Beketov

@Josh can confirm because he’s running the shadow sims but I believe 1.5 is one of the tests.

FWIW we are constantly testing but a few things with the newer engines are apparent: 1. Nothing is less random, even people on the STHS forums have said the results in 2+ are less realistic. 2. Going to 1.5 may be possible but 2+ would need huge restructuring of either our starting TPE or update scale or both.

No, for a very simple reason: The engine is not perfect for our needs but the program is. Everything in the portal is designed around how easy STHS makes things. We can create and update players in like 2 clicks, we can output all our stats to the portal super easy, we can have everything work the way people have come to expect. We change away from STHS and all that goes away. Look at how the portal works on the SBA for example, it exists but most everything is still manual because their program isn’t as versatile as ours is. We are shadow simming some updates but moving away from STHS IMO is out of the question.

I’m still okay doing that, just need to get around to make them. There’s nothing really special about our sliders; they are just what works for us. Considering there have been, serious or otherwise, people claiming the sliders have been adjusted to positively affect the simmers’ players or team I wouldn’t even mind having it be added to the initial indexes every season, just showing what we’re using. Of course that isn’t proof that they never change but I can’t actually recall if you CAN change them once a season starts. Here’s the problem, we can’t give you the answer because we don’t really know ourselves. We have guesses and those are readily available but all we have is the same resources that you guys do. There’s no magic manual that comes with the simming job or something. I only just learned with my last player that discipline depresses your PIL by decreasing your hits. There’s a lot of stuff Simon kinda keeps under wraps.

We did try to find the members it would affect but I think we miss counted. We’re discussing potential alternatives but didn’t want to straight up grandfather people in because that’s completely saying to new guys “hey, you weren’t around 12 years ago when this was easy so they get to do less work than you.” Considering the common sentiment is “fuck the old boys club” (which doesn’t even exist) we didn’t want to have 2 different segments of pension. With that said, as I mentioned, we’re looking at alternatives.

The joys of decision making. No matter what you piss off at least 50% of people. Some want everything handed to them, some want to be rewarded for their hard work. There is no pleasing everyone. There’s a discussion in the BOG, which I was under the impression was going to happen when I saw so little discussion last night. I wouldn’t say that anyone is necessarily being stubborn. More so that a gun was perhaps jumped.

If there should be 0 advantage to putting in the work than the concept of point tasks completely goes away. Maybe that’s a direction the league needs to go but the people putting in the effort are supposed to be rewarded for that effort. I think on the whole the league gives plenty of opportunity to hit a lot of TPE with less than an hour total per week of work, if that. Also just for the record, trivia was never designed to be “have someone hand you the answer” that’s just what it turned into. I do think the questions have become a bit too hard for this to be a feasible goal and perhaps we need to ease up on that and make it more accessible. I don’t see a purpose in its existence at all though if it’s just getting the answers from someone. Might as well just increase PF by 2 and call it a day at that point.

Very few people get auto-12. Next to no one actually. I think there may be 10 people who get the full cap and the majority are doing recruitment work which is vital for league survival. I don’t think that’s as big of an issue as you’re implying it is.

Hey I finally scored! *Looks at Score* Aww

These youngin’s got no respect! Also considering most people here fall under Millennials or Gen Z (with a few exceptions) I feel like we need VHL specific generation names.

I didn’t read it so it’s likely he’s miss-representing what was actually said but chances are he’s referring to his apparent belief that we don’t actually look into any reports. He has it in his head that if someone reports him for something, anything at all, he’s going to be banned. Regardless of who the report is against we look at every report individually and decide whether or not it’s actually something punishable or if someone is just abusing the system. We’d never punish someone for doing nothing wrong and a member simply reporting it because they don’t like the writer.

I don’t have time to read this all right now but I will later.

Admins can see edits. If someone does something wrong and can delete it we have no proof. If they do something wrong and edit it we do.

FWIW there’s no “blanket punishment” really. As a general thing people care more about missing a week of updating than they do a couple of days of being on the forum (for example as an equivalent) so we’re more apt to do PT bans. Basically we’ve found that for some being suspended doesn’t really have an effect because it doesn’t affect their player at all which is what most care about. If a punishment has no real effect on the punished then there’s no reason to have it.

I mean better but closer than I'd like to see against Davos

Well that's not ideal....

I’d be glad to do them, though finding time to podcast is tricky lately depending how long it takes.

Divisions have never mattered, we made them mostly for the fun of having them. However once we went back to conferences it had to be set up so that you played your own conference more than the other so conferences matter. Come to think of it, I kinda forgot about divisions when I set the schedule up so let’s hope I made it correctly haha Depreciation never touched me with Thompson, git gud perhaps The Beketov is assists yeah. Also it’s S70.

Double Oof

Oof

Well shit

I haven’t looked at their games, was purely making a guess that they were being goons.

Hitting?

While I prefer all things dark mode on my desktop I like light mode on my phone. Not sure why.

TBH I’d be amazed if you don’t stay ahead of me. For one I don’t donate so that bites me in the ass on TPE sometimes and second, Thompson’s earn rate was a bit insane and I need a bit of a breather. Obviously I’ll still be hitting the cap and all that but a pile of uncapped stuff? Unlikely.