u/jdimarco1

Everyone, from casual fans to the players on the field, gave a heartfelt display of what this club truly stands for last night. Among the constant barrage of false or unconfirmed reports about Butters, it's uplifting to see our club showing the AFL and other clubs that we are not the team to be pushed around. We are a resilient and strong club that has overcome far more than most clubs ever will encounter and we are still here. We are not the bad team many might try to portray us as. If we had managed to score just 12 more points (two goals) in the extremely close games against Hawthorn, Adelaide, Bulldogs, West Coast, and Sydney, which we lost by a total of only 11 points, we would currently be sitting in third place, just one win away from second, not fifteenth.

I missed the month and never got to play The Disruptor when it came out originally, so I just played the reworked Wizard. But the environment feels extremely empty for a celebrity elusive target. Specifically in areas such as added designed mission stories even if they are not offical mission stories, extra added NPC’s with unique dialogue, the story is extremely weak. I know it’s the disruptors story so it was an extremely early release and not as extensive as the more recent targets, but that’s my part of my point, there’s not much going on except for that fight. There doesn’t feel like there is many unique things to do, see or ways to ultimately kill the target. It feels like it’s either take the fight (which results in a one punch kill), drop a speaker on him after suspending the match or just using normal generic speed running methods. Usually I spend hours just exploring the celerity target environment and everything IOI added, but after doing the fight once (which was extremely boring) I just started making a speed run which I never do so early.

It’s completely shallow compared to say Bruce Lee which uses the same primary concept and context for that target, where the target/s will be fighting in some sort of martial arts fight. Except there is so many other moving parts in the Bruce Lee mission, the amount of different ways to deal with the assassins, being able to control the event and match making creating all sorts of different scenarios, participating in the event yourself, retrieving the antidote and dealing with the poison added story etc. The Banker had a massive story added to the target, which was close to the level of a story target and had all the external casino mechanics you can interact with. The added Agent Smith mini story, having someone else kill Le Chiffre by proxy etc. I could go over more example in each of the others like the amount of depth in The Splitter and actual story like mission story, but I think the point has been made.

So I’m hoping and wondering what I’m missing? Is there other stuff going on within the environment? Other cool/unique kills that are set up specifically in unique mission mini story/scenario’s?

Not intended to be taken seriously at all.

This is the absolute most crackpot way I would handle Butters and the next two drafts if I were the CEO, didn’t care anymore, and was hell-bent on getting back at the AFL.

• First, I’m absolutely tanking for the rest of the year and demolishing the win/loss percentage to prevent that from being a finishing factor. While counting on Richmond and Essendon to win one more game each, which would allow Port to throw their final game against Essendon to get the wooden spoon.

• I would let the bulldogs make an offer for Butters and match them, forcing the club to propose a trade, which I would reject. Butters, as a result, is sent to the National Draft.

• I’m then using that No. 1 pick from finishing last to redraft Butters in the National Draft. While falling back on and abusing the statutes below as much as possible.

• I’m then using the number one pick in the rookie draft to select Walker, forcing Carlton to match. Cochrane is taken with the now 2nd pick. I’m keeping the compensatory first-round pick for another player, gained from the Walker match. No matching or other picks needed.

• I'm trading Ports wooden spoon second round pick (which will be around the same position as a late first next year after Tasmania’s picks) and Ports third round this year's (plus steakknives) for a late first next year. I'm also trading Carlton’s second-round pick this year that Port has (again close to a first-round equivalent next year), as well as Port's 2028 second round, for another first-round pick next year.

(If a club is being stubborn, a future first after the next two drafts could be added to a trade deal instead of a second.)

• In the following rookie draft, I am then using the first-round pick Port gets from finishing the year before, as well as a late first (gained in a trade), to match a Pilot bid. I’m then using the other higher first-round pick gained from trading, along with Port's second from that year, to match a Salopek bid.

Or depending on where they were taken in the draft.

I'm using Ports' first-round pick and the lower traded first to match a Pilot bid, and outright bidding for Salopek with the other higher first-round pick gained through trades, and using Ports' second to match if needed.

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1. • (d) The Restricted Free Agent’s Current Club has the right to match the proposed contract, arrangement, agreement or understanding in respect of the Restricted Free Agent on identical terms to the Offer in relation to each of:

(i) contract length;
(ii) base payments;
(iii) total match payment rates
(iv) total Additional Services agreement payments;
(v) total performance incentives based on AFL awards or honours, Club best
and fairest finish and matches played, but excluding Finals; and
(vi) TPP Ratchet Clauses, to the extent they impact any of (ii) to (v) above.”

2. • (h) Where a Restricted Free Agent's Current Club matches the Offer and the Player vishes to participate in the AFL Competition in the following year, the Restricted Free Agent must either:

(i) enter into a Contract of Service in accordance with the Matching Offer with his Current Club within 7 days of the provision of notice of the Matching Offer to the restricted Free Agent under Rule 17.5(f);

or

(ii) nominate for the Draft (unless the Player is part of an exchange under Rule 9)

3. • (a) at draft selection 1 to 20 (inclusive) at the National Draft Selection Meeting, shall be ineligible to be included on the Primary List of any other Club for a period of 35 months from the date upon which they are selected or included on the Primary List;

Port Adelaide will honour the legendary 1914 "Invincibles" in Showdown LX by wearing the iconic Prison Bar design synonymous with one of the club's most successful eras.

These are the remaining states, along with the percentage of their state population that goes on to play AFL footy, based on Fanfooty and Draftgurus AFL player listings.

VIC - 0.00575%

SA - 0.00553%

NT - 0.00491%

WA - 0.00389%

TAS - 0.00277%

ACT - 0.00123%

QLD - 0.000721%

NSW - 0.000570%