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ADG Convenience Feature Added:
We felt playbooks were still a little too complicated for GLB2, so we have simplified the defensive playbook into a "Run ADG?" checkbox. We think this will save a lot of DC's some time and headache fine tuning their schemes.
HoF converted into All Star List for Season 1 Dots only:
We still feel like the current Hall of Fame is not yet far enough removed from an actual Hall of Fame, so we've decided to delete players who were not created on Season 1 Day 1 from the listing. Since we already give benefits to teams who start in higher leagues perpetually (and thus play teams with advantages toward their global ladder rank due to SP difference) making it near impossible for anyone but the most exceptional "latecomers" to compete - it seems easier to balance around what the list was meant to do. Make Season 1 players feel good about themselves.
Positional Penalty:
We currently feel like there is a little too much choice in the creation of teams that is skewing the game in a direction we don't like. We have implemented a penalty to your chemistry if you do not carry the recommended number of players at a given position, or a 43 player roster. This should provide a more stable and predictable GLB2 experience that will be fun for everyone.
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We felt playbooks were still a little too complicated for GLB2, so we have simplified the defensive playbook into a "Run ADG?" checkbox. We think this will save a lot of DC's some time and headache fine tuning their schemes.
HoF converted into All Star List for Season 1 Dots only:
We still feel like the current Hall of Fame is not yet far enough removed from an actual Hall of Fame, so we've decided to delete players who were not created on Season 1 Day 1 from the listing. Since we already give benefits to teams who start in higher leagues perpetually (and thus play teams with advantages toward their global ladder rank due to SP difference) making it near impossible for anyone but the most exceptional "latecomers" to compete - it seems easier to balance around what the list was meant to do. Make Season 1 players feel good about themselves.
Positional Penalty:
We currently feel like there is a little too much choice in the creation of teams that is skewing the game in a direction we don't like. We have implemented a penalty to your chemistry if you do not carry the recommended number of players at a given position, or a 43 player roster. This should provide a more stable and predictable GLB2 experience that will be fun for everyone.
What did I win?
Edited by Laggo on Mar 10, 2014 20:09:00
E-A-G-L-E-S
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Make blitzing rigged again, why's it only op in rookie?? Op every season I say!!
Edited by E-A-G-L-E-S on Mar 10, 2014 20:14:22
Originally posted by E-A-G-L-E-S
Make blitzing rigged again, why's it only op in rookie?? Op every season I say!!
Because ppl saw what it could do in S1, and then they built super blitzers...
And the ppl who got sacked 20 times a game in S1 respecd and stacked their OLine with pass block skills.
Make blitzing rigged again, why's it only op in rookie?? Op every season I say!!
Because ppl saw what it could do in S1, and then they built super blitzers...
And the ppl who got sacked 20 times a game in S1 respecd and stacked their OLine with pass block skills.
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Originally posted by Laggo
HoF converted into All Star List for Season 1 Dots only:
We still feel like the current Hall of Fame is not yet far enough removed from an actual Hall of Fame, so we've decided to delete players who were not created on Season 1 Day 1 from the listing. Since we already give benefits to teams who start in higher leagues perpetually (and thus play teams with advantages toward their global ladder rank due to SP difference) making it near impossible for anyone but the most exceptional "latecomers" to compete - it seems easier to balance around what the list was meant to do. Make Season 1 players feel good about themselves.
[In real life] Halls of Fame are for the players with the highest all-time stats. Of course this means that it is, except for in the most exceptional cases, restricted to the players who played for a long time. Because of the way this was implemented, that means Season 1 players have a temporary advantage, because, of course, they've been playing longer than anyone else. This is natural, and even if it goes unchanged it will balance out.
Now, my suggestion of course would have been to implement it in a way such that it only considers retired players for induction into the HoF... but that would be crazy, right?
HoF converted into All Star List for Season 1 Dots only:
We still feel like the current Hall of Fame is not yet far enough removed from an actual Hall of Fame, so we've decided to delete players who were not created on Season 1 Day 1 from the listing. Since we already give benefits to teams who start in higher leagues perpetually (and thus play teams with advantages toward their global ladder rank due to SP difference) making it near impossible for anyone but the most exceptional "latecomers" to compete - it seems easier to balance around what the list was meant to do. Make Season 1 players feel good about themselves.
[In real life] Halls of Fame are for the players with the highest all-time stats. Of course this means that it is, except for in the most exceptional cases, restricted to the players who played for a long time. Because of the way this was implemented, that means Season 1 players have a temporary advantage, because, of course, they've been playing longer than anyone else. This is natural, and even if it goes unchanged it will balance out.
Now, my suggestion of course would have been to implement it in a way such that it only considers retired players for induction into the HoF... but that would be crazy, right?
Laggo
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I made the same suggestion.
And the problem here is that the "temporary advantage" you speak of is essentially permanent because the list uses the global ranking of the team you are playing against (not in comparison to yourself) which gives the earlier created teams a perpetual advantage as the teams they play in their own league and ladder games are artificially pushed higher up the global ladder due to SP advantage.
TLDR, Season 1 Dots will always on average play "better competition" than Season 2 or Season 3 players and thus they will always be pushed to the top of an overall list in the current system.
But I've talked about that forever too.
And the problem here is that the "temporary advantage" you speak of is essentially permanent because the list uses the global ranking of the team you are playing against (not in comparison to yourself) which gives the earlier created teams a perpetual advantage as the teams they play in their own league and ladder games are artificially pushed higher up the global ladder due to SP advantage.
TLDR, Season 1 Dots will always on average play "better competition" than Season 2 or Season 3 players and thus they will always be pushed to the top of an overall list in the current system.
But I've talked about that forever too.
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Until the S1 dots retire... and the S2 and S3 dots catch up to them...
Thus, temporary.
Thus, temporary.
Originally posted by moghedan
Until the S1 dots retire... and the S2 and S3 dots catch up to them...
Thus, temporary.
no, s1 will forever be on top due to the inequality of s1:s2
Until the S1 dots retire... and the S2 and S3 dots catch up to them...
Thus, temporary.
no, s1 will forever be on top due to the inequality of s1:s2
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Originally posted by Jampy2.0
no, s1 will forever be on top due to the inequality of s1:s2
This will easily be balanced out by players getting more productive as people figure out optimal builds and strategies. Look at the difference between rookie this season and rookie last season. They're barely comparable.
no, s1 will forever be on top due to the inequality of s1:s2
This will easily be balanced out by players getting more productive as people figure out optimal builds and strategies. Look at the difference between rookie this season and rookie last season. They're barely comparable.
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That's moot when you have to be 3x or 4x as productive to match the advantages playing teams with a higher global ladder rank in your league gives you.
Not to mention playing up SP really sucks still if you have any idea what you're doing, yet is still equivalent to basically a run-of-the-mill league game for a Sophomore team.
The problem gets worse (and by worse we mean pretty much impossible) once you get more than 1 gap removed from the top since the ladder ranks of the teams in your league will be way too low.
I didn't intend to hijack this thread with this topic though, I just still don't get it.
If the HoF was a real HoF it wouldn't matter because the career experience would more or less average out eventually, but if you're going to do it as basically an All Star list for the entire game then why artificially pump day 1 players to the top?
Not to mention playing up SP really sucks still if you have any idea what you're doing, yet is still equivalent to basically a run-of-the-mill league game for a Sophomore team.
The problem gets worse (and by worse we mean pretty much impossible) once you get more than 1 gap removed from the top since the ladder ranks of the teams in your league will be way too low.
I didn't intend to hijack this thread with this topic though, I just still don't get it.
If the HoF was a real HoF it wouldn't matter because the career experience would more or less average out eventually, but if you're going to do it as basically an All Star list for the entire game then why artificially pump day 1 players to the top?
Edited by Laggo on Mar 10, 2014 23:47:22
Edited by Laggo on Mar 10, 2014 23:42:04
Originally posted by Jampy2.0
no, s1 will forever be on top due to the inequality of s1:s2
You have a really weird definition of forever.
But yes, the first season of players will likely be the best in the game until they aren't.
no, s1 will forever be on top due to the inequality of s1:s2
You have a really weird definition of forever.
But yes, the first season of players will likely be the best in the game until they aren't.
Originally posted by Laggo
I didn't intend to hijack this thread with this topic though, I just still don't get it.
I don't know why you STILL don't get it.
Putting up a bunch of passing yards against teams ranked below 150-200 in the ladder doesn't mean you have the best player in the game.
If he was better than all of the other QBs in the game, he should have played on one of the better sophomore teams.
I didn't intend to hijack this thread with this topic though, I just still don't get it.
I don't know why you STILL don't get it.
Putting up a bunch of passing yards against teams ranked below 150-200 in the ladder doesn't mean you have the best player in the game.
If he was better than all of the other QBs in the game, he should have played on one of the better sophomore teams.
Edited by Corndog on Mar 11, 2014 00:18:45
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