Sandbox Simulations is back! Welcome to the magical year of 2019!
 

Okay, we had some issues to work out, and it took a while. But we think we've got it ready to roll with a commercial launch. We're not quite ready yet, but we're close. We'll open for business in the next month or so.

As promised, you get a free membership (well, read the details below) if you were one of our beta testers. I went through the various Sandbox threads, and these are the people who had more than 25 posts, so I'm presuming that you all were active players. If you were an active player and you don't see your name on this list, pm me and we can confirm. I recognize that you may have played without posting in the threads.

7
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AndChiefs
AustinChief
bevischief
brorth
Bump
carlos3652
ChiefAshhole20
Dartgod
dj56dt58
DJ's left nut
DMAC
Ebolapox
Fansy the Famous Bard
Fat Elvis
Hammock Parties
KC Tattoo
kstater
KurtCobain
lostcause
MagicHef
mcaj22
mrroandrro
noa
Old Dog
OnTheWarpath15
patteeu
rageeumr
Rausch
RealSNR
rtmike
sfchief
shorman22
Sorter
Sully
TambaBerry
ThaVirus
The Pest
Titty Meat
topher79
trndobrd

We'll be launching commercially soon, so we've added a pay portal to the site and have done some other things to beef up the admin. But the game itself hasn't really changed other than a few fixes.

So if you're a beta tester, we have one last request for you. We're finalizing the pricing, but think it'll run about $18 per year. You're in for free after that for the life of the business with a special founders membership*, but we'll ask you to test the payment system as one last experiment, so we'll set the price at $1 for a short period of time so you can enroll**. If you invest $1, you'll get a lifetime membership valued at $600.***


* Nontransferable
** Scholarships available if the $1 fee is not viable for you
***Assumes present value of an $18 annual membership for 100 years at a 3 percent discount time value.

No ****ing way!

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Way!

Way way!!

ok

can't afford the $1

YES!!!! Super bummed how beta testing stalled for a bit - but this was an amazing game you guys came up with! Where do I sign to play this forever?

We'll get you the setup information once we're ready for launch. Thanks for the kind words. We're excited to get it rolling for good!

IN

The new site will be open for registration later this month. Everyone's enthusiasm for the game has been a huge motivation for pressing through a number of obstacles.

We never doubted your support :D.

so when you post 7 do you mean 007 or is there actually a user name of 7 LMAO

I remember that, it was a very cool concept.

If there is room available and someone wants to sponsor the future of this league, you can name the team that will make this famous for the low cost of administration fee and get a 5 season exclusive license on the team name and any and all marketing opportunities that come with it.

I'm IN :D

sweet

This is wonderful news. I've been stockpiling draft picks in anticipation of this announcement.

Definitely still in. I call Mahomes.

you don't get to "call" anything

we're having a draft

and HE WILL BE MINE

this is going to give me my madden fix this year, actually

because madden sucks this year

Rain Man, will you be changing your team name to the Ermines?

Of course. But I suspect that other teams will use variations on the name. I figure that names like the Green Ermines, the Super Ermines, the Turbo Ermines, and others will be common.

Hmm. When we go commercial, maybe we should auction off the initial draft order to the highest bidders. Mahomes would make our company a lot of money.

Nope, called him

Apparently someone was going by "7" at the time. I wonder how many previous user names they'd had.

In!!

Great work gentlemen

I haven’t looked for a while, but I think a lot of my original team has to be out of the NFL now. Learned a lot from assembling a pretty bad squad.

Just checking. I don't recall a 7. I know I participated in the thread but can't remember how much. Pretty sure I was still Guru at the time though.

What is this shit and do I want to be a part of it?

you ever play first page football?

The good news / bad news is we'll be starting over. The 2018 NFL season will serve as year 0. This is your chance to draft better. We are simplifying the veteran draft to 20 rounds. You'll be randomly assigned 33 mid-tier players to fill out your roster. Hold on, because we are still a few weeks away.

This is exciting.

When do you need us to pay?

In a couple weeks after we shake the last bugs from the site.

IN!

My buddy had a BETA membership as a non-CP member; I presume I'd need to get him signed back up as well?

Any way for Year 1 to be an auction format of any sort? Seems unlikely given the headaches involved but figured I'd throw that out there...

I want in with the cool kids.

I'm definitely in. Hate that I can't continue from where I left off. I had a young but talented squad and I got rid of aging talent for a lot of first round picks. I was ready to build a squad that would dominate for years to come. Oh well. Still excited to play again. A couple questions. #1 How will draft order be determined and 2# Can we change or add our City locations and mascot?

I traded peak Rodgers for the #1 overall pick (Andrew Luck) and lost a shot at defending my title because of it. Oh well - still have that first ring, I guess. Gonna get a lot of money for that some day...

Yes, please.

Count me in.

I suspect that it'll be a random draw on draft order with a serpentine from round to round.

On the city locations and mascots, we have a funny story behind that. As we go commercial, we don't really want some innocent sub-18 person to join a league and have to face their division rival the Whoreville Genitalia Lickers or the Gacyville Sodomizing Clowns. Also, since we'll have turnover in team owners, we don't want people to not take over a team because it's called the Toledo Womanshovers or the Berlin Hitler Youth Corps. So we've got two very large databases of every decent-sized town in the USA along with a massive list of nearly every team name that has ever been assigned to a pro, college, or high school team. (We actually had to go through that database and remove a few very objectionable names from the early 1900s, too.) So when you register, you'll get a massive search function to test your city and name and select one from the approved list.

Oh, that reminds me. I need to confirm that Ermines is on the list.

I had greg hardy on my team and he had like 32 sacks or something insane like that.

No.

I still don't know how this works but I think I want in.

In.

In.

Getting closer. Maybe two weeks if everything goes well.

I run a 32 man online ps4 madden (pos) league just for the team building aspect. I def want in.

Can’t wait... super excited.

May I pay double my entry fee to secure the rights to pick 1.1? Triple?

That will be an add-on feature. Click the button labeled "Mahomes" and have your credit card ready.

We're getting really close to opening the doors for business. We're just giving the floors one last vacuum and adjusting the big feathered headpieces on the showgirls' costumes. A week or less now.

Don't you dare do this to me

Don't worry. The showgirls have all signed releases.

still excited.

O my goodness.
EVery once in a while some obscure player is mentioned and I’m like, hell I drafted that guy outta college. I need to be a GM? HA!

My 2nd team was a dynasty in the makings. You other managers got waaay lucky.

Remember us all going gaga over DB from the 49ers. I know I offered up entirely too much, lol.




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Yes please Rain Man. I need to sign up for this.

Who, what, where? Take my money!

Is it too late to join? What’s the website?

We're doing final road testing now. It'll come up this week as long as nothing catches on fire.

I'm interested

I'm in. Thank you for bringing this back

In trigued

Okay, stay tuned. We had some unexpected delays because some software upgrades over the past two years unexpectedly broke a few things. But if all goes well, it's going to happen today or tomorrow.

Is it too late to join?

So what exactly is this again? I remember seeing it mentioned here before.

Not too late to join, and is still very slightly too early, even. We will put out an announcement when it is time to sign up.