As we enter the regular season with many teams shy a position or two because no human player could be found at that position, its time to talk about possible solutions.
One that a little bird has whispered to me is that we ought better utilize the vast unwashed masses of the severely inactive dots laying around in the shadowy corners of GLB, unsigned and unloved.
By this I mean dots whose agents have clearly left the game. Inactive for some minimum level of time, say 50 days or maybe even 200.
Since their dots may have been well built (buyer beware would be the rule here), they would likely be more useful than a CPU player and a human dot on the roster is less demoralizing for other team mates and potential recruits as well.
So let owners send automatically accepted contracts to dots whose owners are more than 50 days inactive. They then enter the roster.
These dots would be able to be instant released by the agent should the agent return to the game, via a link on the player and in a PM sent when they are signed.
Obviously these dots would have whatever tactics they had when abandoned, and they would not be applying their SPs or VAs any more, so they should not displace any active human players' dots. But they would be useful in a pinch when nothing else is available.
For example, this agent's dots would be available to plug in if you desperately needed someone
http://goallineblitz.com/game/player.pl?player_id=2263030
One that a little bird has whispered to me is that we ought better utilize the vast unwashed masses of the severely inactive dots laying around in the shadowy corners of GLB, unsigned and unloved.
By this I mean dots whose agents have clearly left the game. Inactive for some minimum level of time, say 50 days or maybe even 200.
Since their dots may have been well built (buyer beware would be the rule here), they would likely be more useful than a CPU player and a human dot on the roster is less demoralizing for other team mates and potential recruits as well.
So let owners send automatically accepted contracts to dots whose owners are more than 50 days inactive. They then enter the roster.
These dots would be able to be instant released by the agent should the agent return to the game, via a link on the player and in a PM sent when they are signed.
Obviously these dots would have whatever tactics they had when abandoned, and they would not be applying their SPs or VAs any more, so they should not displace any active human players' dots. But they would be useful in a pinch when nothing else is available.
For example, this agent's dots would be available to plug in if you desperately needed someone
http://goallineblitz.com/game/player.pl?player_id=2263030
Edited by yello1 on Aug 18, 2012 08:27:12
