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But not to the degree that when setting tactics for a game, I can't *choose* how much my other players force (or don't force) the ball into the hands of the guy with the hot hand. I can't adjust telling them to pass up an open shot (they would normally take) in order to get the ball to that other guy.

So while the basic mechanic might be in the game, it doesn't "add" anything at all to me as a player...it doesn't add any complexity or any strategy to the choices I need to make. THAT's my point. That this game as it stands now essentially forces us to spend a lot of time thinking about things *other* than basketball strategy, and almost no time thinking about actual basketball tactics.

Is your opponent's strength his inside game? Then you have one (maybe two) choices for your D. Is his strength his outside game? Then you have one (maybe two) choices for your D. Same thing is true when you have the ball. That's all there is to the "strategy" of this game, at least when it comes to basketball. The entire rest of this game is a simulation of stock-market-like economics of buying, training, & reselling players (and, now, staff--at least the buying part).

Give us more basketball. Please.

The reason why you can't set this is because players will always take the shot they think is best, and whether a player is hot or not is already factored in shot quality. I am sure you're dying to be able to have _more_ ways to tell your players to take inferior shots, but you should just have to go without that.

I am not a fan of micromanagement. I don't want to have to set how tightly player X ties his shoelaces. 'More basketball' can be found by picking up a ball and going to the playground. More detail in an online management game is not necessarily a good thing.

I'm one of those who are against rising importance of financial aspect, and one of those who wants more basketball in basketball manager, but nevertheless, your statement is absolutely true and points in the only right direction...

'More basketball' can be found by picking up a ball and going to the playground

P.S. I know that there are people who aren't able to do that from various reasons, so please don't be offended by my expression

My leg is broken (:D)

Well competition in a highest leagues shouldn't be only about cash ballance. If it is starting to be by this way, it starts wrong

Last edited by Iordanou at 10/14/2008 3:23:15 AM

I totally agree with you.
In critics and in proposals.

In the old system performance went down and the salary remained the same. So essentialy there is no differance there.

I agree that the old system had the flow that you had to wait until a specialist fitting for you show up.
But you really can't say that this system is the same, the new system is way long worst, because now I had to pay to fire the overpayed specialist and to rebuy another, of the same level, at prices that I still see very high.

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Incorrect.

In the old system, I simply replaced the old staff with the new one and paid a severance fee. Now on top of that, I have to pay a big transfer fee. There is a difference, and a big one at that.


JPop encapsulates the sentiments of the community exactly. The explanations by the GMs (Who perhaps feel they are responsible in defending the new changes) are hollow to say the least. Saying you have to go down to the basketball court for more basketball is turning a convenient blind eye to the fact that the game CAN be improved.

You guys find financial management interesting? Ask the developers to come up with WallStreet.org or something similar. I spend my day crunching numbers in a financial institution and believe me, it's no fun.

Minimize the financial aspect of the game. Take it out of the players hands even. Players manage the team and buy players based on a set budget given to them based on the club's previous season performance. Daily debit and credit will be left to the club accountant. Expand more on tactics and player variance.

Listen to us. We are the fans. We are the players. We're not blinbdly taking out the whacking stick on all and sundry, we're giving out views and new ideas and where we would like the game to go. The worse thing you can do now is get the GMs to come and attempt to justify some changes and swim against the current.

Honestly. All this talk about huge transfer fees is rediclous and pre-mature to say the least. Of course the fees are large at the moment (new toy etc) but we cant say how large they will be in the long run at all. I guarentee just a fraction of the ones at the moment and i would definatley say that most of them will be smaller than the previous 1 weeks wages we had to pay.

Patience is a virtue and complaining about the transfer fees after 4 days is severe impatience.

If what you understood about our posts was ranting on staff transfer fees, then I fear you did not get the gist of the argument.

Read the posts again and not the thread title.

Last edited by Sparkle at 10/14/2008 6:02:42 AM

Finances are important, but should not eclipse basketball as the core of the game. The way things are going now, the game is three steps behind hattrick into turning into an economic sports sim instead of a sports sim with economy.

Last edited by Sparkle at 10/14/2008 6:11:43 AM

If what you understood about our posts was ranting on staff transfer fees, then I fear you did not get the gist of the argument.

Read the posts again and not the thread title.

I was refering to this:

In the old system, I simply replaced the old staff with the new one and paid a severance fee. Now on top of that, I have to pay a big transfer fee. There is a difference, and a big one at that.

I understand that this is not all that you are complaining about but that is the bit i tried to comment on.