Just a heads up, there will be an HD Develop Chat this Thursday, July 2nd from 1-2 pm ET. Feel free to go ahead and submit questions by going here. Time permitting I'll try to answer some ahead of time as well.

Is there a topic for the chat, are you rolling out a new version, or will it cover any and all questions?

it will cover all questions except mine..

Any questions.

seble any chance to give us some contril over inelgibles taking there test?

I'm not sure what you mean.

for instance i just signed an inelgible who had a 2.7 gpa i feel he could of passed but never took the test during recruiting any chance of ever adding to the recruiting options say for example for $10 or $20 have him take the test to see if he can pass. or maybe rather than it being random just have every single inelgible take there test ever nite during recruiting

whoa nellie! can I pay $10 to have my ineligible NOT take the test - not everyone wants their ineligibles to take and pass those durn tests

well when he is a 5 star 713 rated big guy.. i really needed him to pass it..

Seble - Thanks for extending the chat. That means a lot to the user base! It's very much appreciated.

Of course. Sorry I didn't have more details to share, but we're still early in the process for this release. I'll try to schedule a regular chat every few weeks while we're working on it, but if I slack on that let me know.

Has there ever been a discussion about, "adding defensive matchups"? For example, if your SG is an excellent defender and your opponent's PG is there best player, will there ever be a way to put the SG on the PG without moving his offensive position? The SG may be a terrible ball handler and would be a disaster playing PG.

We talked about that just today. We may add a feature similar to what's in NBA SimLeagues where you can set the positions that each player on your team is allowed to defend. Then the SimEngine would optimize the matchups based on those settings and the quality of the defenders and offensive players.

So if you had your PG and SG both allowed to defend PG and SG, it would put your best defender of the two on the opponent's best offensive player.

That system accomplishes the goal of defensive matchups without a bunch of cumbersome settings.

Quote: Originally posted by seble on 7/02/2009We talked about that just today. We may add a feature similar to what's in NBA SimLeagues where you can set the positions that each player on your team is allowed to defend. Then the SimEngine would optimize the matchups based on those settings and the quality of the defenders and offensive players.

So if you had your PG and SG both allowed to defend PG and SG, it would put your best defender of the two on the opponent's best offensive player.

That system accomplishes the goal of defensive matchups without a bunch of cumbersome settings.

I would still rather control it myself but this is better than nothing. How would this system deal with foul trouble? If my sg is my best player on both sides of the ball I don't want him to pick up a couple cheap fouls and just sit the rest of the day. Would the sg move back to the weaker offesive player if he's in foul trouble?