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Sorry that this question won't be that compact, but we currently discuss in the help forums about the 1-3-1 Zone again and about the placement and dutys of the position. Since in reality they vary a lot.

If we take this nomenlature for the basic formation:

    A
B - C - D
    E
    o|

Who would defend what position?

Is E main work, to run betwen the corners, and should look more like a classical guard defender with lot of outside defence, or are rebounding and Insidedefence main prioritys for this position?

o| = basket

Is there any chance of increasing training speed a bit, mainly for balanced players? Most balanced players are to old and training slows down before they get multi skills into the Mid - High end skills. Once you start making balanced players faster to train, balanced players will become the way to go, witch is what the BB's keep trying to tell us.

To me having all those high end skills is a bit of a waste since mono skills players usually only get there. There salary's become to high and the player becomes useless for the amount of salary we have to pay and most just end up on the TL going from team to team every few weeks.

I think it will help the game be more realistic. On the TL seeing 40k+ players with 3-5 skills between atrocious and awful doesn't seem right.

Questions from Serbian forum:
1) Will you add some of the following features in order to make this simulation of basketball more realistic?
-tactics efficiency ( teams which play their games with only one type of attack would play worse if they suddenly choose to change it)
-teamwork (so teams couldn't change their roster frequently)
-compatibility of the new signing(player) (how he gels with the rest of the team)
-enthusiasm reset before the play-offs (so everyone would start with the same chances)
-national team games without enthusiasm involved (like in B3) (this would prevent constant deals TIE vs. TIE)

2) What are your plans for fighting against so many multiaccounts in the world? Will you finally ask some sort of identification document from users?

3)If all 16 teams in the league invest 40k weekly in draft will they get better players than league in which only one team is investing 40k, or amount of quality players from draft is just a random thing?

4)Are all trainers with, for example, level 5 ability the same, or they vary 5.0-5.99? Also, if several player's skills are on 12.4, is there any difference in his wage than a player whose skills are on 13 or 12?

5)Do you have plans for improvement of game engine and how many new features could we expect in the future?

out of the question forum:

Does that point per 100 shots statistic in the game results include free throws, or not?

OK, here are the answers I had time to write. I consider this thread already a success since it's a nice way of bringing some key issues to my attention. There are some hard questions here so please don't bash me if you don't like the answers. Also, I don't intend to make this a full dialogue, so no point in asking for explanations of specific answers, I'm afraid I just don't have the time for that.

Mod-Ballin: Any plans with the forums? As in changing any designs, layouts, adding some things. (208622.2)
Currently no. We have decided to focus on new features in other areas and bugs.

Mzungu77: The 2-3 zone is perhaps the most controversial aspect of the game play. Can you explain how it is meant to work from your perspective? If possible, could you elaborate on the ideal skillset for players running a 2-3 zone? (208622.3)
It is useful to google 2-3 zone and try to understand how it's used in real basketball. This applies to all tactics. The best skillset definitely includes three players with good ID, SB and REB.

Petrus Magnus: Have you ever considered the idea of extending the best-of-3 format to all play-off games? (208622.5)
No, we don't have enough time for that in the offseason. If we extend the offseason then other managers who have not qualified might deem the period too long.

GM-CracyEye: Are there other hidden attributes then physicality? Who are the free defenders in the box and one defences? (208622.8)
I can't tell you if there are any hidden attributes, because, well, they are hidden intentionaly The free defenders are those that have been calculated to be the best for the chosen defense type. Read more about it bellow, in my answer to Biffo.

Coach D: Is there any curently work involving new GE.Or algorithm involving game sim or new wightning in skill ? Is the price of JR and SB reasonable? (208622.9)
There are no current developments on the GE, the simple truth is that we lack dev time and knowledge in that department. The price of JR and SB is reasonable, of course. Those skills are very hard to appreciate correctly because their impact is not as easily visible as some other skills.

yiannis paros: you have put Player Salaries Floor.. why don't you put Player Salaries Ceiling? (208622.11)
The salary floor has been introduced to reduce intentional tanking (which is not a good idea for any team to start with, when you sum it all up), but we don't have a similar problem with teams having too high salaries. There's just no reason why we should do it.

Murl: I read some where that manager believe that "Lucky fans" are displaying some advantage over regular players. Is that true or imaginary? Also why do manager have to pay salary for fired staff members twice(update and severance fee) instead of a 2 week notice for the staff member in question? (208622.13)
Pure imagionation. A lucky fan is the worst player you can field, no contest. The severance fee is intentionally added so you wouldn't fire&hire staff too often. The 2 week notice is just another approach to the same problem, but we think the severance fee is a better solution.

SREZ: Is SB worth the salary on bigs and useful on guards? Are their advantages (or disadvantages) that we do not already know about? (208622.14)
In a word, yes. It's useful all around and it has an impact on shots even though it's not as obvious as a reported block. The amount of that impact is something we do not want to disclose, of course, you just have to find that out for yourself.