Beketov

Bring back the carribean pirates IMO

Totally going to be my next player’s name. At least I wouldn’t be using a celebrity’s name.

I know, just wanted to clarify.

My wording was “maybe” for a reason. We will see what happens. I’m not saying any teams are going for sure.

Honestly I believe crossover for next season is the most logical first step. Anywhere else we go from there may help but bringing back crossover will mean proper competitive playoffs. Like you said, there’s no reason the Bears should be out while the Express are in with 40 points less. It makes the regular season less interesting and it makes the playoffs less interesting since everyone knows the Express will get destroyed. If there were crossover his season the Meute and Reign would still have first round byes, the Titans would face the Bears and the Legion would face the Wranglers. Far better representation of the league’s Best without a doubt. Anyway, big changes are coming. Playoff format for sure but potentially conference and / or number of team changes as well.

I don’t care if it’s petty, it’s the spam forum, that’s what it’s for. I miss the old birthday threads that we had back on the IF board when it actually made note of someone’s birthday. They were silly and fun. That is all.

Your opinion is noted. Just as it was noted two months ago, just as it was noted 6 months ago, just as it was noted a year ago. You’re beating a dead horse. We know your opinion, you make damn sure everyone knows it. Just because you have an opinion on something doesn’t guarantee everyone is going to agree with it and it doesn’t mean things are going to change. Throwing a bossy fit every time and claiming it’s a joke doesn’t prove anything. Graphics are a great part of this community, I get that, but auto-6 has helped more than it has hurt whether you want to agree with it or not.

Maybe I just don’t feel like tolerating people being dicks and hen hiding behind the guise of “it was just a joke, lighten up”. You either give a shot or you don’t, pick one.

Whoever said you were obligated? This woe is fucking me attitide you’ve gotten for yourself is seriously getting old. No one forced you to do Shit all. If you didn’t want to donate your time to the league you shouldn’t have bothered doing so. Don’t whine about it now just because you’re in a fucking mood.

Cool, you can make 20 things by pressing 1 button. Very impressive. Please, tell me again how other members don’t try new things?

How do you even keep track of having not used sigs this old? I can’t remember what I had for breakfast.

Graphically speaking sure but an editor’s job is also to correct spelling and grammar mistakes which is more of what he’s refeeeing to I believe. Not to be offensive but you don’t have the best grammar on the site by far. Also this has nothing to do with the BOG. Don’t make it into something it isn’t.

To be fair I only played it when it first came out but I usually played goalie.

If you have an HDMI for your console you have one for the Elgato. It passes the HDMI through lag free while recording or streaming it in the background.

Elgato hardware is pretty simple. Plug an HDMI in, plug an HDMI out, plug a USB in. There is some stuff that is more complex but that’s the basics. Streaming from PC is even easier, just us OBS and Capture your screen.

Best quality from console is an external capture card like an Elgato which I have but not ideal for everyone obviously. The consoles themselves have streaming features built in.

VHL Vegas No, not Robbie's VHLM team but a betting facility to bet our contract money. Normally I'm against this kind of thing but with the player store being a tad boring it could add a bit of excitement. Basically every season "Vegas" would set odds on certain things. For example, 2:1 odds that Riga wins the Victory Cup. 4:1 odds that Thrower wins the Beketov, etc. You can bet on whatever you want and put up however much money you want. That money can't be used in the player store as it goes into the "Vegas bank" until the end of the season where it's either taken away if the house wins or payed back + the odds if you win. Could make contract money a lot more interesting. VHL Streaming It hasn't happened yet but I'm going to keep bringing it up. It would be cool to have a VHL Stream team / Twitch account to try and bring some people in. Streaming has become a huge form of content and it can be basically anything we want. Live sigs with @boubabi, CoD time with myself, The Witcher with @Phil, etc. I know it's not something everyone can do but it would still be cool to see. We already basically allow it as video / podcast content anyway so why not make it official? VHL Mini-Games I'm not 100% sure of this one would operate but I know a lot of us had fun when @Molholt was running VHL Wrestling so it would be cool to see more stuff like this. Stuff that will keep people interested and talking about a particular topic of interest for many. Let's be honest, some of us have been doing the VHL for awhile now and just discussing games where we expect to know the outcomes already is bound to get dull eventually. This would offer something to keep interest up in other aspects of the league and keep things fun which is what this is supposed to be. The VHL isn't meant to be a chore, why make it one? If we want to really integrate it then maybe have the "mini games" still count as league related for 590 and MS's and stuff. I don't see the harm. Record Book Reset I love the VHL history as much as anyone else. Hell, I'm a huge part of that VHL history (first draft pick ever bitches!) but I can understand how seeing Scotty at the top of every record book is getting old. There were definitely other things going on at the time that were interesting but it was fun in the first few seasons to see records get broken every once in awhile. In game records, on board records, team records. The whole nine yards. Every record book gets archived as "Pre-season 60" (or whatever season we do it) and we go fresh. You want to have the record for most goals in a season? Build your sniper and go get it. You want that TPE record, it's up for grabs. Sure it's not a huge thing but it's fun. I mean really who among us wasn't cheering for Jaarvi when he was on record pace a few seasons ago? Cross-over playoffs This is more of a "at minimum" suggestion than a full one because the playoff format could be entirely re-worked somewhat. But for now I think we bring cross-over back. We only had it for a few seasons and honestly I didn't have an issue with it. The conferences don't create any kind of rivalries or more games against division teams or anything so why have them control the playoffs? This season for example the Express have clinched a playoff spot with fewer points than the Americans who are eliminated from contention. How is that at all right? At the bare minimum if we are allowing 6 teams into the playoffs it should be the top 6 teams.

Assuming @JardyB10 can post extra (since he actually winning is pretty quick) a couple of days a week I think this could be nice to see. Wouldn’t really hurt much I don’t think and keeps things flowing. The only thing it would alter is TPE levels since seasons would take less time but we’re talking maybe 9 TPE less per season so over the course of an entire career you’re looking at 72 TPE less which isn’t really much.

That has been my suggestion, for months now, but it has never gone anywhere. I don’t know if enough of us have the gear / time to be able to build a following. Maybe live boubabi dogs could get us some looks but not much else. Would still enjoy the hell out of it though.

We’ve considered it in the past several times over but the consensus every time seems to be that no one would really buy it. I guess maybe as a giveaway item it might be better though.

Going back further, I was forced to retire Chekhov early because of no goalie market. It happens every few seasons basically.

And if not for NY I would have signed with you but let’s be honest, you weren’t going to be competitive the two seasons I had left. I had to try.

That would be up to 16 TPE so I’m going to go with a no unfortunately on that directly but if you want to give a basic overview as suggestions and then offer much more specific details as an MS that’s fine.

I’ll add either fastest skater or obstacle course. Whichever.

What do you all think about what’s going on with Battlefront II and EA? I was kinda interested in the game at first but honestly with the way they are ha sling everything with their micro transactions I honestly want nothing to do with it.