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FWIW I don’t think any of even us old farts thing Discord is useless. It’s more so just an annoyance that basically all non-TPE related talk has switched to it which makes the forum itself feel pretty dead by comparison.

That moment when neither the writer nor editor realizes there’s a weird auto-correct in your quote and you’re stuck trying to figure out what it was supposed to be. They were for a time actually but when we switched them to clubs instead of direct forums we lost the ability to place them; the bottom is the only place clubs can go. I’ve never quite understood this argument in any case though. Where a forum is placed in the main board means nothing to me because I don’t individually click into forums and sub forums pretty much ever. I just click “view new content” and scroll through that. Do people not use that feature?

I’m looking forward to no longer holding that record. However it would be nice to not immediately become the lowest scoring Brooks winner ever haha. 5 goals in 7 games should hopefully be doable to avoid that.

I feel like you said this last time and then fought me tooth and nail for it our entire run up to the draft.

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I concur with Green. @Cornholio has had the name for ages.

Think of how members are these days. A lot of the time they do stuff purely to get paid for it. If you think about it, once someone leaves the VHLM the majority of their extra earning potential disappears and they have to kinda fall into the regular routine. This would theoretically add some extra bonuses to look forward to.

FWIW I hadn’t been commish, Simmer, or BOG until after I was inducted. My article really needs some updating haha

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It’s been talked about a bunch of times. The main problem is that our builds can’t realistically be as diverse with the engine we use. For example, making a playmaker archetype makes no sense because you get basically as many assists while aiming to be a sniper. I didn’t add anything to passing until my 5th off-season and have been basically even on goals to assist ratio my whole career. So it would add the illusion of choice while really just limiting stats arbitrarily and forcing everyone into the same archetype meta because of the aforementioned “everyone will do whatever to get ahead"

At that point I deem it less interesting. Why have just 1 thing to hit when you can have multiple things to earn the TPE? Gives more stuff to aim for which means more interest overall. Also it’s at least twice as easy to get 100 hits as it is to get 50 goals so there will always ben an easier option, even if you remove the really easy ones. I don’t see a benefit to choosing a single item over choosing a pack and having all be required to advance through the tiers.

I fail to see how it adds more flavour than simply having packs of tiers geared towards different builds. You get the same flavour without having everyone picking the easiest option automatically.

This. i’ve seen it for 12 years now. People will start with whatever they want but if it means missing out on some TPE you’ll see the trend quickly go towards the meta. Kinda like how everyone retires at the deadline now because it give you that extra quarter season jolt of earning. Everything will come down to TPE, it always does. If we give people a huge amount of options they’ll all end up with the same choice. As I said, I’m not against giving some build choice with these if you want to tailor your tiers to your build but I don’t think choosing 1 and getting rewarded for it is the best option because everyone will just pick the easiest. FWIW as well I wonder if the choice shouldn’t be after the draft instead of at creation. just wouldn’t want to overwhelm a new member with a bunch of choices they don’t understand right off the hop.

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We do. However I believe we also have the settings so that it’s effect is as minimal as possible. Setting it to max is just a backup strategy. I could very well be wrong but that’s how I understand it to be set up. There is also a bit of an argument to me made that it would suck if a team’s superstar got busy for a season and they end up taking a double hit if not having that person updating but also their endurance getting crippled. Take @Tagger for example. Is it anyone’s fault that a player gets busy really?

If you only need 1 thing from that list than those reward numbers need some major adjusting. I guess they aren’t hugeness numbers but with how much TPE we have floating around some of this seems pretty easy for the reward you get even when half of it is team based. Like 5 TPE for making the playoffs? You didn’t even contribute necessarily. In my experience anything involving this much choice will yield 1 normal season and then everyone will figure out the easiest ones and everyone will just get the same bonus at basically the same time, boring. What I would say is remove the choice but add more tiers and make it cumulative. So like tier 1 could be 25 goals, 25 assists, and 1 full season or something for 5 TPE. Once that is done you move into tier 2 which is 100, 100, and 3 full seasons for 10, etc. Build up as you go but require that all are hit before you get rewarded. Ideally remove team based ones unless they are outside of the regular tiers. Gives people something to be working towards constantly which is nice but removing the choice means you don’t get stuck with everyone doing the easiest option. Keeping track of it all could be a pain mind you but I’m sure something portal wise could be built to automatically offer up tier rewards. If we did still want some choice have tiers designed around certain build options so that a Defenseman for example doesn’t need to score to hit the tiers or if someone wants to build a 2 way they could need hits but a pure scorer wouldn’t, etc.

99% sure we have endurance set to do nothing but I could be wrong.

So would you need everything in a tier to get the reward or just 1 item, I’m not sure I follow?

Gonna say it’s not going to haha. I can live with a few TPE lower in predictions, I’ve never been good at them.

I wish. I also picked Riga for the Victory Cup and made a bold guess that crossover would result in a Riga / HSK final.

TPE also doesn’t mean shit. Means a little but more but still. You jumped onto a stacked roster, you really aren’t gonna be pulling a huge pile of points from that no matter your TPE level. I picked you for ROTY, I wish you were performing better. I get why you aren’t though.