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I can't view my stat report at all, I would love to know my affinities for the last game. Here's the message that comes up.

Erreur / Error

Une erreur inattendu s'est produite / An unexpected error occured

I just renewed and have the same problem.

No one in their right mind can make a trade with you because you want ALL the talent and you're not willing to part with any. Why do you think your team is so stacked? You have been stealing talent from teams for years, that's why.

The "cost" you mention in developing an iPhone app is if you assume you're paying a programmer to code it for you. I was thinking we could do it ourselves. I'm not sure if you have any experience in programming with Object-C or not, I don't but I'm going to start learning it on my own.

There is a $99 fee to Apple be able to publish Apps to the iTunes store, downloading the iPhone SDK is completely free (I have it). So, basically the only thing it would cost us, is our time. This would be an ongoing project for a while for sure, but it would be amazing once completed.

Oh, and you must own a Mac in order to write code for the iPhone, so you could put that in your cost calculations if you don't own one already I suppose. Our biggest cost, would be time.

This suggestion is way down the list of priorities I'm sure, but I just wanted to throw it out there because it would be really sweet if we could make this happen one day.

Instead of developing the website to be compatible with the iPhone version of Safari, why not just make an iPhone app for the Alphasim site? That would be amazing. Then you wouldn't have to worry about using Safari, you could just download and install the app and have access to all the information at once. You could also display the information in a way that's best suited for the iPhone. I'm not sure if anyone here knows how to write apps for the iPhone, I have a Mac but I don't have any programming experience on a Mac.

Deka, are you familiar with the iPhone SDK? I'm going to download it and check it out. That would just be amazing if we could develop an app for the iPhone. Changing your team could be much more enjoyable on a custom app instead of trying to surf all the pages on Safari (not that Safari is bad).

Probably the same reason free agents appear out of nowhere every season, maybe aliens come down from space to drop off some superstars and make all the draft picks better

What time will the games be played around tonight?

You shouldn't even have that pick anyways and you still were able to draft a really good player. You are blowing everything out of proportion as usual.

I would love to write more, but I have to take time out of my schedule to polish all my trophies that I have won over the course of my dynasty. Maybe if you won some trophies you wouldn't feel the need to post messages on the forums so much.

PS: As I said before, if Sea Monster gets a refund, you might as well make this game free. Unbelievable.

Well, I was implying that it's going to ruin the game if free agents aren't made in line with a realistic simulator, it will send lots of GMs running if free agents continue to be as good as they are. Free agents should be a compliment to a team, not the team itself.

Bob has a right to make ghost teams as good as possible to attract other GMs to take them over. I don't think it will attact GMs doing this, for me I would rather start from scratch than take a team over, but whatever.

The bottom line is Sea Monster, you should've never had that draft pick to begin with because Bob should've vetoed the trade in which you were able to pilfer that pick from the 49ers. The fact that you do have that pick makes it hilarious you are saying Bob isn't fair, I agree with you, he isn't fair because if he was he wouldn't let trades like that go through in the first place. It's ironic that this has happened to you Sea Monster, how do you like them apples? Maybe next season you won't be so eager to rip off the basement team for a possible 1st overall pick.

Semen Monster you're a little punk. Cry me a river son! You rob teams every single year and now you're whining about a team drafting the player you wanted??? Give me a friggin break!!!!! All your trades involving a top pick should've been vetoed along with your trading between both teams you owned to stack the team you actally wanted. How you can possibly complain about management now is unbelievable.

You are acting like a a kid who can't get exactly what he wants and so throws a tantrum to get what he wants.

Now you're saying that people are mean?> You have been the meanest GM out there trying to create "rivalries" how you can call others mean is hilarious.

Bob after all you have let this manipulative egomanic get away with over the seasons, if you give him any type of refund that is sooo brutal, you might as well make this game free.

Sea Monster, do you believe in karma? I'm beggining to...

... All your trades involving a top pick should've been vetoed along with your trading between both teams you owned to stack the team you actally wanted. How you can possibly complain about management now is unbelievable.

You are acting like a a kid who can't get exactly what he wants and so throws a tantrum to get what he wants.

Now you're saying that people are mean?> You have been the meanest GM out there trying to create "rivalries" how you can call others mean is hilarious.

Bob after all you have let this manipulative egomanic get away with over the seasons, if you give him any type of refund that is sooo brutal, you might as well make this game free.

Sea Monster, do you believe in karma? I'm beggining to...

Deka, I can see you made some valid points about the Turco trade. But you can't argue that I'm getting 2 decent draft picks, not great but decent.

However, I don't agree with you defending your 49er's trade. You gave him players that are garbage to any team other than his. He needs to rebuild and train draft picks. From a 49ers standpoint, the draft pick that they traded you would be his franchise player for 15 years. He could've bought the players he is getting off of waivers this year or next. There are plenty of decent players that have lower amounts of talent points on waivers. He does not need to trade away 20k and his lottery pick for waiver players.

It's too bad that you feel ripping teams off is fair, there is no way you can spin that trade to be fair. Comparing the players you traded to his team players is ridiculous because his team absolutely blows, and his team weakness increases the value of their 1st overall pick because they desperately need to rebuild. Compare those players to other players in the league. They are shit.

Remember the Jets when they were trading their first round picks away for decent talent to try and win the cup. Well they didn't win the cup and it hurt them for a while. Now Luke has learned how to train young players and is on his way to having a competitive team. How can you argue that the 49ers trading his 1st round pick away for those players you sent him in return improves his team? It's simple, you can't.

I wouldn't be surprised if you are controlling the 49ers, it would be like when you robbed your other team in your first season with the Sea Monster, getting money and draft picks for garbage. Your team would be a lot worse if the commissioner wasn't asleep at the wheel and vetoed these horrible trades.

Also Sea Monster, you failed to acknowledge my points in the first paragraph of my 2nd post in this thread. You can't argue that there were no superstars in the first batch of this year's free agent pool. You're funny because you only mention the current batch, which is weaker than the first, on top of that you only mention the total talent points of the players, which makes them look worse than they are. Distribution of talent points determines how good a player really is.

Here are all the free agents this year...

166-155-216-28=565, Age 29, D
125-296-55-25=501, Age 27, W
300-150-141-30=621, Age 32, W
227-160-139-30=556, Age 29, W
295-119-130-30=574, Age 32, C

The 32 year old winger with 621 total talent points that was in the first batch is now the best 32 year old in the league having 48 more talent points than Frolov from my team, and 9 points better than your Kreature of Mamara (who was a free agent in a previous season)...brutal.

The 32 year old centre will be the 3rd best 32 year old in the league, and it's funny because the only players that are better than him are other free agents.

The two 29 year old free agents that have been available this year both have more total talent points than any other 29 year old in the league, except Herenicus of course who was an amazing draft pick along with the fact that you have trained the crap out of him most of his career up to this point.

The 27 year old is the 7th best for his age in the league, however, he is now the best defensive winger in the league for any age, which does make him a superstar because of the good distribution of his talent points and his relative youth.

So as you can see, this year as in any year, the free agents are the best in the league for their age. Free agents should not be this good, they are created out of thin air in this league and they add to the talent of any team without decreasing the talent on any other team. At least in the NHL, that player leaves a team to move to another, making one team better, and one team worse. Restricted free agents that are signed, the team that looses the player at least gets draft picks out of it.

Sea Monster you're hilarious. Now you're playing the "ooo I'm so hurt by your comments" baby. Give me a break. We are saying you shouldn't be able to get a player that is the best in the league at anything. Mats Sundin (given as your example) is not going to win the scoring title, nor is he best defensive player in the league. There are a lot of players better than him in the league, not 3 or 4. On top of that, all the best young players in the league are better than him...in our league it's the opposite, the free agents are better than the best of the young players. Are there free agents better than the 21 year old Sidney Crosby in the NHL? How is that fair?

Also, you didn't even bother to mention anything about what I had said about restricted free agents and giving up your draft picks. How does that make your comparison of this league to the NHL look? When we sign any free agent, we don't have to give up anything but our money. In the NHL, there are some free agents that are unrestricted, but in this league, every one of them is.

We probably get worked up because your arguments always seem to dodge points that you know you can't argue against. You seem to go on about things that are off topic.

So, taking all I have said in this post into consideration...how can you argue that the current free agent system in our league is fair when it clearly isn't.

You are an idiot Sea Monster, clearly every year there are some super stars available for buying. Last year the Gamblers picked up the leading scorer from free agents. If there are no "super stars" as free agents, how can he get one of them and have him win the scoring title? And this year that defensive winger that the Bonecrushers are trading to the Gamblers, he's the best defensive winger in the league at 27...how is that not a superstar?? You can't just look at total points. It's ridiculous.

You just like free agents because it doesn't take skill to buy up all the good players...almost half your team is riddled with free agent pick ups, and they're getting old, about time to pick up some more eh?

Bob has to change this ridiculous system or GMs will be leaving this game leaving the english league a pathetic joke.

On top of all your arguments Sea Monster, when real NHL teams DO sign a good free agent, do you think they get him without giving up any draft picks? Most really good free agents are "restricted" free agents and the team that signs them gives up their first round draft pick. So maybe if the free agent talent isn't decreased, Bob could set it so that whoever signs a free agent looses their first round pick automatically. This would be a really nice feature because it would prevent teams from buying up all the free agents in any given year because you only have 1 first round pick. It would spread it around a bit.

THE FREE AGENT SYSTEM NEEDS TO BE FIXED!!!!!!!!!!! IT'S SO UNBALANCED!!!!!!!!