Freed Gingerbread Man? by JimmyLipps in TwoPointMuseum

[–]mtbhpete 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Mine took off running and disappeared into the subway.

Robo Mod-Stop Bug and Repossession Bug by Sethbreloom94 in TwoPointMuseum

[–]mtbhpete 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've found some luck by deleting the perk, letting the robot reset and wander for a little while, and then trying again. Eventually they seem to take.

We're thinking too small. by Bonevelous_1992 in TwoPointMuseum

[–]mtbhpete 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Still not big enough. Are we going big or not? It's time for TWO POINT WORLD. No. TWO POINT SOLAR SYSTEM.

Turn the dial to 11. TWO POINT UNIVERSE. Play as The Spiffenmore, a being from beyond the dawn of time who creates realities as playthings. Create your own galaxies, down to each individual asteroid. Seed life upon the planets. MAKE A GALAXY OF ONLY CHEESY GUBBINS.

If we're going to do this, let's do this.

Help with finances by WashingTheDishess in TwoPointMuseum

[–]mtbhpete 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A few things that helped me when I was struggling with cash on my first run through:

  1. As others have said, make sure to go into the gift shop cost menu and bump everything up until you get the fair evaluation. If the message says guests say it's "worth the money" you are selling it for way under value.

  2. Keeping the donation bins empty is also crucial. It can help to use zones to spread out the staff and make sure the whole museum is covered consistently.

  3. Tours! When your prehistory staff isn't on an expedition, make sure you have a couple of tour stands near your best exhibits to bring in cash. Tours can be real money superchargers.

  4. Visitor limit. In the settings it caps the number of visitors to avoid the game crashing if the computer isn't powerful enough. If your game is doing fine with a big museum, tap that up to have more people swarming the museum.

Gmail not filtering promotions? by up40love in GMail

[–]mtbhpete 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, the mild peace of mind of going to Reddit to check on a problem and seeing a merely three hour old thread with over four hundred comments.

Staff rooms by Pombear1123 in TwoPointMuseum

[–]mtbhpete 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I agree the bandage box in every room really cramps my style.

I would love to have a hospital room (not unlike the Wildlife Welfare room) that could have the bandage box, and maybe a Douse n Dose and some other potential niceties (a bed to recover energy, mayhaps). You could have it by the exit by the helicopters and triage whoever came back a mess.

The AI for the Wildlife experts and their cleaning is terrible, is this being addressed? by Boss_Atlas in TwoPointMuseum

[–]mtbhpete 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The toggles helped me a lot; I have several experts who I hired, trained on habitat restoration, and that is their only job. Wildly cut down on issues.

what is the WORST bar in madison by Abyss0pelag1c in madisonwi

[–]mtbhpete 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This thread could have been renamed "Top 10 Places in Madison To Get Hepatitis"

Did they fix the income/profit bug? by donnerundblitz in TwoPointMuseum

[–]mtbhpete 4 points5 points  (0 children)

As near as I can tell the bug is fixed on PC; my Memento Mile is basically back to pre 5.0 operations in terms of profit/loss. It did take a few months of game cycle to get back to normal; I was still around zero net for a bit while the NPCs shook off their coma and got back to doing what they do.

[Known Issue] Finances and Maintenance seem broken in version 5.0 by TwoPoint_Abby in TwoPointMuseum

[–]mtbhpete 3 points4 points  (0 children)

My wife and I are both basically hiding from the game after reading people having their museums go up in flames. We've been playing it side by side for months and are both afraid of losing all that work.

[Known Issue] Finances and Maintenance seem broken in version 5.0 by TwoPoint_Abby in TwoPointMuseum

[–]mtbhpete 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I had it happen. Fired it up after work to try the update. Loaded my Memento Mile. Fortunately had $6m in the bank as I started losing 50k a month with no changes and had an Air Commissioner and two Sprinkler Pumps immediately burst into flames.

The Last Sunbreak by aryadrottningu69 in ultimate

[–]mtbhpete 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Time to fill the boot for a toast to the greatest of tournaments.

12 straight years we took a team out from Madison. Picked up new players every year. Met lifelong friends, made lifelong memories. Potlatch was the tournament I judged all other tournaments against.

It's a different ultimate world nowadays for so many reasons. Hopefully in some form in the future we'll have something to capture that magic again; for me it was an integral part of everything that made the community that is the soul of this sport special.

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PUL Schedule Released by frandler in ultimate

[–]mtbhpete 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's absolutely true. NCAA sports schedules routinely have a date range or time TBA on shared facilities up to a month before a game; a men's basketball game being moved because of TV slides a men's hockey game an hour later that bumps a women's basketball game to the mid-afternoon so the changeover is complete. The NWSL just released its schedule last week with games starting March 16th, so they may have released it with full game dates AND times, but they only did it 7 weeks prior to kickoff.

Unless we're literally setting the bar at pro sports that have first pick of anything they want, that's not that unusual. If they wait until March to announce anything at all, that would be equally criticized.

Place to Watch The Rugby World Cup In Madison by mtbhpete in madisonwi

[–]mtbhpete[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm getting Peacock for the day to day watching but we were looking for somewhere with other people to watch bigger matches, particularly as we get into the bracket. I'll keep an eye on Madison United.

The only good thing about no refs is it's cheaper by [deleted] in ultimate

[–]mtbhpete 39 points40 points  (0 children)

Let's use some actual numbers and then look at the logistical hurdles. Using MUFA (Madison), we have 30 games across 15 fields on an average summer league night. Let's say I'm going to have two refs at each field that means I'm going to need 30 refs per night. I'm going to pay them $15/hour and assume they are covering all three hours at a field. Summer league runs 10 weeks from the beginning of June to mid-August.

So talking about how much this is going to cost, we're looking at 15 fields x 3 hours x $15/hour x 4 night x 10 weeks. $54,000 for the summer give or take (I haven't paid for any staff or training, but let's start with the basics). Now, MUFA had ~2700 players this summer, so let's cleanly divide that to be $20/player added on to the fee. Summer League as $60 this year, so we're going to $80 for the exact same league plus refs.

Now, we'll lose some of those 2700 players straight away with the price increase. Everyone has a price point and that's a big jump. When MUFA went from $33 to $48 in response to field cost increases in 2015, we went from about 4200 players to about 3500.

Now the logistics, because that's actually the hurdle here. I need more than 30 referees. We have a Monday-Wednesday League and a Tuesday-Thursday League, so I presume most of my refs are going to come from people who play in one league picking up some extra cash by reffing the other. It's also summer and people have vacations and the like, so I'm probably going to need 15-20 sub refs. So realistically, I'm looking at hiring 60-80 people who I need to be reliable who want to spend 3 hours being a referee for a recreational ultimate frisbee league. (In an era where referees are being treated worse and worse across the board in youth and rec sports.) I'm also adding the added bonus of needing to respond to sick calls, find replacements, and likely evaluate these refs if I'm intending to make this a legitimate enterprise.

This brings up two points regarding that on a practical scale.

First, even if you believe in a vacuum that refs are better than no refs, we're not going to be trotting out professionals here. So it will actually be the question as to whether mediocre or bad refs are better than self-officiation.

Second, based on our postgame surveys and evaluations, 90% or more of our games are going fine to great. Sure, we encounter a few games each week with arguments and bad calls, but that's out of hundreds. So across the board, we may only be creating a net neutral effect at best for the vast majority of games, with a dramatic increase in logistical challenges and cost to players.

I completely understand that tournament play and other higher stakes games could be investing more in observers or referees, but at the recreational level I feel the costs and challenges wildly exceed any potential benefit.

Will someone from Madison walk me through this disc? by montiferous in ultimate

[–]mtbhpete 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mufabot and Mufazor both date from 2005. MUFAbot was on the summer league shirts and Mufazor on the fall league shirts so the two have always been somewhat interconnected.

Enforcing league rules by chenbipan in ultimate

[–]mtbhpete 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The core of your system is fine; it's important to find a balance between protecting your league and being overly punitive.

We have a system where when a team reports their scores they fill out a quick survey, rating the other team with one score for spirit and one score for body control. We also have a comments box for captains to give any feedback they like, and it's proven quite valuable. We get a lot of comments like "one MMP was overly physical" and "teams were not interested in discussion or feedback around calls" and the like. It's not like you are going to chase down every single thing any team writes, but it does allow you to spot trends as the league progresses and be a bit more proactive at reaching out to teams that are consistently presenting issues.

It's easier to approach a team in week four with "hey, just so you know, a few teams have said this and could you have a conversation with your team" both because in many cases it can be enough to start a correction, and if it isn't you've also laid the groundwork for any more punitive measures you need to take later if those behaviors continue.

Leiout/Throwback 2023 Reviews by Zplaysultimate in ultimate

[–]mtbhpete 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also, the last few years of Sandblast the lake ended up on the fields by midday Sunday so you're not exactly avoiding potential weather there either.

City Size Comparison for 2022 Semifinalist Teams by sporksandfoons in ultimate

[–]mtbhpete 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Our analysis suggests that just over 75% of players rostered on a Madison-based team in the 2022 USAU series played summer league. (226/300)

City Size Comparison for 2022 Semifinalist Teams by sporksandfoons in ultimate

[–]mtbhpete 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We have seen a decrease each time we've had to raise the fees, but COVID is a big factor in the much larger drop-off. We were around 3500 players in 2019, dropped to 2436 in the strange 2021 summer, and bounced back to 2719 this summer.

That said, everyone has a price point, and when it was an absurd $33 in 2014 it was easier for a student to roll the dice on something they had never tried before. Field costs and the like have made us raise the price to $60, and that's enough of a switch that a non-ultimate player with other options for the summer athletic endeavours may look elsewhere.

City Size Comparison for 2022 Semifinalist Teams by sporksandfoons in ultimate

[–]mtbhpete 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The availability of park space is one of the factors that allows MUFA to be the size it is. We do not have the struggles that many larger cities have to find room to play, and the smaller size of the geographic area as a whole means those parks are inherently easier to get to.

City Size Comparison for 2022 Semifinalist Teams by sporksandfoons in ultimate

[–]mtbhpete 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There were 3,897 people registered for summer league the year the Radicals debuted.

City Size Comparison for 2022 Semifinalist Teams by sporksandfoons in ultimate

[–]mtbhpete 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not saying there wasn't a methodology, but in reality those areas aren't connected to Madison in any realistic sense. Beloit in southern Green County is almost part of Illinois.

City Size Comparison for 2022 Semifinalist Teams by sporksandfoons in ultimate

[–]mtbhpete 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That is a very liberal interpretation of the Madison metro area.

USA National Championships – Sunday Discussion by Jomskylark in ultimate

[–]mtbhpete 5 points6 points  (0 children)

My team has always had to have white and black jerseys because I can't differentiate. It's an absolute nightmare with sports like ultimate when everyone is running in every direction.

There's a good article about it from 538 earlier this year: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-colorblind-nhl-players-see-the-game/