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Originally posted by Cold Mountain Rebel
1) Curious as to ANY possibility of non-age based leagues returning in some format. My team has ALWAYS at least been somewhat competitive. This season they are DOOMED to the basement under the new age based format. The team isn't going to even be able to play more than two or three teams ALL SEASON that we will even be competitive with.

2) What part of this new system is supposed to make for more competitive/balanced leagues. (I just don't understand....it seems to me that we have more 100 point plus blowouts than EVER before).

We'll never say never, but it is highly unlikely that we ever return to non age based leagues. I don't think that we have more 100 point plus blow outs then ever before. As the age based leagues mature, teams will end up being grouped together with similar teams to their own. This is the first season of age based leagues and because of all the roster movements and teams figuring out what they were doing the initial sort didn't necessarily group teams together as good as possible. It'll get better with time.

Originally posted by Triathlon Dude
What constitutes a suggestion making to voting????

A moderator or Admin has to review the suggestion and then move it to the voting queue.

Originally posted by James Buchanan
Has user activity/game popularity increased or decreased since last season? How has the game growth been over the past 5-6 seasons?

We keep track of user activity. The game has remained relatively stable over the past year in terms of number of users who log in to the game and the amount of revenue that we generate.

Originally posted by Loonzilla
Is there a Cap to Attributes? Is a 155 Speed with 60 stamina and 85 agility faster than 150 with the same. Does the game allow for infinite attribute gains? As always thanks for taking the time Catch.



There is no cap. Yes, 155 speed would be faster than 150. It's not infinite, but it's not limited.

Originally posted by Loonzilla
Does the Route Running Special ability stack with First step, if it is an Additional Ability, on say it's a TE or Possession Receiver ?

Two separate and distinct special abilities, so no they do not stack per se. First Step is for acceleration from a dead stop. Route Running gives bonuses while running a route. Having both on a receiver can be beneficial as it helps the receiver start the route quicker with First Step and while running the route they will receive the Route Running bonuses.

Originally posted by MileHighShoes
How far along is the comprehensive SA testing?
When can we expect it to be finished?
Will the results be made public?
Or will only the changes be made public?

It's on hold.

It will be a while.

The results will not be made public, only the changes will.

Originally posted by Wrathius
IS there any plans in place or talks ahppening about how to enourage players to spend the SP's they get for the dots in a more timely manner. Currently I have talked with agents and they are telling my they intend to hold all there SP's till lev 20+ this seems a little excessive and counter intuitive to competition but they feel they have to do it to build good dots.



No plans on doing this.

Originally posted by Triathlon Dude
Why does this page not get updated anymore?


http://goallineblitz.com/game/changelog.pl

specifically the Current projects tab?

Completed project(s) in testing, coming soon
Hello McFly? Anybody home?
Current project(s)
- iPhone app API
- Various website enhancements
- Home page update allowing items to be collapsed/expanded and moved around Done
- New tactics options to try and make things easier to use
- Work on popular suggestions
- Updates to DPC to limit D line movement Done

On the radar

Back burner for now
- Coaching related updates
- Finish forum updates (voting)
- Additional stuff for Scout tool
- 2 pt conversions
- Stats API or RSS feed
- Official News/Blog for testing blog and general community news



Mainly because we provide fairly regular updates via the changelog and announcements.

Originally posted by cowtesticles2001
What is the penalty to SA's when they have a penalty to them?

Not information that we are going to reveal.

Originally posted by Skanker irl
Why don't all of the SAs actually work?

They do. A lot of the times the problem people have with SA's is that they 1) don't work as well as they WANT them to or 2) don't understand exactly how the SA's work. Bort has verified the code for all of the SA's and that there are no issues with them working as they are coded.

Originally posted by Skanker irl
After almost 20 seasons (almost 3 years irl) why is this game constantly changing and still in Beta?

We're trying to move it to an out of beta state. To do that, we need to get the game to where we want it so that massive changes will not happen once we are out of beta.

Originally posted by Snakebite99
Hmm, I've been wondering this for a while, and always held back on asking it because i figured id get the generic, politically correct response, or the typical "stop whining" retort, but I suppose a Q&A thread is as good a time to ask it as any. Hopefully it'll be received well and answered professionally.

What is the admin's honest feeling about diminishing activity levels, particularly in the forums? Never in my nearly 3 years here have i seen a 4 day old thread still on the first page of GLB main. Not until the past 3-4 seasons have I seen FA threads for quality high level dots get such little interest. It's no secret that activity levels are way down, but im just wondering what the admins of the site think about this. Was this the intention with all the new forum rules? Is it disconcerting at all knowing that new user sign ups seem to be at an all time low? Any ideas why this is happening? Any ideas how you all plan to reverse this trend? I know this is a loaded question, but it's a serious one, not meant as a trolling attempt (even though i realize it may sound that way). Im just a user who actually enjoys the game, but as more and more people leave, and fewer and fewer new users sign up, i wonder how much life this game has. I know Bort's busy blah blah, but I know that the game seemed to have a lot more promise when he was posting a bit more regularly. Call me delusional, but this is something ive wanted to ask for a while, so hopefully i get a well laid out answer.

Would love for Bort to give a "State of the game" address one day, maybe with some of his thoughts on the game's progress, mistakes he's made, ways he'd like to improve the game, future plans, etc. Just a thought

Forum posting activity levels going down does not mean that user activity levels are going down. As evidenced by survey results, the majority of our users do not post on a frequent basis in the forums. User log in and activity has remained relatively stable over the last year. We obviously want to continue to grow and are going to be doing things over the course of 2011 to help do that. It's a small company though and things don't happen as quickly as they might with a large corporation. They are being worked on though and we have every intention of having GLB around for many years to come.

As for Bort posting a bit more regularly. That's one of the main reasons they hired me... so he could devote his time and attention to working on the game rather then spending hours in the forums. This is not unusual for game developers. He still does come in the forums and make posts (he just posted on 1/29) and he does participate at times in Q & A's and radio interviews (he did one last year and will be doing another one in two weeks). He's just more focused on developing the game now then trying to answer user questions and complaints.

Originally posted by Triathlon Dude
Why are there no edit dates and times on Announcements?

We know that they get steath changed, but rarely are we ever told that they have actually changed.

An example of what I am talking about is at the bottom of this post....


Edit - I just edited it so you can see the bottom edit information

If they are edited, they are marked with EDIT inside of the announcement.

Originally posted by dmfa41
Are OLs ever considered to be "lead blocking?" I think this may have been answered before, but I can't find it. Sorry.

http://www.glbwiki.com/qa/search.php - type in lead block

Originally posted by blackhole07
can you tell me REV Pancakes means???

Reverse pancakes. Basically, a defensive player pancaking (knocking down) an offensive player.