The E is kind of a joke so far

[Rin 138]

Sorry for quite the CTA in the title, but I do want to use my .com article this week to vent about the early experience in the E.

 

To start, there's definitely already a bias against the E for me personally-- I feel like it's just another minors season to half-pay attention to while I wait to get back into the majors. It doesn't really feel like it's worth much career-wise to me, but those are all just personal takes from someone who hasn't been through the process yet.

 

Even forgetting the bias, though, the start to my E career has been...awful. I was contacted by all of one GM about the draft (and I feel bad for not being able to respond in time), so the draft was a crapshoot. I was drafted by a team that hadn't communicated with me, immediately traded to a team that hadn't communicated with me, and hilariously still have received minimal communication even after the draft. The only contact so far? A single DM that says "here's a link to our Discord server," which includes no text other than that. Not even...y'know, the link to the server. I sent a DM back because it was a funny mistake, whoops forgot to paste the link, but the DM hasn't been checked by the other party since they sent it.

 

This was on October the 22nd. I sent a follow-up, still no response.

 

So my question...does anyone give a shit about this league? Am I just a trade pawn/NPC to be used on a defensive line? Can I be traded to a team that actually cares?

 

I've been in the E for all of a few games and I'm already not a fan. This will be a fun season.

[jRuutu 2,475]

This is what happens when GMs work with clickers/semi-actives and inactives mostly, the level of effort that is required is low. And understandably so, the actives tend not to stick around that long, so GM's just half-ass it. In my opinion, the active players should be a clear upgrade, the teams and GMs should fight to get the players, even for one season. That would require welfare to be a lot weaker than now and you start to lose TPE right away if you do not claim TPE for a while.

 

VHLE should be a league made just from active players. Instead of deleting VHLE, the league should add one more league: VHLF - a farm league for VHLE where all the clickers and inactive play, they are called up to VHLE if absolutely needed to round out the rosters in VHLE. If VHLE has only 4 teams, even only 2 teams, so be it. VHLF is simmed once a week, a schedule fit for the players in the league. VHLE will get daily sims, pure actives against actives action.

 

Time to put actives first!

[Spartan 4,531]

@Gaming Ringleader

[Grape 739]

The E being shit as per usual. People might stop shitting on the league if the people running it actually did their jobs.

[Rin 138]

35 minutes ago, Grape said:

The E being shit as per usual. People might stop shitting on the league if the people running it actually did their jobs.

 

Finally got an LR invite, nobody is talking in there and nobody has even assigned me a player role. I don't know if anyone even PLAYS for this team

 

Is this what the E is about? I get to hang out in VHLExodus for a season, serving a one year prison sentence until I get the call-up?

[Grape 739]

2 minutes ago, Rin said:

Is this what the E is about? I get to hang out in VHLExodus for a season, serving a one year prison sentence until I get the call-up?

It's kind of just the curse of the TPE range. that 200-400 area is where a lot of first-gens burn out, so a lot of E teams suffer from just being filled with IAs. There was somewhat of a reduction of it, but now it's just filled with clickers. It's pretty painful for actual dedicated players. I guess we just never felt it because when the M and VHL ate up that range, there were plenty of actives surrounding it to make it feel not as barren. It's better to try and skip it I suppose.

[rory 1,943]

1 team is the whole VHLE CONFIRMED