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Funnily enough I was originally leaning orange because I plan to paint the room very dark grey, almost matte black, and have wood finishes that would go well with orange. But I also wanted to have some fun with this and let the masses decide so down with orange!

Welcome to the VHL, titipom! We're happy to have you. You should have received a PM with some more detailed information, but to get started quickly you will want to head over to the "How to Create a Player" topic. That topic will offer you detailed information about how to use the VHL Portal to create your player and get you started. We also highly recommend joining the VHL Discord where there is a channel dedicated to helping new members with any questions that they may have about the league or improving their player. Once your player is made VHLM General Managers will be in touch with you about joining their teams. In the meantime, please feel free to ask any questions you have here or in your create-a-player thread. We're happy to have you in the community and we hope you stick around!

When I did my last case swap on sim box I used a case with 5 fan slots plus a new cooler that obviously contains a fan. Since this time the fans have been set to red because only 3 of them were RGB and red fans were what I had available otherwise. HOWEVER I received for Christmas a pack of 3 more RGB fans which means the cooler fan and the front fans can now be RGB as well, fully colouring all 6 fans in the case / cooler. Now sim box is old and therefore doesn’t have an RGB header which means I can’t go full unicorn vomit (I wouldn’t want to anyway) BUT I can select from a range of colours to have all the fans be the same. That’s where you all come in. Changing it frequently is a pain because it’s done with a physical remote in the back of my case but since I’m putting new fans in anyway this is the perfect time to change it up and therefore I want the VHL community to decide what flavour their sims come in. Whatever is highest by the time I put the new fans in wins. Relatively mediocre showcase of the colour options

Welcome to the VHL, BruinsFan63! We're happy to have you. You should have received a PM with some more detailed information, but to get started quickly you will want to head over to the "How to Create a Player" topic. That topic will offer you detailed information about how to use the VHL Portal to create your player and get you started. We also highly recommend joining the VHL Discord where there is a channel dedicated to helping new members with any questions that they may have about the league or improving their player. Once your player is made VHLM General Managers will be in touch with you about joining their teams. In the meantime, please feel free to ask any questions you have here or in your create-a-player thread. We're happy to have you in the community and we hope you stick around!

Oh I’m sure people can come up with a way.

It’s alright, people are bound to realize at some point that I don’t actually make insane players every time, I just got very lucky the last two times and most of them weren’t around before that haha

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*eye twitch* Dare I ask what you wound up using? Also bitrate = amount of data you give the encoding per second or footage. Higher number = higher quality but larger file size. As an example for 1080p30 I would ideally want a bitrate of at least 12Mbps or higher but it depends what’s happening. Higher resolution, frame rate, or action requires higher bitrate. On the flip side lower of any of those can get away with less.

Clever way of getting people to listen in order to see if they are present…

Welcome to the VHL, Hands13! We're happy to have you. You should have received a PM with some more detailed information, but to get started quickly you will want to head over to the "How to Create a Player" topic. That topic will offer you detailed information about how to use the VHL Portal to create your player and get you started. We also highly recommend joining the VHL Discord where there is a channel dedicated to helping new members with any questions that they may have about the league or improving their player. Once your player is made VHLM General Managers will be in touch with you about joining their teams. In the meantime, please feel free to ask any questions you have here or in your create-a-player thread. We're happy to have you in the community and we hope you stick around!

Welcome to the VHL, badcolethetitan! We're happy to have you. You should have received a PM with some more detailed information, but to get started quickly you will want to head over to the "How to Create a Player" topic. That topic will offer you detailed information about how to use the VHL Portal to create your player and get you started. We also highly recommend joining the VHL Discord where there is a channel dedicated to helping new members with any questions that they may have about the league or improving their player. Once your player is made VHLM General Managers will be in touch with you about joining their teams. In the meantime, please feel free to ask any questions you have here or in your create-a-player thread. We're happy to have you in the community and we hope you stick around!

Too many draft picks for that.

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Welcome to the VHL, noobyjake! We're happy to have you. You should have received a PM with some more detailed information, but to get started quickly you will want to head over to the "How to Create a Player" topic. That topic will offer you detailed information about how to use the VHL Portal to create your player and get you started. We also highly recommend joining the VHL Discord where there is a channel dedicated to helping new members with any questions that they may have about the league or improving their player. Once your player is made VHLM General Managers will be in touch with you about joining their teams. In the meantime, please feel free to ask any questions you have here or in your create-a-player thread. We're happy to have you in the community and we hope you stick around!

Also I’m not against the idea of EVER expanding again but obviously 16 teams just in the VHL is stretching things quite a lot so I wouldn’t want to unless we’re sure. 16 I think is already at the point where it’s hard to keep track of them all (an innate issue) as well the fact that every expansion brings risk of future contraction which is inevitably messy. I’ve already said before that while it SEEMS contracting the VHLE would be messier than removing a team or 2 it would actually be far easier in practice.

I’ve been trying to stress this for a bit. It’s obviously a balance because people constantly disappear and need to be replaced with new people but retention rather than recruitment needs more of a focus. I care much less about 200+ person recruitment drives with 10 staying more than a week than I do about 40 people joining and all staying active. Additionally to that we have proven that constant expansion to fit player needs will not work. Adding a team does nothing, adding 2 fixes the problem for about a season, adding 4 fixes it for like 3 seasons. That’s not sustainable growth even if people do love to lose their minds over expansion. Ultimately if a draft class was reasonably big (say like 4 active rounds so 64 players) and we retain 90% of those players for a full career and into recreation then the draft 8 seasons down the road is still going to have ~58 recreates, let alone first gens. I’m not saying those are reasonable numbers or that new members are unimportant but obviously if we can focus on rolling the draft classes through their careers and keeping them around we’ll keep drafts full without being as concerned about what happens if a recruitment campaign flops.

I fixed Halifax, Mexico, and Riga, I knew I was forgetting one.

Keep in mind too that we still punished people for things, just a lot less for the things they SAID and those punishments could often be pretty darn severe. I’m not saying it was justified or that we should be handing them out today but like, I was given a full season TPE ban with no possibility of appeal. There’s no reason to act like all punishments are new and more severe than anything ever dolled out before. But yeah, Robbie would be banned in an instant these days. The fact he wasn’t then doesn’t mean that nothing deserves punishment now, quite the opposite.

Welcome to the VHL, EMoney002! We're happy to have you. You should have received a PM with some more detailed information, but to get started quickly you will want to head over to the "How to Create a Player" topic. That topic will offer you detailed information about how to use the VHL Portal to create your player and get you started. We also highly recommend joining the VHL Discord where there is a channel dedicated to helping new members with any questions that they may have about the league or improving their player. Once your player is made VHLM General Managers will be in touch with you about joining their teams. In the meantime, please feel free to ask any questions you have here or in your create-a-player thread. We're happy to have you in the community and we hope you stick around!

Welcome to the VHL, Jacksparrow! We're happy to have you. You should have received a PM with some more detailed information, but to get started quickly you will want to head over to the "How to Create a Player" topic. That topic will offer you detailed information about how to use the VHL Portal to create your player and get you started. We also highly recommend joining the VHL Discord where there is a channel dedicated to helping new members with any questions that they may have about the league or improving their player. Once your player is made VHLM General Managers will be in touch with you about joining their teams. In the meantime, please feel free to ask any questions you have here or in your create-a-player thread. We're happy to have you in the community and we hope you stick around!

Welcome to the VHL, RenoJacksonHS! We're happy to have you. You should have received a PM with some more detailed information, but to get started quickly you will want to head over to the "How to Create a Player" topic. That topic will offer you detailed information about how to use the VHL Portal to create your player and get you started. We also highly recommend joining the VHL Discord where there is a channel dedicated to helping new members with any questions that they may have about the league or improving their player. Once your player is made VHLM General Managers will be in touch with you about joining their teams. In the meantime, please feel free to ask any questions you have here or in your create-a-player thread. We're happy to have you in the community and we hope you stick around!

@JardyB10 took weeks off, not days off.