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fenixink

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  1. I agree with this sentiment, in the interest of full disclosure, I did laundry twice when I first opened VFW and since then all sales have been legit. I will not nominate VFW myself though because if our customers don't like us enough to nominate us then we obviously don't deserve to win. I will say that I have launched at least 10 (possibly closer to 20) new clothing items this year and am currently working on a new nine line set to represent the nine virtues.
  2. In the current meta-game people intentionally avoid "wasting" skill cap points in knees, elbows, transitions, and escapes. These things are avoided because they are only useful on the ground or in the clinch. This results in most top fighters being standup guys. Perhaps the best option is to separate things into options from each position and create more mitigating factors for positions (such as how stuffed TDs can end in the clinch). For example: Elbows (Standing) Elbows (Clinch) Elbows (Ground) The skill cap would likely need to be raised but proportionately. This would cause people to have fighters who throw devastating elbows but only on the ground. This combined with making it so that dodged kicks can cause an opponent to slip down (chance based on agility/flex/balance) bringing the fight to the ground. This has the added side effect of restraining kicks which most people seem to be of the opinion are incredibly strong right now.
  3. I'm all for anything that brings new players to the game. I would be glad to donate some VIP days to this. While Madness is completely correct, it wouldn't surprise me if people viewed spin and win as a tertiary element of the game and don't understand the usefulness of say a new fighter slot or a private jet. This topic has made me reconsider the structure of the Panopticon (Project Illumination All-In-One Guide) and the "Your first day in MMATycoon" section will have a specific note on the value of the forums directly after the visual explanations of the UI.
  4. Haven't forgotten you GBK but your also our only current volunteer to fact check the guide as it's populated so I'm keeping you a bit in reserves
  5. Project Illumination Status Update Since our last update things have become busy for myself in RL and my co-founder Liam Davidson (davie1903) has left Project Illumination as it's first graduate to become a member of Vendetta. We wish Liam all the best in this endeavor and will of course continue to provide any support we can to him as an alumni. This has resulted in some slight restructuring of the project but nothing noteworthy. Due to my busy RL schedule I am in the process of determining the best course to continue moving the project forward. I will likely be offering research and writing tasks internally to Project Illumination members with a tycoon buck reward for completing a given task. If there are any particular experts or writers externally that would be interested in contributing for a nominal fee or simply for the sake of helping out please pm me in game. Since our last update (broken down by primary directive): We have continued to provide consistent feedback for new players in alliance chat. - For the first time we even had the fighters of two members bump heads in a QFC. - Both managers carried themselves professionally and showed excellent sportsmanship, I must say these kinds of firsts are what I personally look forward to witnessing. - We are happy to have added several new players to our ranks including but not limited to Macho Man (madness), Aaron Blake (edge224), and Ryne Woodsmall (twookool) Due to lack of personal time not as much progress as I would like has been made on compiling information for the all-in-one guide I have however put together the first visual component of the Panopticon (the new name for the all-in-one guide). The guide is available for viewing at this link: The Panopticon We are continuing to encourage the community to contribute (such is the purpose of this post) There was zero feedback from the community on things that should be absolutely included in the "Your first day in tycoon section". We understand that every member of the communities time is valuable and that perhaps we should use different methods to obtain peoples opinions on the subject. To that end I will be putting up a separate post in General Discussion focused on this subject. We are facilitating community connections and have been actively offering mentorship opportunities to our members I would just like to thank all our volunteer mentors once again for donating their time to assist Project Illumination, you are all an integral part of our success. Technically we've had a graduate which puts us one step closer to our goal to become an institute of learning What we need: We are always looking for more new players and volunteer mentors, feel free to direct anyone who qualifies as either to us. Thank you to everyone who has or continues to support Project Illumination.
  6. fenixink

    How about :

    You receive a hype boost when your sponsored fighter wins, but there is currently no system that notifies you when a fighter thanks you. A fighter thanking you also only effects merchandise sales at an event as well.
  7. fenixink

    Insurance

    This seems like a good idea, a fighter/manager should not be penalized if they make weight and the opponent doesn't.
  8. To be 100% honest the criteria is not adhered to at all and at this point it just seems to be on a whimsy which are and aren't accepted (with the exception to ones that are just terrible). The Jax Teller one up there is mine and uses the nose, eyes, and mouth of an avatar blended onto the face. A practice which I engaged in since when I look at accepted avatars they are generally built like that. It was rejected for being too real, which would make sense if it didn't have hamster eyes... Madness yours in the above post is excellent and would imo follow the rules as well as any other avatar I've seen approved. Not complaining just suggesting that perhaps people would follow the criteria if it was enforced or more specific because right now avatars that seem to violate the criteria are regularly accepted. Here is another of mine that was accepted as a prime example of my point: http://www.mmatycoon.com/gallery/0/14149494665854.png
  9. Johnny "The Punk" Wilson http://www.mmatycoon.com/gallery/0/14114049655986.jpg Ladies and gentleman, it is safe to say there are no more cowboys. My next opponent is much less inbred but just as destined for failure, Bill O Brady your next. I could sit here and "bash" on my opponent but I'll save that for the fight. #NoMoreCowboys
  10. Here is my exact message to Mike: I just got my first free agent... who turns out to be someones retired PA. I can't release him because of the release delay and I can't use him in any way either since I already had a PA is this intentional? I didn't complain I simply asked if it was intentional. If Mike had said yes this is intended behavior I would have been fine with that. If people feel this strongly about it I will just tell Mike to keep the 20 VIP days, I'm not looking for a handout I simply asked a question.
  11. The phrase caveat emptor arises from the fact that buyers often have less information about the good or service they are purchasing, while the seller has more information. Defects in the good or service may be hidden from the buyer, and only known to the seller. Thus, the buyer should beware. This is called information asymmetry. Point taken K-Rad and while I fully understand that information asymmetry is a tool leverages by sleazy used car salesmen I think Mike is quite the opposite of that. ​However that being said I have learned my lesson and am now checking all the profiles of free-agents I shortlist. This problem from my reasoning is a function of the presentation. The free-agent Fighter List shows a variety of columns including: MMA Hype, Box/MT, BJJ, Wrestle, Record, Time Left, Contract. As a user this tells me that this list contains the relevant factors needed to make the decision to add a fighter to my shortlist... except Retired is not one of these fields. If there was a Y/N field showing whether the fighter is retired or not fine if none of those columns were there and all that is shown was fighter name and Time Left then I would think it had been designed for me to get the relevant information from the fighter profile. However since the only retired fighters I've seen so far on the Fighter List are PAs I would venture a guess this is not intended behavior and has to do with the relatively new nature of the PA system. If this is the case then there shouldn't be a Retired field because none of the free-agents should be retired.
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