Warrior General Games

Originally posted by Dpride59
Bort, as you know (having hand delivered me two wl championship rings) do you still deliver rings to wl champion owners or did that change?

Also have you upgraded your helicopter or is it the one you used when I was visiting on your private yacht?

Hope your summer is going well

I send Roger Goodell to do it these days.

Originally posted by jamz
I anxiously await my Legendary Grand Forum Master badge.

Will there continue to be season ending tweaks to the sim engine, after beta? One thing that keeps the game playable is that it's not the same game every season. Without that we might see a further loss of users.

Maybe even rotate 3 versions of the engine randomly between games? S29-S30-S25 etc.

Sim changes would be minimal but we'll always evaluate/fix things that arise as issues/problems.

Originally posted by JackBeQuick

the forums used to be extremely active and now are not. Do you have any ideas to boost activity in the forums? If you would I think that would also keep interest in the game.



Mainly just has to do with numbers of users involved and the 10000000 private forums they are splintered into. We touched on ideas relating to increasing the user base earlier. Not much I can do to decrease private forum usage other than remove them, lol.

Originally posted by Tim26
do you guys plan on adding milestones?

kinda like NBA2k12..

10 tackles a game = 5 BTs...
20 sack,20 int in lifetime = 15 BTs
or something like that...and have a list of all the ones you can get and already got...

will really improve the enjoyment (more for "newer" agents)

"Achievements" are on the list of features to finish.

Originally posted by DiMo28
Do QBs have the ability to see a blitzer and step up in the pocket to avoid the rush? I've seen scramblers move around a bit, but less mobile QBs never do this (that i've seen.)

They can move forward if the rush comes the right way, but usually they tend to get pushed left or right and backward by the pressure. I am not sure stepping forward would help with the speed some of the rushers have, lol. I suppose it could be something to mess with, though. Maybe give them move of a forward vector as a rusher gets closer to even with them on the y-axis or something along those lines?

Originally posted by JCJayhawk
Would it be possible to add a button to the package creator to auto fill in an equal distribution of percentages to each play?

Yes, it would be possible. To the suggestions forum!

Originally posted by Dub J
Have you given any thought to an interactive tutorial? Having "quests" for new users to follow in order to unlock items would go a long way in helping new users once you start advertising and there is an influx imo.

Achievements system (which Bort mentioned) will kind of do that.

K, going to unlock for general discussion now. Don't expect questions to get answered now (but they might be lol). We'll hang out for 20-30 minutes before wrapping this up for the night. Thanks for taking part in the Q & A!

Originally posted by tautology


One followup question:
Do deep zone defenders have any sort of awareness or evaluation of whether a nearby dot is currently "open" or "well-covered?" Or do they just respond to targets that they observe?




Yes, they will gravitate toward receivers that are less well covered, and one who is completely uncovered gets priority over all others (unless there's more than one completely uncovered), except for receivers who are deeper than the defender. A player deeper than the defender and completely uncovered would get max priority for coverage (unless there's two)

Originally posted by Bort
No, there are still plenty of QBs and HBs that cannot or or do not want to find human homes.

I like to think that this simply encourages both bad building and makes the player demand not really mean anything

Originally posted by Bort
I would love to, but I worry about 2 things:

1) 70% of people can't even figure out how to resize an avatar to 75x75 or make something in Photoshop that doesn't look god awful

2) There would be an influx of fields that incorporate breasts or penises.

Therefore, I think the best way to go about it would to be to have a field creator where you'd choose endzone art from a list and the like, but that's quite a bit of work.

You could have an approval Mod. A moderator will approve the picture and allow it to be used. The file will be stored in the database. The mod only has to browse the pictures and check a checkbox with approval and the field can then be used. I think it be pretty simple to code actually. Will be HUGE for this game as running scripts isn't in everyone's interest.

Originally posted by LordEvil
You could have an approval Mod. A moderator will approve the picture and allow it to be used. The file will be stored in the database. The mod only has to browse the pictures and check a checkbox with approval and the field can then be used. I think it be pretty simple to code actually. Will be HUGE for this game as running scripts isn't in everyone's interest.

I was gonna say this as well except it would have to be more than one mod.

Like just let it need moderator approval and it might take a few days (like team name changes but there would be too many for admins)

btw just heard that AlaskanRaven passed away on July 4th.

She was a fun person who loved GLB. Sad to hear that.

Originally posted by Bort
Yes, it would be possible. To the suggestions forum!

But if i go to suggestions I risk the possibility of getting flamed. Its better just to keep this on the down low between you and I

Can there be an added option within the tagging to allow for personnel matchups in the future? allow for tagging within my team to match up tagging done on the opposing team?

speed Rec - speed DB, str Rec - Str DB and etc... give more specific control to coordinators rather than relying on tweaking 'custom slots' and energy settings?