Warrior General Games

So I've been reading about slow building. Where you don't put any Skill Points and use daily training to get your skills up first, i was wondering is it worth it? I just made a new SS and wondered if it would be a good idea. I really don't care if he is any good in the beginning but further down the road. So my question is how much of a difference does it make?

Depending on if you do it the right way, you can save yourself spending a good bit of SP. If I ever have full control over building my own player from scratch again, I will slow build.

http://goallineblitz.com/game/forum_thread.pl?thread_id=561029

I made a chart on page 4. Up to a certain point, it is effective.

I was thinking of only doing it until i hit level 8 in d-leagues.

Thats what im doing. Its not like stats in the D league are even important.

Originally posted by All Day28
Thats what im doing. Its not like stats in the D league are even important.

Exactly

Slow building is ridiculously dumb.

Smart players leave one stat low so they can train it while using SP in other stats. By "Slow Building" your player, you get maybe 3 extra points in a skill while having an utterly terrible player for your first 2 seasons or so.

Originally posted by Laggo
Slow building is ridiculously dumb.

Smart players leave one stat low so they can train it while using SP in other stats. By "Slow Building" your player, you get maybe 3 extra points in a skill while having an utterly terrible player for your first 2 seasons or so.

So if a team that have been together since Day 1 Season 1 are all slowbuilding a replacement for their players now, to avoid the headache of recruitment, retirement etc thats also ridiculously dumb?


Slow building has nothing to do with having fun in the first 3 to 5 seasons for anyone.

But to slow build your only player is dumb, I'll aggree with that.

Also I think Slow build is too general a term, some will hoard all their SP to get the most total sp, some will just spend when they know it will make one Attribute hit the Soft cap for the extra pay out that brings.

Some people slow build for 8 games, some for 16 others for 5 seasons.

It is just something which can be done, nothing wrong, dumb or even that intelligent about it.

By "slow building" I am referring to people hoarding their SP's on the notion that they can train all their low-rolled skills to a decent amount and then pour the SP's in at a later date (usually a full season).

Which is ridiculously dumb because your missing over a season of games to tweak your player for about 3 extra skills.

If a season 1 team wants to make replacements for their team now thats fine, just make them properly instead of all this dumb "slow building" nonsense LOL.

^ Perhaps we should call that "Stupid Building".

Maybe we need a new type of building called "Smart Building" which is an effort to build the best player through intelligent daily training and judicious use of skill points when they will have their maximum effect.

"Stupid Building" is what everybody is referring to when they say "Slow Building", which is why I say it's dumb.

"Smart Building" is what me and alot of other agents do naturally, and what I assumed to be common sense.

Building should be part reaction too. I know for my wideout when I struggled early on I didn't have an idea to go straight on with one particular skill. Each week I looked to see what I was doing poorly and how I could improve it.
Unless you claim to know the perfect build, slow building seems pointless.

^ not really. There are at least two keys skills for each position that you want to get very high.

Sure, you can argue about the importance catching vs. vision vs. confidence for a WR, but no one is going to say you should build a slow and clumsy WR. Speed and Agility are a definite must.

Ditto for any position on the o-line. You need blocking and strength. power back/fb? strength. etc...

Everyone can benefit by doing this because everyone needs something they are good at.

Balanced builds do nothing but kill a players potential. Sure, you can build a balanced WR once you've guaranteed he's gonna be fast enough. There are no possession WR's that run a 5.0 in the NFL because they aren't fast enough. However, there are plenty that will run a 4.7 instead of a 4.4/4.5.

Ive heard it's incredibly worthless. and anyone who does it is a moron. Smart builders use the points they have to max one skill. You can train it later, once you get all of yur other skills high enough to be good. probably raound lvl 10.

Besides, the D league domination of smart players who use their points at the beginning over slow built players is pretty awesome. So they better get used 2 it! B/C it'll be coming for more seasons than just the D laeges1! I will crush people now and in the pros!1

It actually allows you to get a pretty good advantage. Im kinda slow building my FS and Im going to train speed till I have enough to cap it then train agility till i have enough to cap it.

How I figure I will have speed, agility, and vision soft capped by level 12. After that I will balance out my player. I should gain about 5 SP on the main skills compared to players of my same lvl.