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rburgh · 11-06-2025, 07:16 AM

Is selling out the joy that FTP players used to get by getting to the Perfect level occasionally by (A) having a pyramid structure where even getting to LD is an accomplishment, and (B) making the missions tougher to complete.

So the game currently has a little over 13,000 teams, instead of the 40,000 or so that it had when I started playing in XVIII. That means that they're missing out on about 9000 buyers of the base game. And the virtual impossibility of an FTP team completing the Bumgarner or Clemente missions is going to drive even more users away. I think in a few years we will be down to 10,000 teams.

They should go back to the original league structure of approximately equal numbers of leagues at each level, but then within the Perfect level have promotions within the level so that league 501 is the equivalent of the PeL today, with the winner of that league anointed as the overall champion for the season. Meanwhile, have the current 445 leagues divided up into 44 or 45 leagues at each level, instead of the current structure where there are only 28 leagues High Gold or higher.

An FTP manager who doesn't have the time to treat this game as a full-time job can still, with luck, make his way to the Low Gold level, about 1/3 of which would be perfect level in a rectangular league structure. And he wouldn't care that he was in PL 537 and still be miles from being in PL501.

11-06-2025, 07:16 AM	#50
rburgh All Star Reserve Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: Pittsburgh Posts: 978	The game company Is selling out the joy that FTP players used to get by getting to the Perfect level occasionally by (A) having a pyramid structure where even getting to LD is an accomplishment, and (B) making the missions tougher to complete. So the game currently has a little over 13,000 teams, instead of the 40,000 or so that it had when I started playing in XVIII. That means that they're missing out on about 9000 buyers of the base game. And the virtual impossibility of an FTP team completing the Bumgarner or Clemente missions is going to drive even more users away. I think in a few years we will be down to 10,000 teams. They should go back to the original league structure of approximately equal numbers of leagues at each level, but then within the Perfect level have promotions within the level so that league 501 is the equivalent of the PeL today, with the winner of that league anointed as the overall champion for the season. Meanwhile, have the current 445 leagues divided up into 44 or 45 leagues at each level, instead of the current structure where there are only 28 leagues High Gold or higher. An FTP manager who doesn't have the time to treat this game as a full-time job can still, with luck, make his way to the Low Gold level, about 1/3 of which would be perfect level in a rectangular league structure. And he wouldn't care that he was in PL 537 and still be miles from being in PL501.