you thought that the BB's were talking about the game as a whole in their front page blurb "play the most advanced basketball simulation and coaching AI..." I can understand your error. A simulation in the context of that sentence is a computer program that is used to simulate an abstract model of some system, in this case a hoop game. The other parts of the management game are not part of this simulation, and in some instances are not very advanced at all. That's not what the designers are speaking about on the front page, though. They are talking about the GE in the sentence in question.

Like I said, check out my team and my main rival. He has a ton more money than I do and has consistently done better on the TL. The only reason I have hung with him is because I have a lot more hoops knowledge than he does, especially early on. Maybe your hoops knowledge isn't as deep as you think it is.

I feel like I am managing a little make-believe basketball team. I have to worry about my arena, my staff, my roster, my salaries, my tactical decisions, injuries, several different competitions, and my scouting/draft. That to me is what a sports management game is all about. That's what this game is advertised as being, and that's what it delivers, in my opinion.