12-03-2005, 04:45 PM | #401 | ||
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I'm not the commish, but I wouldn't have a problem with it. The only thing I would insist on is the majority of the coaches vote for it, and you guys HAVING TO HAVE 12 TEAMS! But I'd have no problem with you guys hunting another team
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12-03-2005, 04:46 PM | #402 |
Pro Starter
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Minneapolis
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I would also vote for a Big10 championship game
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12-03-2005, 04:55 PM | #403 |
General Manager
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: New Mexico
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Wisconsin votes NO for a championship game.
They are the mark of a gay conference. |
12-03-2005, 06:30 PM | #404 |
Pro Rookie
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Macomb, MI
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If we had one, I'd prefer to pick up a 12th team...say Pittsburgh or Notre Dame...
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12-03-2005, 07:18 PM | #405 |
College Starter
Join Date: Oct 2000
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I'd like to claim Kansas.
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12-03-2005, 07:23 PM | #406 | |
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dola - this BBCF game you speak of is a college basketball sim, right?
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12-03-2005, 08:09 PM | #407 |
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two more B12 teams claimed, leaving only the Baylor Bears available.
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12-03-2005, 09:27 PM | #408 | |
College Starter
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Toronto
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Notre Dame has no interest in joining the Big 10
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12-03-2005, 11:14 PM | #409 |
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Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Tulsa
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Oregon will join the Big 10.
Or replace Baylor in the Big 12, whatever. |
12-03-2005, 11:33 PM | #410 |
Pro Starter
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Minneapolis
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can the big 10 just eliminate penn state so that there are actually 10 teams, split it up into 2 divisions of 5, and have a championship game that way?
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12-03-2005, 11:56 PM | #411 | ||
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Is suicane still around? B/C I have a feeling he would have something to say about that. If it was me I'd just kick out Minnesota
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12-03-2005, 11:59 PM | #412 | |
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Location: Minneapolis
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Suicane is still banned, so he is silent on the issue |
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12-04-2005, 12:03 AM | #413 |
Mascot
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Boulder
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I'd like to claim the Wyoming Cowboys. If I missed it and they're taken, then please give me SMU (Smuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu).
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12-04-2005, 12:10 AM | #414 |
Pro Starter
Join Date: Feb 2004
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fricking yankees trying to stir up shit
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12-09-2005, 11:41 AM | #415 |
The boy who cried Trout
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: TX
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hooray for the midshipmen!
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12-09-2005, 11:47 AM | #416 |
College Starter
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Norman, OK
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just letting everyone know I'm still down for this league as the Sooners...I haven't really participated much in league discussion. Now the game's out though, I guess I need to figure it all out.
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12-09-2005, 11:48 AM | #417 | |
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Location: Tulsa
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My Ducks are going to kick some Sooner ass...unlike IRL |
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12-09-2005, 11:49 AM | #418 |
Grey Dog Software
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Phoenix, AZ by way of Belleville, IL
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Guys, I would recommend everyone play the game and get familiar with it before getting too deep in an online league. There are some things you will find out with some hours in single player that will up you do better in gameplanning, recruiting and player development.
Also, I am willing to add reports/options to make this a somewhat less painful process overall. Here's a tutorial as well for getting your feat wet: ------------ 1. Create the league and select multiplayer. Choose a user team and set the league password (it defaults one for you). You will get a user password and the league password in a password.txt file created in the multiplayer/[save]/ path. 2. Once the league has been created, click the "Online" button and login as the commissioner using your league password. As an aside, you can login as any human team with the league password when you load a save game (so, as commish, you don't have to memorize a bunch of passwords if you ever need to load the game as a different team). 3. Once you have logged in, you will notice that the "League settings" menu option has now been enabled. At this point, you can click that option and load the main Online league settings screen. 4. This is the main hub for any commish. You can change the user selected teams, league password, delete all the emails in the league, as well as modify the overall league makeup. You will see all the conferences listed here and when you select one the entire list of teams will appear. To make a team human-run, click the toggle to the left of the team's name. You can also enter coach names, emails and a password that team can use to log into the save game and take their actions. 5. At the far right, you will see 5 toggles - Auto camp, season and offseason, as well as toggles for offensive and defensive playbooks. If you set any of the first three, the AI will run the team for that stage. So, if you toggle "Auto camp", the AI will handle budgets, scheduling, formations and redshirting for the human team. If you enable one of the playbook toggles, the game will not use strategies to call plays for that team but instead go off the user playbook provided. 6. Once you have enabled the human teams and set their CPU AI options, you are ready to begin your season. 7. As the commissioner, you have numerous options available to you that other owners (and not even normal single players) have. First, you can modify the playbook, startegies, gameplan, budget, scouting service, formations, depth chart and roster for any team in your league at any time (including CPU teams). Simply change the selected team on the bottom area and the screen you are on will automatically change to be the new team. You will also have the ability to perform all actions a normal team owner would on these screens. 8. In order to access the scheduling, coach hire/fire, transfer, recruiting or training areas you will need to switch the user team. This can be done at the league setting screen - but hopefully you won't need to do that much as all this info is saved in the team's export file. 9. To export a team file as a user, simply load the save game from the commissioner, login by selecting your team and entering its password. Then, make your changes and actions before clicking the "Export coach file" menu option. This will output a file with your teamId in the multiplayer/savename/ folder. This is the file you will need to send to the commish for him to import and get your changes. A great deal of information is stored in these files. Everything from depth charts, training, team info, budgets, recruiting actions, transfer actions, hire/fire staff actions, gameplans, playbooks, strategies, watch lists and even deleted emails (so the main DB stays current). 10. As a commish, you can import all the league files by gathering each team file (*.coa) and putting it in your /multiplayer/savename/ folder. Then, click the "import coach files" button and it will update the game with all the changes made by other coaches. you can then save the game and sim the upcoming week. 11. As stated above, users can do just about everything from their version of the game and stored it in the output *.coa file. One of the nice features for BBCF is human-human and human-CPU scheduling in multiplayer leagues. In order to schedule a non-conference games between two human teams, you need to do the following: - After ensuring that the teams are not in the same conference nor already scheduled to play, have the first team pick a week to play the game. Then, he can select the human team from the list to the far right and decide on whether the game will be home or away. - Next, the second team needs to select the same week and choose the first team as an opponent. - When both coaches send in their .coa file for that week and it gets imported and advanced, the game will recognize that two human teams have elected to schedule each other and create the game on that week. 12. You can also schedule CPU opponents just like in single player games by selected the team, location and week. If two human teams happen to select the same CPU team, the CPU will decided which of the two (if any) to play by looking at factors most important to it. 13. The only major action that cannot be done in the .coa files is switching positions. There would be a massive ballooning of the files needed and numerous spots for errors if I allowed that to be exported. There were other risks as well, so I elected to put the onus on the commish to make player position changes. Because the commish can change the current roster by simply changing the bottom selected team, switching positions for different players and different teams should not be that big a deal. Some final notes: - only the commish can advance a week or sim games. So, you need to login as the commish before doing either. - there is no multiple season or multiple week simming in multiplayer games. I didn't see the use in allowing this and didn't want someone to accidentally click on one and screw up their league. - during the season, the user cannot export his file unless his depth chart is correct and he has a valid gameplan selected. - Emails will be created for each user team like they were playing in a single season. If a user deletes some emails and then exports his .coa file, those emails will also be removed from the master database. The commish also has the ability to remove all emails if he wishes. |
12-09-2005, 11:51 AM | #419 |
Pro Starter
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I don't think that any consideration should be given to starting this league before the holidays.
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12-09-2005, 12:00 PM | #420 | |
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Yep. Sounds about right. |
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12-09-2005, 12:05 PM | #421 |
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Location: Tulsa
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Yeah, cartman said it wouldn't start until at least after the New Year.
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12-09-2005, 12:06 PM | #422 | |
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Notre Dame said they didn't want in the Big 11...of course. |
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12-09-2005, 12:07 PM | #423 |
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Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Whittier
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I'd say we serious consider adding Notre Dame to the Big-11 and give them a conference title game
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12-09-2005, 12:32 PM | #424 |
High School Varsity
Join Date: Nov 2000
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Indiana doesnt want a conference game for the Big 10.
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12-09-2005, 12:56 PM | #425 | |
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Join Date: Jun 2001
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Go Hoosiers!!!! |
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12-09-2005, 12:56 PM | #426 |
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Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Michigan
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Arizona nominates abolishing Arizona State from the Pac 10 because we feel they're a bush league brand of football and their fans probably have Hepititus.
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12-09-2005, 01:00 PM | #427 | |
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Location: Tulsa
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As a fellow member of the Pac 10, I second the motion. |
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12-09-2005, 01:28 PM | #428 | |
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Location: Toronto
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Notre Dame would like to restate that we have no interest in joining a conference
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12-09-2005, 01:34 PM | #429 | |
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yeah, what he said...
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12-09-2005, 01:35 PM | #430 |
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I'm going to have to give up Texas Tech. I'm too locked into FM2006 to play so have at it.
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12-09-2005, 02:05 PM | #431 | ||
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So we can't change positions unless we send an email to the commish and he does it? Will we atleast get the single player notification of how that player is likely to transfer to the new position? This seems like this could be alot of work on cartman. I see a no position change rule ruling into effect, and that would suck.
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12-09-2005, 02:19 PM | #432 |
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Location: Green Bay, WI
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Been talking to Ben, and I think I'm going to take the plunge.
If Baylor's still open, I'll take 'em. |
12-09-2005, 02:25 PM | #433 | |
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you got 'em, first page updated.
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12-09-2005, 02:27 PM | #434 |
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Location: Morgan Hill, CA
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Cartman - Are you going to run a small test league first to iron out everything before we jump into this huge league?
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12-09-2005, 02:31 PM | #435 |
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Join Date: Sep 2004
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count me in, O hi O
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12-09-2005, 02:32 PM | #436 | |
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oh hell yes
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12-09-2005, 02:43 PM | #437 |
n00b
Join Date: Apr 2004
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Well, dang. Guess i should get in on the ground floor for this. I would like to take the Utah Utes if they're not already taken and I missed it.
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12-09-2005, 03:07 PM | #438 |
Awaiting Further Instructions...
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Macungie, PA
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Sign me up for anything. I'd like UVA (since I went there) but they appear to be taken.
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12-09-2005, 03:33 PM | #439 |
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Pacific
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Purdue(still wanting Iowa) says no to a league champ game and YES to getting rid of Penn State
Weak sister Notre Dame needs another independent to play against and penn st would be a great team for them BIG TEN |
12-09-2005, 03:35 PM | #440 |
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Do Big 10 teams have any other requests?
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12-09-2005, 03:49 PM | #441 | |
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USF votes to abolish Arizona from participating in any sport since their fans think 3-8 is an imporvement on 3-8.....must be that Tucson math. |
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12-09-2005, 03:51 PM | #442 |
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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I vote that I should get a vote, even though I don't have a team.
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12-09-2005, 04:10 PM | #443 |
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Location: Austin, Texas
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even if we don't start now, can we get the initial file to get familiar with our teams?
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12-09-2005, 04:17 PM | #444 |
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I'm sure now that the game is released, it'll take a little while to get the 'who has the game,' who is still interested, etc stuff ironed out.
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12-09-2005, 04:43 PM | #445 |
Banned
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i'm in, and hopefully the guy who claimed Miami isn't or else i will have to eliminate or castrate him.
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12-09-2005, 05:10 PM | #446 |
College Starter
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Huntington, WV
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Openings?
I PM'ed Cartman about this, but I thought I'd post it here as well:
Since someone already took West Virginia and Marshall, I'll take Cincinatti. Gotta stay loyal to the Big East. :-) |
12-09-2005, 05:20 PM | #447 |
Captain Obvious
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Norman, Oklahoma
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Well, I guess I am out. The final demo would not run on my computer, and I do not want to spend the money on a product I cannot try, or even know if the full version would work.
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12-09-2005, 05:31 PM | #448 | |
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Better get that city spelling down. |
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12-09-2005, 05:32 PM | #449 |
Pro Starter
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Location: Troy, NY
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I'd like to get in on this...
I see that Rice is claimed... Rice would be the only team I really have any attachment to (other than GaTech, of course)... if bhlloy had no preference I'd love to have them, but if not, I'll sign up for Mississippi State!
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12-09-2005, 05:35 PM | #450 | |
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You know what... just sign me up for MissSt. I assume there will be a "2nd Phase" of sign-ups where we could move teams before actually starting, as I'm sure not everyone that initially signed up will be in the league??
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