Before I had to leave and go take care of real life business I was going to write a long speech like thing explaining what the purpose, vision and reasoning behind a second version of the game. But that was two hours ago. Clearly a lot has changed but the hell with it I'm writing it now.

The main purpose behind V2 was to provide a much more structured game with all the rules in place before the game began so that we didn't have to make rules on the fly, we all know that this game was not structured ideally as we were making rules on the fly and we weren't sure how to format stuff. The other issue was that trades were allowed to be made before every team had a GM. Another thing was that the trade scenarios we've made here are extremely unrealistic. Beyond the mockery of the game today, teams have made 40-50 even more trades and my team is of guilty of that as well. In V2 the plan was to have a limit on trades so that teams have to strategize their moves and be smart about what they're doing, not "making moves for the sake of making moves". That's not what GMs do in real life. That's not what we should do in V2.

I'm just gonna pause this rant here for now and see what feedback it gets and then respond to what's going on.
For the record, I think we should revert davids trades and appoint a new pens GM.

In all likelihood yes. It would be far more structured that this one. We're not making V2 haphazardly. All rules and draft systems and free agency are getting decided before the game starts so that we're all clear and that there is no confusion.

when does this occur

Just to clarify, if there aren't enough BOG members to vote, it goes to an open vote.

What pisses me right the eff off matt is not that you guys decided to take it upon yourselves to create a new GM game. That's fine. We absolutely should have a new game set up with better rules and such. Its that without giving full disclaimer to the rest of the GM's here that a new game was starting and that this game would be disregarded. Meaning I wasted a bunch of time on a game that was about to be kicked to the curb. Not only that, for the small possibility that the MODS would accept leaving this game alive to coincide with the new one, a few GM's here decided to TROLL the rest of us and make a mockery of this game which some were still taking seriously. And having fun playing I might add.

Before I had to leave and go take care of real life business I was going to write a long speech like thing explaining what the purpose, vision and reasoning behind a second version of the game. But that was two hours ago. Clearly a lot has changed but the hell with it I'm writing it now.

The main purpose behind V2 was to provide a much more structured game with all the rules in place before the game began so that we didn't have to make rules on the fly, we all know that this game was not structured ideally as we were making rules on the fly and we weren't sure how to format stuff. The other issue was that trades were allowed to be made before every team had a GM. Another thing was that the trade scenarios we've made here are extremely unrealistic. Beyond the mockery of the game today, teams have made 40-50 even more trades and my team is of guilty of that as well. In V2 the plan was to have a limit on trades so that teams have to strategize their moves and be smart about what they're doing, not "making moves for the sake of making moves". That's not what GMs do in real life. That's not what we should do in V2.

I'm just gonna pause this rant here for now and see what feedback it gets and then respond to what's going on.
For the record, I think we should revert davids trades and appoint a new pens GM.

Will the current GM's be given first pick for teams?

Let's just revert the trades and end this, I'll apologize and didn't think everyone would be so angered by this. Are we also reverting jmacs two trades as well then?

I understand your desire to make the game more structured and real world lifelike, but I have enjoyed the game simply for the art of brokering trades. We have condensed 100 years of trades into a few months and that is much more enjoyable than the paint drying boredom of the real world. Create V2, have fun, but I for one wouldn't mind seeing a GM "Game" continued using the current model.

We could definitely try to keep both going since they would be of different structures, but we need to work on some rules for this game to ensure stuff like today doesn't happen again.

What pisses me right the eff off matt is not that you guys decided to take it upon yourselves to create a new GM game. That's fine. We absolutely should have a new game set up with better rules and such. Its that without giving full disclaimer to the rest of the GM's here that a new game was starting and that this game would be disregarded. Meaning I wasted a bunch of time on a game that was about to be kicked to the curb. Not only that, for the small possibility that the MODS would accept leaving this game alive to coincide with the new one, a few GM's here decided to TROLL the rest of us and make a mockery of this game which some were still taking seriously. And having fun playing I might add.

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How about someone who has the ability to disallow unfair trades. Someone who is not a GM but like a Commissioner that ensures fair play.

Guys - I will release the V2 plan around 9:00pm EST

ATTENTION ALL GMS

In light of what has occurred over the last six hours, myself and matt have decided that it is best to explain v2 of the GM Game.

This beta version has been useful in crafting a v2 CBA. We have set up an almost foolproof way to determine a winner of v2. To keep v2 entertaining, each GM has a max of 8 trades per season and will be given a restart and will pick a team based off of their real life roster.

To keep this short, v2 will be published later in the next two weeks or so, with the idea that everyone will still carry over as a GM.

I suggest that everyone does the following: take a deep breath, close your eyes and count to 10. Then remember that this is a game. V2 will allow a full restart and everyone will have a chance to participate.

thanks - phillyjabroni

Let's put it on hold for right now at least... we need to fix this first then we can tidy up V2.

Guys - I will release the V2 plan around 9:00pm EST

Guys - I will release the V2 plan around 9:00pm EST

So everyone in this game gets automatically ported to the next V2?

How about someone who has the ability to disallow unfair trades. Someone who is not a GM but like a Commissioner that ensures fair play.