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superstars cap at about 200k

As with pretty much everything in the game engine, blocks involve a comparison between offensive and defensive skills. In this case, the most important offensive skills are the manner in which the shot is created and the skills at creating and taking that shot and the most important defensive skill is, not surprisingly, shot blocking. The vast majority of players who get playing time in the BuzzerBeater world have been trained much higher at scoring than they have been at shot blocking. Therefore, it is typically an uneven contest between shooter and shot blocker, with the shooter usually winning.

I think there are two pieces of confusion here.

First off, you talked about the Dwight Howard we created for simulating NBA games. Remember, it's a comparison of skills and his skills are being compared to other players in the same ratings set. More in this in a few months, but I can't say anything further now.

The second basically relates to something that I've been pushing to change for quite a while now and haven't been successful yet because it involves a bunch of retranslations; basically, one of the things that shot blockers do is to alter shots (meaning they are much less likely to go in), and these are noticeable events in the match viewer currently tagged as something else. I don't like making these sorts of announcements in private forums, so I'll again break things off here, except to say that I'm making another push to get these updates made to the viewer tags, so like the previous one, stay tuned.

Sorry I can't say much more - it's a private forum and that's a really bad place to be talking about future dev work.

but heres the words of GM Rip from the buzzerbeater FAQ
"Potential acts as a cap on training. Different potential levels cap out at different skill levels. So an MVP can be trained longer than an Allstar potential player. There is a rough salary estimate corresponding to the cap for each potential level. Once the skill set of a player reaches a particular point (The soft cap) that is equal to the potential level of the player, training really slows down and it becomes ineffective to train the player anymore.

0 Announcer: < 6k
1 Bench warmer: < 8k
2 Role player: < 13k
3 6th man: 15-18k
4 Starter: 20-30k
5 Star: 35-50k
6 AllStar: 60-80k
7 Perennial allstar: 95-140k
8 Superstar: 140-220k
9 MVP: 215-315k
10 Hall of famer: 500k+
11 All time great: 1M+"
so acording to this a superstar should go upto 200k.....