Posted by mojolad on 6/14/2012 7:25:00 PM (view original):
  I hope to hell Norbert does NOT eliminate the randomness.  I could accept lessening it a bit. But to me it ads spice to party .  The game becomes boring to me if when my team reaches a certain level I know Im gonna always beat the AI teams. ZZZZ  .  At least make me work for it. 
            The old engine when running was king  if you faced an AI team there was no way in Hell the AI was gonna win; now that was a snooze fest.

Posted by mojolad on 6/14/2012 9:44:00 PM (view original):
            Nope. I'm serious.  Flex, if we compared notes on things we liked and things we didn't I'm sure we would agree on some and disagree on others.
            This doesn't  make either of us wrong.
              Well I like the idea that on some days the Wis gods favor that lousy team I'm playing and I will have to do everything right to overcome that handicap. And some times I (we all) won't be able to.  
                

I would rather have the months I spent building a team count for much more than the near zero time and effort spent by SIM AI.  Same thing with human coaches who don't put in the time and effort.  

There's nothing worse to me in this game than spending 4+ months to get my team to where I want only to have them lose to a team that has obviously not put in the same effort.

Posted by bhouska on 6/15/2012 8:43:00 AM (view original):

I would rather have the months I spent building a team count for much more than the near zero time and effort spent by SIM AI.  Same thing with human coaches who don't put in the time and effort.  

There's nothing worse to me in this game than spending 4+ months to get my team to where I want only to have them lose to a team that has obviously not put in the same effort.

+1

Posted by harriswb3 on 6/15/2012 7:33:00 AM (view original):
I think I would be satisfied with two things:

1.  Run my gameplan:  When I want VA running...that is what I want...as mentioned above...its absolutely true that the engine is not giving me the % that is advertised.  If I want to run wide...not up the middle...EVER, then the engine should give me that....not the 40% (which is pretty accurate) up the middle runs.

2.  Give me a enough info in the PBP (or perhaps a "halftime summary") that will help me understand why my Senior QB throws more picks in 1H than in the entire season up till that point, or why my stellar DBs are getting burned for big gains on passing plays, etc, etc, etc.

Posted by stingray002 on 6/15/2012 10:21:00 AM (view original):
The disparity from half to half, especially againsts SIMs, is really mind boggling sometimes.  I've outscored SIMs 35-0 in the 1st half, only to be outscored by the SIMs in the 2nd half with no gameplan change.  Really makes no sense.

Posted by slid64er on 6/15/2012 11:55:00 AM (view original):
Once I've had a full roster of my own recruits, I don't think I've ever lost to a SIM, new engine or old.  My complaint is more about inferior teams being competitive due to whatever equalization is employed despite a lack of talent, lack of depth, poor gameplanning, low formation IQ, etc.  As it stands, you can't win consistently because you don't know what drives gameplay results.

Posted by coach_billyb on 6/15/2012 11:01:00 AM (view original):
"If your team was much better than another team, you usually won, and if you didn't, you'd know why.  Now, it's honestly a coin-flip sometimes.  And that's not fun.  It might be fun to the bad coaches who don't really know what the F they're doing, but it's not fun for the experienced coach."

I see a lot of this kind of talk, and to be honest simply don't get it. In 2 worlds and 20+ seasons of GD I have lost 2 times to SIMS. Twice. And to be 100% honest I can blame both of those losses on myself. Like mojolad said in the beginning of this post I overlooked both SIMS, didn't game plan at all and paid the price. A lot of the "Old Timers" make comments about the coaches that don't know what they're doing are okay with things the way they are, but not the "experienced" coaches. To the coaches that are making these comments, if you're so good and others aren't, why are you getting beat by SIMS...and the others aren't? Have you even considered the fact that your inability to change with the game may be the reason you're getting your tail handed to you by lessor teams? And if the SIMS are doing this to you, I can only imagine how miserable the "newbie" coaches that know how to game plan are making your life! (LOL)