Warrior General Games

Originally posted by IdRatherFlyFish
Elaborate?

Waiting on Bort to answer this ?

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)

Originally posted by Dr. Showtime
To expand on #2: Is there any chance of adding team custom fields to the game? Like without using a script?



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.

What would the sim look like if the random factor was reduced to 0? Would that help or hurt testing the impact of things like SAs/VAs?

Originally posted by Catch22
I think the sim's been pretty good this season. Last season not so much. Also the amount of complaints are way down in comparison to last season, so we're making progress.
Absolutely. Thanks for all the work, Bort.

Originally posted by Mike Rogers
Why not a limited preset system like the 2pt conversion check boxes? Would seem to be the best compromise, as most users prefer that system to say the way Time Outs work.

Probably would be what we would do if we implemented. Would probably be much more limited than 2 point conversions. Would probably only be a trailing late <5 minute thing. I don't see us allowing it any other quarter but the 4th.

Originally posted by CyberNinja
Bort are you really an overweight guy that has a fascination with yellow balloons

LOL, no. I like blue balloons.

Originally posted by geekor
Do you ever plan to contract the Pro leagues to help with the watered down talent and make things more competitive?

Touched on previously.

OK going to lock so we can answer the remaining questions. When unlocked, will be general chat/discussion time.

Originally posted by CyberNinja
Bort

will you retract cpu teams.
Stop allowing people to sell teams during the season
reorder the leagues more then once a preseason/ offseason



CPU teams are added as needed to fill holes. There's no way to contract that.

People are going to abandon teams when they want whether they can sell them or not, so we might as well let them.

The leagues get ordered once and support deals with additional requests after that. That's how it will stay.

Originally posted by yello1
True Catch, +1 to that. But the gap from top to bottom within an age level as to boosted reasonably built dots is still too high. On any given Sunday is simply not in effect in GLB and it should be for maximum customer satisfaction.

Any thoughts to expanding the tightening of the range of performance between the low end of reasonable stats and the mathematical high end? As was done with speed if I gathered correctly? Do that with strength and agility and vision etc as well? Should not be possible to have a girl scout on the field with godzilla, it spawns silly results and a boring sim. IMO.

It's fairly impossible for there to be an Any Given Sunday type thing between unevenly matched teams in GLB. I also don't think we want to limit things the players can do. We tried that (see last season) and the results were fairly miserable.

Originally posted by Dub J
Any plans to scrap higher level D-leagues? The teams and players are already spread too thin.



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

Originally posted by aaasahi
Can you rewrite some description for SA?
There are some SA only apply to some position and some SA could apply to all position, but their description will make player confused.
Like break through, it says "this skill is important for powerful run stopping DT", but it should apply to DE, too.
Like tunnel vision, it says "This skill is important for DEs who rush the passer a lot. They will be harder to stop once they are locked in.", but we know LB could use this, too.


Probably something we can work on in the future. I'll have to go through all the SA's and see how they could be cleaned up.

Originally posted by We_Rule
Progress is a colossal understatement........ well done IMO across the board.

Is there ever going to be anything added, even if completely inconsequential to the actual game on the field, to do with player cash? Even if some things were added that were just funny and fun, it would add another aspect to the game to keep people involved other than the forums and just logging in, training, and forgetting GLB until tomorrow.

It's hard to think of something we could add to make player cash meaningful other than "bling" type items. Tying them to in game performance (as we learned early on) just leads to exploits. I always though we could have like a GLB Casino that people could use their cash with so maybe I'll get Bort to work on that since he has nothing else to do lol.

Originally posted by DiMo28
Any thoughts on programming to stop blocking from behind (clipping) and plays where it appears that defenders run through the receiver to make the deflection? Or even some plays where is appears that eligible receivers start blocking before the target receiver has possession of the ball (screens)?

Is there any consideration of football rules in regards to issues like these in the programming of the game?

Eligible receivers literally cannot block beyond the line on screens before the ball is in the air (that's the rule).

Defenders are allowed to go through receivers for balance and convenience reasons more than anything.

Blocking from behind is sorta odd to deal with, since dots in GLB don't have a front or back per-se. The best we can do is base it on the angle they are moving towards or the angle to the ball carrier. Based on those rules, blocks in the back don't happen, though they may look like it to our eyes. The only way to improve those aspects would be to add a facing direction to the players, and that's a whole other ball of wax.

Originally posted by aaasahi
Do we have the chance to make AEQ could reset attribute bonus like BEQ?
In this game building plan is all for AEQ, but once we addressed the attribute bonus we can't change it, even there comes some sim update.(i.e.: you make blocking much impact on hold blocking roll)

No plans on changing that. How you use your AEQ needs to be something you think long and hard about.