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192606.8 in reply to 192606.7
Date: 8/2/2011 3:42:30 PM
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Policy is policy, but policy can also be changed should sufficient cause arise. Losing customers, for one.

The policy could easily be: in the event of downtime, any transfers ending while the site is down would be rolled back.

From: AZ

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192606.9 in reply to 192606.8
Date: 8/2/2011 4:05:53 PM
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That sounds easy, simple, and much fairer than the current system.

If I'm not mistaken, a few seasons ago there actually was a big downtime and a universal rollback of every transfer by a few hours? So the precedent has been set.

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192606.11 in reply to 192606.10
Date: 8/2/2011 8:57:23 PM
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Please make the policy more obvious. Like a warning window EVERY TIME someone lists a player~

" Our servers are not guaranteed to work at all times and we do not guarantee to predict or even be aware of server failures. In this case your auction may expire at a time when no one can log in to bid. Only set a starting price you are willing to accept as a final price."


Or better yet, during the login process, a required checkbox and button that says: "By logging into Buzzerbeater, I acknowledge that life is a b**** and S*** happens. Occasionally, unfair though it may be, s*** may happen to me. I confirm that I have been notified of this."

From: OchO_CinCo

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192606.12 in reply to 192606.9
Date: 8/2/2011 10:51:31 PM
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Yeah, I thought this was always the case. To move the transfers that expired during a downtime back however much, not just let them expire and screw everyone over.

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192606.14 in reply to 192606.11
Date: 8/2/2011 11:12:07 PM
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What are you talking about? I think both the BBs and the managers have an interest in seeing BB function to its fullest potential. This means minimizing the occurrence of needless incidents with easy amicable solutions, like this one.

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192606.16 in reply to 192606.8
Date: 8/3/2011 4:35:48 AM
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Policy is policy, but policy can also be changed should sufficient cause arise. Losing customers, for one.

The policy could easily be: in the event of downtime, any transfers ending while the site is down would be rolled back.



not always so easy to compute, and if you do it manually afterwards people complain that they loose player who maybe are already in the team. I don't think that suach an safety switch is easy to implement.

But obviously it should be a good thing to work on.

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192606.17 in reply to 192606.16
Date: 8/3/2011 5:42:04 AM
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Exactly. It's just not practical to rollback all the transfers every time.

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192606.18 in reply to 192606.17
Date: 8/3/2011 11:55:25 AM
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Exactly. It's just not practical to rollback all the transfers every time.

Well, it isn't exactly helpful to say: policy is policy.

I understand that you're probably irritated with answering the same or similar questions all the time, but the fact is that this remains an issue that the majority of the playerbase is in the dark on. We don't know if this is a finished bit of policy (the Tough Shit policy) or if you're working on something that might be seen as having a bit more equity.

For example, GMs often adjust transfers if a player is found to be sold at way above market value, taking money away from the person who sold the player. In the event of downtime, could a similar thing not be done in reverse? If a player (like in the case mentioned above) goes for 1M below their EV due to the site being down, couldn't a GM credit that player with maybe even half the difference (so 500k in that case)?

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