theme week MS

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So recruitment is the theme for this week eh? This is one of those topics I've never put much thought into, I just don't feel I have the mind for it, for how to best bring in new people to a sim league. A sim league can be a hard sell to because I think it takes a good level of imagination to get the most out of it, there isn't an actual game to watch after, you just check in day after day, week after week, month after month, to look at your screen and see the score sheet and final score and move one. I know there are more descriptive aspects to look at but at the end of the day it's still text on a screen, there isn't a highlight reel to go watch after a game is simmed. This goes for the more tedious part of it too, typing articles and media spots. (I know graphics are a thing to but a good chunk will always feel typing is their only option) I've always leaned more into the role play aspect of the league as it helps me find motivation and enjoyment from the league, it's why I tend to type more posts that feel like there serious and in the actual world of the VHL, and I avoid saying TPE, because it doesn't make sense in a literal context. There are a number of challenges that come with leaning into the RP aspect of it though, like ridiculous names that are more so for a meme or some other silly reason, how fast the season goes by because there's no way in real life players are playing two if not three games a day, and if each season in the VHL is like the NHL and is almost a year long then the year it would be in the VHL is sometime in the future and..... ya it just gets hard to make sense of it all, so I avoid talking about certain factors because of it. For the record I'm not suggesting changing this as I think having a season that actually last close to a year long would be tiresome and I don't think player freedom should be taken away when it comes to names.

Before I continue I can only state that this is my opinion and what I have come to enjoy about the VHL, at least as much as I can. I know it will be different for other people, in terms of what drives them to return with player after player. So after that rant I think it's clear what I'd like the VHL to do, lean into the RP side of it more, advertise that, make a player's career feel special and life like. Dive into the history aspect of too and mention some older players that people like me never even knew about. They don't all have to be hall of famers either, you can have some very solid career players that never dominated the league but were consistent and perhaps heavily tied to one team. I don't know how you go about getting that out there but it's what I would like to see. I also can't help but echo something I saw in another media spot, and that's changing the amount of words or TPE tied to a point task. In my case I've thought about this before with media spots, maybe it's time to reduce the minimum amount of words in them. Lower to it 350 perhaps? Yes this would mean 700 for two weeks, 1050 for three, and 1400 for four, heck maybe let us to 1750 for five. Make it easier for new players to complete them? And for veterans like myself (I can call myself a veteran at this point, right?) it's less tiresome to pump out a media spot. Another option might be to let new players have a limited number of time they can claim an MS that 350 words or greater, make it seem less daunting to do. Another change I thought about was for press conferences, perhaps we could change it we can get 3 TPE max from them, 1 TPE for two questions answered, it's just another small change that I think would make it more friendly for new comers and again veterans who no longer have the energy to max cap. I hope someone likes some of the suggestions in here but that's all I have to say, thanks for reading!

 

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Great article. I do feel like the RP aspect of the league is what drive a lot of the motivation to do the media spots and long writing process. It definitely does for me! But If you don’t have that RP mind it is definitely hard to smash out 500 work articles every week so i do feel like a change to media spot word count wouldn’t be a bad idea at all. i do feel like there would be a way to achieve that. The article was an easy read, punctuation is well done. Only thing i could give for advice is a photo and a title but sometimes that’s hard so i get it. 
 

hopefully the league would take a peak at the media spots and try to figure out a way to make them more friendly for newer and older members!