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Obviously that line will be found. It’s no different than any other PT being league related. Obviously we aren’t monitoring everything so some will squeak through but for the most part people will be good about it. We do want to have fun with it so not every question needs to be directly related to the sim or what-not. As long as it’s something that could be related back it’ll be fine. An example someone (I honestly don’t recall who) gave would be like, ”How do you think Trump’s administration will have an effect on travel for European games” obviously thats not directly related since it’s kinda going for a Trump opinion but they made it relate back to the league somewhat. Even asking like “what games do you play in your downtime” is fine because it helps build up these characters we have created. We aren’t going to be too strict on it but we don’t want to have people asking favourite colours either.

Office Dildo?

Gonna say no; even though I’m pretty sure you’re being sarcastic. We’ll be posting the official regulations on PC’s today or tomorrow but more or less questions must be league related. We’re okay going a little off-topic (the same as we are with podcasts) but it would be nice to bring things more or less back around as much as possible. Obviously it’s uktimately up to @DollarAndADream‘s discretion.

It’s up to them. Each team is allowed to have a pinned topic for weekly questions that their players can answer so GM’s can offer 5 questions for all their players or what not. It allows GM’s to get their points and makes sure that players have questions. It’s not a requirement however.

They aren’t hidden, they just weren’t approved since you had tried to update while you were still banned. I’ll go approve them and you can modify them as needed. Edit: @Will beat me to it. Point is you can modify them.

Well isn’t the egg on my face for forgetting about that part of it. As of right now I will say the compensation TPE is not counting this season and the cap will remain. However, we will discuss if we want to have it count and increase the cap or not.

The cap will remain for this season since we won’t yet be seeing a dramatic increase in TPE until the end of the season at the earliest. At that time we will re-evaluate how the cap is looking.

You mean the one bought from the store? Yes, it will remain as +1 from where it was so it would continue to put PTs up to 7 and FAN 590 articles would go from 2 to 3. That is assuming that the purchase options remain as possible changes are coming to the store as well. However with the current options it will remain as +1.

Yes. @Will will be re-scaling using the same system he did last time which allowed him to do most of the league very quickly. The process will be fast and should be completed before the end of the weekend.

Counted up via update threads. @Quik managed to count up most of the league this afternoon alone so it won't take long.

Whole career. Every week you did a PT or received welfare you are given 3 TPE. This is to account for the fact that everyone will be re-scaled based on a 12 TPE/week scale while careers thus far have been 9 TPE/week. So, as compensation, we are assuming that any week someone did a PT they could have received max points and are giving them extra points back. The convenience of these over podcasts is that players are rewarded for asking questions as well as answering them. So yes, if everyone just waits around for questions then no one will ever get any points. But if they go out and ask them then they'll receive points for asking and others will receive points for answering. Everyone wins. Also, GM's could post questions for their entire team to answer.

Our plan is not to extend things out too much as we should be able to handle most of these changes soon. However with the World Cup the off-season will naturally be a bit longer anyway.

Doubles weeks won’t change any as they have always been only doubling of the regular PT which isn’t changing from its 6 TPE mark.

I had the same thing with Holik. Unfortunately it will be harsher for those that are getting depreciated as well. On the plus side, it means you’ve done more PT’s and will be therefore compensated more as well.

As an additional note as well, to make the compensation pay as easy and accurate as possible all players should have their PT’s / Welfare in their update threads by the end of the weekend so they can be tallied for compensation. Any not in update threads can be accounted for after by PMing the administration but it’ll slow the process down so the sooner the better.

You can if you want but as the post states, everyone is being re-scaled anyway so it won’t make a difference. @Will will be handling most of the re-scale so if you have any questions about it he can answer them.

S59 Off-Season Changes Hello VHL! With the off-season soon to be among us the league would like to take this opportunity to announce a few large changes coming to the VHL TPE system. League Partnership First up is the announcement everyone has been expecting, mostly because I posted it a bit early and jumped the gun at the trade deadline. This time, however, things are completely ready to go. The VHL has officially partnered with two other major leagues currently operating: the EFL and the SBA. What this partnership means is that a PT done in any of the three leagues can be claimed as welfare in any of the other leagues. This partnership has been approved by the BOG in all three leagues so any PT done in any of the three can be used in any of the others. With this partnership our Welfare system is changing in a couple of different ways. We will still have 3 different levels of TPE to be earned from Welfare but how you achieve them and how much you earn is changing. The main part of this change is that doing a PT in an partnered league (EFL or SBA) allows you to claim increased welfare in the VHL. The welfare system we had before is still in place though, with minor changes. The amounts you can earn from welfare now go as follows: Regular Welfare: 4 TPE Pension: 5 TPE Welfare with Affiliate Claim: 6 TPE As always, if you claim welfare you cannot claim a PT in the same week; that has not changed regardless of what level you are utilizing. However all other ways of earning TPE can still be utilized. The definitions for the above fall more or less the same they did before. As a full description though: Regular Welfare – Any member, regardless of previous players TPE levels. Pension - Previously named Pension Plan II. Claimable by members who have had 2 previous players above 400 TPE. Welfare with Affiliate Claim – If you have done a PT in a partnered league, post the link to claim. PT Changes In addition to the above welfare changes, there are a few changes that are coming to earning TPE in the VHL as well. Regular PT's will remain at 6 TPE but FAN 590 articles are increasing from 1 capped TPE to 2. In addition to that, we've added a new way of earning TPE into the league in the form of Press Conferences. For any members of the SBA or EFL this system will sound familiar. Press Conferences allow members to ask and answer questions in order to earn TPE. Questions are answered as your character so it's a great opportunity to get creative and give some character to your players. As mentioned, you can earn TPE by either asking for answering questions. 1 TPE is earned from either answering 3 questions or asking 5 unique ones and each player can earn 2 TPE capped per week. As an added bonus, asking questions to Podcasters for their PT will count as press conference questions. So, in summary: PT - 6 TPE Press Conference - 2 TPE FAN 590 - 2 TPE New Weekly Cap and Pay But wait, there’s more! Some quick math showcases a problem with the above, that’s above the current TPE cap isn’t it? Not anymore! With these new amounts coming into effect the weekly cap is also increasing from 9 to 12 TPE per week. As an extra bonus on top of this, all weekly pay will be increasing by 1 TPE. The only exception to this being the recruitment crew who have always earned the cap so they will continue to earn it and have their pay increased to 12. Update Scale Changes With this extra TPE being offered the update scale does also need to change in order to keep things from getting out of hand TPE wise. With that in mind the new update scale will be: 35-70: 1 70-75: 2 75-80: 3 80-90: 5 90-95: 8 95-99: 10 This scale makes things a bit harsher, especially at the top end, but is mostly designed to alleviate TPE inflation from having 3 extra TPE available per week. Everyone will be rescaled and will have the option of taking a free TPE Re-Roll (Re-Roll topic will be put up during the off-season) if they'd like to change their build with the new scale. In addition, because the scale is changing on account of a higher TPE cap everyone will be awarded bonus TPE based on the amount of PT's they have done up until the re-scale. For each week a PT or welfare has been claimed a player will be awarded 3 TPE. This should help account for the seasons of 9 TPE cap within the new scale. This reward will be counted up for everyone. As I said above this scale does make things a bit harsher so fear not, we are planning more events with uncapped TPE involved than we have in the past. In addition, this change has the potential to lower attributes which means we may be able to use a newer version of the sim engine which will be tested moving forward. So far we have not been able to because the engine is not built for such high attributes but a stronger scale may help lower those and allow us to update. We will test the possible outcomes and bring you further news on this when that testing finishes. Conclusion We firmly believe that these changes will help improve the overall quality of life within the VHL and open our doors more to people from other leagues. However we hope that this isn't all that happens. With the new PT option and new update scale the BOG hopes that people can be more creative with their builds as well as creating characters rather than simply players. We are excited for the future this helps create for the VHL. At this point you're probably wondering when all this goes into effect? Well, we are happy to announce that it will all go in starting in the next PT week so Monday, Feb 12th.

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Same problem all of these riddles use: the last one is 1 tree, not 2. Therefore it’s assumed that the amount is half. So your last line should be (5) + (1)(10) = 15

That was actually me voting. I must have accidentally hit close after. Should be open now.

Obvious GOAT

Done

Things are working a little bit different this season with only 1 conference. We will still have 2 rounds of voting on this but all teams will be involved in this preliminary vote with the top 4 vote-getters being put into the final vote. Because the options cap out at 20 per question the teams have been split into 2 questions. You may vote for 1, 2, or 3 players of your choice between the two. If all your choices come from the same question simply choose the "N/A" option on the other question. Please note as well that two teams did not announce official captains so their captains were chosen for them.

That’s what I got as well. Windmill is 10, garbage can is 5, 2 trees are 2 (this making 1 tree 1) So since you would multiply first you get 1x10 = 10 + 5 = 15

No idea on the exact reason. Generally mobile friendly shows less images to lessen data hits so that’s likely it. I have a 2011 iMac as my main and a computer we built for backups at work as my secondary (which has a CPU from 2013). I wouldn’t call either of those a Gaming machine. And even still I don’t think “being able to see piles of sigs on the VHL” would ba valid reason for upgrading.