Posted by CoachSpud on 11/30/2017 4:17:00 PM (view original):
In many cases the silent majority plays quietly season after season, paying no attention to the kindergarten that the forums have largely become, entirely or mainly satisfied with their game experience. The loud minority on the forums shouldn't fool themselves into thinking they are a part of a majority just because they are loud.
Take a moment to think, people. Regarding letting people start at D1:
1. It would be a certain death knell for D2 and D3 in HD.
2. Some people like to play at a college they attended or is nearby to where they live or work. There are a helluva lot more D2 and D3 schools than there are D1 schools.
3. If someone is so attention-deficit crippled that he cannot tolerate moving through the ranks, there is no reason to believe he would tolerate the down time that some of you have so loudly complained about.
4. As currently constituted, D1 enjoys a degree of stability that supports the game experience. Allowing players to make D1 job changes in and out of Worlds almost willy-nilly would totally disrupt that stability, and risk (if not assure) the demise of D1.
5. I doubt that a financial model is attractive to WIS or SportsHub if limited to the number of users that could occupy D1, compared to the number of users that could occupy three divisions. I doubt there is incentive for them or SportsHub to undertake the investment in time and resources to diminish their game.
6. If you think everybody should play at D1, and D2 and D3 should be trashed, you obviously haven’t thought about the so-called problems of EE’s and recruit generation.
7. If you think the job process sucks, terminating D2 and D3 is no solution. The solution is fixing the job process. WIS could do this in a way that retains some stability in D1 and shortens the period in which users become D1 eligible without discarding D2 and D3 from the game.
8. If you think too many sim teams is the problem, terminating D2 and D3 is no solution. WIS could:
a. contract the number of conferences in each world, which of course has its own problems.
b. reduce the number of worlds, which of course has its own problems.
c. finally do something effective to market the game to new users.
Any of those three would be better solutions, properly implemented, than trashing D2 and D3.
A reminder to those who stop reading when they see my user name on a post, never see the content of the post (you know who you are), and immediately start spewing your bile -- you are still nothing more or less than background noise to me and many others, of no more significance to the world than a dust bunny under your bed. Let’s try to keep this thread on topic.
OK, two successful users said this had merit. I decided to read it beyond the first three lines. I'm not seeing much merit.
1. So?
2. They can stay there and coach
3. I'm all for a D1 start and I've complained loudly about down time.
4. There is no proposed willy-nilly job change. You have to qualify and go thru the current process.
5. If you pay attention to population data, you'd know there are 200-250 users in each world. D1 has something like 340 teams. Either way, I don't think "eliminate D2/D3" has gotten a foothold. Free D3(no credits) seems like a good idea. Reduced D2 credit would probably incentivize some folks to move to D1. Not sure how that's a bad thing.
6. I, for one, believe the game is designed for 200+ in D1. The discussion on player generation has been discussed ad nauseam in HBD. I won't get into it but "mo bettah players" isn't a solution. It just requires users to think differently. I know some don't like that.
7. WifS could do a lot of things. But, if you've read this thread, several people have said they have LESS teams because they don't want to do the year-long march to D1. Starting at some crap D1 school is the solution.
8. A/B are both terrible ideas. People hate to have their **** taken from them. Hate it. Marketing has been discussed over and over again. I'll pass.