Subject: U18 Canada National Team

No Boba, that's impossible. If a player is added to the national teams he can't be deleted. And vice versa. All National Team managers know this. If I add a guy I can't change that. It's annoying because sometimes you make a mistake. This is why I referenced Lillian's Team (or any other manager with National team experience). Check with them if you don't believe me.

You have no National team experience. You don't know anything about this end of the game.

(By the way Boba, I just reread pg. 99. Now I see what you mean. Sure, Bobby put your boys on the team at the BEGINNING of the season. So yeah, the new guy can remove him. I am talking about the end of the season, when there is an election going on. Bobby made his roster moves then. THOSE ones are permanent.)

As for Samuel, your bad memory doesn't have a lot to do with what you are saying. "Enough players to play the first 2 or 3 games of the season while the elections happen"?

Huh?

Elections start on Day 1 of the season. They end on Day 8. Anyone who votes knows this. The only responsibility the outgoing has is to make sure that there are 17 guys on the roster that can fit into three lines plus two goalies. If they are really bitter about losing, they can just default the bloody game. But it's only one game. Then the new guy takes over.

But let's revisit April 16 and expand on the quote: "I had already done the adds and cuts that I deemed necessary for the coming season, and put in lines that gave the 16 and 17 year olds max chemistry building, playing on very high."

What Bobby says here is very clear. He was not only permanently cutting and adding players that he felt should be with the team, he was also putting together line-ups the way he wanted them done. And then he goes on to criticize Mat for having the nerve to do things a different way.

By the way, where's Bobby? Why isn't he explaining this himself?

Roedb

Paul, I ran a handball NT. You don’t know what I have and don’t have experience with.

I believe you are wrong. Go look at the dates of the page 99 posts. April 16th is when I said my 2 players were added and dropped. Which is day 17 of that season. Bobby added my 2 players, and then Mat removed them after he won the election.

I’m not saying he removed them season day 17, that’s just when I noticed they weren’t on the team anymore.

If you really don’t believe me I can go back in my feed to then and see what day those players were added. Pretty sure it’ll be at the beginning of that season.

Unable to edit but I checked and the feed doesn’t save that far back.

Boba you don't understand. Bobby added them the season before, when he was manager. Fine. No problem. The season that Mat won was the next season. During that election, Boba added and cut players. That's what I am talking about. These cuts and additions affect the current season, an election which is happening at that time. Honourable people don't do that.

Mat then took over the team and cut your guys. Yeah, sure, they were added the season before. That's his right.

Roedb

And I don't care about handball. Different sports were added at different times, and the rules are not always the same.

From the guide: National team general manager can select up to 50 players for the national team during one season. Players selected for the team after the first week of the season, cannot be dismissed during that season. Players selected in the previous seasons or by a previous manager can be dismissed until the 14th day of the season. The chemistry of players dismissed from the national team is reduced to 20% of their chemistry from the time of their dismissal.

I know nothing about the timing of Bobby's moves. But you can see clearly that if Bobby selected them, then that was final for the upcoming season they could not be dismissed. Dismissed players work the same. If Bobby cut them during the election, then Mat could not add them back again. That is what happened in Holland.

I tell you what Boba. I might even suggest that you might be right on this one. I have never had someone screw me before taking over a team by adding players to my roster but we all know in Holland that the guys Bobby cut from the roster were 100% permanent. Was Mat able to cut your two guys if Bobby added them at the beginning of the season? The note above from the guide (I admit) suggests that it is possible.

But my argument doesn't change one bit. Why did Bobby change the roster? Why is he bringing anyone in? It's none of his business.

Roedb

Just a note before I go on holiday. A new captain is coming in. What does this mean for the Canadian PPM game? I'm afraid only time will tell.

We know that Bobby Jay, Samuel Carrier, Boba Fett and Kraafty do not like me. There is no surprise here at all. The messages that I post here would make any one of these individuals angry, and it is no surprise that they ａｒｅ.

I am a PPM junkie. Always have and always will be. I love this game more than you will ever understand. I also love my country, and I wish that it could be better than it is in this game.

Am I drag on the nation's participation? Ask Kraafty and he will say yes. I come on to these boards to say my opinions, and I will continue to do so until the PPM brass (or the new captain) says enough. If you don't like what I say, I encourage you to do one of two things: ignore them; or engage me logically and tell me where I am wrong.

I already have one foot out of the door. I spend a lot of my time (real and game-wise) outside of Canada's borders. I am more than willing to make it both feet. But that is between myself and the gentlemen who run this game.

Nobody asked you to like me. Nor do I particularly care. But I will say what I please, when I please, and I will back up everything that I say.

Long live　ｔｈｅ　ＰＰＭ　ｇａｍｅ！　Ｉｆ　ｎｏｔ　ｈｅｒｅ，　ｔｈａｎ　ｅｌｓｅｗｈｅｒｅ．

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PPM is a pyramid scheme and it is dying, slowly. Any pyramid scheme works the same way: get new players involved, or you won't get your payout. With the current state of the game, at least in Canada, the old boys are hogging all the money or they are cashing out, content in the knowledge that the game is dying.

I say that is selfish. You don't have to agree, but I think it is shitty to encourage others to play if there is no hope of satisfaction. Boba and I have been through this too many times. My solution is that the National Team avenue is the quickest and most effective way to find this satisfaction.

I will continue to encourage new guys to run for national teams. Win or lose, you should try. Ask Jetstar about his success in Portugal, because there are other avenues than here. But don't take the status quo and let others tell you to go build your facilities and pray. Run a national team and find out the full satisfaction of this game.

I have never liked selfish people. I encourage you to do the same. The national PPM game is really cool, and I hope that you come to understand that.

Paul Roedb

"You can't fix stupid, not even with duct tape and a hammer!"

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