08-26-2024, 07:08 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-28-2024, 09:03 AM by RoyRivers. Edited 1 time in total.)
Tier 2 - Option 8 - "In 300 words or more, how has your experience been in the league? Who have you met that has made your time here more fun, friendly, and exciting? Have you been satisfied with your player’s early start? What was it like being drafted for the first time? Do you have any comments or suggestions for the entire league that you think should be implemented?" (70 words until here)
So, as the prompt requests, I'm completely new to this league, and, I might add, completely new to the concept of a sim league. I'm telling you this so you know my opinion is further placed in context, so if I'm completely wrong on something, ignore that as a complete newb to this concept. For a little further context, I am however a veteran in a couple Mafia themed text-based MMORPGs very dedicated to roleplaying, so I'm not strange to tasks, writing and roleplaying.
Even though I've not even played the Prospect Bowl yet, my experience has been very good with this league, I'm still a bit in disbelief that sim leagues exist to be honest, so I'm probably riding the excitement of that and really immersing myself into the worldbuilding you guys have here. Everyone I've been in contact so far, from Rookie Mentors to Scouts from the DSFL, random people in chat, have been very nice and very helpful to me. They've helped with flatenning a bit the steep learning curve of understanding a sim league. I'm not sure I'm completely there yet, but certainly on my way, just now I was talking to someone and I was so sure you'd only stay at the developmental league for 1 year, but turns out you can stay longer, which actually makes a lot of sense when you think about it.
About excitement, hell yes I'm excited! I'm excited to see my player take the field. I'm excited to get to the DSFL draft and watch the rounds go by and my player slipping, slipping until there seems to be no more hope, and maybe someone takes a "what-the-heck" flier on the newbie on the game. Or maybe I'll go undrafted, and I get my choice(?) of what team to visit? Oh! The possibilities are abundant! I'm not trying to ramble, I honestly am excited about the possibilities.
I can't speak much about my player early start, as I just started my journey yesterday, or about being drafted yet, but I do have some suggestions. Please see it as constructive criticism. Like I said, I have a good background in text-based games, and while the Forum is great to organize all the game, Discord for real-time conversation and community building, and the wiki is a great help, but it feels like there should be a website like a "NFL.com" but instead "ISFL.com", obviously at an acceptable scale, where you have all the information about the league, former winners, information on all the teams, but in a way that is really captivating for new players. Maybe that's too much work, but you guys put so much amazing detail and work into a casino, a fantasy league, collectible cards, it feels like it's missing something like that "face" of the league.
Another suggestion, probably a lot less megalomaniac, but maybe still very difficult to implement... Please do away with the Claims and updating on a forum character update page. Sure it would take some revamping the whole system, but there's gotta be a way to create an easier database more automated, saving on a lot of update checkers and auditors.
Just my two cents guys, thanks for creating and maintaining an amazing game/concept. Look forward to immerse myself into it.
(531 words for the task)
Tier 2 - Option 11 - "Write a short biography or story about your player. This could include background about how they came to the ISFL and how they’ve done so far, a story about their role in an exciting game, or anything else related to their experience in the league." (46 words here)
Wednesday, a chilly night, but in the Webberton Wombats locker room, you wouldn’t know.
Today, is the Prospects Bowl first game. There’s excitement in the air, but also a tension that is heavy and almost palpable. Everyone is playing for their future, their livelihood as a football player. Some players are quiet as a mouse, others are just cracking jokes, pretending like they don’t really care.
Today, is one of three nights you can prove your worth to the DSFL scouts. Sure, they saw your tape in college, sure, they talk you up like you’re the next big thing. Through all the scouts meetings, Roy wasn’t sure if he was going to be the a first round draft pick, or if it was just all talk, and he would just slide down the rounds.
“Ten safeties, ten safeties!” The words circled around his head. Ten safeties were drafted last year for eight teams, three of those ten even got spent first round capital. “How many more safeties will be drafted this year? Can I be one of them? When? What do they mean by ‘would you be open to change positions?’”
Roy kept taping his ankles. He couldn’t shake his own thoughts.
“Are they just planning to keep their options open, so when their actual targets get taken, they can get me as a Corner or a Linebacker to fill up backup ranks? Can I even make an impact on those positions? Will I be good enough? I can be a decent Corner, but being a Safety is what I’m really good at…”
Roy finished taping up his ankles, took a deep breath and remembered what his High School Coach and mentor told him on the phone just an hour earlier: “Don’t worry about that, just focus on the game, do your best, you’ll be great. If it all really goes to hell, I’ll hire you as my assistant and waterboy”. Coach Nolan always had a way with words and breaking the tension. He would be watching here tonight, and Roy wanted to make him proud.
“Ten minutes and we take the field” – the assistant yelled from the door.
Here goes nothing.
(362 words for the task)
So, as the prompt requests, I'm completely new to this league, and, I might add, completely new to the concept of a sim league. I'm telling you this so you know my opinion is further placed in context, so if I'm completely wrong on something, ignore that as a complete newb to this concept. For a little further context, I am however a veteran in a couple Mafia themed text-based MMORPGs very dedicated to roleplaying, so I'm not strange to tasks, writing and roleplaying.
Even though I've not even played the Prospect Bowl yet, my experience has been very good with this league, I'm still a bit in disbelief that sim leagues exist to be honest, so I'm probably riding the excitement of that and really immersing myself into the worldbuilding you guys have here. Everyone I've been in contact so far, from Rookie Mentors to Scouts from the DSFL, random people in chat, have been very nice and very helpful to me. They've helped with flatenning a bit the steep learning curve of understanding a sim league. I'm not sure I'm completely there yet, but certainly on my way, just now I was talking to someone and I was so sure you'd only stay at the developmental league for 1 year, but turns out you can stay longer, which actually makes a lot of sense when you think about it.
About excitement, hell yes I'm excited! I'm excited to see my player take the field. I'm excited to get to the DSFL draft and watch the rounds go by and my player slipping, slipping until there seems to be no more hope, and maybe someone takes a "what-the-heck" flier on the newbie on the game. Or maybe I'll go undrafted, and I get my choice(?) of what team to visit? Oh! The possibilities are abundant! I'm not trying to ramble, I honestly am excited about the possibilities.
I can't speak much about my player early start, as I just started my journey yesterday, or about being drafted yet, but I do have some suggestions. Please see it as constructive criticism. Like I said, I have a good background in text-based games, and while the Forum is great to organize all the game, Discord for real-time conversation and community building, and the wiki is a great help, but it feels like there should be a website like a "NFL.com" but instead "ISFL.com", obviously at an acceptable scale, where you have all the information about the league, former winners, information on all the teams, but in a way that is really captivating for new players. Maybe that's too much work, but you guys put so much amazing detail and work into a casino, a fantasy league, collectible cards, it feels like it's missing something like that "face" of the league.
Another suggestion, probably a lot less megalomaniac, but maybe still very difficult to implement... Please do away with the Claims and updating on a forum character update page. Sure it would take some revamping the whole system, but there's gotta be a way to create an easier database more automated, saving on a lot of update checkers and auditors.
Just my two cents guys, thanks for creating and maintaining an amazing game/concept. Look forward to immerse myself into it.
(531 words for the task)
Tier 2 - Option 11 - "Write a short biography or story about your player. This could include background about how they came to the ISFL and how they’ve done so far, a story about their role in an exciting game, or anything else related to their experience in the league." (46 words here)
Wednesday, a chilly night, but in the Webberton Wombats locker room, you wouldn’t know.
Today, is the Prospects Bowl first game. There’s excitement in the air, but also a tension that is heavy and almost palpable. Everyone is playing for their future, their livelihood as a football player. Some players are quiet as a mouse, others are just cracking jokes, pretending like they don’t really care.
Today, is one of three nights you can prove your worth to the DSFL scouts. Sure, they saw your tape in college, sure, they talk you up like you’re the next big thing. Through all the scouts meetings, Roy wasn’t sure if he was going to be the a first round draft pick, or if it was just all talk, and he would just slide down the rounds.
“Ten safeties, ten safeties!” The words circled around his head. Ten safeties were drafted last year for eight teams, three of those ten even got spent first round capital. “How many more safeties will be drafted this year? Can I be one of them? When? What do they mean by ‘would you be open to change positions?’”
Roy kept taping his ankles. He couldn’t shake his own thoughts.
“Are they just planning to keep their options open, so when their actual targets get taken, they can get me as a Corner or a Linebacker to fill up backup ranks? Can I even make an impact on those positions? Will I be good enough? I can be a decent Corner, but being a Safety is what I’m really good at…”
Roy finished taping up his ankles, took a deep breath and remembered what his High School Coach and mentor told him on the phone just an hour earlier: “Don’t worry about that, just focus on the game, do your best, you’ll be great. If it all really goes to hell, I’ll hire you as my assistant and waterboy”. Coach Nolan always had a way with words and breaking the tension. He would be watching here tonight, and Roy wanted to make him proud.
“Ten minutes and we take the field” – the assistant yelled from the door.
Here goes nothing.
(362 words for the task)