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Hi Marin,

thanks for starting another "Ask a BB Day" - that's great. (y)

My questions:

1) Could you please extend the buddy list so it can contain more than 10 users? At least for supporters.

2) How about adding training camps at the beginning of a new season? Idea: Manager can choose between several training camps of different quality (and pay for it, of course) to improve specific skill areas for the whole team. The higher the pay the higher the outcome +/- random factor. In real life, almost all professional basketball teams do stamina training at the beginning of a new season, why not in Buzzerbeater? Same goes to shooting camps to improve jump shot and FT. Of course, only one training camp per season should be allowed. Just an idea...

3) How about adding a Beer smiley? :D

Last edited by Shadow at 5/6/2015 6:47:13 AM

I would like to ask you something. In the manual of the game, if i remember well, it says that in low leagues like IV, the playoff winner plus the finalist will get promoted to the next league.

Last season ended, i was the finalist and i didn't get promoted. Could you please explain me the reason?

when we wiil get an app of buzzerbeater?

Last edited by Miro231 (Trainer of Andy Zadok, 2x World Champion) at 5/6/2015 6:46:01 AM

Do you plan to reconsider BLU prevention code so teams with wider rosters dont suffer anymore to compare against teams with just strong starting five? This problem has been discussed in your thread (259887.1).
In short, now it is hard to play more players in game becose starters tend to play 35+ minutes (in closer game 40+). At least in faster paced tactics new substitution formula would be welcome. (This problem is even more clear in NT games. Team economy is affected as well becose less players are involved in NT games so merch revenues has dropped in general becose of this implementation.)
Thanks

i have a lot of question, maybe some which you can't answer due to game policy and some other which i can find the answer in the forum.

About Game Engine:
1) What is the actual satisfaction about it?

2) What will be the future improvements?

3) Fixing: Will you take care of unrealistics things (subs with 00:00, shoots in same second or 2pts shoot after an oppo shoot with few seconds, actions with more than 24'' used endend with a "lost ball", pattern "lost ball after lost ball [..]..after lost ball" and Others)?

4) Someone speaks about JS improved, but no official speaks in the S31 news. What you can tell about it?

5) GDP: you know it's almost impossible to quantify the "value" of this application (too much parameters has to mantain the same: Roster, instruction, game shape, minutes, tactics...), so, can you tell us if there is a balancement depending on tactics (Ex: External is less efficient than internal, or quick is more than slow pace) or is the same behaviour for every tactic? Another: Focus and Pace have the same value or one is more important than the other?

About APP:
6) what is the state of art?


About Future:
7) What are the areas where the game will improve and what are the areas considered "with no need of development/upgrading"?
8) what suggestion are the devs considering to upgrade in short term?



thank you for answering.

I would rather ask whether there is a plan to rework the current substitution patterns to give more control to the users and how easy that is to implement. It's also not clear what the difference is between LCD and CPfDC.


I often use Coach Pick from Depth Chart and I'm normally able to contain the minutes by playing my starters as backup, however, sometimes the starter set as backup will start the game nonetheless.

We need varied, reliable and intelligent substitution pattern. Clearly Blanks operated some kind of "optimized" lineup management, we should be given the opportunity to replicate that based on skill rather than the game doing it for us. At the moment the sub options are seriously underwhelming.


Last edited by Lemonshine at 5/6/2015 7:08:55 AM

hey Marin,

first off, thanks for staring another "ask BB day" :)

I just want to say that i would also like "training camps" before a new season like someone suggested,

maybe just free throw and stamina camps? ... that would come in very handy for training young players,

because some are very bad at those two and no one wants to "waste" a week for ST or FT training... :)

Hi is there anything being done to prevent the issues with the site during off season processing? We continue to be told, that it is site instability and that we are responsible for making sure our lineup gets set, but after the craziness that happened last night (generic error page for most of us for several hours) the copy and paste answer of, "I told you before, there is site instability " or "its better than it used to be" just seems unacceptable. I can understand issues while updating leagues and resetting rosters, but that takes place while nothing else is happening other than attempting to buy players for the next season. To have these issues while important league games are being played is extremely frustrating. This time of the season is the most important for buying and selling players and to have the site down is not fair to the seller as there have been players going for way below market value.

Is it possible to just delay the start of meaningful games and until the site instability has been worked out?

Hi Marin, thanks for this oportunity

I want to ask for lost transfer players. If you bid for a player and you lost you can't find this player in the transfer list to see the winner bid, only disapears from the list. It's possible in a near future to implement a notification where you can see your overbid transfer players as it exists in Hattrick? And it could be possible to do the same but with the staff?

Thank you very much.

Just from my own experience, I have noticed a few things that consistently lead to fouls:

1) If your player is outmatched on defense, both outside and inside, but I find it moreso inside.

2) If your player has middle of the road shot blocking, so he attempts a lot of blocks, but isn't that good at them, so fouls a lot.

3) On offense, if your player is a poor passer combined with mediocre to poor driving and handling. This results in a bunch of offense foul calls.

Obviously I'm not a BB (and have less experience than you in the game) but just thought I would share what I have noticed. I have heard talk of a mythical, hidden "aggressive" trait in some players, but I don't think I have come across one yet in my time. If anyone has noticed any different, please add, and if a BB wants to reveal more, please do.