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My concern is that currently, especially at elite levels, shooting %s globally are unrealistically low. The game may be balanced/fair but, its not simulating a realistic basketball game anymore.

And yet the range of final scores seems to be on the mark, players' statistics globally seem to be in the right range ... bottom line, the games go 48 simulated minutes to a reasonable result. If you jack shooting percentages won't you disrupt an equilibrium more than you improve it?

What I can say is that it would be a complete overhaul and reprogram of the salary formula, meaning everyone in the game would suddenly have the salary of all their players rehashed, all their training plans etc. scratched etc.

Whatever is currently not in the formula could start at a 0 or negligible weight towards the salary and reach a reasonable level over time. I'm completely opposed to abrupt decisions, because the effect on the game is unknown and people don't know how to react. It's the case for OD changes in the past and more recent SB changes. People have to guess and hope it works, gradual changes do allow for planning.

A complete rehash is the same as resetting the entire game almost if you think about it.

I disagree. I doubt that adding one skill (IS) requires a lot less work that adding 2 or 3.

This drives down the cost and value of such players. Naturally a high % of these cheaters were/are just building LI cookie cutters. Further driving down the cost and driving up the availability of LI only capable players.

I honestly don't understand how higher salary for cookie cutter builds can result in a player costing less money for a manager (the sum of the purchase price and the monthly salaries).

I suggested many times that they adjust their FA policy and that they BLOCK cheating teams training products from going FA/remove those players addhaste from the game. The player pool that exists now, that people complain about, would be different had they listened to me about their FA policy. They were wrong and the entire game is suffering for it.

Well I don't think they were wrong. Those players might have been in the NT. Those players might have partly trained by honest managers. Also, everyone has the same chance of getting those players. Finally, if you were already playing against them, nothing would really change even if japanese teams buy them all.

Last edited by Lemonshine at 12/3/2014 7:22:52 AM

Changing the salary formula is a delicate matter that needs thinking through many times. Even a small change can have a great impact on the game. And as you say adding every skill to every build would lead to us having a new game to figure out.
It may be to much as we don't know what effect it would have on the game and the economy.

You should have all the skills in and set them at 0 contribution if you don't want them to increase salary leaving everything as it is. It is a design flaw that they can't regulate how much skills are worth to a position by changing their salary impact. In fact they did change the salary contributions, but obviously only for skills which are in the salary formula (JR). This way of dealing with a problem with an imperfect tool might create further distortions.

I'm sure nobody could have foreseen that IS would be used in such a way, but the fact remains that they didn't think it was worthwhile (in terms of time and resources spent on additional code) preparing for such a possibility. Now because it's not possible to deal with the problem directly they are trying to fix it indirectly. And changing the GE (the impact of a skill on gameplay, what they have done with SB) is surely more challenging and requires more resources than changing the salary formulas.

I just think that simply propping up JR won't suddenly push people to go for 13/18 players. It costs time to build such player and it might well not be worth it considering the results. You need a progressive movement of JR (cost down) and IS (cost up) to change the situation. Small increments until, after many seasons, you have evidence people do not favour one over the other anymore.

Last edited by Lemonshine at 12/3/2014 5:44:05 AM

I've said this before and I will repeat it now. All skills should be included in the salary formula for each position, even if their impact is negligible. The proper way to set things up would be that after the initial settings decided by the devs, the salary automatically changes a little towards an equilibrium level. The equilibrium level is determined by how much of each skill (say, beyond respectable) can be found on players playing in a specific role. It needs to be gradual, but if everyone plays players with very high IS at PG then you either change the Game Engine or you make IS cost more for the position. In the R&G days, JS would have become increasingly more expensive too.

I've let this ride for a while to see if someone else would coment on some of the illogic here.
(1) "a specific role" is completely subjective, and at this point, undefined. The "specific role" could equally be "point guard" or "giraffe" until you define the roles you are talking about, and justify their inclusion in your design.
(2) Automatically making the most-used skills more expensive and the least-used skills less expensive just drives everything toward a mid-point. Who wants all 9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9 players, or all 18-18-18-18-18-18-18-18 players?

There are a couple of things in the posts I agree with, however. "All skills should be included in the salary formula for each position, even if their impact is negligible." "Whatever is currently not in the formula could start at a 0 or negligible weight towards the salary and reach a reasonable level over time." It should be done by logical design though, not just automatically.

Last edited by Mike Franks at 12/3/2014 2:31:23 PM

(1) "a specific role" is completely subjective, and at this point, undefined. The "specific role" could equally be "point guard" or "giraffe" until you define the roles you are talking about, and justify their inclusion in your design.

Specific role is that assigned by the game. You know, Point Guard, Shooting Guard, Small Forward, Power Forward and Centre. If you have any suggestion other than "role", please do tell us so we can all use the same terminology.

It should be done by logical design though, not just automatically.

Fine.

The problem IMHO is training not the tactics themselves. It super easy to train LI guys.

What you say is also true, but overhauling the training system seems harder to me than just making LI teams cost more (and at high level cost a lot more). Changing training or GE should be the last resort options if other solutions fail.

Taking LI out is not solution in any case.