Season 3 builds v. season 1 builds is at least a new argument for me. Is there an advantage to having players built in seasons 3/4? Hell yeah. I wish I had taken the time to do some basic math back at the start of season 2 instead of waiting for two seasons. The fun thing about MM is that we're a group of guys who met in GLB world way back in the day - figured out how to build (not as soon as some) and have stuck with it long enough to begin to see the fruit of a small dash of intelligence and a bigger dash of loyalty.
I also know the crappy feeling of watching an up and coming team pass by a veteran team. I've seen a couple of early slow-builds make their way to APL and push their way equal to or past my own team. But that kind of stuff is just built into the fabric of the game. For me I take equal amounts of pleasure being part of an up and coming team as I do in owning an older team that has had to scrape and claw its way to being competitive. They're equally interesting and equally deserving of credit IMO.
I've also taken some pleasure in watching some up and coming teams that thought they were all hot disintegrate when they tasted their first bit of adversity. I can assure you that's not MM.
I also know the crappy feeling of watching an up and coming team pass by a veteran team. I've seen a couple of early slow-builds make their way to APL and push their way equal to or past my own team. But that kind of stuff is just built into the fabric of the game. For me I take equal amounts of pleasure being part of an up and coming team as I do in owning an older team that has had to scrape and claw its way to being competitive. They're equally interesting and equally deserving of credit IMO.
I've also taken some pleasure in watching some up and coming teams that thought they were all hot disintegrate when they tasted their first bit of adversity. I can assure you that's not MM.