Warrior General Games

We all know, of course, that it's best to get your gameplanning done as far in advance as possible. Good planning and prudence and all that.

However, for anyone who has ever had to choose between prioritizing their kids, wife, husband, job, or health over, y'know, playing a friggin' game, and thus occasionally finds themselves having to wait until the last minute to gameplan, Catch22 has now officially confirmed when "the last minute" actually is: 75 minutes prior to sim-time.

Originally posted by Catch22
As long as we don't have rosters locking more than 75 minutes in advance, then this is something we are fine with.
http://goallineblitz.com/game/forum_thread.pl?thread_id=5046465&page=5#46942536

So, there you go: sims can officially start up to 75 minutes prior to sim time.

There have been a variety of theories out there for a while among both users and Mods, ranging from that time being 60 minutes to 120 minutes, though up until now Bort and Catch22 themselves have avoided the topic entirely and have refused to give an "official" number. But now they have: 75 minutes.

Mods, feel free to lock this thread. No further discussion is really needed... just wanted to highlight this bit of previously-unconfirmed info so that Google searches of the forums will catch it in the future for anyone who wants a definitive answer to this question.

Alrighty, a mod has been PM'ed to lock this, and I'm heading to lunch, so any would-be trolls are out of luck.

too late

ive always planned for 2 hours.....i was told that was safe and im sticking to it....its second nature now...

Originally posted by Novus
Alrighty, a mod has been PM'ed to lock this, and I'm heading to lunch, so any would-be trolls are out of luck.

I love when people ask for trolls to post, then get mad when thy post.

Wow.

I've seen it be far in advance but not that far. Sheesh.

This should really be in the rules. Maybe even on the team schedule. I know it has pissed me off and others. Who knows how many people just quit the game without posting to the forums about it.

Or how about this? For regular season and playoff games, everything locks 75 minutes before the scheduled game regardless of whether you have the "early sim" or the "late sim" and things don't unlock until the sim is completed.

Scheduled job to lock everything down at the scheduled time.
Update statement at the end of the game to lock everything.

Seems pretty simple (and this is coming from the database guy who says EVERYTHING is uber-complicated to implement).

Originally posted by AirMcMVP
Or how about this? For regular season and playoff games, everything locks 75 minutes before the scheduled game regardless of whether you have the "early sim" or the "late sim" and things don't unlock until the sim is completed.

Scheduled job to lock everything down at the scheduled time.
Update statement at the end of the game to lock everything.

Seems pretty simple (and this is coming from the database guy who says EVERYTHING is uber-complicated to implement).

This works for me.

Would make that combo QB we are working on a better option because we could wait til the last second to show which AEQ set he will be using.

i thought this was common knowledge.

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