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It would be like a Hoe Run!!!...

more simple? this game is as easy as managing game can be. quit it if its to hard for you.

I love the game. But I think it's too hard to start from nothing in this game. New managers fall out quickly, ecpecially if not BBall fans. I made a "Mentor scheme" in Denmark. Worked well. some of the managers that entered have beome really good. I think this is one of the ways to keep new guys playing.

But it's also a lot of work for the mentor.

Once players are hooked, it's a great game. So it's about getting them hooked before they quit for some reason.

There is a continuum of types of gamers, ranging from those who want something NOW, whiz bang smash ratta-tat-tat kaBOOM ... to those who are looking for something more gradual and complex, something that rewards intelligence, reasoning, patience. For those looking for an arcade game that starts and finishes fast, BB is not their cup of tea. For those looking for a complex strategic game, BB is a gem.

Any marketing should be directed at the latter type of gamer.

Once players are hooked, it's a great game. So it's about getting them hooked before they quit for some reason.

There are many managers who have played this game for years who still dont understand it.

I reckon having more visibly available resource tutorials on how to play the game, would help get new comers up to speed quicker thus getting them hooked.

Perhaps "sequence the learning" in steps, from basics such as gameshape and enthusiam to the more advanced stuff.

Whilst written tutorials would help, I reckon that youtube video clips, (perhaps interviews from successful Managers) would even be better although of course written words are probably easier to translate to other languages than what verbal voice might be

I think that the game is currently looking much better than a few seasons ago when it appeared that the users were talking to deaf ears about the problems the game was experiencing.

Since then, the tactic predictions were introduced and I noticed that in my league at least, it really diversified the range of tactics used, and in lot of cases the right guess of the tactic proved to be the turning point in the match.

Then the quality of the rookies was improved a bit, and I am now training a 19 year old rookie which has good starting skills to be a solid bench player, even though I did not invest a single cent in the draft.

The positive impact of blank lineups and game shape training is expected to be abated in the near future and the training is more and more important with the inflation of prices and that is for me as a fan of training a welcome thing.

Still, the main problem as far as I am concerned with the game is that it has a slow pace, I would prefer that the season would last much shorter so that there could be much more to do, sometimes there simply isn't anything to do if you are competing in the same league for a while where you know all your opponents quite well and you have a clear training plan and no need for transfers, as it is with me at the moment. I just set the lineup three times a week and wait for Friday to see if any new green arrows will pop up.

So what I started to do, I started writing some articles on my league forum about my team, players, my manager character, played games, and I noticed that people tend to read them regularly. It kind of makes the game more interesting to me, it feels as though I am playing a role-play game in addition to a basketball sim game. Well, it is in some way analogous to real basketball, when I go to watch my favorite team, whether they win or loose, the first thing I will do when I come back home from the game is to read some (or all if I happen to have time) articles in newspapers on how they played, on the press conference, and everything associated with the game.

This partially takes out the problem of the slow pace in BB for me as it gives me something to do between games, I know it cannot work with everyone since not everyone is a fan of role playing but still it can add another dimension to this already interesting game.

Last edited by Gomeljski at 11/17/2014 10:29:23 AM