Many games have a simple but nice feature called Who's Online - click on it and it shows...who's currently online!
Also, maybe a have a green dot next to names in threads or PM's that shows whether someone is currently online?

+1 I would imagine it nice to have that
it would even more nicer if say you could scrimmage someone from your league or a league outside of the leagues you play in so having that feature would be easier to pick someone you would want to play against.
Same for if there is some benefits where you could know someone is online like who you could trade with and ETC.


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me personally I rather if people didn't know that I am currently online in the threads or even the PM's.
If this happened I prefer a option to be invisible button where I could be invisible to other members but still be seen by the ADMIN.

yeah the invisibility button has been used in other games Ive played - presume it's a simple one.

scrimmages would be a good bonus feature for subscribers perhaps as I still think the pay-for-play thing seems a bit odd. Most games, you simply subscribe and get some extra features - viewing stats, scrimmages (let's say) - stuff that's not nec to win this game but is 'nice' and makes the game 'a little easier to track'

ya i play another online sim game that has the scrimmage option and you basically use credits to do them. It is really nice to work on gameplans and to see if players perform well at different positions. I also used it to see how my young guys looked and if they were ready for primetime. it would be an awesome feature to add to this game.

It would probably have to be a credit expense to do scrimmages, but I really don't want to do that because of the hardline stance I have about purchasing credits not giving you any kind of an advantage, and to me that would be an advantage over someone else who hasn't purchased credits.

couldn't you just make them FREE SCRIMMAGES ??

Or just have it FREE and just call it something else??

or just give teams one per week and maybe a limit during offseason. I do think that it could be really useful. Maybe even a practice mode against your own team so you can practice plays and tinker around with depth charts

maybe that practice mode would work better than scrimmages.