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Thanks to both of you for the translations.

(1,2) Yes, we can change the names of the cup and the top league. We can probably rename this forum to "BB Polska" too. I'll wait a few days to see if there is any objection to these three name changes.
(3) The NT manager fills approximately the same role as the managers of league teams (selecting players, setting lineups, choosing tactics, etc.). I think the only thing that they don't do is execute training. That is why they share the same title, which in the English game, and many translations, is "manager". I see that this is currently being translated into Polish as "Właściciel", which Google tells me means "Owner". Is there a Polish term for the person that makes the business and personnel decisions for a professional sports team? In the U.S., these people are usually called the "General Manager", or the "Athletic Director". We should try to not use the title "coach" to apply to the human players of this game, because most of the coaching decisions (substituting player during a game, calling plays, etc.) are made by a computer agent.
(4) On what page does "Round Robin Pools" appear untranslated? The only instance that I can find is on ntstandings.aspx, where is has been nonliterally translated as "Runda kwalifikacyjna".

(2) There are already some ideas how to change the league name. I think we should wait till Monday for finally decision. Than I'll let you know.
(3) In Poland, we can translate 'Manager' as "Menadżer" (it is the person, who usually makes the bigest decisions - like General Manager in your country). I'm not sure if NT Manager buy and sell players, changes tickets prices, execute traingin (like you said), choose picks from draft, choose Teams Personel etc. If he does, well, OK :)
I understand, that the name 'Manager' is OK for you. But maybe it is possible, to make 2 tags with this name - one for team Manager, one for NT Manager. In that case we can translate it in another way.
(4) Well, "Round Robin Pools" apears only once, and is translated. But below it are pools - Pool A, Pool B etc. I know that every single player knows, that there are just "Tabela A, Tabela B" etc. or "Grupa A, Grupa B", but it would be nice to translate it :)

I know, I know - I gripe :) But it is a great occasion to ask you for almost everything :)

1. Names database it taken from Hattrick, right? It's a small problem - names of Polish players don't include diacritical marks. Is it possible to fix it?

Yes, some of our names lists come from Hattrick, but not all. There are problems with many of our names lists. Unfortunately, the database is extremely labor intensive to fix by hand. We will not change the names of current players, but we do hope to develop a set of tools that will help us edit the names list (with the help of the LAs) so that all new players will have names appropriate to their countries of origin.

No diacritical marks at all is a very serious problem for the Polish names. I hope that it won't be too long before we can fix this.

Czy jest możliwość wprowadzenia opłaty za supka w polskiej walucie? Czy jest możliwe, by płacić poprzez przelew bankowy?

Is there possibility to pay for supporter in Polish currency? And how about payment to local bank accounts by money transfer?

Szukamy obecnie rozwiązań, które pozwolą nam akceptować więcej form płatności. Wiemy, że PayPal jest niewygodna, czy wręcz niemożliwą dla wielu forma płatności.

Czy poza przelewem bankowym powinniśmy szukać jeszcze innych metod płatności dla potencjalnych supporterów BB w Polsce?

We are currently looking for a new service that will allow us to accept more forms of payment. We know that PayPal is inconvenient or impossible for many people to use.

Other than bank transfer, are there any other methods that we should be looking at for potential supporters in Poland?

Last edited by Tripaw at 5/18/2008 4:21:43 AM

Are you planning to introduce in every country money shown in their national currency? Like n HT?

Najpopularniejsze i najwygodniejsze, to przelew bankowy, karta kredytowa, karta debetowa. Myślę, że więcej nie trzeba.

Most popular and convenient metodhs: bank transfer, Credit Card, Debit Card. I'm pretty sure we don't need nothing more.

Are you talking about in-game currency, like the $ 9086 salary of Bartlomiej Ptok (3208927)? I do not know how things are in HT. We have considered switching to local currencies, but do not have any definite plans. There would some drawbacks. For example, it would make communication between owners from different countries more difficult.

Last edited by Mike at 5/18/2008 12:20:25 PM

yeah you're right, just asking :-)

2. We believe that the game is more fun for everybody when there are more people involved. Does anyone have any ideas about ways that we could help BuzzerBeater grow in Poland? For example, just last week, one of our users helped us to set up a banner exchange program with a popular sports discussion board in Lithuania; as a result, more than 500 new users have already signed up!

In poland there is several portals about basketball. They have own forums, so there is possibility to write there thread about BB or talk with administrators about co-operation.

3. In some countries, we have received complaints about the banner ads shown at the top of the site. These ads are provided by a banner ad network, and in most countries it is very difficult to control whether the ads that are shown are appropriate for our audience. If anybody knows of a company that wants to advertise on BuzzerBeater, we'll gladly pay you a commission for anybody you find that can help us serve better and more targeted banner ads.

Recently Polish HT become controled by Interia - one of three bigest portals in Poland. They control for polish users and have own banner. Maybe there will be possibility to talk with this or other portal to do same thing here? But I think that at this moment such a talks wouldn't be positive because of young and small society of polish BB, but who knows...