Beketov

Lies, the filters are our best feature.

I'm not in the PBE but what are there attributes like? What is their update scale like? More TPE does not necessarily automatically mean better between leagues, it's a metric that doesn't transfer. For example it's way easier to get huge piles of TPE in the SBA it seems (just based on my player) but their update scale is very intense so each TPE means slightly less. It makes the metrics difficult. Honestly I think people should just look at what they enjoy about the leagues and aim to do that instead of being hyper focused on what's the most optimal TPE path.

Will we see an early exit for 2 teams in Europe or will Warsaw and Prague fight back? Can anyone in North America stretch out a lead or will they remain hotly contested? Let's find out!

I’m not in the money leagues so I can’t say for sure (not knowing how it works) but I assume he means that more words = more money vs. You get 6 TPE whether you write 500 words or 999 so there’s more of a focus on actually making valuable content instead of just writing as many words as possible.

Others are kinda touching on the other points so I’m just gonna quote this one really quickly. Funnily enough JCINK was the go to for awhile because it’s by far the best of the free options but it’s just that, free. No license cost, no hosting costs. Our forum, being IPB based, has a license fee and a hosting cost and our portal has a hosting cost even with us building it ourselves. If I’m not mistaken these some amount to about $250 a year. It’s not substantial but it’s definitely not 0.

Let’s get this man into the BOG!

The naming doesn't make a big difference really. Quarter Finals in the sense of the Cup final is the "finals" but because it's broken down by conference it would be the conference Semi's, conference finals, then Continental Cup Final. The wild card is technically the conference quarter finals.

Welcome to the VHL, Mysteries_Eric! 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!

Meant to respond to this as well. I don’t have our books in front of me but to have things not change at all and keep the annual charity drive and the large prize giveaways and the advertisements (aka the large spending objects, not counting buying logos) we would be talking about at least 500 members donating $2/ year. Probably quite a bit more actually. To give you an idea, the top prize in our birthday giveaway was $250, same at Christmas, and our charity drives the league has matched $500 I believe to charity. So we go through a lot from these “bonus” items. If you’re talking purely how much would be needed to keep the lights on and not have any kind of giveaways or charity work or anything then we’re looking at probably 200 people maybe. The thing with either of those is that while it’s much less money it would be more or less required from everyone to even keep the lights on and we’d be losing a lot of the big events that we’ve been doing and would be required to cheap out on our logos and not do any charity work which I think would be detrimental. So we’d have an inferior product and may be less “pay to win” (Which I don’t remotely think we are) and would be more “pay to play” which I don’t really want to be. We would put the cost on everyone instead of having it be on the few that can afford to do so if they choose. Personally that’s a trade off I’m willing to make.

We’re in the process of moving all our funds so that Sterling doesn’t need to take care of it anymore and once that’s fully complete we plan to be much more straightforward about the funds but to the point of “is it necessary” I would say yes but not in the way you’d expect. General overhead costs aren’t overly high. Some STHS licenses every once in awhile, hosting costs for the forum and portal, that sorta stuff amounts to very little. Couple hundred bucks a year maybe. The bigger costs are advertising, logo purchasing, and the annual charity drive and prize giveaways. Those cost us far more and if all “revenue” (if you wanted to call it that) dried up we would have to stop doing that sort of thing in order to keep the lights on which would not be ideal. The coffers appear pretty full but they can certainly empty quickly. To be honest I do disagree with this. If it is a barrier for them it is one that they themselves create. Donations are by no stretch required. My last two players were both first ballot HoF players and combined may have had 2 donations between their careers. The max uncapped you get from donating is 11 TPE per season so in total if you did so every single season you’d be in the vein of 100 TPE, that’s not game breaking over 10 seasons. Obviously we aren’t opposed to people doing it but we’ve never looked at it as something that needs to be done in order to succeed or gain a substantial edge. So yes, we do want them, but yes we also need cash flow to keep the doors open and the lights on, certainly unless people want to give up a lot of the perks we offer. However I completely disagree that the donations are a barrier for entry or that they make anything “pay to win” since they offer a very low marginal increase to TPE. By no means are we ever expecting that people must donate to be part of the site and we would never ask them to.

Welcome to the VHL, Turnip67! 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!

Who is this impostors who doth not don the face paint and robes?!? I must get to the bottom of this!

Welcome to the VHL, WindTheory! 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!

Happy Halloween my ghouls! I'm eating my kid's candy (only the stuff he can't eat) so good time for some sims right?

I also gave a hint on discord last night so might as well give it here: The post is one generated by the portal but it is NOT a game thread.

Twice baked for sure. Crispy skin, perfectly smooth middle, absolutely delicious. Also was I the only one expecting something about chicken nuggets?

Meant to add that. It’s open until midnight pacific tough so still several hours.

We like to make you marginally work for it sometimes

The clues don't really involve needing much knowledge of the league, it's pretty straightforward. Also teammates can usually point you in the right direction

Who's ready for Game 5?!? Let's find out who goes on to face Vancouver and Moscow and who goes home.

@Victor, though elected might be a strong word. Who is most likely to get a facial tattoo?

Welcome to the VHL, Baldwin! 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!

I’m not sure if it’s public knowledge or not but @hylands has expressed that he will be stepping down as GM of Malmo. We would like to thank him for his time as GM and wish him all the best in future endeavours. Additionally with @Josh coming on as a commish he has decided to step aside as GM of LA to focus on his other commitments and give someone else a shot at the team. So, as seems to be the case a lot with so many teams, we have yet another off season incoming where we need to hire new GM’s, two in this case. If you are interested in the openings, please post in this thread stating so. Please do not contact the Commissioners outside of this thread, we will reach out to all who apply, privately. ***Please refrain from making comments regarding any candidates and their "worthiness" of being hired for this job, positive or negative. Any comment that is not an application will be removed to maintain a clean list of actual candidates, and (I hate that this actually needs to be said, but...) any member bashing will not be tolerated.***

Welcome to the VHL, DLBStorm! 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!

My work is done for the week, I've got some bourbon; seems like a good time for some sims.