...or out of the knowledge that they just created new leagues, and that there's a high demand for leveled-up players. No point in releasing a player when you can drive up the price for a few more days.

well, again, that's a great stance when you got a guy locked up for a 3 year deal. for someone in the last year of his deal that ends in the middle of your season, you only hurt yourself. if he was smart he'd say "what's the name of your owner, maybe we can work out a deal". the opportunity i'm presenting to him is advance knowledge that i will reject the numerous offers he's already sent my way, will not stick with the team and am sure to leave. knowing that he can get started on finding a replacement. if i was stuck with the team for multiple seasons then i'd have to eat it.

I'm not that hard owner as some of you seem to be (probably that is also why i didn't reach the playoffs). During this offseason i asked if anybody wanted to leave, a few asked for it so i let the players with level 3 or less to go out for free and also traded a couple of level 8 players for 1/3 of their market value (lowered from 150k to 50k) as they wanted to play elsewhere. the rest of the players that decided to play for me, signed a renegotiated contract for 2 years more with a good salary for the team and themselves, and all them are happy to stay. A few of them have created backups for my team too.

I think a good owner and specially in the first seasons, needs to find a mid point between wanting to form a good team and forcing payers to play for their whole contract even if they are pissed off and damaging team chemistry as for sure over time it will hit you back (karma?).

Maybe that is why my players like me and i have no problems finding human players wanting to be my backups, specially after i was mentioned in the "good owners" thread and also by the word spreading of my own players. My team roster has 52 players, all human and all happy to play for me. Our team forum has over 450 posts and it's becoming a friendly community to hang out besides the game talk.

Btw, advice for those that can't fill their teams. One thing i did at first was to create a bunch of players myself and placed them in my team. As i was finding more players, i traded my own players away for good players or cash in return.

Slowly i'm getting all my own created players (12 so far) in nice and friendly teams, while getting cash or good players in return for my own team.

For me the fun both as player and team owner is being part of nice and friendly small communities. I guess that is the point of MMORPG, if i want to just manage computer players then i play FOF solo or Madden Superstar mode.

Thanks for the advice Irish! I got me a backup LB to replace a guy going to his own team.

Now just need to get that nickelback, backup G and #4 WR.

I have a guy making a CB to be the ultimate return guy. He's gonna get the special abilites up for ret spec and build up vision, speed and agility. I'll let you all know how this goes this season. He's already a lvl 5 and has 3 boosts to use this season. He is likely to take a couple to the house.

Dola,
Icy - doesn't matter how good of an owner you are, my Trolls are still gonna beat you. ;)

Let's see.... TROLL! ;)

When the eff am I going to be able to boost? :)

BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!

Season 2 starts tomorrow - you can boost, view your team's schedule, etc. Games will start on Saturday.

Finally broke down and am doing a 1 time boost.

I have a level 4 DT named Den Setsu. I would like to play on a team that is in a non-US league (since my other 2 are in US leagues), and I don't mind backing up.

Heh, ironically, I also just made a new level 4 DT.

Erik Flamebeard HAS ARRIVED!

Erik now smashes for the West Bend Warlocks.

edit: 6'2", 334 lbs. Jesus, I'm a mammoth.

Ya well, ya better be. At this rate you might be the only D-Lineman... :)

I think I'll save one starting role for you, on the off chance your owner refuses to give you up. I'll probably create a CB myself just to fill the role till you arrive, then use him as a backup. I've nearly got the team complete. Need one DT, the CB, and a P to have the starters filled. Got a couple of backups, but I'll work on them throughout the season. There's simply not enough players right now.

I looked through my team's league. About 3 or 4 have all human starters. Most teams have less than half, and at least one has all CPU starters still. :eek:

CB Hell Atlantic is now a free agent.

in the end, i always win.

Offer sent, if interested.

Except when you play Pumpy...

Hm. I suppose I should boost before the game tomorrow. Stupid money leeches. :)

That's not correct - I'm a friendly, cooperative owner and my team won 9 straight against superior (higher levelled) teams to win their league title. If you do things the right way, it works out in the end. The owners that seem to delight in dicking guys over ultimately end up with rosters full of inactive and disenchanted players. Karma, as you say. :cool:

Exactly. My forums are at nearly 1000 posts after a half-season and a playoff run and I've got a great group of guys working together to have a good time and win games.

Sad that not all owners feel the way you do brother...

ok, what's the name of the team from here that offered me a contract? i got 6 offers to start and all for a lot of money (apparently soon to be lvl 5 CBs don't grow on trees in GLB), but i don't know which one is one of the FOFC-related squads. speak now before i accept the best offer i have on the table. i just wanna start and make money.


indeed.

Should be from the Victoria Admirals, I just sent another to ensure you have one.

aye, aye. i'm now an Admiral.

i had some pretty good offers but fortunately you beat them all. excellent signing bonus, btw.

one guy PMd me "What can I do in order to get your CB?".


ohhhh, i was gonna get creative with that one. oh well. :D

The team I'm on has all 5 CB's at level 5 or above so I'm not sure how rare they might be HA

I've got enough points to make a non-glam player. What's the biggest demand out there? He will progress as God intended.

i'm saying it must not be all too ofren to have one become available. right now you probably have to trade for one, instead of having the opportunity to just sign one without giving anything up.

I really like this play my DE just made, 8 yards loss sack by QBhunter Carrillo after owning a lvl 13 LT (my players is a level 8)

http://goallineblitz.com/game/replay.pl?pbp_id=1200357

Olinemen or Dlinemen (besides punter).

Dola, this is an study somebody posted about it:


4.87 QBs per team (9967)
4.59 HBs per team (9407)
4.62 WRs per team (9456)
2.20 FBs per team (4504)
2.80 TEs per team (5740)
2.30 Cs per team (4720)
2.76 Gs per team (5656) (STILL WOW)
3.00 Ts per team (6141) (STILL WOW)

2.07 Ks per team (4104)
1.59 Ps per team (3258)

3.01 DTs per team (6157) (STILL WOW)
3.42 DEs per team (7012)
5.07 LBs per team (10,393)
3.75 CBs per team (7679)
2.81 SSs per team (5751)
2.81 FSs per team (5747)

Awesome, welcome to the team. Hit the Forums, our DC is posting how he wants the defense to set their individual tactics.

If any FOFC owners need a non-glamour player I've got enough flex points to create a guy and boost him to LVL 3. Let me know what you need and I'll create him.

You'll have to check with Macro as he owns the team, but as D coordinator I'd like to have a human backup LB instead of the CPU player we have now.

hold up - what part of "i just wanna start" wasn't understood? why was i signed to be the 4th CB? i was at least the nickleback on my last team and when i was graciously released from my contract i had a lot of offers to be the starter. why would i want to be a "4th CB" on your team. i see the two starting CBs on the team are several lvls above me, why did you guys even bother?

i swear, my patience in this game is quickly deteriorating. after this game i'm done with these "create a player" online games. i just want to control a team. i don't want to deal with creating guys who get buried on the depth chart. if someone can tell me what the fun is in that i'll listen. i'm not gonna even bother with the CB at this point. i'll check in next season once my contract is up and accept an offer where someone guarantees me a starting spot. i'll follow my QB Dean Houston who makes peanuts for money but at least is the starter.

HA, you've got some sand in your vagina that needs to be washed out.

this is like Pacman Jones jumping through all these hoops to get the Titans to trade him to the Cowboys, only to find the Cowboys will use him in dime packages exclusively.

Special Teams players can also make it to the Hall of Fame.

HA- I told you over on the team board to send a PM to Macro and I'm sure this can be worked out. Obviously there was a misunderstanding about you starting. You can either approach Macro and get it fixed or continue to bitch about it.

whatever, i'm not paying attention to the CB this season. if someone would've even hinted something along the lines of "it'd be great to have you since you're a fellow FOFCer, but our starting backfield is already in place", i'd have wished you guys luck and accepted one of the other offers i had on the table. i went from having a guy ask what he could do to get me to sign with his team to being buried as the 4th CB. great.

Sometimes when you chase the gold mine, you get the shaft.

BITCHING???

read the last page and a half of this thread - at what point did i give the impression that i was looking to get off my last team just so i could not start on another team? i literally scratched my head just now cuz i can't think of how i could've made it any clearer as to what my expectations were.

this kind of BS takes the fun out of it. i do this stuff for fun, not this farce. what a waste of my time.

Proof that Dean Houston inserted some part of his anatomy into the inappropriate orifice of some minor.

If you don't pay attention to your CB this year, I'd imagine the odds of finding a starting job would be significantly lower next season.

whoopie doo. then i'll just retire him and create someone else if i don't get any good offers next season. not like he's gonna get awesome stats anyway as a #4 CB. its just a game. the team i'm on now must have a lot of money to burn if they can give out big bonuses and pay #4 CBs $1500+ per game to sit on the bench. the team i have my other player, the owner had to take out a loan in-game to be able to make payroll.

Just created a speed WR and boosted him to lvl 4. If anyone is looking for a backup WR send an offer to Swifty Swift.

Sounds familiar. And your guy was even starting...

I'm amazed at how this game reflects real life, both with team players and the greedy red flags TO's.

Released...good luck.

And let me be blunt...I was going to work on it, then decided after reading here and the forums it wasn't worth my time to even deal with the amount of shit I knew you would start throughout the season if something did not go the way you wanted.

I pay the FOFC players very well, because they are going to work, and focus on the game. Everyone on the team participates, regardless of the level the are playing at. I have my subs set up to where my 3rd and 4th CB were seeing 30 plays a game. It was very effective for the energy side of the game.

As for money, we are sitting at over $2.5 million due to our stadium expansion and paying back the loan we took to expand. We bumped our ticket prices up a notch and still pulled in over 3.5 million in season ticket sales.

Good luck on a starting gig at lvl 4, on a decent team.

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what the eff do i care if i'm on a decent team or not? i just wanna start. i'm not gonna win any real life money or prizes for winning a championship in this game. i just want to have a guy i can log into to see how he performed in the games and to track his career. there's nothing to do with money in this game as of yet so getting paid a lot of money to sit on a bench means nothing. i'm sure eventually at the higher lvls you'll need money to buy better equipment, but right now all the money you need is to cover training costs.

Dutch might want to change that "wants winner" to a 0.