Hi!

Years ago there was a game called BB and it was one of my favourite hobbies. I really liked all the small figures moving up and down the field, i liked playing against other coaches and i liked fumbbl. It was a good idea to meet new coaches and play some games.
Since this fumbbl birthday and the hunt for 1 mio. game fumbbl.com for me became a ridiculous reflection of a once great idea.
Setting up additional tournaments to reach the 1 million games till the end of the year or at least till the birthday has made it really unpersonal. And what do 1 mio. games do to us coaches? Nothing! It's just a kind of ego-push for the admins. Saying "I played one of the first million games on fumbbl.com" is like stopping your car in front of a traffic light – it happens and after some time the lights turn green and you go on ... and nobody cares for it!
Before the birthday at the end of december, there was a coach (don't want to write his name down here) who prepares for the WO with his rats and was beaten up on and on by the other teams. He took several SIs and a lot of deaths within a few games. Then there was the birthday "gift" that no players could get injured seriously, teams earn money like before and no ageing applys on all rolls. The deeper wisdom in this "gift" is, that the WO will become a farce. There is no tournament any more. If a rat team (TR190, 2 missings) plays against a 16 player elf team (TR400, no injuries, several stars) - where is the competition.
The birthday ruined all ability of coaches to play fair games. 2 years ago all players got random mutations without claw and RSC - nothing more. Why can't we stay there. More and more "gifts" like this destroy everything many coaches have worked on for a long time. There wasn't even the ability to turn the gifts on and off. You just had to take it, if you want or not. Make your own division for that stuff next time.
In stunty all the teams that played before the reform are marked with a hint to their creation. If the birthday produces unfair teams, why don't we mark all teams, that played at fumbbl-birthday with a hint, too? "Those teams took unfair teaminducements." Block those teams for all official tournaments.
Ranked is supposed to be the division, that is closest to the rules. Here all the rules from LRB4 (if possible to implement) are fulfilled. E.g. the DBL (league, group) forbit their players to play during the birthday, because it's unfair. What does this tell about the behavior of the ranked-division. The birthday has made all teams uncompetitive, that took a regular way of development.
I am very sorry about all this, but as I heard about the healing scroll, I just felt sorry about fumbbl. It is only one possibility to heal a player, yes, but still this "gift" breaks the rules in a very powerful way and everyone who uses it should get this hint in the teambio of the team, too.

I just wanted to play BB, i want no cheating, i want no extra ruleset, i just want those games to be fair. This is not possible any more. From one day to another all games are potential broken. If some of us germans comes to a channel where Angi.e is in and say something like "Scheiße" or "verfickter Mist", then we get kicked or even banned. Why can't someone ban those damn extra rules and make fumbbl what it's supposed to be: A BB community, that tries to play BB after the official BB rules.
For me, that's it. As long as there is no restart (LRB5 perhaps) i will play no further game on this broken platform.

Greetz,
gan