@ Rogelio
I agree that there are many suggestions that wouldn't take with the majority, but in the one thing you list as something a majority agree in, there has been nothing done by staff to further the implementation or acknowledge it at least of my knowledge.
About Athleticism. I don't have a fairly strong point but I'll add to the conversation. Look at some of OSU's past players. Craft and Sullinger. Craft was of average ath/spd but had extremely high IQ, def, bh skills that allowed him to be a great PG, Sullinger was not an athletic freak(he was above average, or good) but had extremely developed low post and perimeter skills for someone his age. As well as a great IQ allowing him while undersized, and less athletic to be such an offensive force and do good enough on the defensive side of the ball.
Also quickly I could probably think of a handful of ideas that aren't major in changing aspects of the game, and a good amount of people might agree on:
- Notifcation of sitemail in the game so you don't have to check the forums.
- When a new player signs up have a pop-up leading them to a guide or just the help page, and not "require" them to go in depth but at least lead them to it, as you see a lot of players having no idea what works in this game and teams with players of 20 ath 10 def but just high we/dur. A lot of new players never learn the game because they don't take the initiative to learn how to, but also because HD doesn't make a bigger effort to help them learn the game.
- More player generated pictures,(hair styles have changed)
- A page that lists # NC by player/School in each world and then overall and add in a best team/conf RPI, so its not up to coaches to manually keep track and potentially miss records.
- Allowing to choose what traits to scout a player
- Fixing recruiting messages, if I send 2 hv and a scholly and he replies with "can't wait to sign and then I check and he's considering 2 other schools and not me" it obviously means hes not ready to sign. The messages from recruits should be updated a bit better to actually mean something.
A big problem(very generalized) is that they're 2 types of players, those who just want an online basketball game, and then those who want a realistic basketball game. This hurts the players wanting the most realistic basketball game mainly because they're no other basketball games like HD sports and if there is they are nowhere near as good, HD is still miles ahead of any game similar.
Problems that arise from this:
- Hiring and Firing, because HD doesn't want to fire a coach whose at their dream school because they suck. Because most likely they would stop playing if they couldn't coach their dream school/alma mater
- Conf realignment, those non-hardcore sim players don't care and would be upset by the chaos realignment would cause. Hurting those wanting an up to date experience and also fans/graduates of schools like VCU/FGCU/Butler
- Freshmen coming in with a little higher IQ, in D1 you see a lot of freshmen leading teams or at least play a bigger part than whats possible with HD.
I then could think of plenty of other things that could be changed but would cause too much chaos:
- addition of new philosophies/update of current. (heck the majority of nba teams don't run a triangle)
- IQ becoming a number based skill(not everyone can reach A+ in real life)->IQ becomes a bigger factor
- disallowing sim teams to have superclass-> this also is hurting active conferences, noone wants to take on a team with 10 freshmen or sophmores it would be a minimum 5/6 season rebuild. So you have these conferences with 1/2 players because the other conf with 8 players has 4 sim teams that are gigantic messes. and in real life teams don't do good every 4 years. the bad teams stay bad they don't have 1 average year like sim-super classes do. they just suck every year. We shouldn't see a team go 1-25 : 8-18 : 14-12 : 22-4 just because of a super class generally a 1-26 team stays bad and a 14-12 team stays average until a new coach comes along.
- Create "real" non-conf tournaments, and add it to notes "Malibu non-conf tourney champ"
- allow coaches to list rival coaches/schools(both coaches must accept rivalry) and then keep a record.
Granted I probably just wrote a huge wall of useless text, but its okay. I still love HD and spend way to much time playing.
1/27/2015 8:55 PM (edited)