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I would definitely like them to be more present and more formalized (how we coming on that @Dil) but design wise they are done up somewhat uniquely already, I made sure each team fit a theme but had its own twists as well with the font and design. You can see all the retired numbers Here if you never have.

I get a piece from @Frank and @enigmatic in the same week, that's like hitting the VHL Graphic lottery

The people in charge need TPE too so I might as well make some of these myself, even if I'm one of the ones in charge of making it happen. 1. Other people have talked about it and @bigAL touched on it but: More community driven projects. I'm getting a sense from reading through these that people want events and more content on the site and such and that's all great and admirable. What I want to see done with it is the community take charge on things. By all means us blues can help where it's needed but on the whole you don't need us to set something up and you don't need TPE payment for everything that adds enjoyment to the league. So many things over the years have become paid positions later based on sheer amount of involvement from the community, the most recent of which I think is the VSN which did not start as a sanctioned position at all, people just started doing it and then the league gave it the "stamp of approval" later. So if you want to see something done, go do it! If we take issue with it we'll let you know but in all likelihood it'll be totally fine. 2. Something @Dil touched on above: I'd like to see Trivia moved to the portal. It will come as no surprise to anyone that I hate the idea of answer sharing and the fact that it's basically 2 TPE to copy answers from one of a few people. Moving it to the portal would not only make the job easier for the Trivia head but would also mean that questions could be randomized, making it much harder for people to just share answers. I don't mind people helping each other find the answers but the point of trivia is to engage newer members in the history of the league that they weren't here to experience. You aren't doing that if you're just copying from someone else. 3. More character building, I've got no idea how we'd do this or actually encourage it but it would be cool. Like I'll admit I never went with a "weird" name until Papa and that also meant that I never really embraced a character but I have been enjoying it immensely, especially last season in Yukon where the team really embraced being my nameless ghouls and we all got to have fun with it as a unit. That was more fun than I've had in the VHLM for a long time and really made taking on a new player seem more interesting.

Surprise early sims! It's madness! Also I just finished moving my whole setup back to the office and I have a bit of time so best do them now. Let's go for day 31!

Kinda figured I’d plummet to the bottom, especially after McLaren was traded.

This exists on Android and has for awhile. We're currently in the development stage for a re-design that will bring it to iOS as well. @Dil would have more details. This has long been a want but the devs have told me it's a hell of a lot harder than it sounds like. Essentially the portal's language and the forum's language don't like each other so combining them would basically involve creating our own forum setup from the ground up or figuring out a way to make the portal function within IPB. Neither is particularly easy.

Time for some sims? I certainly think so! Day 30 incoming!

1st thought: Holy Shit I got starts 2nd thought: My poor stats!

Welcome to the VHL, Wolfe! 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 don’t think we really need initiative for it, people are more than welcome to do something and if it blows up and deserves pay we’ll gladly pay them. Look at how VSN started. I think it’s mostly making it clear that the expectation shouldn’t be someone else has to do everything for you or that every single thing needs to be paid from day 1. If you want to do something, do it. We’ll let you know if it’s a problem. Jesus we have a hard enough time coming up with 1 haha

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I guess we could have a cutoff of like 2 weeks but the whole point of welfare is being something super quick and easy that you still need to come on to claim. Making it something you can just set up once and automatically get kinda defeats that purpose. The better suggestion would be to have people actually use the Official Away Thread because if we know people aren’t around it’s pretty easy to be lenient on the IA rules. We aren’t heartless, we’ll gladly make exceptions to a lot of things if we are made aware in advance. They’d still have to claim TPE those weeks if they expect to get any but it could save them being removed.

That seems like a good idea on paper but wouldn’t it be massively easy to abuse? Player knows they are going to be going inactive so their GM just says to turn on vacation mode so that it can just auto-claim for them. Or do I missunderstand ?

Day 29 of SIMS!

Worst case we run it old school and just assign the players after.

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Welcome to the VHL, Gus! 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!

@Red / @Ledge and Dairy any update on these?

Damn sexy, though I do wish I had actually won a continental cup…

Welcome to the VHL, Jabs! 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, dking97! 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!

Papa is the ultimate backup goalie.

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Day 28 Sim speed run incoming!

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