Wednesday, 9 July 2008

Cyberdunk League Renaming

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Talkdep is the place to go to get your national leagues renamed the way you want them. A Talkdep member elects himself spokesperson for his country. He then starts a thread stating different possible names for his country's leagues. He compiles a lists of types of names for leagues and then makes another thread asking members to vote for their favourite list group.

I started one for the UK leagues. I had 4 lists. These consisted of the names of football leagues, plus random object names, and names of stars and planets. The planets seem to be winning, although during the poll another list was suggested and seemed quite popular. It was a list of royalty type names. King, Queen, Prince, Duke etc. What I think I will do is take the top list or 2 lists and put them with the royalty list to make another poll. I would have prefered for the new league names to be implemented for next season. But because the new season is nearly here, I may have to cut short the polls and present the list I feel everyone likes, to the staff of Cyberdunk.

Tuesday, 1 July 2008

Portsmouth Sharks - Nearing end of Season 6

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Porstmouth Sharks are just 9 league games until the end of the season. Quite a bit has happened during the last month. We had a run of 5 straight league defeats but sorted ourselves out to start winning again. I signed an Short Forward by the name of Bryce Key who proved to be a useful addition to the team. Edgaras Jurkonis was at the end of his contract and left us. I signed 2 new players, the Shooting Guard, Brandon Richards, and the Short Forward, Billy the kid. I later sign another Short Forward, LeBron James, and I release Tayshaun Prince. I sign a new Center, Loreno Tezema, and I finally release Nigel Quinn. I also end up releasing Billy the kid as I decide to trim the team down.

So like last season we are currently at 15th position in the league. It looks as know we will stay up, so what is in store for next season? Well I hope to buy Cary Golob, who I believe is related to Cory Golob. I also intend to buy the one, and only, The King! So next season is looking exciting.
The stadium is slowly increasing in size and everything is looking good. Here's to the next season! May it be a successful one!

Sunday, 1 June 2008

Portsmouth Sharks Team Forum

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Having a good basketball team is all about having good communication between the players. One way in order to do this is to get your own team forum. This is where talkdep.com comes in. There are quite a few team forums in the United Kingdom section but many are inactive except for the all glorious London Goats and now, Portsmouth Sharks. I simply asked for it and it was created, sitting nicely on it's own in the UK 4th forums.

I've made quite a few threads in this forum since it was first made and had active participation in them from at least 2 of my players. But we needed something which was a bit more private. Something we could post lineups and tactics in without the prying eyes of the opposition. So I asked for another forum to be made inside ours. I asked for a Private Team Forum. I told all my players the password to this private forum. Now we have all the privacy we need to discuss how to beat those high valued human teams.

Portsmouth Sharks

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I took control of Portsmouth Sharks at the start of Season 6. My first job was to check out my team players. Some were active but I needed to make contact with them. So I organised a forum be built for the team so that they could speak. I also advertised that I needed new players so I ended up getting a few speaking of their wish to play for my team. But in the original lineup, there was one player who had the biggest salary and I thought he was draining the finances of the club. He had to go!

I did it subtlely. I offered him a new contract with a salary which was much the same as the others. He wasn't interested and he ended up going and joining his own team, the Ipswich Brotherhood (now the Argyle Gargoyles). I started getting players with better values and I weeded out the inactive players slowly.

The first guy who contacted me said he had been playing for the team the previous season. He wanted to help the club. He made the team logo and banner which I put on the team's homepage. The team was starting to look attractive which was sure to attract more players. Although this season looks set to be just like last season with us finishing about 15th, so long as we are not relegated then I'm sure next season we will do very well!

Thursday, 20 March 2008

Cyberdunk - Dunkley and Mahone

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I've decided to postpone the purchase of a team until the start of next season. Dirk Dunkley's contract with Dnipropetrovsk Souths came to an end on the 31st day. The plan was for him to join the team I was going to purchase. I do not want him to join a completely random team like last time.

Majic Mahone is doing okay at his club, Ginasio Figueirense. They are currently 9th in thePortugese Division 4. They have had a good run of wins. Hopefully the top teams will lose some games so they can claw themselves near the 3 promotion places. Here's hoping for a good end to the season!

Sunday, 24 February 2008

Cyberdunk Competitions

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You can enter various competitions for Cyberdunk by going on the Talkdep forums. One of those competitions is to produce a 5 minute YouTube vid about Cyberdunk. Your vid has to advertise Cyberdunk to the public. I made a short vid where it showcased the game and what you could do on it. It also incorporated real life basketball footage along with an Outhere Brothers soundtrack.
There is also a blogging contest. The best written blog of the month gets 400 CDP. I have noticed other competitions too, such as a trivia quiz to get Cyberdunk Points or ingame items. So if you want to see extra competitions you can join for Cyberdunk then goto www.talkdep.com and go in the Cyberdunk.com forums.

Wednesday, 20 February 2008

Cyberdunk - Season 5

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It didn't get off to a good start. Due to update difficulties, Days 2 and 3 had to be reset. So results played on those days didn't count. The decision to reset was made because some players could not update their tactics for those games on those days. Good news is an extra 5% on cyberpoints purchased on those days was given. Also the option to create a free extra player was on offer.

So with that and with the season properly underway, I created another player. I called him Majic Mahone and he hailed from the USA. I got him drafted into a Portugese Division 4 league. This obviously was not my first choice. I would have preferred one of the United Kingdom or USA leagues. I am hoping to be able to purchase my first basketball team this season. I know who I want to manage. It's a secret but let's just say they are in the one of the UK leagues.