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[Clovidequano Dovatha]

Here are some brand-new prospective items for the Claiborne Cardinals that I just made here. Of course, I'll probably need to work on them at least a little bit more later on, but here's what I still have for them so far, in any case. The current font on the home items is Cardinal, while the current font on the away items is Cardinal Alternate, quite naturally enough.

Here's the current color-related information for this team here, although I'm not quite sure if they will ultimately be this team's permanent colors, in the long run, just yet, to be honest. If they are, then they are. If not, then so be it, of course:

c82814 Rosso Corsa (200, 40, 20)
e4a998 Melon (228, 135, 152)
62b5e5 Aero (98, 181, 229)
c9ad30 Old Gold (201, 173, 48)
435060 Charcoal (67, 80, 96)

Please feel free to comment on these items here as you like and can, within fair and just reason and all, everyone. Again, I'll probably need to work on this team more here, of course, but at least I've done some things for them here, in any case, for sure. Thank you for your time and attention and all here, then. That's all for this post here, I think. CD out.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

Henry Freeman would probably start around 1874, I think. Zebulon Morse in 1875, K.J. Walton, 1877. Jedediah Holmes, any time between 1876 and 1880. Jethro Morse any time between 1879 and 1883 or 1884. Tanner Garber a year or so after Jethro Morse, then both Barrett Parverol and Simon Clairborne any time between 1883 and 1887 or 1888, in turn.

As for any others sufficiently associated with them in any way, I probably won't want or need to suggest any more until Gordon's generation, as far as I can tell right now easily enough. I plan to start another dynasty with the relevant players in it, if I don't import one from 21 instead, and then a related dynasty thread, at some point in the near future. IF I do, then perhaps if you see a prospective player you'd actually like to have in your IPA as well, if at all possible, you then can certainly let me know, of course, and I'll send you the needed information as I can and all, if i don't post it in the relevant thread, jg2977.

Let's just see how certain things go, as the potential players each come in, whether they're the Freemans or their rivals, or allied to either side of things here, or to neither side, at least when it comes to posting their periodical statistics and all, okay? We certainly can adjust our plans related to them as needed and desired, I'm sure. Same thing when it comes to player movement of the relevant players, or which teams they're assigned to, of course, jg2977. If we need to lock them to certain teams or positions, then we can certainly do that, if and when needed and all, most likely, for certain reasons.

As far as players in Gordon's generation, and later generations, once Henry and his contemporaries are no longer active players, let's just see how things go with them, and adjust as needed and all, as best as we can, jg2977. I'll keep you posted as best as I can, whether it's in this thread, privately, or any of my sufficiently-related dynasty threads, you know, for sure, of course.

Thank you for your time and attention and all here, as well. I'll take another look at the Ranford items, as you requested, for sure, if and when I can, in any case. Talk more later, as time allows and all, I'm sure, Lord willing and all, jg2977. CD out.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

It shouldn't be too hard to change the shading on the Ranford items, I think, jg2977. Look for alternate versions of them to be posted here somehow by sometime tomorrow, if at all possible, please. Thank you for your input regarding them. CD out.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

As requested, alternate items for Ranford's Bulls with less shading, jg2977. Hope you can still use the original items for them, though, that I made here, of course. Please let me know, okay, if you can use any or all of the items for Ranford I've made so far, whether old or new? Thank you. CD out.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

Here are some prospective items that I've already made so far for the Goshen Sojourners. The font currently in question here is El Messiri, it seems to me, and the current color-related information for this team is below:

c8963e Satin Sheen Gold (200, 150, 62)
2f732f Dartmouth Green (47, 115, 47)
e9e3e6 Platinum (233, 227, 230)
376673 Deep Space Sparkle (55, 102, 115)
03254e Oxford Blue (3, 37, 78)

I may have to work more on them later, of course, but for now, at least, I have these items for them, in any case, for sure. Please feel free to comment on these items as you like and can, within fair and just reason and all, folks. That is all for this post, then, I think. CD out.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

Here are some prospective items for the Dvira Spectrums that I've made so far, and more will, of course, probably come later for them, at some point. I tried to use a rainbow-style color scheme and/or gradients, for instance, to make most, if not all, of these items, just so you know. The font currently in use on these items is Spectral, in fact. The color-related information is below, besides pure white and pure black:

ff0000 Red (255,0, 0)
ff8000 Orange (255, 128, 0)
ffff00 Yellow (255, 255, 0)
00ff00 Green (0, 255, 0)
0000ff Blue (0, 0, 255)
400080 Indigo (64, 0, 128)
8000b0 Violet RYB (128, 0, 176)
a0a0a0 Quick Silver (160, 160, 160)
008080 Teal (0, 128, 128)
800040 Pansy Purple (128, 0, 64)

Please feel free to comment on these items as you like and can, within fair and just reason and all, of course, folks. Thank you for your time and attention and all here, as well, for that matter. That is all for this post here, then, I think. CD out.

[jg2977]

That's much better shading for the Ranford Bulls. The uniforms certainly are pretty, I'll give you that. I'll put them in the game to see what they look like. I can at least keep them as alternate uniforms for weekend games.


For the Dvira Spectrums, the two S's are spaced away a little too far apart from the other letters.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

Can't likely reduce the spacing on the Spectrums text, for otherwise, they may needlessly overlap the adjacent letters, unfortunately. But thanks for your input, just the same, on them and the Bulls items, jg2977. CD out.

[jg2977]

For the Spectrums, maybe that's just how that font is. Very colorful uniforms, however.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

jg2977, you want some names for hockey players, supposing you'd want to create a hockey world to go along with your IPA 2.0? If so, I can certainly suggest names for players, at least, to begin in Gordon's generation for your IPA, if that's all right with you.

I have come up with certain names for several cousins of the Freeman brothers in Gordon's generation that you could perhaps include in your IPA, but not yet for any of their potential rivals. But perhaps we could have other players on certain IPA teams be their rivals, even if we actually don't know their names just yet here. Meaning ones the game actually creates, if you don't actually add any potential rivals for them yourself to the applicable game here that you come up with instead.

The cousins in question for the Freemans would each be born between 1883 and 1901, it seems, in Gordon's generation, just so you know, jg2977. Some from Zebulon and some from Jethro, and some from other siblings of Henry's wife. But only two Morses are expected or planned for possible IPA entrance in Henry's generation, at this point, at least. I don't presently expect there to be more, either, for that matter. Whether it's in any of your dynasties or mine, I don't currently plan to have or suggest more than two sufficiently-related Morses to be present as potential players during Henry's generation for playing careers, in any league, for sure. At least as potential baseball players, anyway, that is. If any other related players showed up in the related dynasty or dynasties, they'd be hockey players, in any case, I'm sure.

Generation two would be Grover's generation, with at least seven players on the Freemans' side and at least seven players on the rivals' side of things, whether in your dynasties or mine, if not both yours and mine, most likely born between 1908 and 1922, more or less. At least when it comes to the baseball players, of course. Hockey players, that would certainly have to be determined later, no doubt, as well.

Unfortunately, OOTP hasn't produced basketball or football games here, or at least not as of yet. So we'll simply just have to work around that particular fact, of course, as best as possible and all, you know, jg2977. Maybe someday, we'll actually be able to incorporate simulations of those two sports, at least, into our related baseball and hockey-style dynasties, but we can't do that just yet, for sure.

Thank you for your time and attention and all here, and I hope to see a good deal more commentary from you about various things here, within fair and just reason and all, if and whenever possible and appropriate and all here. Lord willing and all, of course, you know. I think I like the Goshen Sojourners items as well, for instance. True, they could probably still use some more work on them later, but hopefully someone will be able to come up with some good logos for them someday in the near future, just the same, jg2977. CD out.

[jg2977]

Do you mean having a hockey league separate from my IPA? I already have OOTP uniforms and logos from my last NHL-themed dynasty. I was thinking about bringing that back in a promotion-relegation style format, possibly. I have plenty of names for players that I'd be able to put in, but I'd likely keep it mostly fictional players anyway. Changing the names of lots of players is exhausting and tedious and I don't have time for that.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

I mean that if you started a hockey dynasty with teams in a number of the same cities with IPA teams in it, for instance, you could perhaps have something that runs alongside the IPA, and which you could incorporate into your related world/universe, at whatever degree you might choose to do that sort of thing here. The hockey games already have the capacity to create or connect certain players together as relatives, it seems to me. This would be no different, if it could be done properly, somehow.

The four hockey players in question that I have currently in mind so far would be cousins to Gordon and his three brothers. After that, I'm not sure how many other players would be related on the Freemans' side of things or on the rivals' side of things, just yet. I don't know if we could actually have the hockey games create actual personal rivals to certain players or not, though, unfortunately.

I'm just a bit curious, though, about why you don't actually go at least a bit more in-depth with your various leagues than to largely quick-sim them like you do. Is it because you often have little time, for instance, to play OOTP, because of your work, whatever it may be that you do for a living, et cetera? Just wondering, that's all, jg2977.

Keep an eye on your mailbox, please. I should be sending you a message soon, I think, whether it relates to your IPA and certain players or not. I might even ask some advice when it comes to certain music-related details for one or more of my stories, as well, for instance. So please keep at least some space in your mailbox free, just in case I might want or need to get in touch with you again privately in the near future, jg2977. Thank you. CD out.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

Here are some prospective items for the Crystal Lake Skippers that I've made so far. I'll almost certainly want or need to work on them more later, but for now, at least, I've made these items, at the very least, for them so far, in any case. The font currently in question on them here is New Shape, and the related color codes and color names, et cetera, are below, as follows, inspired at least in part, if not taken directly from the historical colors of five Seattle pro sports teams, those being the Pilots, Mariners, Supersonics, Seahawks, and Kraken:

fed141 Sunglow (254, 209, 65)
2365af Green Blue (35, 101, 175)
0e5249 Blue Green Color Wheel (14, 82, 73)
085e3b Castleton Green (8, 94, 59)
a0a5a6 Quick Silver (160, 165, 166)
c8102e Red NCS (200, 16, 46)

Please feel free to comment as you like and can, within fair and just reason and all, of course, folks. I'd appreciate your constructive criticism and all quite a bit, for sure, as always, you know. Thank you for your time and attention and all here, as usual, then. That's all for this post here, at least, I suppose, in that case. CD out.

[jg2977]

Originally Posted by Clovidequano Dovatha

I mean that if you started a hockey dynasty with teams in a number of the same cities with IPA teams in it, for instance, you could perhaps have something that runs alongside the IPA, and which you could incorporate into your related world/universe, at whatever degree you might choose to do that sort of thing here. The hockey games already have the capacity to create or connect certain players together as relatives, it seems to me. This would be no different, if it could be done properly, somehow.

The four hockey players in question that I have currently in mind so far would be cousins to Gordon and his three brothers. After that, I'm not sure how many other players would be related on the Freemans' side of things or on the rivals' side of things, just yet. I don't know if we could actually have the hockey games create actual personal rivals to certain players or not, though, unfortunately.

I'm just a bit curious, though, about why you don't actually go at least a bit more in-depth with your various leagues than to largely quick-sim them like you do. Is it because you often have little time, for instance, to play OOTP, because of your work, whatever it may be that you do for a living, et cetera? Just wondering, that's all, jg2977.

Keep an eye on your mailbox, please. I should be sending you a message soon, I think, whether it relates to your IPA and certain players or not. I might even ask some advice when it comes to certain music-related details for one or more of my stories, as well, for instance. So please keep at least some space in your mailbox free, just in case I might want or need to get in touch with you again privately in the near future, jg2977. Thank you. CD out.

I only have a limited time to play OOTP, and I like to see who makes the playoffs and then reaches the championship series and who wins titles. I also love watching the playoff games and experiencing the drama playing out the games in 3D. Therefore, I do not spend time paying attention to regular season games, nor do I have much interest in that aspect.

I also don't have any interest in creating a hockey league that runs aside the IPA. I would create that as its own stand-alone league with real team names and logos like I did in the past. By keeping each entity separate it is much simpler for me.

I work full-time and play music as well. When the day comes that I can retire and I have time to play OOTP for hours each day, perhaps I can start writing stories pertaining to the happenings of the league, in-depth team previews and predictions, more in-depth postseason game articles, frontrunners for the MVP and Cy Young, and recaps on divisional races. I'm not a writer so it would be difficult for me at first, but if I'm interested in something that would greatly help.

I appreciate the league suggestions, and if you would like to incorporate them into your own leagues, that's great. However, I am happy with running my leagues in the simple way that I am right now, so I don't need any further suggestions.

Finally, I'll be glad to add a limit of two Freemans and two rivals per generation. Anything more would be too cumbersome for me to deal with as it will create too much work. I'll choose an above average player who is around 20 or 21 years old and change their names, place of birth, position and put them on a team of your choosing, but leave the AI-generated ratings the way that they are. That way I can create your players quickly. With just four players per generation I can easily post images of their baseball cards in this thread after each season. Once the players are created, I won't touch them again. If the AI chooses to trade them or let another team sign them as free agents, so be it.

Hopefully these terms will be acceptable to you. I appreciate your thanks and respect.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

So what you might be basically saying is that you're probably not going to add all four Freeman brothers and their respective rivals, at least, when it eventually comes to Gordon's generation, come circa 1901 or so, for instance? How long would it probably take you to get to 1901 from now, jg2977, if all goes sufficiently according to plan, for you and the IPA 2.0 dynasty?

My proposed players' various ratings would probably each be realistic enough for your purposes, I think. But we'd both still have to see how realistic they'd be, of course, to be totally sure about that later on. We definitely don't want to see statistics that are too bizarre and all compared to everyone else's, either, no doubt.

Let me think about what you've just said for a while, and get back to you later, if and whenever possible and all, please, jg2977. And please let me try to think of what to ask you, at least related to music, if nothing else as well, later on, too. I really don't like being stuck on a number of my stories, whether original fiction or fanfiction, for sure. I like doing research often, for that matter, but it can often still be rather challenging to incorporate the results of that research into my writing projects at times, as well.

I'm going to have to do a good deal more research about a number of subjects for various stories, including research about Interpol and other certain law enforcement agencies in the world, at least, for instance. It's probably not going to be as easy to find the proper information as I might want it to be, but I do often relish challenges and all, whether it's finding things out or incorporating various bits of information and all into my stories, in any case, jg2977.

Thank you for your time and attention and all, and let's just see where things take us, no matter how many players I propose to you that you ultimately allow into your IPA, in the course of time. Whether they're associated with the Freemans, the Freemans' allies, the rivals, the rivals' allies, or they're simply non-aligned players. Or just what we might periodically allow the AI to then do with them, et cetera. We can always adjust our plans wherever and whenever the need and desire to do so arise for us here, of course, I'm sure. Talk more later, as time permits and all, as well, no doubt, then, jg2977. CD out.

[jg2977]

It will take a while to get to 1901 from now, as I'm only in 1871. That's 30 seasons. Let's see what happens when we get there. Is there a player that you are proposing for 1872? If so, send me his information ASAP.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

Please read posts 20 and 21 in your new IPA thread, at least, if not also related posts in this thread, yet again, jg2977. That's what I'm currently proposing for Henry's generation, and I don't think I'll be proposing more players than those this generation, in any case, or at least I don't plan to at this point, anyway.

Gordon's generation could have him with his three brothers, at least, along with the same number of rivals, spaced out as necessary. With or without allied families to either side also having potential IPA players as part of them, of course, as well. The main rival families, if we stick primarily to the Freemans and their respective rivals, would be the Holmeses, the Parverols, the Garbers, and the Clairbornes, in any case. Especially if four Freeman brothers were able to play in Gordon's generation.

Let's see where things take us, for any of the potential players I'd propose for your IPA in the future for this version of the IPA, at least. In any case, Henry Freeman would be the oldest of four potential IPA players on the Freeman side, and the youngest of four potential players on the Freeman side would be about nine years younger than Henry. While on the other side, the oldest would be Jedediah Holmes, and the youngest Simon Clairborne, almost seven years younger than Jedediah.

As far as the Freemans' cousins, they wouldn't actually begin to appear in your IPA before Gordon's generation, if at all, in any case, anyway. Same thing for the relevant rivals' cousins, if there were any, I think.

As far as reporting on the progressions of their respective playing careers, periodically, let's both just see how things go. If we do happen to ever need to space out their updated reports, once enough players are in the mix, instead of reporting on them every year, except where they do something special or earn awards, then we'll do that, as best as we can, if and whenever possible and appropriate, I think.

Of course, if they get hurt, and their careers are shorter as a result, then so be it. Or if they retire sooner than planned, you know. But I still would like to see siblings actually start on the same teams as other members of their families, if at all possible. Or if Henry were to still be playing when Gordon, for instance, started, I'd like them to spend at least one season playing on the same team, if not more than one, before the parent retired as a player, if at all possible.

I'd prefer that the rivals never play on the same team as any of the Freemans, if it can possibly be avoided at all, and vice versa. Unless, of course, they're on All-Star teams together, you know.

Every season, you should probably let me know what teams may be eligible teams for prospective new players to start on. Eligible teams in this context would be any team that would be using at least one or two of my items for themselves every so often, at least, I think, during the applicable season or seasons, of course, unless I am more specific in a certain case at times.

If you want or need me to do more graphics for you and your IPA teams, at least, you will need to give me at least a week's notice prior to the time you next start a brand-new season, I think, once all the awards are done for a particular season. That should hopefully allow me enough time to make the needed graphics as best as possible, and as soon as possible, prior to that season or following seasons. For instance, if you want me to make new items for 1872, you will need to let me know as soon as possible, just which teams you may want me to try and do good items for, of course. Just so you know, jg2977.

I'll talk more later, as time allows and all, I'm sure, Lord willing and all, of course. Thank you for your time and attention and all, as always. And I was also wondering just what you think of my new take on the Crystal Lake Skippers, inspired at least in part, perhaps, if not entirely inspired, by the Seattle Pilots, Seattle Mariners, Seattle Supersonics, Seattle Seahawks, and Seattle Kraken, at present. Please feel free to share your thoughts about the above items, as you like and can, then, as well, jg2977. CD out.

[jg2977]

As far as the Crystal Lake Skippers items go, I think that most people don't like when many different colors are combined to make a uniform. Have you seen the logo? Crystal Lake's team colors are navy blue and gold, so you should only use those colors. Unless you can get someone to change the colors in the logo to fit your items, just stick with the original colors.

As far as the created players go, I'll take a look at what's in store for my league. I don't think you proposed too many players, but I'll see. I set the injuries to my league at extremely low, so we likely won't have to worry about careers being cut short.

[jg2977]

Ok, so we have 4 Freemans and 4 others entering my IPA in the next 10 years or so, I guess I can handle that. Just let me know what years you want them entering the IPA. Remember that in this IPA I will not be giving any teams assists, nor will I be helping anybody win or lose more than they should. The AI will decide that. If the players are on good teams, great. If they're on poor teams, than that's just the breaks. Hopefully a few of your created players will make the playoffs, but I can't promise that. And remember that with only division winners now, it's more difficult to qualify for the postseason.

I'm happy with the graphics that I have now. You don't have to make anymore.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

Actually, one Freeman (Henry), two Morses (siblings of Henry's future wife), plus the father of Gordon and the other three Freeman brothers' mother, on the Freemans' side of things, plus the fathers of the Freeman brothers' rivals, on the other side of things, at this point. Just so you know this here well enough. Talk more later, as time permits and all, of course, Lord willing and all, as always, jg2977. CD out.