Beketov

You’ve been GMing longer than I’ve been simming so nice self-burn

Welcome to the VHL, Oldhead91! 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!

INDEX @VHL GM To send in your lines please use the Team Management section of the portal, if you have manual requests due to trades or other roster changes please PM me your notes. For this first set if there any any issues in your rosters please let me know as soon as possible so I can correct them before the first sim Wednesday. I made sure all rosters can be at least valid so we should have no problems there but if you're missing any players, if any players are the wrong position, or anything else I need to know. A reminder that the portal and the sim are different entities so having someone on your roster portal wise does not guarantee they will be in your roster sim wise. I have to add them manually so please be as clear as possible with any requests. Last bit of house keeping is a reminder that your lines should not be renamed in any way from the default. Changing the name at all will make the auto-load lines function skip your lines and I'm not likely to notice so please be sure they are simply named after your team as is the default. I cannot promise you a specific time for games, although 7PM EST is most likely; whenever games do run they will be live at the link below. I can't promise you they will be very entertaining; in fact I can almost guarantee that they won't be. However in an effort to be more transparent with our simming you will all be able to watch me click buttons in all it's glory. I will do my best to put a message on discord whenever I go live and you can use the #roles channel to subscribe to the notifications so you won't miss when sims are going live. I also suggest downloading the VHL App which will allow you to receive push notifications when games are posted. Good luck to everyone this season and let's have another good one!

Welcome to the VHL, GaryBY! 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!

It used to, and it's far CLEANER is if does. The problem is that more heavily punishes lower earning players. Yes it's all a percentage but we were having players taking so 4 or 5 seasons in the VHLM and then getting hit with depreciation as soon as they came up to the VHL which hardly seems reasonable enough if it's "more realistic." It's rare realism works perfectly, I was just pointing out why it's harsh. You are an older player, you have a harder time. I mean as a general reminder to people, you don't HAVE to play a full career. Like if saving for that last season of depreciation just doesn't sound fun for you but you also want to skip the VHLE then why not just retire at 8? There's kinda a mindset recently that you have to play your full career and you don't. People used to retire early all the time. I'm not saying "well just retire" is the perfect solution or anything, I'm just saying that absolutely no one is being forced to deal with it. You could choose to stay down instead of earning at an insane rate (which again, I always advocated for it to be very difficult to skip) or if you do just get lucky and have insane earning and don't want to do 9 seasons then don't do 9 seasons. Nothing is being forced here.

Should have finished reading before I hit submit on the last comment. I want to be clear that I'm not saying "nope, this is the way it is, suck it up", by all means things can change. Hell the 9th season got more severe because people pushed for it to be more severe; it's not as if I proposed that; unless I did and just forgot haha. All I was doing was pointing out the flaw in @Alex's logic that people "did what they were supposed to do" when there isn't really any such thing as what people are "supposed to do" but the EXPECTATION would be 1 M season, 1 E season. That is how it's designed to be. Ultimately depreciation is meant to simulate the idea of players getting older. It's not like you see 40 year old NHL players that just play the same as they did at 20. We offered an extra season and if people are taking that extra season in the VHL to get those records and to get those cups and to get those awards then, IMO, it should be a bit of a challenge. That's the trade off for getting the extra season of play. Can it be adjusted? Sure. But is it meant to be easy? Not really.

I'm not saying the E is any different. I also don't think that having the 9th season be tough depreciation is inherently telling people to stay in the VHLE. To me if you're capable of hitting that 9th season then you are capable of managing that depreciation. This isn't the sort of ting that your average first gen (who may not save for depreciation well) is going to encounter as the VHLE by design is meant to be hard to skip. Personally I think the idea that the VHLE must be more easily skippable is what created more of an issue because everything around the 9th season was MEANT to be difficult, not something the average user could easily achieve. That's not to say people should spend extra seasons down that they don't need to but 1 season, to me, is not "extra" seasons it's the expectation.

FWIW the 9th season was always more of “above and beyond” rather than “what they are supposed to do”. It was created with the assumption that you’d spend 1 season in the M and 1 in the E; thus to get the “normal” VHL 8 we added a season. The ability to do 9 is really just for the crazy earners that can manage it and really want that extra season to go for a cup or awards or records or whatever. It shouldn’t be looked at as “the norm” since that’s not what it was ever designed to be.

D - Velociraptor Greg F - Larry Abass Jr @Jubis

The simming team for S90 is: VHL: @Beketov VHLM: @Josh VHLE: @MexicanCow123 Backup: @N0HBDY @VHL GM @VHLM GM @VHLE GM

D - Brian Payne F - Tomas Sogaard @Jubis

Sounds to me like you want to claim it

@hylands we’re over 12 hours so that’s skip 1/2; you can make your pick whenever. @Jubis you’re up. not trying to do things for you @Enorama just trying to keep things moving along haha

Welcome to the VHL, Hock Mac! 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!

No one else is gonna skip the Group Manager so I'll do it.... @Enorama it's been 18 hours so that's skip 1/2; you can make your pick whenever it's convenient. @FrostBeard is on the clock.

It’s been the IPB curse for decades, you can’t tell it NOT to change.

Youngin’s figuring out how old school emoticons worked.

I take offence to this since it clearly makes me an aggressively old member haha

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Welcome to the VHL, MandyManiac! 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!

F - Ronan Lavelle @Jubis

Welcome to the VHL, Ld_liam! 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!

They do not. As far as I’m aware Chicago is the only team to not have a single retirement.

To be fair a lot of teams stopped jersey retirements in the 40’s - 60’s, it wasn’t just Bush. Just most teams since the revival have had some new ones and Calgary just kinda hasn’t.

It had to get made at some point anyway. Just changing a logo out isn't too tricky compared to the initial designs which are all done now anyway aside from Chicago... @badcolethetitan is gonna have to choose someone to be the first so we can finally have a full set.