Its 15, but 3 for me

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The VHL turned 15 recently, and for that, I want to talk about the past, and how things changed. I wanted to talk about when I first created a player in the VHL, and what has changed to this point. Although I only joined the VHL back in 2019, I think I’ve learned a lot since the beginning of my discovery of this forum.

 

I started off the forum not really collecting anything, I would collect welfare, practice, trivia, and fantasy zones, but that was really all that I knew about. I slowly learned more and more about the forum, but it took until I came back a year later to really get in-depth on this forum. Many new players probably don’t know, but you had to write in a forum category a +4 or +5 for the welfare and then use that as the link for the welfare collecting. The practice was the same way, but you needed to type +1 or +2. This was quite simple, but when comparing that to clicking a couple of buttons, it has been made way easier, and quicker to claim and apply that tpe to your player.

 

Trivia is renewed, but many people on this forum probably remember the old model of collecting trivia, well it didn’t last and seemed a bit tedious. For those of you who don’t know, the previous method was the publisher would have 2 questions on a google doc, and it would be up to you to answer correctly, and if I recall, it was not multiple choice. At some point the commissioners said, “no more trivia.” and canceled trivia for a couple of seasons, and let me tell you, those seasons were a grind trying to collect the 12-capped tpe. Without trivia or a replacement, there were just reviews that could be done to replace the missing 2 tpe. It doesn’t sound too bad, but reading an article, and writing a review about it takes more time than it would to look up who won the victory cup in season 50. They also made a minimum 75-word review for acceptance during the time trivia wasn’t around, and it didn’t come back until just before game reviews were a thing. I remember getting told that the reason was canceled previously was because of all the complaints of poorly written questions, everyone cheating (writing the answers on discord, since it was on google docs, everyone’s questions were the same), and whatever else people complain about. The new trivia became a sensation, and much less work is needed for it, use suggestions put them in a pot, and every question gets randomized, so people do not have the same questions anymore. There are still problems with poorly written questions, but that’s a story for a different day.

 

Although fantasy zones haven’t changed much, they have still changed, where the doc is right on one page on the forum rather than 3 different links. Although these aren’t major changes, and many better changes likely have happened, I didn’t notice it because I was not involved in the forum like I am now. I think these small changes have made this forum take bigger leaps in the right direction, and I hope it continues to improve.