Originally posted by stumanroo
Originally posted by jdbolick
You're presumably going by the numbers listed in the Stadium FAQs threads. Those numbers are not correct, at least not for anyone who changes ticket and concessions pricing. Instead of using estimates, I already gave you the actual ROI for each 100 level seat type. Based on my own team's tickets and concessions pricing, we would get a ROI of 80% for corners, 75% for endzones, and 70% for club. By all means, do the math yourself if you don't want to take my word for it, but don't rely on estimates you got out of some thread and then pretend like those are authoritative. The concessions are where club and suite seats get hurt, because as you note, the cheaper seats are just as good if not better for generating concessions and you can obviously build 2.5 for every other one.
Go back and read my post you embarrassment...I have a LARGE collection of Excel spreadsheets that crunches all of the numbers based on my actual team.
Originally posted by jdbolick
One of the reasons I felt compelled to study stadium construction is precisely that we started slowly. There were a number of rl acquaintances who wanted to be on the team but were locked into long-term contracts with someone else. Those cash trades left us with a lot less construction than a normal team, which meant we had to play catch-up.
Well you sacrificed the future of your team for that...that was your choice. I have a LOT of friends who play on my team and they either found ways to get there or we waited it out. I actually have one player I am still waiting it out on because we don't want to kill the team he is on currently so we are waiting...we won't sacrifice any teams future just to play together.
Originally posted by jdbolick
I don't know what crawled up inside you and prompted this little outburst, but I suggest that you learn what you're talking about before you start running your mouth. No, I tend not to get along with adolescent jerks like Dmac and knudlen who try to publicly humiliate other owners in a pretty transparent attempt to make themselves feel better. If you'll remember, that's where Dmac and I got off on the wrong foot in CBBB4, after I took exception to him mocking another owner in the forums for bad builds when that guy hadn't done anything to deserve ridicule. And now knudlen is getting similar treatment because that fourteen year old is trying to pretend like he's a GLB god to whom all should bow down in obeisance (look it up if you don't know what that means). Kids generally get along with kids and adults generally get along with adults. Personally I have no tolerance for the former.
So while you give me advice on how to fit in with the teenage braggarts who inundate this forum with their "omg," "lol," and "mang" gibberish, maybe I can return the favor by letting you know how I've gotten along with the actual adults who play this game. To start with, I'm all for good-natured smack talk, but I never talk shit about another team or their players. Then, because this is a game and I act like an adult instead of some idiot child who has to tell everyone on Xbox Live how they "just got pwned!," I've tried to offer answers and advice to anyone in my leagues who had questions about the game. Last season I helped several teams that were in our conference simply because I put more value on them having fun and being competitive than how much we could beat them by. And for the record, maybe my Western Europe leagues have just been fortunate enough to have a higher average age, but there we've always been secure enough that we could discuss our thoughts about GLB, including complaints about changes to the sim. What you term "whining" is something at least those adults have seen as topics of conversation. By all means, please forgive me for thinking that this league was capable of the same maturity.
Well if you would actually take the time to get to know the people who play this game maybe you would understand what they are typing. I have got into it with Dmac before in Canada BBB #4, Ryan and I got into it quite a bit to start last season here in A2. And I am sure there will be some rounds in AA1 next season if we make it there...if not I am sure some of the newcomers will come in here bragging and be set straight and be all good after a few games...it is the cycle of promotion.
What I can tell you is I am 34 and have 2 children 11 and 6 so being an adolescent is definitely not me! I will not give you the personal information of others exactly but I will tell you that DMac is most definitely not an adolescent either.
You see I am filled with social intrigue...when I go to the mall I don't just see inanimate objects around the store...I see an environment and reactions. I watch the movements and see how they react to everything...this helps me to be able to react to everything. This is called adapting to your environment. If you don't want to adapt to your environment do you really want to be there? I mean there is no real harm going on in some of these threads...and there are ways to take threads and direct them is better directions...I have done it before plenty of times.
I can tell you from all of my investigation that you are not going to quit bitching about everybody else and how people cheat the system and how you got screwed. Hell you will find much more to bitch about all of the truth I am typing right now!
Originally posted by jdbolick
No, I don't. I've never once said "we'd be dominating if not for the sim changes!" or anything like that. In fact, I've been abundantly clear about how the problems with the Season 7 sim have affected most of GLB, not just my team. I have never once attempted to use the Season 7 changes as excuses, I've simply pointed out obvious flaws and noted how they have lessened my enjoyment of the game. Obviously you react poorly to any frank discussion of its shortcomings, and perhaps you prefer mindless endorsements about how "GLB owns!," but I find that fairly silly.
You bitched about a team cheating in season 5 and worried so much about their cheating you lost to them...I didn't care and just worked on making sure my team didn't lose to the cheaters...result...Championship trophy! Bitching about the little things that EVERYONE on GLB has to deal with is a waste of time because there are going to be 186 League champions who have managed to find a way to make it to the top in the exact system you are bitching about. Look at it as a challenge to find out who is truly the best in GLB...after all that is what the game is all about is to be the best right? And learning what the game truly is will help you become the best!
Originally posted by jdbolick
But really the point is this: the people who act like adults on GLB have always gotten along fine with me. Before this childish temper tantrum you just threw, we always had before, at least as far as I knew. Like I said, I have no idea what made you have a hissy fit tonight, but I'm perfectly willing to look past it. What I won't do, however, is to look the other way when someone is being a dick. I stepped in on Dmac and tansien because they were being assholes to other owners who hadn't done anything wrong. And I stood up to knudlen because he was being a condescending prick as well. If you want to pretend that this is my fault because I put those jackasses in their place, I don't really have any control over that.
See this is what I am talking about...I have opposed you in a way and now I am accused of throwing a hissy fit? WTF? Who are you to judge all of these people because YOU are the one who has issues with them. I didn't see Ryan come in here and tell Knudlen to fuck off because his stadium sucks! You say you are sticking up for the others but all I have seen here is you against the world! I haven't seen these people ask to be stuck up for!
Yeah as far as you knew because I have done my best to ignore all of the constant whining and bitching in the league forums...that and I had a season off of not having to listen to your whining and bitching!
Knudlen opposed you and you opposed him...there is no issue with difference of opinion...his first post simply stated he couldn't understand how far behind some of the stadiums are! It's like when I help my daughter with her math...I do math without thinking...it comes natural...but she has to work her ass of just to do subtraction!
If you want me to accept you sticking up for all of these people than you should have an easy time accepting this...I am sticking up for all of the other people who have a lot of good in them that you have not taken the time to find out about!
Originally posted by jdbolick
But ask anyone who doesn't act like a child how they've gotten along with me. Ask the guys who brought players to my team because they appreciated the way I've conducted myself. Ask the owners and GMs who have PMed me for help. Ask the people who have been on teams with me about the way I've treated them. Then ask anyone else if they've ever seen me act like an idiot whenever my team has success.
If you want to play that game we can? I will go into the 40+ forums I have access to and have respect in and ask them all to come in here and tell you what they think of me? You will not find people who will say that I haven't done my best to treat them all how they deserve to be treated. There is a reason I don't recruit heavily...because players have a tendency to come to me instead of me having to go scour for them...that is the reason I am not often seen in the recruiting or trade forums. That doesn't happen by being an adolescent S***head!
Originally posted by jdbolick
I am the absolute last person you need to be lecturing, and if you ever feel the urge coming on again, I suggest that you find a way to get over it.
WTF is this? If I ever feel the urge to come on again? What you think you actually have put me in my place here? Look at all of the other posts...how many are directed towards me? You think you can intimidate me into going into hiding and going crying to my mommy? What kind of testosterone fiend are you? You think you can intimidate people into submission over the internet? Get a clue!!!
I may quit responding after a certain amount of time or work on changing the direction of this thread once I have no more care for it but you will NOT scare me off by trying to scare me over the internet!
And before you go into trying to even state I wouldn't do this in person...BLAH! Hell yes I would...and I have many of times! If I feel it is right for me to do it I will.
what the hell is wrong with you??
