I'm going to honestly try to make this at least a weekly thing. If there isn't a new one posted by June 18th, PM me and bug me about it 
All-in-All, it's been a pretty quiet week or so, as we all wait for the next season to start. Bort & Co. have been busy with all of the uploading and restructuring and all of that kind of stuff and haven't been around much to comment.
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#1 - The Biggest news this week was looking at some of the new design features. You know I'd normally love to go in depth with this kind of stuff, but since it's not really any kind of "competitive edge" type thing, we might as well leave it as a surprise
I can definitely tell you, though, that the new look is pretty awesome and has a lot of neat features built into it. Also, you can see the new homepage now if you go to the test server homepage: http://test.goallineblitz.com
#2 - Talked about how annoying it was for people to win the KR/PR awards with only 5 returns. According to Bort, the numbers will be raised next year to a minimum of 15 KR and 20 PR.
#3 - Talk about possibly beefing up CPU players a little bit. Now that most of the leagues are capped, it would be nice to try to get some of the absolute blowouts under control to make the Awards mean a little more and make the MVP formula work a little better.
#4 - Possibly more changes coming for Big Heart. Not necessarily a nerf, but probably re-thinking it a little bit. Couple of different ideas flying around right now, nothing concrete to really pass along.
#5 - Bort found and fixed the bug where Diving Tackles were no longer showing up in the PBP. They had still been happening all season long, it was just a PBP issure.
#6 - Trying out switching the final TE SA from Lower the Shoulder to Stiff Arm. As it is, LTS only works when you have some momentum built up, which a TE doesn't actually have a chance to do that often, so switching to an SA that isn't momentum based makes a little more sense imo.
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└Some Leagues not updating with week 16 stats - FIXED
└Playoff Away Team Ticket Sales - FIXED
└Players "bouncing" off of sidelines - FIXED
└Blitzers not picking up on handoffs or QB runs (general consensus is that it is failed vision checks)
└Punters all ranked 0 in Conference ST MVP
└Can add the same player multiple times to IN4 depth chart slot
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└Feasibility of adding injuries to the game
└Adding more plays to the Offensive Playbook
└Changing QB Release (related to DEs, obviously)
└Adding timestamps to test game list
└Hang Time as a stat for punters
└A way to share and rank DPC plays
└AI Test link direct from PBP
As always, you can see the actual test games being run here:
http://test.goallineblitz.com/game/game_list.pl
░░░Games Simmed Frame of Reference░░░
♦Game #1179 simmed on 5/30
♦Game #1185 simmed on 6/03
All-in-All, it's been a pretty quiet week or so, as we all wait for the next season to start. Bort & Co. have been busy with all of the uploading and restructuring and all of that kind of stuff and haven't been around much to comment.
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#1 - The Biggest news this week was looking at some of the new design features. You know I'd normally love to go in depth with this kind of stuff, but since it's not really any kind of "competitive edge" type thing, we might as well leave it as a surprise
I can definitely tell you, though, that the new look is pretty awesome and has a lot of neat features built into it. Also, you can see the new homepage now if you go to the test server homepage: http://test.goallineblitz.com#2 - Talked about how annoying it was for people to win the KR/PR awards with only 5 returns. According to Bort, the numbers will be raised next year to a minimum of 15 KR and 20 PR.
#3 - Talk about possibly beefing up CPU players a little bit. Now that most of the leagues are capped, it would be nice to try to get some of the absolute blowouts under control to make the Awards mean a little more and make the MVP formula work a little better.
#4 - Possibly more changes coming for Big Heart. Not necessarily a nerf, but probably re-thinking it a little bit. Couple of different ideas flying around right now, nothing concrete to really pass along.
#5 - Bort found and fixed the bug where Diving Tackles were no longer showing up in the PBP. They had still been happening all season long, it was just a PBP issure.
#6 - Trying out switching the final TE SA from Lower the Shoulder to Stiff Arm. As it is, LTS only works when you have some momentum built up, which a TE doesn't actually have a chance to do that often, so switching to an SA that isn't momentum based makes a little more sense imo.
░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░Small Bugs Being Looked At░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░
└Some Leagues not updating with week 16 stats - FIXED
└Playoff Away Team Ticket Sales - FIXED
└Players "bouncing" off of sidelines - FIXED
└Blitzers not picking up on handoffs or QB runs (general consensus is that it is failed vision checks)
└Punters all ranked 0 in Conference ST MVP
└Can add the same player multiple times to IN4 depth chart slot
░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░Quick Hits - Topics and Suggestions that have been briefly mentioned.░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░
└Feasibility of adding injuries to the game
└Adding more plays to the Offensive Playbook
└Changing QB Release (related to DEs, obviously)
└Adding timestamps to test game list
└Hang Time as a stat for punters
└A way to share and rank DPC plays
└AI Test link direct from PBP
As always, you can see the actual test games being run here:
http://test.goallineblitz.com/game/game_list.pl
░░░Games Simmed Frame of Reference░░░
♦Game #1179 simmed on 5/30
♦Game #1185 simmed on 6/03
.... no mention of the 4WR plays....
