07-22-2020, 03:50 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-23-2020, 05:43 PM by LancedJack.)
Tier 2 Task 12:
First and foremost Simulation Football feels like a familiar entity to me. The play by forum aspect, the creation, the discussion and the social circles it engenders are similar to D&D or role playing games and that's something that's incredibly difficult to replicate. The opportunity to sit with your friends and create a player or talk about the teams you wish to join, your goals and your thoughts about each others players is a welcome relief from a lot of what is going on at this time in the world. The ISFL is perfectly timed in that regard. I think the longest time it has taken me to convince a friend to play so far has been around five sentences. It speaks to something found in the typical role players that makes them want to play, want to engage. Add a football skin over the top and that's kerosene to a flame.
None of this would be possible without the helpers and the people running the league however and Cool Aunt Bex in the Discord channel was invaluable. I created my account, they approved it in the blink of an eye. I had questions and they had answers. When I made my player profile with all the skill and grace of a toddler falling down a flight of stairs @FleshBagSoup was on hand to advise and correct. Completely patient even though they must deal with this sort of thing constantly.
Designing the player and thinking about who you want them to be, what you envision for their career and how to assign that numerically has been incredibly satisfying. I'm unsure of how other people think of it, whether they design based on an existing player or themselves, but I've had great fun picking apart the career of a man who doesn't exist and never will. It's good enough that he'll exist in a series of 1's and 0's in some software somewhere though.
The only real suggestion I could provide (because everything so far has been pretty painless) would be a rough guide on how forums work. Whilst I'm fairly well versed in them having spent most of my formative years spouting drivel on them, I imagine for those who haven't encountered them before they must appear pretty intimidating. "Do I post a topic? Or a thread? Embedding? Wait who edited that? Who's an admin? Whats this scrolling banner? How do I find my posts?" and other questions might swirl before someone even thinks "I'd like to be Johnny Linebacker, QB from Michigan."
I haven't been drafted yet, I'm not even sure what that process will look like, but the idea of tuning into a YouTube Stream early August and seeing my guys name light up (hopefully) makes me feel exactly like it did when I got rid of a big bad in D&D; elated, excited and a little nervous.
Tier 3 Task 19:
Welcome to another edition of the Krakens Grasp, the weekly podcast run by DSFL hopeful Rusty Rucker. This week we're taking a look at another DSFL hopeful Raylan Crowder. Sitting at 74 TPE you'd not be mistaken for thinking this guys going places. A 70 speed off the edge is frankly ferocious and an inflated intelligence of 50 would do wonders for the man if it wasn't for the fact that he's actually so dense that light bends around him. With a 70 strength will it be enough for him to bring down the top ball carriers of the league, especially with a mediocre 63 tackling. I imagine he probably has a back up camera when he needs to turn around and with tackling skill like that he'll be turning around fairly often. Those bitter anomalies aside a strong cannonball being shot out of a 219lb cannon is deadly in anyones book and all the pads and helmets in the world isn't going to keep you safe when he comes downhill at you. I can see a long and fruitful career ahead for Raylan, but lets hope he's got the TPE to throw up that Tackling stat. Get stats, get stacks and you don't get paid for thin air boss! That's all for another edition of the Krakens Grasp, stay tuned in for more draft profiles.
Tier 3 Task 22:
Necessity is the mother of invention and where is there more necessity than a game played in seconds and measured in inches. Everything is required, nothing is given. Al Pacino once said "we claw for that inch." But why claw when you can dig? Why use your hands when you can have a shovel? Why have a shovel when you could rent a digger? With that in mind I propose a new Pro Bowl competition. The Who's Line Is It improvisation task. Players will be asked to improvise situations and zany hi-jinks, such as "Dig Down for a Touchdown" and "The Big Dog Dance" or "You're flagged for slapping a refs butt, what do you do?!" Because nothing tells you about how a player will cope with stress and situations than throwing them into it at speed in front of a camera.
First and foremost Simulation Football feels like a familiar entity to me. The play by forum aspect, the creation, the discussion and the social circles it engenders are similar to D&D or role playing games and that's something that's incredibly difficult to replicate. The opportunity to sit with your friends and create a player or talk about the teams you wish to join, your goals and your thoughts about each others players is a welcome relief from a lot of what is going on at this time in the world. The ISFL is perfectly timed in that regard. I think the longest time it has taken me to convince a friend to play so far has been around five sentences. It speaks to something found in the typical role players that makes them want to play, want to engage. Add a football skin over the top and that's kerosene to a flame.
None of this would be possible without the helpers and the people running the league however and Cool Aunt Bex in the Discord channel was invaluable. I created my account, they approved it in the blink of an eye. I had questions and they had answers. When I made my player profile with all the skill and grace of a toddler falling down a flight of stairs @FleshBagSoup was on hand to advise and correct. Completely patient even though they must deal with this sort of thing constantly.
Designing the player and thinking about who you want them to be, what you envision for their career and how to assign that numerically has been incredibly satisfying. I'm unsure of how other people think of it, whether they design based on an existing player or themselves, but I've had great fun picking apart the career of a man who doesn't exist and never will. It's good enough that he'll exist in a series of 1's and 0's in some software somewhere though.
The only real suggestion I could provide (because everything so far has been pretty painless) would be a rough guide on how forums work. Whilst I'm fairly well versed in them having spent most of my formative years spouting drivel on them, I imagine for those who haven't encountered them before they must appear pretty intimidating. "Do I post a topic? Or a thread? Embedding? Wait who edited that? Who's an admin? Whats this scrolling banner? How do I find my posts?" and other questions might swirl before someone even thinks "I'd like to be Johnny Linebacker, QB from Michigan."
I haven't been drafted yet, I'm not even sure what that process will look like, but the idea of tuning into a YouTube Stream early August and seeing my guys name light up (hopefully) makes me feel exactly like it did when I got rid of a big bad in D&D; elated, excited and a little nervous.
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Tier 3 Task 19:
Welcome to another edition of the Krakens Grasp, the weekly podcast run by DSFL hopeful Rusty Rucker. This week we're taking a look at another DSFL hopeful Raylan Crowder. Sitting at 74 TPE you'd not be mistaken for thinking this guys going places. A 70 speed off the edge is frankly ferocious and an inflated intelligence of 50 would do wonders for the man if it wasn't for the fact that he's actually so dense that light bends around him. With a 70 strength will it be enough for him to bring down the top ball carriers of the league, especially with a mediocre 63 tackling. I imagine he probably has a back up camera when he needs to turn around and with tackling skill like that he'll be turning around fairly often. Those bitter anomalies aside a strong cannonball being shot out of a 219lb cannon is deadly in anyones book and all the pads and helmets in the world isn't going to keep you safe when he comes downhill at you. I can see a long and fruitful career ahead for Raylan, but lets hope he's got the TPE to throw up that Tackling stat. Get stats, get stacks and you don't get paid for thin air boss! That's all for another edition of the Krakens Grasp, stay tuned in for more draft profiles.
Tier 3 Task 22:
Necessity is the mother of invention and where is there more necessity than a game played in seconds and measured in inches. Everything is required, nothing is given. Al Pacino once said "we claw for that inch." But why claw when you can dig? Why use your hands when you can have a shovel? Why have a shovel when you could rent a digger? With that in mind I propose a new Pro Bowl competition. The Who's Line Is It improvisation task. Players will be asked to improvise situations and zany hi-jinks, such as "Dig Down for a Touchdown" and "The Big Dog Dance" or "You're flagged for slapping a refs butt, what do you do?!" Because nothing tells you about how a player will cope with stress and situations than throwing them into it at speed in front of a camera.