Gustav

Hi @Hawkins309 and nice to have you here! I'm Gustav, GM of the Mississauga Hounds, and I'll keep it short as I came home to people messaging me from here, there, and everywhere, and I know you were recruited by a friend on my team as well. The Hounds can offer you a roster spot! If you'd like to join the team, feel free to quote me and say "accepted." Good luck with everything this season!

Hi @BigIrish and welcome again to the VHL! I'm GustavMattias, GM of the Mississauga Hounds, and though you've already been offered a spot on our roster by my assistant, @DoktorFunk, I'd like to elaborate a bit. Right now, we've only got one defenseman on the roster, so you will be utilized in every role possible should you sign with us. We can get you maximum ice time, and you'll be right out there when it matters most--power play, penalty kill, you name it. We've also got one of the league's best and most active Discord communities, where you can get your questions answered just about instantly at any time of day or night. We won't be winning a cup this season, but I can absolutely promise you a fun time and a good chance to improve. Anyway, best of luck and I look forward to seeing where you'll end up! -Gustav

Well, there's a new one! Anyway, as DoktorFunk said, you're more than welcome in Mississauga. Feel free to quote either of us if you'd like to come aboard.

For Bush's convenience, here's an update: Berocka F - John Frostbeard F - Orion Slade F - Acyd Burn D - Jerry Garcia D - Berocka Sundqvist G - Rayz Funk Beaviss F - HHH F - Randoms F - Phil Marleau D - Tzuyu D - Guillaume Fontenette G - Kallis Kriketers Matmenzinger F - Jet Jaguar F - Ambrose Stark F - Mat Tocco D - Hulk Hogan D - Vladimir Pavlov G - Raymond Bernard Gustav F - Julian Borwinn F - Ryan Kastelic F - Boris the Forest D - Joseph McWolf D - Condor Adrienne G - Finn Davison JDGraves F - Kronos Bailey F - Dan Wilinsky F - Shawnomir Jagr D - Apollo Hackett D - Jagger Philliefan G - Brick Wahl leafsman F - Julius Freeman F - Mikko Aaltonen F - Tyler Barabash Jr. D - Smitty Werbenjagermanjensen D - Charlie Paddywagon G - Alexander Pepper

Team Gustav selects Joseph McWolf F - Julian Borwinn F - Ryan Kastelic F - D - Joseph McWolf D - G - @JDGraves Edit: since it's a snake-style draft, you pick two players as you're at the end of it @Berocka. Feel free to jump in and pick one that you missed whenever.

Team Gustav selects Ryan Kastelic F - Julian Borwinn F - Ryan Kastelic F - D - D - G - @Matmenzinger

Hi there @Giles Rigel and welcome to the VHL! I'm GustavMattias, GM of the Mississauga Hounds, and I'd like to offer you a spot on our roster. Signing with us will get you maximum ice time each game, on one of our top two forward lines. You'll also be in one of the VHLM's best and most supportive communities, full of active people who are there to help you with anything you need and show you a fun time in general. We aren't going to win the cup this season, but I can guarantee you'll have fun. Anyway, if this sounds good to you, feel free to quote my offer and say "accepted" to join the Hounds. Best of luck this season, and feel free to reach out to me with any questions, no matter who you sign with. -Gustav

HALIFAX--The mystery of the cult deepened Saturday as red clouds swirled above Scotiabank Centre that evening. Earlier in the day, it was announced that the team would be bringing in a new GM, the former AGM of the Mississauga Hounds previously only known to the league as Mr. Berocka (@Berocka). He had refused to disclose the details of his first name to the league in times previous, but when the subject was brought up at a press conference, this time he did care to elaborate. "Yeah, it's Lucifer," he said to local reporters shortly after arriving in the city. "My full name is Lucifer Berocka, and recently I decided that I really love that about myself. You see, there are a lot of bush fires happening where I'm from, so I was looking outside the other day and watching everything burning and I thought to myself, 'you know, hell isn't really all that bad.' That's why I'm here, I heard this team is into that kind of thing." Berocka seems to have embraced the team culture in Halifax, as the team held a goat sacrifice on Tuesday and an effigy burning on Thursday. It remains to be seen how the team as a whole may change in the future, but at the moment the transition seems to have been quick and easy.

@Rayzor_7

Stop making me feel old.

Ok, so first of all, your team is doomed. Second of all... F - Julian Borwinn F - F - D - D - G - @JDGraves

Well there goes "how can I say this without mentioning cap"...

Hi there @Elleeit and welcome to the VHL! I'm GustavMattias, GM of the Mississauga Hounds, and I'd like to offer you a spot on our roster. Signing with us will get you maximum ice time each game, on one of our top two forward lines. You'll also be in one of the VHLM's best and most supportive communities, full of active people who are there to help you with anything you need and show you a fun time in general. We aren't going to win the cup this season, but I can guarantee you'll have fun. Anyway, if this sounds good to you, feel free to quote my offer and say "accepted" to join the Hounds. Best of luck this season, and feel free to reach out to me with any questions, no matter who you sign with. -Gustav

Sound familiar?

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Hi there @Dérek and welcome to the VHL! I'm GustavMattias, GM of the Mississauga Hounds, and I'd like to offer you a spot on our roster. Signing with us will get you maximum ice time each game, on one of our top two forward lines. You'll also be in one of the VHLM's best and most supportive communities, full of active people who are there to help you with anything you need and show you a fun time in general. We aren't going to win the cup this season, but I can guarantee you'll have fun. Anyway, if this sounds good to you, feel free to quote my offer and say "accepted" to join the Hounds. Best of luck this season, and feel free to reach out to me with any questions, no matter who you sign with. -Gustav

The main thing I have a problem with is the fact that, as you earn TPE, depreciation fighters will get more and more valuable. You're saving more and more TPE when a certain percentage is deducted. So what I'm trying to say is that there's nothing wrong with those purchases being easily the most valuable ones for any solid earner, and I think that's something that's being neglected a bit in this thread. That doesn't take away from the fact that just about every other TPE-related purchase is outlandishly expensive for a player at any level, in terms of cost per TPE earned or saved. It's absolutely possible to scale the prices of these purchases so that they're worth it for a mid-level player, at least, like I did in my previous post. That would not only actually make the purchase worth it for some people, it would still be above cost-per-TPE levels for a max earner buying the depreciation fighters, improving things for a large group of members while also not really making life much easier for us whores. If you'd like me to run the numbers for a player on any other level for further research on adjustment of prices, if it's decided that said adjustment is a viable plan, let me know and I'd be happy to do it.

I assumed so, I just thought that we might have people coming in, reading what you wrote, and interpreting it as "give me TPE" and then proceeding to repeat that sentiment...that would just end up with this thread going nowhere meaningful.

Honestly? I'll probably get a lot of disagreement for saying this, but I am absolutely not in favor of adding more options or just saying "let's go make everything cheaper" without actually knowing what's going on. Why should we just continue to make free--or practically free--points more and more available? If my $1 bonus in S66 ends up being worth something (not that I'm saying it will), I'll be quite disappointed. From the perspective of my own player, though I'll never say no to some more TPE, there's nothing that grinds my gears more than people just saying "make it easier for me to just pick up points," because I like to think I work hard for every point I earn (sometimes). You'll see that I'm in favor of some price changes, but let's be informed about what we're doing before we do it. That information is what I'll attempt to give below... My build is complete right now, at 976 TPA. Let's say that I buy the "Old But Not Forgotten" depreciation fighter in my last season, for $12 million. That makes it so that I'm losing 242 TPA rather than 321. So, in short, that's just over $150k per TPE. Same goes for the other purchases--the "Still Kicking" fighter yields about $186k per TPE, while the Jagr gets me about $146k per TPE in my 7th season and a whoppingly low $125k even per TPE in my 8th. If we end up shifting prices of everything else lower to make things match, you'd have to get to about this level before it would even begin to be worth it. The best value for an uncapped TPE package (in other words, the largest one) comes out to $500k per TPE. So, for a TPE whore like me, yes, the depreciation fighters are far and away the best purchase, and any other purchase in the store would be stupid (except for The First Generation, which is but $100k per TPE). Let's take a look at some other players. I took a look at Alex Pearson's build at 467 TPA and ran the numbers. What we've got here is a bit closer--the 8th season fighter is around $316k per TPE, the 7th season fighter is about $421k per TPE, and the Jagr is either $280k or $233k per TPE, depending on which season you're looking at. For someone who isn't a TPE whore, the numbers are a bit closer to balanced, though still not approaching the value of the uncapped TPE package at $500k per TPE (I guess I'll tag @Jayrad28 here as this could be valuable info). We have to recognize the fact that we're dealing with percentages versus fixed amounts here--if TPE whoring is your thing, then yes, you'll be more affected by depreciation. But does that mean that we should lower the prices of everything else to work out to $125k per TPE? Absolutely not. I'm perfectly fine with price adjustment, but let's not cater to the super-actives and make things stupid easy to buy. Instead, I'd like to propose prices that have been worked out to be fair and balanced to a player who's more of the mid-range variety, prices which have been adjusted to match the per-TPE cost of depreciation fighters for such a player rather than that of a super-active one: VHL PLAYER STORE PRICES: THE ALEX PEARSON MODEL The First Generation: $500k (OK as it is) First Gen Doubles: $1,000,000 (~$167k per TPE, also makes it possible to buy both with a VHLM contract) Position Switch: $3,000,000 (OK as it is, maybe even make it more expensive. People move around all the time and that's not necessarily good in my opinion) TPA Reroll: $6,000,000 (OK as it is) TPA Recall: $500,000 (OK as it is) Free Week: $1,000,000 (OK as is) Point Task Upgrade: $1,000,000 (This should not be $3m. A free week is $1m for 6 TPE for free, this is $1m for 8 TPE and you have to do stuff to get it. I think having the price be the same here is fine) VHL.com/Radio Upgrade: Same as above, $1,000,000, for the same reason. Award Prediction Multiplier: $1,000,000 to double, $2,000,000 to triple. (If you get 7 predictions right--which almost nobody does--under the current system you'd be at $357k per TPE. It's simply not worth it. This gives you a good value of around $143k per TPE if you nail your predictions with 7, and if you only get about 2 correct it's about $500k per TPE--not good, but not incredibly outlandish) Experience Points: I have no clue what experience even does so I'll stay out of this one. Someone can do the test simming and figure out whether this is worth it. Full Doubles Week: $3,000,000 (This comes out to $250k per TPE if you max out, significantly more reasonable than the current $625k per TPE of the current system) PT Doubles Week: $2,000,000 (This is $333k per TPE, while the current option is a whopping $667k per TPE) Uncapped TPE Packages: 1 TPE x 5: $2,000,000 ($400k per TPE) 2 TPE x 5: $3,500,000 ($350k per TPE) 4 TPE x 5: $6,000,000 ($300k per TPE) These prices are scaled to fit the cost of the depreciation fighters for a lower-TPE player--please, let's not scale them to fit the cost of depreciation fighters for a TPE whore! That would lead us farther down the "handing out free TPE" path we've gone down a bit already. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

I love how this is the most active roast thread I've done despite the fact that it's the only one where I didn't tag 15 people or so at the top.

@Beaviss remember a while ago when we had that conversation on what the VHLM Newsletter should be and I was trying to explain it to you but I wasn't very good at it? Yeah, I was thinking of something like this.

I'm not saying Malmo wins the trade as NY got decent value, but this is a good trade for Malmo nonetheless. It wasn't super likely that McWolf was going to stick around and it's good that we got something out of it.