Qaz
Joined: Apr 28, 2004
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Sep 13, 2004 - 03:52 |
 
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I personally like playing the same team for ages and build them up so they have a long story behind them and game streak.  But I also finds that this does not fit my wishes of keeping a good coach ranking. Players get hurt and you have to play with a damaged team to get them back on tack.  I find that it is easier to win with newly started teams although it is only half as fun. Any one got any good way to both win at and keeping your coach rating or do one have to choose with one thing or another. And maybe have team building in unranked.  |
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tautology
Joined: Jan 30, 2004
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Sep 13, 2004 - 04:04 |
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I know what you mean....quite frankly coach ranking is as much of a curse as anything else. When I first started playing I had no intention of pursuing a high ranking but then I started winning and my ranking was climbing and pretty soon I started thinking about it instead of thinking about having fun and playing. And yes, having a favorite team that you want to stick with means that you will occassionally have to play games that you have very little chance of winning. You could "build dynasties" in unranked, but there is a lot less action there. But ask yourself what you really like? What is fun about Bloodbowl? If ranking is important, go for it. If your team's character and history is more important, then screw rankings. They don't mean much, really...no more than the value you assign them personally.
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ozjesting
Joined: Jan 27, 2004
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Sep 13, 2004 - 04:07 |
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I have only ever retired one [R] team...a Norse outfit that was beyond repair even by the most optimistic coach I prefer to play on as long as possible with a squad and ranking be damned! Unless you have some wish to have your coaching ranking emblazoned on your tombstone (MY tombstone shall read "Double Skulls...Apothecary FAILS!") then seek to get as much fun as possible from your fumbbl experience. Mine is in teams with history. Rankings can (and have) been re-set. But teams live on forever (if only in your memory).
Here's to the laughs!!! |
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Michael_Warblade
Joined: Aug 02, 2003
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Sep 13, 2004 - 04:14 |
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Im with Ozjesting on this one we play Bloodbowl for fun not for coach ranking and hence while I play in ranked it is only for fun and fortunately winning is fun (but then again so is a hard fought match). I couldnt care less about my coach ranking simply because I really dont care if I win provided it was an enjoyable match. |
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sk8bcn
Joined: Apr 13, 2004
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Sep 13, 2004 - 11:20 |
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I have a 4/5/19 chaos team that I kept from the very beginning but they always lower my CR. I will not retire but, don't know, maybe they will go in U sometimes. |
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Wombats
Joined: Oct 31, 2003
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Sep 13, 2004 - 11:37 |
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Being a habitual team retirer (about three teams retired in the first six games for every new race I seriously start - sorry approvers) I know I lack attachment to even my most successful teams - by which I mean my lizards that all got Block on the Saurii or my Norse who are actually alive.
I think keeping a team through thick or thin makes for that small league feel where you have underdogs who keep at it no matter what. A good way to play.
Unfortunately if my team's effectiveness drops below a starting roster it's time to make a new team for me as I am a weiner and hate playing a team full of busted up no hoper losers. |
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ViQtor
Joined: Aug 02, 2003
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Sep 13, 2004 - 11:55 |
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I have some good old teams I'll never retire but I allso like to try new races and startingsetups out so I'll have to retire some once in a while but I allways regret it afterwards ("how could I go and just kill them!") and I feel like ranked is where the action is so I have to create my teams there to get ot play with them  |
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chunky04
Joined: Aug 11, 2003
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Sep 13, 2004 - 12:07 |
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I'm a bit of both. I've been known on occasion to retire a team at the drop of a hat, particularly if they have a run of frustrating luck. On the other I hand, I also have teams I've stuck with through thick and thin.
I rarely bother with ranking anymore, and will actually concede a game every now and then to try and keep it down. For mine, leagues are where it's at. They allow me take whatever skills and whatever team I like without having to worry about being able to get a game. |
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Wombats
Joined: Oct 31, 2003
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Sep 13, 2004 - 12:07 |
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Unranked seems to be slowly growing as people get sick of Ranked. |
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Clausbs
Joined: Jul 15, 2004
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Sep 13, 2004 - 12:10 |
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Stupid question then: Do only [R] teams influence on your coach rating (a department in which I'm scraping the bottom...) |
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Clausbs
Joined: Jul 15, 2004
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Sep 13, 2004 - 12:11 |
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Actually, strike the last question. I just had what alcoholics refer to as a "moment of clarity" (spot the reference?), and figured it out myself. |
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Arlecchino
Joined: Feb 03, 2004
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Sep 13, 2004 - 12:18 |
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It's not impossible have a nice coach rating and high tr team.
I've only 200str team, and my coach rating is not so bad. (~164 at the moment) Imo the question is: what do you like? I like competitive high tr/str game. What i mean with competitive? Competitive=try to win at all cost (but staing in the rules). I think that Ranked division is the best to get this because people generally try to win the game and not only try to make spp. That's the problem of unranked division (for the non-torunament match only) and that's because i stay in ranked. I also say that i like play high tr/str match, that's because i love use and think how to use a huge number of skill.
Ok that's all.
P.s.: i'm not sure if i answer the main question, but i vote: keep my team! |
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sk8bcn
Joined: Apr 13, 2004
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Sep 13, 2004 - 13:10 |
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I always wonder if anyone plays in U outside tournaments. Somehow do not make a lot of sense for me. |
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ozjesting
Joined: Jan 27, 2004
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Sep 13, 2004 - 13:33 |
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this is off topic but in response to sk8bcn...The sense of playing U outside tourneys is FUN! No pressure against your ranking, and since it is only a U team you can experiment with all sorts of things. Set-ups, styles, attcks, defenses...in short you can play "stoopid" to try to learn how to play smarter. Oh...and did i mention it is FUN?!? Annd those RIP noises aren't nearly as awful |
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Zy-Nox
Joined: Aug 02, 2003
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Sep 13, 2004 - 13:35 |
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I play in U outside tournies.
I only really retire teams when they get crippled beyond usability, or i am bored of them. |
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