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Still just furniture, though. When the game was actually active you were just a side piece and you know it. You're like that back up running back that's been on a winning team in the past. Then all the starters got traded off and you finally got your shot. Yeah, now you're the starter. But the team is awful lol. "Hey, this is my little brother, can he come too? Yeah, I guess." That was you lol

Sure, you aren't. Because for the length of time this game has been around you've always just been a furniture personality. But for me, like other great Cesar's, I've traveled and conquered other foreign lands. Only making my way back for trips of spirit giving to the people that love and cherish my greatness. Again, you're just furniture lol. Feminine furniture apparently lol

Projecting? Who talks like that? A little feminine aren't ya lol

Yeah I actually remember now when Mike made that change to coaching. Just another example of a time that he had to do so much extra work just to try to make things work the way they should and not piss anyone off. It's a long list of things he's had to do 10x the amount of work just to try and improve the game while not causing tears to be shed. No wonder he disconnected himself from the game. I'd disconnect too if every time I wanted to improve the game 15 people were yelling at me that their lives would be over

Back in the day when this game was active we had these arguments daily and they were heated. Time has proven me to be right. Sometimes, often times, the unpopular decisions are the correct decisions and sometimes the most popular decisions are not the best decisions. Because most of the time people place emphasis on their personal feelings and don't consider what is best outside of those personal feelings.

Has nothing to do with the island. Has everything to do with making the game grow. Do away with the island. Find a balance on aging, training speed, etc... The training is broken. When the ONLY option for training is elite coaches then it's a problem. Why are the other coaches in the game? I played the game in the very beginning when people actually used mid level coaches. It only lasted a few months before the money laundering loopholes ended that. But I can attest, it was a funner experience vs generic elite coaches and no options. Mike can adjust the code to balance different aspects of the game. But no balancing has ever been allowed because people have always threatened to quit.

Yes. Back to square 1. Not on a schedule. Only "as needed". If the game isn't broken and there's a good balance found then let it run and things turnover naturally as it always has. But I don't play the game. Maybe the game is perfect? I only gather my conclusion from the little bit of skimming through the forums. Doesn't seem very active. Not like what it once was, for sure. That sends up a red flag to me

So essentially you're saying time is an issue? Almost like a "reset" is needed Resets are an opportunity to infuse growth into the game. Which from what I can tell should be at the top of the list for this game. Resets would also be an opportunity for the game to start fresh and fix the broken aspects. The integrity of the game has been compromised in so many ways. It's really a travesty to allow a game that has so much potential to fizzle out only because it was never optimized. I always thought Mike could eventually sell this game. He should have been doing resets from the very beginning to hone in the correct career path and progression of a fighter and manager and then eventually sell the game to a bigger game developer to market it and watch it explode. But I guess I had bigger visions than Mike ever had. Instead the game just hobbled along, deformed. Now it's in a welfare state The game was created broken and Mike never had the balls to make the hard decisions make it right. If he reset the game right now I guarantee you there would be many improvements between the way things are and the way he'd like them to be. Eventually after a couple fresh starts the game might get to a place where the game COULD run continuous. But in my 5 years of playing I never experienced that state.

Fighter pacing can easily be adjusted. Resets needed to happen as critical errors in the game became apparent. For a decade Mike has simply stacked band aids on fatal wounds because of the exact argument you just made. "You can't do this to me...whaaa, whaaa, whaaa"

Is the island any good?

This game with wipes could have a million active users by now vs having 100ish. How often does a game roll out and is perfect? Wipes, seasons, resets happen all the time. Mike's allowed himself to be bullied by the same small group of users for over a decade now. How embarrassing is that. I'd fix this game in a heartbeat. I'd do wipes and freebird, I'd laugh at you threatening to leave and anyone like you and show you the door. You're all punks

Like Tarkov. Mike never had sense enough to fix the training system when only elite coaches are an option. So wipes are essential. Without wipes you have an uphill growth strategy. Acquiring new managers to the game is counter intuitive. With wipes you have built in entry points for new accounts to be created. Fertile grounds for growth. It's a proven strategy. Tarkov does it and most everyone will admit that the most exciting time in the game is directly after a wipe.

Thanks for $$$. It will help out starting a stable. Probably create a gym and ghost for a couple months until they can fight.

Haha glad Im back about like youre glad to have a jock itch back Im sure. Good to see some old managers still hanging around grinding it out.

I dont think game complexity is as big of a deterrent to newer players as seeing 4x elite fighters that take real life years to develop. That is why Im looking at it from a game perspective and saying sparring should not raise your primary skills. Only keep them sharp. The goal should be to get away from the quad elite standard. Introduce some variability into the look of fighters and even another layer beneath the surface when it comes to a fighters actual current skill. By lowering a fighters primary skill level and reducing the speed at which it can be raised, you inevitably raise the importance of fighter build at creation. Which i think is very important to the game and accurate in a lot of ways to real life. Fighters typically come into the sport with a core set of skills and they typically maintain that base. Even as they expand their experience in other areas.