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Originally Posted by Shabby J

The way I see it is this, you have two camps, the electric football purist and the football simulation guys.

You can do them both with the same exact equipment, yet the play styles are totally different. Neither of them is wrong, they are just vastly different.

The majority of us are electric football purists, we take the game we all loved as kids, but play it as we wished we could have done 30 years ago. Due to the new equipment and 30 years of well known tweaking techniques we are able to do this. Even though the electric football purists utilize a variety of rule sets, they are still playing the game as it was designed to be played.

The other camp wants to use the new fields, players, bases, tweaking techniques, the exact same equipment the purists use, but in a different manner, they wish to truly simulate the ever evolving second by second, real life football play with multiple stoppages allowing the figures to act intelligently.

This is interesting, it really is, I am a purist at heart, I play the game I loved as a kid using modified Shootout rules, to each his own.

Keep in mind they are vastly different styles. The one thing I believe that causes such a stir is that the football simulation guys seem to talk down to the purists, and it comes across on about every post they make that their way is the only way.

I know that is not the intention, but that is the take away, thus you have two camps at war.

I created a thread about accidently discovering the MPFL style of play while testing some linemen, it was quite interesting.

It's all good as long as MF is being played.

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