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Only really a few people worth picking anyway. Doesn't hurt.

Kendrick knows it, so why shouldn't every other player? I can post it now, if so?

4 seasons and only 150 TPE too as an FYI. Bure is 1 season younger and I believe has more TPE and only does AC's. Extrnding on, ST, EN, PH and SK also play huge roles in offensive ability (as does DF).. also helps having stronger teammates and as stated, not having a rebuilding team play 300-500 TPE guys each sim.

I've said this variety thing over and over. In fact, it was my last media spot I think, lol.

I don't mind playing 3rd line for SHL.. or being a back up in GOMHL.. it's all apart of development and stuff.. realism.

Season 58 Donations ($20) 57J59231KE278891R (Tran ID) Aleksei Federov and Mattias Forsberg: 5 TPE, FREE Week, x2 Double Week

Pick me too. I like writing and shit. @ADV is another good one

I like some of these ideas. Activity check isn't too bad - maybe weekly is best though! I like the "extra TPE" for media - also having finances on and money being a bigger thing on here would help.. carry over money.. more of a leash for contracts and salary cap. Prebuild isnt bad bad but I'd rather have archetypes with say, 30 + 20 starting TPE.

Interesting

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Let's just start where we left off. In case I didn't say it enough times in the previous message, and because people say it takes something being heard 5 times to truly stick, change and different are good - but DIVERSITY is better. I've heard it countless times, and I don't think I need to get into it too heavily, but so many people have said they want more to do. This site is a 4 trick pony with only so much you can do on here. This limits the fuck out of activity all throughout the boards to the point that only game nights and threads are important. What other radical things can we bring about that would help-the-fuck-out around here. Player Store Updates TLO maybe said it best - the league sets you up to fight depreciations and spend all your hard earned saved money all in a season or two. Throughout the prior parts of your career, you barely touched it because you'd rather now. Furthering onto the parts where we should change the cap and contract structure - WHILE also allowing us to have small carry over - AND have ways of earning some extra coin, I think adding stuff to buy in the player store would be absolutely HUGE. Not only does it add diversity (potentially between sim leagues), but also adds a lot of options for us to improve our players, keeps us trying to do something and lets the eyes see more than 6 things (or whatever. I only ever buy like 2 things). 1. WEEKLY Trainings - 100k or 250 K for 1 TPE is an idea. It's only one TPE and wouldn't greatly affect inflation at all. Or, you could always go the 3 for 500k and 5 for 1M route like EVERY other league does. 2. EQUIPMENT - Pretty sure every other league has it too. Allow us to buy some shit. If you dislike the idea, make it expensive - IDK. I just see this as a good way to have people happy. 3. Sitting in the bank PERK - Maybe have it like a true bank account. IF you don't touch your money and keep stockpiling it, it grows with interest (each season is goes up 25%, EXAMPLE). 4. Straight up TPE purchase packs? - 5 for 2M, 15 for 5.5M and 25 for 10M SIG STORES I wanted to throw this idea up there, but it goes hand in hand and deserves its own topic at the same time. If we bring about cash, this would allow members to sell extra sigs. Know what I think will happen? People have a greater motivation to create sigs, but also be active and shit. They wanna make money, show off their shit AND they can use this same graphic for their weekly 6 TPE submission. Why not make money and do both? With the sig community pumping, it wouldn't hurt the league. COULD also do sig AUCTIONS, seller could set a cap or let it go as high as they want. 24-72 HR auctions? VHL Stocks Let's have a stock game going. This opens jobs for people around the league and also gets people involved, active and spending money and time in certain sections of the forum. You could have it for teams, players or random bullshit maybe? I'd say the first two more so. Teams doing good, people buy stocks, sell etc. Try and find as much realism as possible. Have maximum's you can make a season for this and have it heavily regulated stocks. Nothing crazy. REALISM. BUY TEAMS, SAVE MONEY. BE AN OWNER! PART ONE Maybe let relocation be a thing and allow us to stockpile our money. Have the starting amount for franchises set at 300-500 Mill - all carry over and you know people will be saving for something. This would also fuck stores and inflate the fuck out of everything, but whatever. People feel rich so they think they are. Thus? Love for VHL. I love the idea of being a team owner and I think it should play a lot like BE A GM. You're able to decided anything and everything - you control the GM and every aspect of the league. These are things we could have in them: 1. Hiring and Firing GM's. The league can step in at any matter and rules would have to be set. You can't have a new GM everyday and there would be restrictions. Say you can only have 2 GM's for one season (which would be in the case of fire and hire). I like the fact of realism and that the NHL franchise will fire you if you fail, suck, don't succeed or are inactive etc. You're fired if you aren't doing a job or aren't doing it to the owners standards. A. I think this would bring a lot more effort, attention and shit from the GM's. I'd also say GM pay could become a thing. If we bring about money, which clearly we would be with this move, but let them choose between TPE payment of saying 2 a week or Money at whatever they decided to sign at (would be accounted for under team cap - or a secondary "management fund" which the league could cap. 2. FINANCES - TURN THEM ON Here's an idea - turn them on. Let teams have a surplus of 100 mill if they're kicking ass. If they're shit, losing, rebuilding or don't have fans at the game - have them tank finances and be in debt 20 million. Have rules, if teams have deficits of more than say 100,000,000 the team relocates OR the owner is forced to sell at 75% selling rate) and next GM has 5 years to reduce the deficit or they are forced into relocation. Let these finances do the following: 1. Pay for rebranding, new jerseys or team graphics. 2. Maybe pay bonuses to players. 3. Add diversity to the league - have a REAL finance section. 4. Obviously control the owner and teams fate for forced selling/relocation. Obviously, if a team sucks 24/7, there's isn't 100% relocation rate. Be realistic and look at the shit NHL. 3. Finances - PART 2 This option, we'll further along with Be a GAMe, of franchise on NHL. Why not let us build and design arenas? there has to be a way in the sim, if not a website where we can do this and then have the info on our forums under each teams sections? Allow us to control the name - which you'd have to pay for the next time to change it again. Let us choose the style etc. This would bring in ARENA UPGRADES. Maybe start the arena out at 12,000 and with the money the team produces through tickets and other shit, they can purchase upgrades. Say 2,500 people at a time to max out at 20,000 or whatever idk. Maybe let us buy a mascot ETC. Furthering onto stock ideas, This would affect the teams stocks, or purchasing worth for other people looking to become owners. Keeping this one short. I love the OWNER ideas. FYI blue team. 2 WEEKs for Federov November 27 to December 3rd and December 4th to December 10th

Good luck!

Well, here I find myself sitting on my lazy ass, half baked on vacation from work. Let me tell you, it's been long overdue and much needed as the two new guys on my crew have been stressing me out. It's also been nice to just kick back, take it easy and have zero work responsibility and stress for the next couple of days here. I took another holiday from December 16th to 28th. I plan on doing something then but this one was simply to find my mind, destress and take it easy. Reconnect with old people, get out a little but enjoy the comfort of the phone not ringing 24/7. I've done a lot of hockey stuff over the last week and have also started a new baseball league. The baseball league is amazing and the hockey work has been alright. Shitty part of it? I've struggled with the VHL lately and it has only begun to grow. The LR's are seemingly at an all-time low? Safe to say? The forum doesn't have much action going for it. GOMHL is growing, SHL seems steady but it's large. As we write this, VHL has 10 members online, GOMHL has 8 (which is rare that it's actually lower than VHL) and the SHL has 63. quite the jump. Now I know I'm going to get shit on for this, but anyone who says "the league isn't dying - get your head out of your ass and quit being like that." is easily the worse off of the two types of members. They're not realistic and have their heads up their own ass. They need to open their eyes and see a couple hard facts. League activity as a whole has dropped. Nothing happens around the forums, there seems to be more and more welfare guys, old members and leave and new members disappear way too much. We can keep members , are talking of taking away teams while others seem to keep expanding and we can't even find people to GM PRO teams anymore. Specific members always step in and act like the tough dog "are you stupid? the leagues not dying. People like you are the problem". Maybe we're not. I used to love the league (and don't get me wrong, I still do) - but with the GM stress (with literally no reward for me - we missed playoffs again), numerous leagues that I'm in and the fact that the only reason to log in to VHL is to check my team, check my messages, see the sim (if my team is playing) and then I leave the page to a different sim site which I now seem to spend more time on. Why on earth would I spend time on a site, refreshing, waiting for HOURS for any sort of league activity to occur? It's not looking good people. Eventually it comes down to having a few people left, nothing changing (in terms of progression) and people just saying fuck it. Luckily for us, there's a lot of people in the VHL community who care for this place and don't want to see that happen. I, for one, am one of those people. Maybe not the most active of BoG members, but I always get my point across and touch up on 95% of topics. I, at times - like most, can have some pretty radical ideas that may work, may not. Fortunately, I've run into some writing issues with the VHL and I think additionally with the boredom of the league, so I'm here to bring you beautiful some radical ideas - that may work, may not. May be good ideas, may be bad. Either way, here they are: 3 Player System Radical level --> 7/10 Desperation --> 100% Idea: VERY BAD This idea is pretty radical, but not deserving of a 10 because we already have 2. In fact, I think the first time we tried that was pretty crazy and radical. Now, it would just seem like an overkill and make the league look desperate. "Oh, look" says the 12 year old SHLer who says the word pussy and scrub 7 times a day on the SHL forums, "The VHL is letting members create 3 players now because no one wants to join such a boring site". It's an inevitable comment that we all know would come out. Hell, lots of our members may echo the very words too. There would be something amazing about being able to actually ice a full fucking team instead of 5 words, 3 dman and 7 goalies but hey, we're not desperate enough to suck dick yet, sim gods. Carry over 50% CASH AND raise the cap/fix it! Radical level: 6/10 Desperation: 7% Idea: VERY GOOD Give us a fucking break. Each time we retire our money disappears. We need to find a way to fuck the current cap rules and recreate something from the dirt. Something I love on the SHL is the buoyancy and flexibility of contracts, amounts and shit. I LOVE being able to decide my contract. YES, there should be a minimum for TPE but fuck off with the maximum amount when it comes to ACTIVE members. Raise the cap a bit. Let some guys be the fucking assholes and demand 9 a season. Let those guys who want to, be able to take a hometown discount because they're sweet and unlike when the 10Mill a season guys say it, those hometown boys actually mean they want a cup with you. Also, let's find a way to make money more important in the VHL. Let us have 50% carryover and let's open up the store and stuff which is available to buy with money. Right now you have a few shallow ways to improve your player. More options = MPORE INTEREST. We have graphics, podcasts and written shit - and not creative. Typically, our media spots are the same old, boring bullshit that has been written since the start of days. DIVERSITY AND OPTIONS = BETTER. There's nothing wrong with implementing new shit and trying it out. If it fails, fuck it - but how do you know it'll truly be gold if you never see it for such and try it out? That's the problem with the BOG. Set on its ways. It wants to change - bring about, but often stuff is shot down because it's not the league they wish to perceive and imagine. One last time - CHANGE, Diversity and more options. This is what the league needs to survive. People may not find some things, the more we have, the better chances of them liking it. I don't think this is a bad idea. It's radical ONLY because it's a big change with lots of thought and money going into it. Alright, I'll bite. Remove player 2. Radical: 5/10 Desperation: 35% Idea: Meh. Not a fan, but could be good. For EVERYONE, EXCEPT GM's. Let us have a GM player - to help the team, grow with the team and make things maybe a little stress free? It helps. It helps keep teams competitive, helps with team needs and dada yadadaa. Every other player is gone. Some will dislike it maybe, but the blue team and most of BOG claim it burns people out. In fact, people feel obligated to make to players. New flash: It's not a requirement of the league for you to make two players. IF you want to, do it. If you know you can do the work, do it. If you claim welfare with one player and but want another player - probably not a good idea hey?? You can't even put in full effort for one player and now you want 2??? THAT = burnt out. I have the desperation 1/3rd. It could be good, but likely won't do fuck all by getting rid of it. It'll either have MINOR affects or fuck all - but hey, if they think it'll work - try it out. It's not gonna kill the league. Just may do fuck all (which I think will be the case). If anything, now you just cut the league in half for players, lol. BUT, if you're taking away that, EXTEND our fucking careers. This has to be the stupidest thing about this god damn league and I've heard it from at least a dozen members outside of the VHL that the reason they don't want to play and build here is because after 8 seasons, there player is automatically retired. We have no choice over it. You could be finally killing it and boom, fuck off. I think this should seriously be looked at and these are my suggestions: 1. Extend careers from 8 seasons to 10 with an auto retirement in the 10th season. This gives us a little more time and may make it bearable for those joining to handle. 2. Take away the auto retire shit altogether until the plater regress below a specific TPE amount. We would have to take a look at regression and determine how hard they get hit and when they start to regress. Just as a basic example for you. Bob Joe - 1,200 TPE League rule: Players careers last as long as they allow them to play. This likely rewards active members greatly FYI. Regression chart: S6: 25 TPE S7: 50 TPE S8: 100 TPE S9: 150 TPE S10: 200 TPE OR S6: 50 TPE S7: 75 TPE S8: 100 TPE S9: 125 TPE S10: 150 TPE S11: 175 TPE S12: 175 TPE S13: 200 TPE S14: 200 TPE Once TPE drops below 250 or 300, they retire at seasons end. Bob Joe, start of S6 has (example) 600 TPE. Saying there's 8 weeks in a season plus extra TPE, he gains about 70 TPE a season? IDK. It'd look like this: Bob Joe Regression: S6: 600+70 = 670-50 = 620 (+20) S7: 620+70= 690-75 = 615 (-5) S8: 615+70= 685 - 100 = 585 (-30) S9: 585+70= 655 - 125 = 530 (-55) S10: 530+70 = 600 - 150 = 450 (-90) S11: 450+70 = 520 - 175 = 345 (-105) S12: 345+70 = 415 - 175 = 240 ------------> AUTO RETIRED as they dropped below minimum. Of course, with this style - you'd probably need a few more ways to earn money and TPE. More ways to earn TPE/Diversity - people like it. Again, let's have money do something for us in this league. It gives people options and people like those. I know that's probably the biggest thing that could help this site right now. Would help with keeping new member, maybe intrigue old and bring over some fellow sim leaguers. Store changes: 1. allow for a 1-5 TPE weekly training. If we don't wanna bump the update scale or affect inflation etc, do 100,000 to 250,000 to purchase a "light weekly training" that = 1 TPE. 2. EQUIPMENT. Every other league has it. Offer it to us. 3. Diversity of the shops. Allow us to buy into brands, stocks of VHL teams or players or let us maybe even buy teams. WELL, that'll do for now. 1,800 words - I'll take 3 weeks for Forsberg. Expect Part 2 later on for Federov. +6/+6/+6 (November 27th to December 3rd + December 4th to December to December 10th + December 11th to December 17th)

Now I'm curious what kinda pup she is. Do tell!

This only further strengthens the argument for puppy strength.

Little soft but that's okay. Puppies need love too!

No one was bringing my team down? Eagles and I were bugging each other and then you started crying and stating people dislike Seattle because Eagles and I created a fun little rivalry and enjoy taking the piss out of each other from time to time. I dont get get upset when Eagles bashes. We bash one another. We do it in good fun. Other than him, you're really the only other person who bashes and complains. I hear nothing from anyone except you. anyway, good luck in the 2nd round.

See - don't even land on the radar. Sunny with a chance of pulling out early. Typical Bears. (We trash talk ourselves sometimes too).

If he makes a snipe at us first, we'll surely give it back. He made fun of our playoffs - we really enjoyed his. Sounds like a hell of a rivalry to me. More exciting than all the other teams. "Oh good luck this series. We hope you beat us" --- "oh no - good luck to you!! You're gonna beat us". This league needs rivalries.

Because I trash talk back to him and have a little fun? Isn't that what people want? Rivalries? Bickering? People can't say anything now without getting butt hurt. This leagues become all about ass kissing and good manners. You're such a negative member it's ridiculous. Always finding something to call someone out for or to make a big public deal off to show off how smart and dominant you are by using big and fancy wording. Honestly you need to climb back in your hole because it almost seems better when you aren't publicly criticizing and being a dick hole. FYI, lots say this - not just myself. We're having a little fun on a online hockey game. Kendrick? It's a game. It's for fun, buddy. Trash talking and bugging one another is actually part of both. Outside of Eagles and myself, I don't see much rivalries on here? On my behalf, it's all in good fun and to have a little rivalry? If people seriously make a big deal out of this, it blows me away because all they have to do is take a step outside their homes or turn on the TV to find much worse. Yet, here we find you - once again crying about the supposed negativity I bring the bears for playful banter. Right.. No one else ever says anything. Only you. You claim others do, but they only ever gossip to you - which I don't understand why they would. You're the only one that says negativity comes to the Bears because of harmless, meaningless trash talk. Others say it because I'm, at times, a cunt to trade with. Let the GM's and teams have some fun. Let us trash talk and actually have some sort of rivalry. Truthfulness? That fuelled the playoff race this year for CGY/SEA.

Posted 10 hours ago how's your playoffs going?

it was some1