Fire Tortorella 2,653 Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 First off, congratulations to the Cologne Express and the Brampton Blades on your recent championships. Each of you put in a lot of hard work and effort, and have been rewarded with the best award the VHL(M) can offer. Going into Season 43, there are going to be a couple of changes that focus primarily on recruitment and retainment. It's no secret that recruitment and retainment have decreased over the past couple of seasons, as evidenced by some of the recent draft classes. As a result, we will be making changes to recruitment rewards, the welfare and pension system, the player store, and VHLM Simming. Recruitment Rewards In the past, we've tried to find a balance between rewarding those who recruit successfully and making sure the reward for doing so was in line with other ways of earning TPE around the site. Previously, we rewarded members for recruiting new members by distributing TPE for every 100 TPE earned by a new member, up to a grand total of 17 TPE per new member. These changes will follow a similar system, but will change the payout per TPE. From now on, new recruits will result in a reward of 3 TPE when the recruit hits 50 TPE, and 10 TPE when the recruit hits 200 TPE, resulting in a possible 13 TPE per new recruit. While the total amount of TPE per recruit is decreasing, we believe that having the ability to earn the max TPE much earlier is an equal payoff. Welfare and Pension Currently, a member's welfare and pension plan are decided based on the number of previous players who have hit 400 TPE. Going forward, we will be changing this to include a member's current player. This change will reward members for their current work and will help bridge the advantage that older members have over newer members. However, obviously as a Point Task based league, those who continue to do their point tasks week in and week out will be rewarded more than those who do not. This change will go into effect the first PT week of Season 43 (4/27). Player Store There are four changes to the player store; one that focuses on new members, one that focuses on older players, one that affects everyone equally, and one that focuses on the welfare and pension upgrade. Starting now, all new members (or returning members who choose to forgo carryover) will be given a $2,000,000 signing bonus, which can either be spent to give your player an upgrade on earning TPE or could be saved for future purchases. This change is also applied retroactively to all S44 players who fit this criteria. For the oldies: Old But Not Forgotten - $10,000,000 -Must be purchased in the off-season prior to depreciation in either your 7th or 8th season -Your attributes will be depreciated 1% less than normal in your 7th season, or 2% less in your 8th -4% instead of 5% in 7th season, 5% instead of 7% in 8th season Previously, the +1 welfare upgrade cost a flat $2,000,000 no matter your pension level. However, in a capped TPE system, the difference between moving from 2 TPE to 3 TPE is not the same as moving from 3 TPE to 4 TPE and 4 TPE to 5 TPE. Therefore, we are instituting a slight price adjustment to these upgrades. If your pension level increases during the season, the upgrade you bought before the season still applies. Welfare Upgrade - $2,000,000 -Add +1 TPE to your welfare claim (2TPE to 3TPE/week). -Stays active for only the season that it is purchased. Pension I Upgrade - $2,500,000 -Add +1 TPE to your Pension I claim (3TPE to 4TPE/week). -Stays active for only the season that it is purchased. Pension II Upgrade - $3,000,000 -Add +1 TPE to your Pension II claim (4TPE to 5TPE/week). -Stays active for only the season that it is purchased. And finally, members can now only purchase one of the Welfare upgrade OR the VHL.com Upgrade. Purchasing both of these upgrades could potentially result in a rather easy 7 TPE, which doesn't fit with our mission of being primarily a point task based league. You may still purchase both the Point Task upgrade and the VHL.com Upgrade. VHLM Simming Last but not least (and perhaps most importantly), starting Seasion 43, the VHLM will be getting its own simmer and client file. Higgins will be taking over this responsibility. Gone will be the days of VHL changes overriding those of the VHLM. This will provide the VHLM a stable simming environment and the league will no longer be the red-headed step-child of the client file. xDParK, Victor, jRuutu and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Munk 1,298 Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 (edited) You forgot to announce my promotion to honorary league commissioner! Items 2-4 were also my idea please don't take credit for it.. Edited April 22, 2015 by Munk eaglesfan036 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil 5,017 Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fire Tortorella 2,653 Posted April 22, 2015 Author Share Posted April 22, 2015 Quick edit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Da Trifecta 1,896 Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 The last one is the best for the VHLM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Admin Will 4,604 Posted April 22, 2015 Senior Admin Share Posted April 22, 2015 The last one is the best for the VHLM Yes having games posted as their simmed should help VHLM activity but the biggest determinant of activity is still VHLM GMs imo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Da Trifecta 1,896 Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 Yes having games posted as their simmed should help VHLM activity but the biggest determinant of activity is still VHLM GMs imo Well this way they can get updated more during the season, like each week like the VHL and lines no longer have to be screwed up by the "parent" VHL team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boubabi 4,725 Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 Interesting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kendrick 4,724 Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 Yes having games posted as their simmed should help VHLM activity but the biggest determinant of activity is still VHLM GMs imo Something that should be fixed soon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andybj 59 Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 Something that should be fixed soon! Andy for vhlm GM! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kesler 1,514 Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 K Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xDParK 81 Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 Solid changes tbh, well done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Head Moderator Baozi 1,635 Posted April 22, 2015 Head Moderator Share Posted April 22, 2015 (edited) Does this mean the VHLM teams can have farm teams? Also boooo, nerfing my pension Edited April 22, 2015 by tfong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diamond_ace 3,106 Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 Old but not forgotten going up is perfect timing for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eaglesfan036 4,585 Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 I like all of these Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 Are we using a different sim engine this season or was it just a weird occurrence that the VHLM game had giveaways and takeaways? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoop 3,255 Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 (edited) Are we using a different sim engine this season or was it just a weird occurrence that the VHLM game had giveaways and takeaways? The Top Prospect and All-Star Games are always simmed on different settings/sim engine. I don't know exactly why, other than maybe to say 'fuck you' to the goalies. Edited April 22, 2015 by Streetlight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Higgins 3,617 Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 The Top Prospect and All-Star Games are always simmed on different settings/sim engine. I don't know exactly why, other than maybe to say 'fuck you' to the goalies. STHS forces v2 to be used for all-star games : - ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoop 3,255 Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 STHS forces v2 to be used for all-star games : - ) Thx 4 the insight dood [ ^ 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STZ 5,286 Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 Did something change for "old but not forgotten"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boubabi 4,725 Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 5% instead of 7% for last season Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Admin Will 4,604 Posted April 22, 2015 Senior Admin Share Posted April 22, 2015 Yes, before this change the Old But Not Forgotten brought depreciation down to 6% for a player in their final season, but the Jagr ($4M cheaper) actually saved more TPE. So this 2% in the final season instead of 1% makes it more lucrative than the Jagr. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STZ 5,286 Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 Ok cool, I didn't see an explanation in the thread.. I'm also on my phone so who the fuck knows Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RomanesEuntDomus 442 Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 Your new avatar is confusing the shit out of me flyers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike 708 Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 Let's be done with it and just give 7 for point tasks so no one has to do any extra work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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