Warrior General Games

Originally posted by Hazeee
just do it

This.

Regardless of what else is going on here, I buy whatever/whenever I need to keep up with the commitments I've somehow continued to make.

Originally posted by Dub J
All we are is dust in the wind.

"Generally speaking, the way of the warrior is the resolute acceptance of death."

YOU KNOW NOTHING OF KANSAS AND THEIR WORK

Originally posted by Dub J
YOU KNOW NOTHING OF KANSAS AND THEIR WORK



Carry on my wayward son

There'll be a floor sock when you are doooone...

Originally posted by DigitalDaggers
"Generally speaking, the way of the warrior is the resolute acceptance of death."

Then the internet is filled with non-warriors cuz it never ceases to amaze me how long peeps will cling to something long after it is dead. I mean... some of the MMORPG games I've been on are still going long after 95% of everyone has left. Only a few diehards clinging to yesterdays long since dust.

Originally posted by DigitalDaggers
For what it's worth, the sky has been falling since we launched GLB in 2008.

"Stand back! I'm going to try science!!!"

I ran the Player Value To League Page script on every Rookie league in GLB1 to get a total of all of the human Rookie dots that were created this season. Here's the totals per league:

Rookie League #1 - 1,355
Rookie League #2 - 1,299
Rookie League #3 - 1,036
Rookie Casual #1 - 1,377
Rookie Casual #2 - 1,129
Rookie D #1 - 118
Rookie D #2 - 132
Rookie D #3 - 149
Rookie D #4 - 106
Rookie D #5 - 129
Rookie D #6 - 113
Rookie D #7 - 102
Rookie D #8 - 109
Rookie D #9 - 104
Rookie D #10 - 120
Pee Wee Gold - 1,278
Pee Wee Silver #1 - 550
Pee Wee Silver #2 - 454
Pee Wee Silver #3 - 623
Pee Wee Silver #4 - 490

That's 10,773 Rookie dots. Sounds like a lot, right? But remember, a team with a full roster has 55 dots on it, so that's enough to fill just shy of 196 teams. 32 teams in a league, so that's 6 leagues' worth of Rookie dots.

Now, how many of today's Rookie dots are still going to be around 7 seasons from now, when today's Rookie dots are entering Plateau and are old enough to compete in Natty Pro and World League? Let's figure it out.

First of all, the vast majority of the Pee Wee dots are gonna be one and done, and for the stubborn agents who insist on trying to keep their Pee Wee dots alive, they'll soon find that the things you have to do to make a good Pee Wee dot usually make for a terrible older dot. So, let's just eliminate the Pee Wee dots altogether.

That leaves us with 7,378 Rookie dots.

By my best estimate, about two-thirds of all dots get retired before Plateau. Where am I getting that? Well, when my current USA Pro team (the Palm Bay Palookas) started in Rookie, there were 6 Rookie leagues full of teams. By the time my Palookas had reached Semi Pro, there were only 3 Semi Pro leagues, and one of them (Semi Pro League #3) was basically empty. So, from Rookie to Semi Pro, my team's age group went from having enough dots to fill 6 leagues to having enough dots to fill 2 leagues... which means about two-thirds of all dots in my age group got retired by Semi Pro. And that's still two tiers away from Plateau, so two-thirds may actually be overly kind... the early-retirement rate before Plateau may actually be higher.

But, let's go with an early-retirement rate of two-thirds. I don't want to be unduly alarmist.

So, if two-thirds of our 7,378 Rookie dots are going to retire before Plateau, that will leave us with one-third: 2,459 dots.

Still seems like a lot, right? Except that's only enough to fill 44 teams at 55 dots per team. And with 32 teams in a league, that means you'll have enough dots left to fill one-and-a-half leagues.

Stop and think about what that's going to do to World League and National Pro when their older dots hit Decline, retire, and need to be replaced, and there's only enough replacement dots to fill one-and-a-half leagues.

..........

The game's fine today. But today is not what I'm worried about. I'm worried about 370 days from now. And that's why my advice is: don't buy any more Flex unless you're also planning to play GLB2 and any future games Bort releases. If you only plan to play GLB1 and nothing else, buying Flex just isn't worth it anymore.

Originally posted by DigitalDaggers
For what it's worth, the sky has been falling since we launched GLB in 2008.

GLB is still up and active because people enjoy the game and buy flex. This supports the game by paying for the servers and bandwidth.

Originally posted by DigitalDaggers
"Generally speaking, the way of the warrior is the resolute acceptance of death."


I honestly believe since the launch of GLB 2 that GLB 1 has hit a huge drop in participation from what was once an active group of people. Instead of putting the effort into GLB 2, I believe that there should have been talk of just re-vamping GLB 1 and all the effort that was put into GLB 2 should have been put here.

Now, with what you have said DD, do you mean that the thousands of dollars (literally) that I have invested into this game since I first joined back in like season 5 or 6 will be worthless once this game drops to XXXXX amount of dollars that is not enough to pay for the servers and bandwidth? Seriously, do you mean that all that has been invested by myself and the other hard core dedicated agents that have been here since 2008 are about to drop stock in GLB because GLB can not afford to keep running?

Is that the future that we are looking towards?

Originally posted by Ghetto Witch Dr
Is that the future that we are looking towards?

Yes.

/points to long math post above

Originally posted by Novus
If you only plan to play GLB1 and nothing else, buying Flex just isn't worth it anymore.



Originally posted by Ghetto Witch Dr



Is that the future that we are looking towards?




Originally posted by Novus
Yes.



I won't be purchasing anymore flex for this game knowing that the future is just mere months away from me logging into GLB 1 to get an automated message stating GLB 1 is permanently offline due to insufficient funds to run the servers and bandwidth.

Originally posted by Ghetto Witch Dr
I won't be purchasing anymore flex for this game knowing that the future is just mere months away from me logging into GLB 1 to get an automated message stating GLB 1 is permanently offline due to insufficient funds to run the servers and bandwidth.


Probably closer to a year, but yeah. And I could easily be too optimistic on that too.

Originally posted by Novus

Stop and think about what that's going to do to World League and National Pro when their older dots hit Decline, retire, and need to be replaced, and there's only enough replacement dots to fill one-and-a-half leagues.
.

You fail to see that there will be enough dots to fill one-and-a-half leagues per season. Plateau lasts 5 seasons. Over the course of a teams time at the uncapped level, there will be 7.5 leagues worth of players. This is plenty to feed WL and the 4 pro leagues, and leave some left over for Casual Pro. This will probably also turn Regional Pro into the D240 league, like people have been arguing in favor of for a while now. Sure, there won't be as much depth, but there won't be a shortage of actual dots.

Now, go ahead and continue posting your dislike for GLB2 in every thread on GLB1. It's sort of your calling card at this point.