Posted by texashick on 3/27/2024 9:53:00 AM (view original):
I give CS credit for trying but none of these options excite me. It seems like any hope of serious updates to the code are dead. The two around the edges updates Ive always pushed for to help D1 are:
1. Introduce the firing plan at D1
?2. Make promises be honored after the first season
The first one is needed to get more churn at the top schools. We hashed out a plan that really made sense and then it was scraped. I know that was a revenue protection thought, but I think if more people had access to high prestige teams, it would actually help world populations.
The second is necessary because all of the A+ teams offer minutes and starts to every player and then bench them in the tournament and then in future seasons. Its a talent hording strategy that could be easily negated.
I did select inject more RS2 talent because swapping jobs or picking up is a complete chore at the moment.
However, the actual top 3 for me.
1. Implement firing as previously discussed. Get bad coaches out of good jobs. It was already promised and details ironed out WITH the community.
2. Remove injuries. They can affect promises and. affect postseason important games. And there’s a less than like 1-2% chance they happen so it’s 1. Not worth planning for (and depth/stamina is such an important aspect of the game/for each set) 2. it’s not like I have an injury but they have an injury too, it’s almost always just the coach with the injured player is handicapped. Durability also isn’t worth recruiting for.. 3. Current recruiting pool isn’t built to deal with injuries EVEN if the coach tried to do so.
3. Like texashick said, promises are silly and new coaches don’t realize how abused they are. If injuries are in the game to keep it realistic, make promises the same. I don’t know about 2-4 year promises (this was a commonly brought up suggestion years ago) but being a 1 seed and facing an 8 seeded UNC who is now starting their REAL lineup is completely defeating.
The community, at large, is playing this game with the understanding it’ll be difficult to get updates. They’re mostly okay with updates taking time. Let’s get 1 good update down the road instead of a forced update just for the sake of updating.