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250685.39 in reply to 250685.36
Date: 11/10/2013 11:38:55 AM
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Building a team for a specific strategy is not only fun and interesting and, it also has a very strong connection with real life team sports. Where coaches and players would rather put their pride in outplaying the opposition with their favourite strategy rather than faking and gambling to play a strategy opposite to their philosophy and skills.

And their opponents "guessed" they were going to play these tactics almost every time and specifically prepared for them. The fact is, that didn't matter much because such teams are that dominant. Nothing seems to indicate that won't be true here either.

From: Awaka

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Date: 11/10/2013 2:22:29 PM
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Basically, they just finished their job in killing outside offences, anyone with a outside offense team was bad before, now they are done fore.

From: Flamen

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Date: 11/10/2013 2:25:43 PM
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Oh, good.

They confirmed rock/paper/scissors game.

BB was about who made their best Look Inside build, now its about luckygessing your opponents tactic.

Last edited by Flamen at 11/10/2013 2:25:59 PM

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Date: 11/10/2013 2:43:35 PM
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Look at the bright side, now we will get double bonus when we play against bot teams :)

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Date: 11/10/2013 4:00:25 PM
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Look at the bright side, now we will get double bonus when we play against bot teams :)


Awesome, no more first round cup exits for me (63656108) *palmface*

Last edited by Aleksandar at 11/10/2013 4:01:29 PM

From: Gamer

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Date: 11/11/2013 3:07:54 AM
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I'm not liking this feature either. It shifts some power to weaker teams that are in a nothing-to-lose situation while stronger teams will be reluctant to use it except vs a bot.

Plus I think it's unrealistic in every way to force teams to use different tactics every game in order to avoid losing the guessing game every time. I can't think of many pro teams that won championships using a variety of different tactics each game.

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Date: 11/11/2013 5:37:07 AM
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since being competitive both inside and outside is more expensive in several ways.


I guess we could counter that new problem by raising the minute optimum from 60 to 70 - that way we would see a more realistic utilization of the top lineups too. (assuming GS training will be removed too).

To me it never made sense to start the best players one game, only to bench them for another - just for the sake of gameshape.

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From: TrinZ
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Date: 11/11/2013 6:32:21 AM
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I would guess the new GDP will cause more people to not bet on defense (and play m2m) instead of betting defensively since the cost in case of error would be less severe.

Another thing that might happen is teams playing 3-2 (which some say is also efficient vs Inside offense) on defense and betting on the opponent playing inside in order to balance their chances, i wonder if these things have been simulated before implementing?

From: Dworcus

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Date: 11/11/2013 7:42:31 AM
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To me it never made sense to start the best players one game, only to bench them for another - just for the sake of gameshape.


I agree this make no sene compare to IRL basketball, where teams consistently field their best players almost every games.
However from a gameplay perspective, it is meaningful, forcing managers to make tough decisions, especially for teams that go far in the tournament, managing three difficult games a week is really challenging. Indeed I think it is one of the core element of the gameplay.

On the other hand GDP, neither make sense as far as RL basketball is concerned, nor from a decision making point of view.
As, in many cases, the choices will be pretty obvious. If you play a team with a dominant tactic or a dominant player, choose the orientation accordingly. You'll gain something either by making the good prediction or by enticing the opponent to an inferior tactic. If the opponent doesn't have an obvious strength just play as usual with no GDP, and man to man.

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250685.49 in reply to 250685.30
Date: 11/11/2013 10:29:04 AM
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This is some kind of the mess now. So now BB is forcing users to choose non-dominant strategies instead of fixing them. BB was on the the right track, by increasing SB effects and decreasing salaries, but they had to go even further and should have reduced effects of OD. Now you see often how SG with pretty decent JS and JR are shooting 10-20% from outside because opponent has players with lvl 20 OD. So now what can we expect, to crush these outside players even more if we guess tactics right and reduce outside shooting to 5-10%?


The fix to that is to reduce the cost of JS and especially JR, and to make training JR faster. Increasing the cost of OD for PG builds would also be a very good step. I think Wolph is the one who has pointed this out the most, but the root of the problem is that there are the two required outside skills to make three point shots (JS and JR) and only one skill to defend them (OD) which also has a metric buttload of other additional benefits.

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