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If anything, this discussion has motivated me to put my money where my mouth is. There is a new gym in Montreal! The Pugilists and Grapplers Gym just opened it's doors!

Wow, surprised to see that Bellator appears to be a brand of choice around here. But it goes to show that Coker is doing something right. That heavyweight tournament, for example, panned out for him just right. Even though I think there is very little room for surprise. Bader will most likely smoke Fedor. How do you guys follow stuff like Rizin and One FC? Is any of that stuff on Fight Pass?

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I just took a look at the VIP exchange and noticed that I had -200something VIP days? Am I in the hole (VIP wise)?^^

Question is in the title. I just started watching some more Bellator again. And their sometimes freaky match-making ignored, I do quite love the fact that their product presentation is (at least in parts) distinctively different from the UFC. It really pisses me off, how many regional,small time promotions copy the UFC down to a T. And I mean down to each and any camera angle. Bellator shows just manage to have a different feeling to them, which is what many other promotions lack, imo. Especially the pro wrestling style entrances! Sergei Kharitonov fought yesterday - I didn't even know that this guy was still around! Poor Roy Nelson took yet another beating. He really needs to hang up his gloves or seriously change his game. Because he is living a dangerous live for an aged, undersized heavyweiht, who is still praised for a chin, that he doesn't have anymore. If he gets booked accordingly and fights on like this, it will cost him.

It's not about novelty. What I meant is when it just becomes a pure numbers game and all intuition is out of it.

I hope that never happens to me. Sounds like the game becoming an excel spreadsheet.^^

Experienced means in his case, that he experienced a lot of abuse. And that even before 99 ass whippings found their way to him.^^ Who is up for the 100th defeat, by the way?^^ History in the making! Nah, the guy is obviously a troll account. One truly has to actively self sabotage to lose THAT often. Even if you would randomly create fighters and never touch any sliders, that wouldn't happen. This dude is clearly going out of his way to lose so often. The bios of his fighters are funny as well.

I absolutely see where you are coming from. And I also do think that it is stupid, that auto-flights do not work both ways (back and forth). The lost training sessions are not that dramatic imo, because you don’t want to train right before a fight anyway (or at least keep the schedule for the fighter very soft). Here would be an idea: Ditch the loss in fitness and morale because of traveling altogether! Certainly as far as it concerns flights, which are booked in good time. What does that feature add anyway? What bothers me about the locations being little more than meaningless flim-flam, is that it significantly factors into the overall broken economy of this game. The fighting aspect of it is fine for the most part (the actual fights). But the fact that the most potent source of revenue in this game is ripping off your fighters to an extent, that would even disgust Don King, says a lot. And again, the localization aspect of it all not mattering factors in. Because gym fees notwithstanding, your fighters don’t need money for a damn thing (with potential traveling expenses being out of the window). They are walking bank accounts. See, and that is what I don't regard as something intrinsically bad. Because these considerations create demand! Demand for training opportunities, demand for better payment from the orgs and better contracts, when they fancy bringing in guys from all corners of the world, demand for a sufficient local talent pool on behalf of the gym owners and orgs ..... and demand runs the economy! An economy, that as it stands, doesn't even exist. Right now the world map is a fancy tool if I want to know, what time it is in Hilo or on the imaginative Island (the Island itself BTW is an excellent example for how and why the economy works …. as soon as it HAS to.)

The thing is: I don't see anything intrinsically wrong with how public gyms are set up businesswise. Elite coach costs are high, but that is not all that unrealistic. And it goes for the private gyms, too. They are always bleeding considerable money. Provided that they are maxed out coach-wise and set up to guarantee 1-1 training, which typically is the idea. Public gyms are currently a lackluster option (certainly outside of Montreal and Tokyo) mostly because of the surrounding economic aspects of the meta game (a shrunken player base and localization being of no concern for anybody). But some blame also has to go to many public gym owners. Because they are often woefully unimaginative in making a solid business plan. 95% percent of the public gyms out there appear to be either elite gyms (or something very close), which are often every bit as expensive as private ones (they typically have to be) or purely conditional coaching gyms, that cost next to nothing, but are only attractive for those, who train physicals. Rarely are there any good deals in between. And the fact, that newly created fighters do not benefit from elite coaching in any tangible way (provided that the coach is ANY better than fighter) is something, that most new players appear to be utterly unaware of. The just read "elite" and end up squandering far more money on developing fighters, than they have to.

Like said, I can see and agree to the conveniance argument (at least if we ignore everything else). But locations being turned off has also dumbed down the economy of the game significantly. Because now it is of zero concern for a fighting org, how the local pool of fighters is looking in their area. There is no strategic connection between where a fighter trains and where he fights, likely to the detriment of public gyms. If booking flights would be such an insufferable chore, then why not simply have the fighters moving their base to where they need to be for the foreseeable future? That would create effective markets for training opportunities and the texture and size of a fighter pool in any given city would actually be of concern, when running an org. With locations being turned off, all of that is straight out of the window. The cities are merely reduced to aesthetics (for lack of a better word). Besides the sizes of the venues, there are very little strategic implications. One city is as good as the next one.

Sure, but are we still talking about two business slots at this point? Or one business slot and a mandatory, planned economy gym, that nobody needs? Sounds self-defeating.

No, it wouldn't. Because what would stop anybody from setting a very low max capacity and having all of his fighters going into the gym? It would be a public gym, but only formally. Effectively it would be run exactly like a private one and end up being every bit as exclusive. BTW - There not being enough public gyms (safe for maybe Tokyo and Montreal right now) is not even the chief issue of public gyms. Given the current demand, there are enough public gyms in most places. Public gyms suffer from being effectively cut off from a big part of the most active player base. It is a balancing issue resulting from the turned off locations. Check the following link, to understand what I mean by this: http://www.mmatycoon.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=59224&p=872690 The problem isn't offer, but demand! Enforcing these busineses under such circumstances would be heading in the wrong direction.

I have very mixed feelings about this. Because there are really two sides to it. While it is more conveniant and makes the game "less maintenance" (something, that I usually like in browser games), the locations being utterly redundant has one very negative side effect. It is a (if not THE) chief reason, why public gyms are so marginalised. Because the most active players (the VIPs) now end up using their private gyms. Or the ones of their multi or some in-game buddy, who invites them. With location not being of any concern, they can fight where they want and train where they want, which makes all around private training MUCH more feasible. Your private gym can only be in one place. But since your fighters can fight all over the world without any penalty (they just teleport), it is not an issue at all. It therefore kills off the demand for public gyms tremendously, for the majority of the most active player base (the VIPs) can now resort to private training without the slightest hassle. Under such circumstances, running a private/invitation only gym becomes solely a matter of money. Public gyms cannot ever compete with that and find themselves effectively being cut off from what would be a major chunk of the most reliable costumer base.

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I feel like diving back into doing some write-ups etc. Be it previews, reviews or pieces about a fighter. Here is a piece that I wrote the last time around. Mind you that the whacky and cynical tone of it was also down to the nature of the promotion: Madness MMA. So I can be a tad nicer and more serious if that is more suitable. http://www.mmatycoon.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=57159&p=820025

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But when has Ferguson ever fought a guy with a KO percentage as high as McGregors? Ferguson has been on roller blades against several guys, who were/are no big punchers at all.

I wouldn't be too sure if two business slots would increase public gyms. I can easily see the opposite happening. Because then nobody would have to choose anymore between running a business OR a private gym to guarantee uninterfered 1-on-1 coaching. Having a private gym is too big of an advantage (if you can afford it) and a complete no-brainer with two business slots. It would only assure that the most active players don't give a rats ass about public gyms ... because they wouldn't have to. So this could easily work the other way. And since the player base is not that big right now (you can easily find public gym places a plenty), enforcing it would force many players to go inevitably into the red. The player base definetely has shrunk considerably since my first time around here. At least so it appears to me. And you can get decent public training, if you shop around properly and don't have all of your fighters in one place. I get plenty of one on one training and I exlusively use public gyms. Just keep mental notes (or actual ones - if you wanna go full nerd mode) about which gyms are good.

I am not quite sold on that idea, that Ferguson is this nightmare match for McGregor. Yeah, he is a great pressure fighter and has a chin. Also, he is one of the best in thinking on his feet, even when rattled. But how do we know all this? Because he is very hittable, just like Alvarez! Not sure if that is a quality, that I would put too much stock on against McGregor. Because as much as we all are fed up with the McGregor Kool Aid: The dude can strike and has good reactive timing. At least until he gasses out and is disheartened. A Ferguson/McGregor fight would stylistically be far more volatile than McGregor against Khabib (where McGregor was basically dependend on Khabib getting overzealous early - like he was against Johnson). As entertaining as his scrap with Pettis was ..... let's not forget that Pettis had him in real trouble. A heavily diminished Pettis, who hasn't knocked out anybody since January 2013, had lost 5 out of his last 8 at that point and who happened to break his hand, as he clipped Ferguson and couldn't follow up properly. Like I said, Ferguson is 34 and one year at that stage of his career (even more so at lightweight) is a looooong layoff. I think father time is knocking quite heavily at Ferguson's door.

I haven't voted. Because fundamentally I would be for it. Given under the current circumstances however, I would advise against it. If two business slots would be introduced, then the incentive for multi accounts would be even bigger. So get that shit sorted out, first. THEN you can consider increasing the business slots. Edit: The more I think about it, the more I end up being against it. Voted accordingly. Yeah ..... I am no fun ....

Well, if we want to go way back, two of UFCs earliest "superfights" didn't quite deliever (to put it mildly): Ken Shamrock vs. Royce Gracie II and Ken Shamrock vs. Dan Severn II are two of the most boring high profile fights of the NHB era. The fact, that fights used to be short, messy and often wild makes these two lowlights truly stand out .... for all the wrong reasons.

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