I miss the old Hoops Dynasty as well.I recently went into the IBA NT ranked as the #1 team in the nation at South Florida. Was my Bulls team deserving of the #1 ranking...I don't think so, but the parity in the field was such that I felt my chances of winning the FIRST ROUND game (even as the #1 ranked team) was not much better than 50-50.I wish they would open a world based on the pre-potential engine. I would enjoy that very much.

Quote: Originally Posted By gomiami1972 on 4/11/2009I wish they would open a world based on the pre-potential engine. I would enjoy that very much.

Gomiami, that is the best idea I have seen yet. They should open a world pre-potential and see how popular/unpopular it would be. My thought is said world would fill up immediately and people would drop their other worlds. Im a whatifsports loyalist, but Im soooo tired of maxing players out before junior season is over, Im cutting a team or 2.WHY DOESNT ADMIN LISTEN TO ITS PAYING CUSTOMERS?!!? IT DRIVES ME CRAZY!!

Quote: Originally Posted By chewchad on 4/11/2009

Quote: Originally Posted By gomiami1972 on 4/11/2009 I wish they would open a world based on the pre-potential engine. I would enjoy that very much.

Gomiami, that is the best idea I have seen yet. They should open a world pre-potential and see how popular/unpopular it would be. My thought is said world would fill up immediately and people would drop their other worlds. Im a whatifsports loyalist, but Im soooo tired of maxing players out before junior season is over, Im cutting a team or 2.WHY DOESNT ADMIN LISTEN TO ITS PAYING CUSTOMERS?!!? IT DRIVES ME CRAZY!!

By slowing down the rate of improvement, players won't max out as quickly. So, they've addressed that concern. Where they've missed the boat is with the entire concept of potential. We never wanted it....never needed it..... Why they stubbornly insist on keeping it is beyond comprehension.

I didn't say anyone is an idiot. I didn't say anyone was bad for having their opinion. I didn't even say anyone was WRONG, since we are talking a matter of taste. I just said I like how potential works.

I'm sorry that you don't like that opinion. I can READ from you how it worked before and comparing what I READ to what is HERE. If the forum is read you hear the inner workings of both pre and post potential HD described in absolutely NAUSEATING detail, albeit from a biased point of view, usually biased negatively.

I prefer what is HERE to what I read.

I like having limits that aren't self imposed limits that I expect. From the sound of it, those were not here before. I know people will say 'but my players had weaknesses!"

Yeah. Where you CHOSE for them to have them. Nothing out of your control. Never anywhere unexpected. I like having strengths or weaknesses show up in unexpected places and having to deal with them, and figure out how to make a team work.

From the sound of it, those aspects were not here before. Believe it or not, someone can look at a forum, read allot of posts, and come to have an opinion without ever having played at the upper level, just like someone can have an opinion on politics without being a politician or about sports without having played a single down of football. I can decide I like the forward p*** in football without having watched football without it.

Perhaps every now and then you should at least engage an outsider's point of view rather than navel gazing and preaching to an echo chamber, and rather than instantly giving snide dismissal of anyone who isn't 'on the ins' with you.

And I know some smart alec is going to respond again with "Well you have only played one year! Or something else. TO which. . I don't care. If you use the amount of time someone has been on as an argument all it shows is that you aren't very confident in defending whatever other arguments you have to make.


I'm sorry if this offends anyone, but this condescending 'we're right and anyone who dares disagree with us is an idiot' attitude is grating, extremely.

Yes you are entirely wrong we didnt choose where to have the weakness in out players. They would only improve so much in certain areas. WE was very important, but you knew single digit cores were not imptoving. So time wasnt spent there. Now I have players with a 2 in a core that are improving to a 4. that is stupid. What you fail to undedrstand in your short time in the game, we didnt want potential and the emails Quite frankly it doesnt matter, if one has been here 50 games or 3,000. You yourself are guilty of snide comments. What you are lacking is experience. That is a true statement . Your argument is that one can have anh opinion without experience or practical knowledge is true. Most people call that kind of person a fool. I think you are just a contarian For your own edification, the people posting on here for the most part of some of the most knoweldgable about the game. They are not "navel gazing" and there is a "smart alec " here and he is the onhe that hurl the name first Sadly this is my last post with you, as your ignorance has subdued my and nothing can be gained by a continued exchange. If there were an "IGNORE" feature on this board, you sir would be on it. For the record there are now 200 vacancies in world NINE, that little peice of ice floating is the water would be ignored by you. That piece of ice is potential, no telling how much damage can be done to WIS

. . . and you go right out and prove the point in spades.

ANyone who disagrees with you is either an idiot or just being a contrarian. They can't POSSIBLY actually not hold the same belief as you and be rational.

a in the b funny I wasnt even talking to you, unless you have two names on here. , Show me where in the above post I called anyone an idiot. I didnt I will hold to my opinion. The words " idiot, not being rational "are yours. Anyway I am done on this subject. It is hard to watch my friends quit playing the game after 30 months and they all are citing the same thing.. potential

the fact that a new person likes potential is exactly what WIS wants. I like potential at D1 and D2 but think it killed D3.

SOrry, Perhaps I should have said 'his' instead of 'the'

So you are NEVER going to respond to a post ever again that is not specifically directed at you, right? Is that a promise?

TMAC for once we agree on something

Actually, OSU, I think the post YOU responded to was originally talking to EMY. DOes that mean that, because you responded to it, EMY is just another alias for you? By your logic it is.

Okay I can answer your question. NO EMY is not my alias What is your answer to my question. Really though I dont care

If Emy isn't your alias, using that argument, why were you answering the post? After all, it wasn't directed at you. Your logic, not mine.

God forbid anybody actually liking potential...