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Not always, sometimes it's to relegate and rebuild.

I think attendance, gate revenue for a team consistently losing should suffer proportionally to the team's available funds.
Fans can support a team heading for relegation when that team is doing what it can with an empty bank account. But when a rich team is consistently losing, it's illogical that fans keep supporting the club the same way.
I don't understand why fans aren't more demanding, they're the ones who helped build up that money reserve and they expect the club manager to use it to ensure the club is competitive.

Relegate and rebuild?
Put a crap lineup out there and they'll lose by more than 50

Not if 5 other teams are doing the same.

I've never seen teams that want to relegate be unable to do so because everyone wants to relegate.

Plus it's stupid. If you can rebuild and be safe from relegation at the same time there is no need for the whole relegation thing.

All the changes are very good sir.

This past few seasons, all the changes are still minor if you see all the good suggestions my co-managers are giving. So may I ask if you are planning to make a Major Change soon? Major Change, either to the quantity of changes or to the quality of changes.

Im hoping you make a Major Change soon. Specially on Line-Up and Game Engine.

Thats all for now.

I like the shot block tuning as a single and separate, needed move , although we weren't told how its supposed to work and what areas will it cover.

When we're officially been told though that "...we have increased the impact of shot-blocking in the game engine in an effort to promote tactical balance and to hopefully deviate away from the look-inside dominance..." , then im overly disappointed with the measure taken.

It was decided to mediumise the offensive LI dominance, by upping a defensive skill that all teams, those playing LI included, could easily choose to use?
How will it be tested on the highest levels, where results can be more accurate? Are top league and BB3 teams expected to deviate from LI, because of this change?
A top LI team will still be competing with another top LI team and the better set up and allrounded skillset wise(blocks included) will still win.

In my opinion, there is zero chance, enough top teams,in order to have a good and credible sample, switching from LI to perimeter offenses(just for the sake of SB tuning) for start. Let alone the latter ones winning.

Im too new in the game to know all the tactics and how they work. Im not even sure whether LI itself is dominant mainly because of the GE either.
But i've had enough time in the game to realise that JR contributes to little more than nothing. Unless we are happy to see top guards, in top teams, no matter what the offensive tactic is, with massive salaries, JSs and JRs shooting consistently way below (any realistic)average.

I love basketball and i accept one-two tactics being more dominant, even if i dont enjoy playing them myself. What i greatly dislike, is seeing the best guards in the game, shooting with 10% for 3pt or a game with zero 3p made, just because LI is selected.

What i greatly dislike, is seeing the best guards in the game, shooting with 10% for 3pt or a game with zero 3p made, just because LI is selected.

I suppose it may have something to do with pretty much everyone training OD extremely high because it's the most super important awesome skill of all, and almost nobody training JR to anywhere near the same level because it's the most super expensive skill and it doesn't do anything anyway. Of course, some of that is true - OD affects way too much and is way too cheap as long as you can stay out of the SG salary formula, while JR in the SG formula is a pretty expensive skill on its own and more importantly also causes the OD cost to skyrocket.

Totally agree with you.

Anyways, i do like the SB change, not for the purposes it was made though.
Tweaking the OD/JR power ratio lets say, by downing OD and/or upping JR, in both efficiency and cost, would make it, in my opinion, much more effective and realistic.

If I currently filter the transferlist at Shot Blocking minimum 15 I get a total of 3 results, If I currently filter the transferlist at Outside Defense minimum 15 I get 564 results.
This tells me two things, either people are not training shotblocking or the people who did train shot blocking value the skills that highly so that they don't want to sell the players.

I think it's much too early to conclude whether or not the change is effective enough as we clearly have undertrained players in that area. You cannot expect a mediocre player to block every single shot of Lebron James. We are continously monitoring the effects of the change, and as already said in the news item we will continue to improve the current engine and if that would not be enough we will be looking into other areas to balance the overall tactical options in the game. However, from my own small sample of games already I am clearly seeing signs of changing games, increasing number of altered shots, more inside teams having trouble to win and an increase number of blocks. My personal sample is just as small and meaningless as yours, though.