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Anyway, the real question I had is if Career Extension is a waste. Anecdotally it appears to do little if anything. The Fitness & Massage specialties at least seem to make a tangible difference each week.

(some people without career extension get better results than with career extension. While it's doubtful that anyone without fitness or massage gets better results than anyone with fitness or massage.)

I don't know if you are right but one player killed my expectation :/

Quentin Thuillier (6805530) has his 1st down in JR on the last week of his 33rd years old.
But this season is epic :
- W2 : -2 Driving
- W4 : -1 JR
- W8 : -2 JS
- No loss since then

With a level 7 career extension trainer, I had some hope to be able to use him fully this season. 2-3 drops would have been expected. But 5 is like killing all is abilities at once :/

Last edited by _Az_ at 2/10/2013 6:24:46 AM

Another huge issue are the substitution patterns in this game, it's a down right joke.

Isn't hattrick football. People generally like football more than basketball. Also I use follow depth chart strictly and my sub pattern is fine. The one and only time i've had any issue with the game engine is my rival game against Toronto club that I played a few games ago. I was winning every quartet except the third and somehow I lost because the one third quarter was the only quarter I lost

It is about time that somebody said that...

I agree, but usually a person that complains about how bad something is but continues to do it usually is just somebody that complains about everything in their life no matter what., ie a miserable person in general

or enjoys the game so much that they want to see the game improved...? No? :)

lol i guess you could be right. Not.

Yes I can back this guy up. Manon speaks the truth.

There are a lot of expensive centers our there because the general BB population built players that way. The reason they built the players like that is because centers only have 4 primary skills to train which are IS, ID, Reb and SB. Guards on the other hand need 6 skills to train. Naturally the player with the 4 primary skills to train would have a lot higher skill level then a player that would 6 skills to be trained, thus you see many centers with legendary IS, ID and Reb.

Since there are so many centers being trained, the laws of supply and demand says that the price of those players will come right down when they are listed on the TL. This then created the new fab tactic of LI/M2M which could be reserved for another thread =P

In regards to PR managers, my general belief is that if you are winning all your games then you only need a lvl 2 PR since your fan survey will have mostly 5 balls. But if your are losing most or all of your games then a higher PR manager can significantly increase those balls in your fan survey hence increasing your arena revenue. I've had a level 2 PR manager with Career Extension for the last 2 seasons since my star SF turned 31 cos I felt the urge to prolong his tenure on the Aussie NT. He only had 2 skill drops in the last 2 seasons. In fact his salary increased this season as well to my amazement.
can't wait to see what skill drops next season when he is 34 years old.

Yeah I have also seen several of my players getting injured in the 1st quarter this season, including trainees which is annoying. But there is nothing a scrimmage or CUP couldn't fix =P. I just fix those minutes up with Thursday nights game.