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Subject: How Long Has Smallworld Hoops Been Around?
Posted by: citizenkane.org
- [1511102912] Sat, Dec 29, 2001, 19:08
This is my fourth year I've played the game, how many years has the game been around. When I started you could either play it through Smallworld's own site, or through CNNSI. |
| 1 | AirOar
ID: 221050519
Sat, Dec 29, 2001, 20:17
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I started in 99 when you could see on ONE page your team and your division standing ... thats when i liked it the best ... also get 10,000 for clicking on an ad.
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| 2 | Rafi
ID: 21024815
Sat, Dec 29, 2001, 20:20
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10,000 for clicking on an ad?
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| 3 | citizenkane.org
ID: 1511102912
Sat, Dec 29, 2001, 20:27
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yeah rafi they gave you $10,000 a day (roster value) if you clicked on an ad.....
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| 4 | Addicted
Sustainer
ID: 610441810
Sat, Dec 29, 2001, 20:33
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Clicking the ad was great. But finding the piggie took the cake!!!
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| 5 | citizenkane.org
ID: 1511102912
Sat, Dec 29, 2001, 20:34
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addicted, finding the piggie???
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| 6 | Rafi
ID: 21024815
Sat, Dec 29, 2001, 20:36
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but wasnt that really bad b/c u could have had a huge roster value if u clicked on the ad more times then the other people?
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| 7 | Shelby-villian
ID: 261146232
Sat, Dec 29, 2001, 20:39
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Yes Rafi, everyone clicked on the ad 100,000
times the first day and overloaded the servers
and the game wasn't functional the first two
weeks. But when it came back online it
sucked cuz everyone had a roster value of 250
million and could buy whoever they wanted.
Yep, that's what happened.
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| 8 | citizenkane.org
ID: 1511102912
Sat, Dec 29, 2001, 20:39
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rafi you could only do it once a day.
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| 9 | Burnettsville
Donor
ID: 319362319
Sat, Dec 29, 2001, 20:40
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You didn't even have to find the piggie. There was a URL you could bookmark that took you right to the piggie. All you had to do was click your bookmark once a day and you had your $10,000 SWD.
I also seem to remember they discontinued the piggie before the season was over.
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| 10 | Hillbilly Delight
ID: 3011462420
Sat, Dec 29, 2001, 21:08
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I miss the "old days."
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| 11 | citizenkane.org
ID: 1511102912
Sat, Dec 29, 2001, 21:09
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hillbilly i do too. i don't know exactly why i sure do too. something's missing.....
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| 12 | Rafi
ID: 21024815
Sat, Dec 29, 2001, 21:16
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shelby villian, sorry 4 not playing this game as long as u, u must be god. I wasnt playing this game in 99 and I wanted to know some info omn how it was back then. Thanks kane for answering my question and for not being an a$$ like some other people.
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| 13 | citizenkane.org
ID: 1511102912
Sat, Dec 29, 2001, 21:24
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no problem rafi. that was kinda hard shelby.
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| 14 | Ender
ID: 13443221
Sat, Dec 29, 2001, 21:49
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Get a thicker skin for crying out loud. There was nothing mean in Shelby's post. He was just throwing a little sarcasm your way. Nothing more than good natured ribbing IMO.
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| 15 | James K Polk
ID: 37651820
Sat, Dec 29, 2001, 21:50
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U suk Ender.
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| 16 | Rafi
ID: 21024815
Sat, Dec 29, 2001, 21:51
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James K polk couldnt agree with u more.
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| 17 | citizenkane.org
ID: 1511102912
Sat, Dec 29, 2001, 21:52
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hahaha y'all are killin me
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| 18 | balls
ID: 010292617
Sat, Dec 29, 2001, 21:53
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lmao
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| 19 | James K Polk
ID: 37651820
Sat, Dec 29, 2001, 22:12
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Rafi -- not sure whether you knew I was kidding in post 15. I'm sure Ender did. :)
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| 20 | Ender
ID: 13443221
Sat, Dec 29, 2001, 22:15
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Thanks, man. You're term in office was pathetic.
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| 21 | James K Polk
ID: 37651820
Sat, Dec 29, 2001, 22:17
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Really? I felt I accomplished quite a bit, what with manifest destiny and all.
However, "you're" grammar could use some work.
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| 22 | Nature Boy
ID: 341154191
Sat, Dec 29, 2001, 22:18
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I nominate this thread to be the nightly comedy forum.
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| 23 | James K Polk
ID: 37651820
Sat, Dec 29, 2001, 22:18
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Don't quit your math job.
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| 24 | Hang Time
ID: 2810551515
Sat, Dec 29, 2001, 22:29
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I started back in '99 too. That was the best year (or at least my best year).
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| 26 | Ender
ID: 13443221
Sat, Dec 29, 2001, 22:31
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Yeah, well, you, you, you STINK!!
(chuckles to himself in satisfaction)
(returns to number crunching and widening the huge gap between he and JKP's pathetic teams)
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| 27 | James K Polk
ID: 37651820
Sat, Dec 29, 2001, 22:34
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As stunned as I am by the brutality of that comeback, I will battle back to yet again correct your syntax.
Because of my cheapness, er, fiscal responsibility at the beginning of hoops season, what you meant was: (returns to number crunching and widening the huge gap between he and JKP's pathetic team)
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| 28 | Nature Boy
ID: 341154191
Sat, Dec 29, 2001, 22:36
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You guys must be best friends.
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| 29 | James K Polk
ID: 37651820
Sat, Dec 29, 2001, 22:43
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No way, I'd never be best friends with a feicking lemming who went Kirilenko > Jones, and did it a day after arguing against all the smarter lemmings that made the move first.
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| 30 | Nature Boy
ID: 341154191
Sat, Dec 29, 2001, 22:45
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This is gonna sound stupid, but I'm new & was wondering what is a "lemming"?
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| 31 | balls
ID: 010292617
Sat, Dec 29, 2001, 22:48
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I always thought that lemming = masses. But, for some reason some people get upset when they get called a lemming.
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| 32 | James K Polk
ID: 37651820
Sat, Dec 29, 2001, 22:49
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lol :)
There are two schools of thought.
The first consists of people who use the term lemming to describe the "masses" -- or "non-Gurupies -- which in past seasons formed a large enough group to affect price changes seemingly without reason. These "masses" also tended to produce a snowball effect in price changes, even when a player's performance didn't warrant it.
The second school consists of managers who believe a lemming is anyone who does something that they disagree with and/or that hurts their team.
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| 33 | Ender
ID: 13443221
Sat, Dec 29, 2001, 22:51
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Ummm, I didn't... I wouldn't... bwahahaha I didn't mean to, it was an accident!!! Like you never got pressured into a move!
OK, dumba$$, glorified newspaper delivery boy, cornholio the grammarian, if a train left Philadelphia at 1:00 PM (EST) travelling at a speed of 53 mph heading west and a second train left L.A. at 9:00 AM (PST) travelling at a speed of 57 mph heading East at what time and where would they meet?
Muhwahahahaha
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| 34 | Nature Boy
ID: 341154191
Sat, Dec 29, 2001, 22:55
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Thanks for the help. In regards to that first school of thought, doesn't open discussion of trades contribute to form large groups of people that may affect price changes?
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| 35 | Rand al'Thor
ID: 364152215
Sat, Dec 29, 2001, 22:56
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FWIW:
A Lemming is a chubby little rodent that looks
like a mouse.
In some places, great swarms of Lemmings have
moved over wide areas of land to the sea, then
plunge off cliffs and drown. But it's not animal
suicide. The mass deaths are accidental.
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| 36 | James K Polk
ID: 37651820
Sat, Dec 29, 2001, 22:58
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Simple. They would collide at the house of an overrated Mormon science-fiction author, whose books about little kids and the games they play are held with an unnatural fondness by some grown men I know.
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| 37 | Nature Boy
ID: 341154191
Sat, Dec 29, 2001, 22:58
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Are these Amtrak trains? Are they travelling non-stop? & finally are there any terrorists aboard?
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| 38 | James K Polk
ID: 37651820
Sat, Dec 29, 2001, 23:01
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Nature Boy 34 -- in past games, with hundreds of thousands of teams created, the users of a forum such as this one are just a drop in the bucket. People actually did some experiments with coordinated trading over a bunch of teams to see if they could affect anything, but no dice.
Not sure whether anyone's really figured out if gurupies might have an effect in the smaller pool of the pay-for-play game this year.
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| 39 | citizenkane.org
ID: 1511102912
Sat, Dec 29, 2001, 23:03
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this is funny and all but ANYONE KNOW HOW LONG SMALLWORLD HOOPS HAS BEEN RUNNING?
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| 40 | Nature Boy
ID: 341154191
Sat, Dec 29, 2001, 23:07
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JK -38. Thanks for that clarification. Based on what you're saying since I'm in the pay league I could not be considered a lemming. By the way I just rated this a 5! Keep it going.
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| 41 | Nature Boy
ID: 341154191
Sat, Dec 29, 2001, 23:14
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citizenkane I really would like to know also. This is my third year.
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| 42 | Shelby-villian
ID: 261146232
Sat, Dec 29, 2001, 23:39
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Rafi calm down. Just some humor on a
Saturday night.
LOL, this is a funny thread btw.
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| 43 | Roar
Donor
ID: 412141319
Sat, Dec 29, 2001, 23:46
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Ok, Citizen Kane. I'll break away from all of this madness and give you the answer that you are looking for. The Smallworld game, believe it or not, was created by Joseph Smallworld in the early 1900's. He wanted to create a game in which the competitors would become frustrated and ornery because the athletes they wagered on routinely got injured and under-performed. In order to facilitate the Smallworld game, football was invented. The rest, as they say, is history…
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| 44 | Jazz Dreamers
ID: 511057221
Sat, Dec 29, 2001, 23:47
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The trains would meet in the United Center and USC and Temple would each leave with a victory. Not sure on the time though.... :-)
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| 45 | Nature Boy
ID: 341154191
Sat, Dec 29, 2001, 23:47
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Now that deserves a ROAR!
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| 46 | KevinL
Donor
ID: 48721523
Sun, Dec 30, 2001, 00:00
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I played smallworld baseball in 1997, not sure if that was the first year or not.
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| 47 | azdbacker
Donor
ID: 1832261
Sun, Dec 30, 2001, 18:30
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Hilarious give-and-take between JKP and Ender. Especially Polk's answer in post 26. LOL.
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| 48 | Mike D
Donor
ID: 01115290
Sun, Dec 30, 2001, 21:51
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Joseph Smallworld---rofl Roar!
(PS---I thought it started with that children's song..."it's a small world after all")
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