Atomic Spud
04-26-2015, 02:04 AM
I'm wanting to make a thread for an FOF7 LP on something awful, and I have most of it figured out. Basically, I want to be able to present this game to people who might not even know there is an American football manager game out there. I'm looking for some opinions as far as what some of you guys think of the logistics of it.
The idea is that it would be heavily-based on audience participation, with the thread having as much control as possible. I'd be using the historical rosters if needed (there's a high chance the thread would be starting with the expansion Browns), and most of the cap magic would be behind the scenes basically to try and fit as many of their suggestions as possible. But there are a few things I'm frankly not sure how to handle.
1) Free agency. FA should be simple enough, and could be as simple as asking whether we should be aggressive or not (people of course could ask to target a specific player as well). I'm mostly listing it incase anyone has a better idea.
2) Game summaries. I don't plan to spend too long on individual games, giving more of a "summary/highlights" update on them. But should I try to make the game-generated HTML summary available somehow? If so, how?
3) The draft. Frankly, you could argue it could be the most important part here. Most things can be fudged/improvised without much loss, but the whole idea isn't worth it if I can't come up with a way to make the draft work. The best idea I have is to give a general rundown of how the draft looks (deep at receiver, a few stud OL with crap behind them, etc), get general suggestions and try to put them into practice. While that should work, it feels like there should be a better solution. Doing "historical" seasons would also help here as people would have a general idea who's who in the draft and how it lays.
Basically, does anyone have any better ideas for how to handle these? Do you think the idea itself is worthwhile?
The idea is that it would be heavily-based on audience participation, with the thread having as much control as possible. I'd be using the historical rosters if needed (there's a high chance the thread would be starting with the expansion Browns), and most of the cap magic would be behind the scenes basically to try and fit as many of their suggestions as possible. But there are a few things I'm frankly not sure how to handle.
1) Free agency. FA should be simple enough, and could be as simple as asking whether we should be aggressive or not (people of course could ask to target a specific player as well). I'm mostly listing it incase anyone has a better idea.
2) Game summaries. I don't plan to spend too long on individual games, giving more of a "summary/highlights" update on them. But should I try to make the game-generated HTML summary available somehow? If so, how?
3) The draft. Frankly, you could argue it could be the most important part here. Most things can be fudged/improvised without much loss, but the whole idea isn't worth it if I can't come up with a way to make the draft work. The best idea I have is to give a general rundown of how the draft looks (deep at receiver, a few stud OL with crap behind them, etc), get general suggestions and try to put them into practice. While that should work, it feels like there should be a better solution. Doing "historical" seasons would also help here as people would have a general idea who's who in the draft and how it lays.
Basically, does anyone have any better ideas for how to handle these? Do you think the idea itself is worthwhile?