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139299.7 in reply to 139299.6
Date: 4/8/2010 8:43:55 PM
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I definately can see where you are coming from but like i said it does not make sense to say you can be trained in a position if you really didn't even play all the minutes in that particular position. Example is defense. You can have a player trained in ID with the player not having played a single minute of defense at all. Just as long as you start him at C/PF, you can have him defend at another position. I don't see how you can credit a person with ID training when he never played any ID to begin with.

Perhaps the training regime should be changed to accommodate the positions played at defense rather than for offense. i.e for training skills like OD, ID it looks at what position you played at defense rather than what you played at offense.

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139299.8 in reply to 139299.7
Date: 4/8/2010 11:03:59 PM
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I think that would make it confusing for new players. And what about things like one-on-one? Should that be Offence, Defence or both? What about Free Throws? How can a player be trained in free throws if they don't shoot a free throw at all that week in the games? What about rebounding? Would that be both as well? What about if you are playing a zone defence, can you learn Inside defence by putting the player at PF instead of C?

From: Elmacca
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139299.9 in reply to 139299.8
Date: 4/9/2010 7:00:55 PM
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somewhere around these parts there's an exchange between myself and one of the BBs on this subject, where I argued your point about ID should require defending that position and Charles (I think) argued that sometimes what's intuitive needs to be sacrificed on the altar of game design and gameplay and came up with a killer example (which I forget now, sorry) of why he was right. In the end, I think I agreed that suspending the obvious disbelief was indeed better for the game than opting for the purely intuitive because of the argument he made.
Anyway, the point of my post was that you may like to be reassured that we've had this argument and the BBs won. Pity I can't remember why or how, but that's getting what getting old and living too well does for you....

Last edited by Elmacca at 4/9/2010 7:01:54 PM