Tier 2 Task 7 Rookie Time in the League
So to be 100 percent honest my time in the league hasn't been that great so far. When I first joined the league I was lucky in the sense that I had done a sim before as I'm in PBE right now, so it was kind of easy for me to figure out the Just of what I needed to do. I jumped right into, the rookie guide was great in that aspect. I had no problems finding where I should go for my rookie tasks and even figuring out the little more complicated updating of the different builds compared to PBE was pretty straight forward. I joined the rookie discord and everyone I talked to was actually awesome. I had no problems the GMs that I talked to in there were all accommodating and everyone was pretty nice. That was until I saw there was a prospects bowl that happened about 3 days after I was in here. I hadn't heard a thing about it. I can't stress how kind of ridiculous it was that I had joined the league, 3 days later I still had not heard from anyone in the Mentoring department and I had no idea about this prospect bowl that was going on. I figured that at least I would get a heads up in the main area of the rookie chat. Hey rookies if you didn't get in make sure you go sign up right now and you will be able to get into the prospect bowl if you are not in you can sign up on the forum. It seems kind of simple and prob would go a long way to making some of the rookies feel like the community. Right now it seems like its a bunch of small communities which is great and could be amazing. But a little bit more help on the beginning front would go a long way. Like I said if I was someone who just kind of found this and had never done anything like this I would have been left out in the lurch and if I didn't have people tell me it gets better I would have quit already. On more of the good stuff, I do like the way that everyone is pretty supportive of each other, I haven't really seen people goin gat each others throats or anything like that yet. Though, that does happen everywhere. The GM's that I have talked to have all been awesome and giving me some ideas of what i need to do and where to progress next. Thank god for them.
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Tier 2 task 15
I am also in another league called the Pro Baseball Experience. I play for the New Orleans Rougarous. That was the first sim league that I have ever been a part of. When I first joined the league I did have the same problems but a little more so because I didn't understand what these tasks and thins like that were. But I found quickly that getting on an exapansion team and then playing in the minor leagues went a long way to getting to know the people in the game and more about the game itself. I had a great team i was on the 66ers we made it to the championship and lost because thats what the 66ers do. After that I was pulled into the majors in only my second season so the team didn't have to go out and pay a bunch of people to be on the team when we wanted to spend less money. Which made a lot of sense. My player got better and better. I did have to change my name from Johnny Dickshot to Via Getty because they didn't want any bad names in there. But last year the team won the world series, I pitched in 3 out of 7 games so that was pretty awesome. It was one of the first times that I thought that I actually helped the team out a lot with my player. I love the community there even if I'm not part of the big clique or have a lot of money I somehow do still feel a part of the league thanks to the team. And honestly I really hope to find that here too.
Its fun to watch the streams, I think they have done a really good job at having the play by play callers in there and they are able to stream a few games and it usually is about a hour and a half experience. Now thats honestly a little too long for me, maybe something along the like hour to hour and a half would be the way to go with simming a bunch of the games but when I am around. I do enjoy the announcers and the chatting that goes on in the chat room that is attached to the twitch. I play in MLR as well which is the league where you guess fake numbers. Its pretty different then this in the sense that we guess numbers and have scouting based on how we go against other players. A lot of fun and actually feel a bit more genuine.
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So to be 100 percent honest my time in the league hasn't been that great so far. When I first joined the league I was lucky in the sense that I had done a sim before as I'm in PBE right now, so it was kind of easy for me to figure out the Just of what I needed to do. I jumped right into, the rookie guide was great in that aspect. I had no problems finding where I should go for my rookie tasks and even figuring out the little more complicated updating of the different builds compared to PBE was pretty straight forward. I joined the rookie discord and everyone I talked to was actually awesome. I had no problems the GMs that I talked to in there were all accommodating and everyone was pretty nice. That was until I saw there was a prospects bowl that happened about 3 days after I was in here. I hadn't heard a thing about it. I can't stress how kind of ridiculous it was that I had joined the league, 3 days later I still had not heard from anyone in the Mentoring department and I had no idea about this prospect bowl that was going on. I figured that at least I would get a heads up in the main area of the rookie chat. Hey rookies if you didn't get in make sure you go sign up right now and you will be able to get into the prospect bowl if you are not in you can sign up on the forum. It seems kind of simple and prob would go a long way to making some of the rookies feel like the community. Right now it seems like its a bunch of small communities which is great and could be amazing. But a little bit more help on the beginning front would go a long way. Like I said if I was someone who just kind of found this and had never done anything like this I would have been left out in the lurch and if I didn't have people tell me it gets better I would have quit already. On more of the good stuff, I do like the way that everyone is pretty supportive of each other, I haven't really seen people goin gat each others throats or anything like that yet. Though, that does happen everywhere. The GM's that I have talked to have all been awesome and giving me some ideas of what i need to do and where to progress next. Thank god for them.
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Tier 2 task 15
I am also in another league called the Pro Baseball Experience. I play for the New Orleans Rougarous. That was the first sim league that I have ever been a part of. When I first joined the league I did have the same problems but a little more so because I didn't understand what these tasks and thins like that were. But I found quickly that getting on an exapansion team and then playing in the minor leagues went a long way to getting to know the people in the game and more about the game itself. I had a great team i was on the 66ers we made it to the championship and lost because thats what the 66ers do. After that I was pulled into the majors in only my second season so the team didn't have to go out and pay a bunch of people to be on the team when we wanted to spend less money. Which made a lot of sense. My player got better and better. I did have to change my name from Johnny Dickshot to Via Getty because they didn't want any bad names in there. But last year the team won the world series, I pitched in 3 out of 7 games so that was pretty awesome. It was one of the first times that I thought that I actually helped the team out a lot with my player. I love the community there even if I'm not part of the big clique or have a lot of money I somehow do still feel a part of the league thanks to the team. And honestly I really hope to find that here too.
Its fun to watch the streams, I think they have done a really good job at having the play by play callers in there and they are able to stream a few games and it usually is about a hour and a half experience. Now thats honestly a little too long for me, maybe something along the like hour to hour and a half would be the way to go with simming a bunch of the games but when I am around. I do enjoy the announcers and the chatting that goes on in the chat room that is attached to the twitch. I play in MLR as well which is the league where you guess fake numbers. Its pretty different then this in the sense that we guess numbers and have scouting based on how we go against other players. A lot of fun and actually feel a bit more genuine.
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