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Just as many fellows have mentioned and explained, I guess one thing that is already great is the training system. It needs foreplanning, different strategies, adjustability, etc. and everything is pretty good with the system.

Every time I play NBA 2K, I spend hours at MyGM mode. One thing I would really love BB to have is a simple minute-management system. We already know the defaults through the walkover matches: 36-10-2. The starter takes the big chunk, then the first sub and the reserve player.

If we could manage the minutes just as real-life coaches do, that would enhance several things in the game:

1) Tactical depth

Now, we have offensive tactics that most people are grouped around only a couple of them, defensive tactics that there are basically 2 schools of thoughts (M2M and 3-2 zone), and GDP that most users don't even try using against human teams unless they have to gamble to win.

Through the complexity of design, the minute-management system can increase that. Indeed, there should be some defaults (or let the coach decide) for those who don't want to spend time on that but knowing that you could save your team's energy to the last quarter definitely elevates your team's chances against better-equipped teams.

2) Training

As it was unveiled in the last season's Q&A and Season 53 news, short rosters are getting penalized now. There is another thing that gets penalized: Training youngsters.

As of right now, we don't know how effective the stamina drop/skill drop will be but if a player's skill decreases to the point that he no longer is useful in the game defensively or offensively, training youngsters is going to be non-viable for the most users. If most users give up on training for the sake of being successful, the player supply will go down and that would result in an imbalanced transfer market where the richest teams will be able to acquire the majority of players.

If playing for the whole game increases foul proneness, that will also decrease the player supply in the transfer market.

However, if we could manage the minutes (even the simplest system), that would solve the problems in regards to training. For the one-position training, we just have 144 minutes to allocate in a week and that would be easy to solve.

3) Economy

This is obviously a result of the training section but it would help the overall economy. This is my third stint on BB (and the longest) and as an economist in real-life, I noticed something that you would not see in real life: an 18-year-old 60 TSP guy with an MVP or higher potential is sold higher than a 24-year-old 120 TSP guy. In regular economies, you get the raw material, you process it and you sell it for a higher price. Why? Because processing takes time and money.

However, in BB, the raw material is more expensive than the final product. Why does it happen? Because people know that they can't find a better guy; thus, they reserve the best fruit for themselves. You usually have 3 slots to train. 1 is the best starter, 2nd is the sub and the third one is there if everything goes alright. I started training the big guys last season and my third slot got merely 5 weeks of full training. Under such conditions, would I sell my first or second slot? No way.

That's where the minute-management system would step up to save the economy. Your third option would be to make money even if you decided to keep the number 1 and 2 options for yourself.

It became more like a suggestion rather than an appreciation message but finally knowing that some BB may actually read it tempted me.

Plus, whoever/whatever was in charge of the off-season process, keep him/it, please.

1. Pace. I like buzzerbeater becouse his slow pace, and the importance of the planificaction. The timing of the leagues are just perfect (2 x year), maybe the idea of introducing a cup league is very interesting.

2. Transfer market. There are more options in there, and you can follow different strategies according the players of the market to tho your roster.

3. Training. The training it's difficult but very grateful, and with many options. I like the sistem of 48+ to get the full training, and the balance between competitivity and training.

One point I like is the tactic, but I think The defensive tactics are a wasted ascent, because at the moment only two are used and work.

Thanks for this iniciatives.

Last edited by Buero at 3/28/2021 11:59:18 AM

Draft and Scouting
All-Star Games
Tactics Settings (hope for more that can be used for micro-managing minutes and 1 on 1 matchups on court)
Transfer List
Anti-Cheating features (would love it to improve)
Supporter Credits Giveaways (would love if we Free-user can have a way to farm/collect so we can purchase some Supporter feature individual)
External Sites for Scouting Players (do we still have some that still functioning?)

that shows how little I know about the game... and I find it entertaining... now you unveal it... lets see on the next ASG if I will still feel the same or it gotten spoiled xD

The training needs to remain "difficult". I've read a lot of suggestions to make it easier but in my opinion it would be awful. Having to manage training and results is the core of Buzzerbeater

+1
I have the same opinion. Training is one of the main points in BB. You have to plan, ajust and invest a lot of time. And thanks to this, you can build so many different kind of players. With easier training, BB would lose a lot of its challange and fun.

I totally agree ... and because of the easter-weekend I thought today is friday fortunately I realized before blaming on the engine or the server or both

All Star could be more fun if it didn't mean that boring week with only one match and screwed training

Last edited by Bernspin at 4/2/2021 8:17:51 AM

The feature that kept me engaged in BB where other online managers failed is that the game engine and the results it generates actually makes sense. Whilst upsets happen more often nowadays compared to when I first started, they almost always have proper context behind them to explain why one team lost. You won't see much weaker teams inexplicably win games like I used to see on other manager games I tried (Trophy Manager was a particularly bad offender).

This means that the manager has more control over their own destiny, as opposed to it being left in the hands of the dice shooter.

Not to change:
- Slow pace. For me, the pace of one match per day is too fast.
- Not a pay-to-win game.
- The ban on multiple accounts. Keeping the game fair is important.
- The game engine is hard to completely studied. But I'm worried about the power of deep learning.

Good:
- Team ratings and matchup ratings for each match. It is convenient and better than only stats plus play-by-play. The latter is too "hard-core".

I don't know whether it should change or not:
- Training system. It is an important feature, but it is a double-edged sword. I'm enjoying the way how I manage my team. But if I can't find an acceptable way to manage the team, then maybe I will quit.


Last edited by little Guest at 4/6/2021 7:15:00 AM