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as a new user who started about a year ago, when the usercount already was crazy low. i can now proudly announce that i sticked to the game. the activity seemed still better than in other basketballmanagers (one of them died recently) and i liked the player faces i guess.

at the beginning some things would have been nice:

- a better tutorial (i didn't like the manager checklist)
- a few testgames against bots. hattrick has this option: you can have three testgames any time you want against a bot in your first week. they work like a private league game (no injuries, minutes)
- bots that play as if they had some kind of AI, maybe you could use the LCD mechanics for botteams?
- maybe some tips sent per mail. like: don't buy expensive players on the market, approach the game patiently, take your time to spread the starting money, a very basic guide to training, balanced players are nice, etc. (maybe a message per day for a week with newbie tips.)
- maybe an up to date offside/video tutorial that explains some strategies for beginners (if i have some time i will continue working on this one)


/edit: actually i will make a suggestionthread with these things as soon as i have some free time

Last edited by jonte at 1/29/2015 9:46:41 AM

I agree with your point and the mobile app. The play by play needs to move to a newer language and not flash. BB interface including website design at the moment looks like its in the early 2000s. The website is cluttered with text and it would make it very hard for newbies to navigate around. These days, people are on their phone longer than they stay on the laptop and with busy lives, we like things to more simple and quick so this is why I think a whole redesign of the interface is important.

that could help too.

I just hope they will make a big change in play-by-play next season..

I dont care what it is but anything that will improve will surely help a lot.

This evening more then half an hour BB wouldn't let me access to set lineup‼
Result...

Really peace of very good work BB programmers and BB stuff!

Why are You doing selective justice?

I think they should implement a YOUTH SQUAD/LEAGUE where we can develop our own players and promote them up when we feel they are ready or hit the age of 20...

Good idea ... if they ever get training sorted out first.

The game must change. Training must be much faster, 25-40 % would be a good idea. A mobile app wont bring new users but it will certainly help the current ones.

Drafts are almost useless they way the are right now and even with the changes in 19 yo players. The market is really small, you can barely find a good player in a reasonable price.

My suggestions

1. Increase the skills and number of quality draftees and make them all 18 yo and the peak of a skill would be 8 (strong). Or keep the 19 yo with 9 (proficient). Only 2-3 drafts are having a career from 48 which does not happen in the real world, since GM's like to treat BB like a real time simulation game. Most of the players dont bother spending their money on drafts since if you can make money through the arena and then you can buy a desired player with specific skills, then why spend money on a random investment where you dont know for sure that its going to be profitable ?

2. More starting money to new registered players, or bigger arena or faster building times to all players. You must wait at least a year before actually start to enjoy the game at its fullest, with a good arena and a strong team.

3.PR managers are a joke, and dont worth their money. A lvl 3 pr manager with 12K every week, does not give you his money back and more, its only damage to your weekly income. Since the last 2 seasons I have lvl 1 pr manager (4k to 7k) and Im doing very well with my attendance

4. Fan survey is way too strict. One injury can lead to some unexpected losses, leading to much lesser weekly income and a bad season. 2-4 injuries per season can destroy a team economically. BB is trying to simulate "real life basketball" situations yes but lets dont forget that we are here to enjoy ourselves through a game we love, not get frustrated over consecutive injuries (which ok sometimes is bad luck I totally understand that) that destroy our training/economic plans that we are patiently designing over months and years

The game must change. Training must be much ...

Drafts are almost useless they way the are right now ...

My suggestions

1. [drafts]

2. More starting money to new registered players ...

3.PR managers ...

4. Fan survey ...

I agree with some of that:

Training must be much more logical.

1. Actually, I like the drafts. Picking 8th and 13th in two of the last three seasons, against human managers, I got Hall of Fame potential guys. No complaints there, just do your scouting logically.
2. Too much money in the game already, and it is a serious problem. Inflation is out of control on the transfer market, leading to day trading and making the cost of players wildly out of proportion to their value to a basketball team. Marin says it has to be that way to reward managers who train and then sell kids. I hope he soon realizes that it is training that is too expensive, and if that were corrected then there wouldn't need to be sky high prices for trained young guys.
3. PR managers probably need some work.
4. Fan surveys probably need some work.