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From: BB-Marin

To: Siwy
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267318.19 in reply to 267318.17
Date: 1/28/2015 11:09:32 AM
TrenseRI
III.2
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ChiLeaders
Do you think that defensive strategies are balanced enough? Many top teams uses MtM all the time, and ever the zone defensiive tactics (3-2 and 2-3) are uncommon in the most important matches. Many strategies (1-3-1, box and one, pressing) are not helpful anywhere. Are there any chances to change that? If yes, how?
We already changed it a bit, but users haven't noticed yet. We are tweaking the game engine little by little, because we don't want to make anything too strong on the other end (remember when everyone was using R&G and Pressing?). I guess this makes us a bit overly careful and seemingly slow but we prefer not to make any game breaking changes. Of course, we cannot reveal the details of these changes for the same reason. It takes time, knowledge and patience to achieve balance.

Why do so many managers use MtM? Because it is a sure shot. A good GDP guess combined with the right zone can be a much more powerful combination, if guessed right, but it carries a risk. In the end, it all depends on how much you can trust your research and how much you are willing to bet.

From: _Az_

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267318.20 in reply to 267318.19
Date: 1/28/2015 12:44:47 PM
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Hello Marin,

When I was searching a top french player, I was competing against team which had a balance of +10, +20 and +50M in their transfert list. Once they recruit a top player at a decent price, they put him in the trade market again until they find someone ready to pay +20-50% of the price they brought it.

So I'm curious to know what your think about it. Will you take care of this or you consider it's acceptable ?

Edit :
Is there plan to add an official position to NT staff ? And give them some "power" too. At least an assistant or someone of sort.

Last edited by _Az_ at 1/28/2015 12:47:59 PM

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267318.21 in reply to 267318.20
Date: 1/28/2015 12:52:16 PM
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Hello Mr Marin, and hats off for what you created.

I have a couple of questions or comments:
- it's quite frustrating, when your team operates in a country with a large user base, to have to be at the very top in order to do any meaningful international games. Have you, or would you consider a lower level type of BBB league ? Say one for D2, one for D3, etc ?
- how did you settle on the game engine of BB come about ? Was it more from enjoying basketball and did you have originally a style of play you wanted to promote, or is it all based on finding programing solutions that would make the end result balanced ?
- last thing, did anything player do surprise you and can you give examples ?
- well, maybe something else: dolphin on my iOS phone has never let me access live games. Could you have a tech page set up to explain how that would work ?

Last edited by phislammajamma at 1/28/2015 12:55:35 PM

From: minde

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267318.22 in reply to 267318.18
Date: 1/28/2015 1:04:52 PM
No Good News
II.1
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Second Team:
Backyard Brawlers
Are these open threes long threes? Are they contested but just not reported as such?

No, my team is generating all kinds of assisted threes, and long three pointers are rare.. So, play-by-play isn't always strictly reporting if the shot was open or not? If so, then I guess I can throw my analysis out.. Ok then, nice to know, that at least little steps are made in GE to balance the game..

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267318.23 in reply to 267318.22
Date: 1/28/2015 1:48:13 PM
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Would you ever add another NT age group, like U24 or U25?
If so, any plans for when?
If not, what are the main reasons why not?


Last edited by Elmacca at 1/28/2015 1:48:51 PM

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267318.24 in reply to 267318.23
Date: 1/28/2015 1:51:12 PM
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How far away from the basket does the GE look up JS rather than IS? Does it ever look up both? When?

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267318.25 in reply to 267318.24
Date: 1/28/2015 1:53:32 PM
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Tell us something we don't know about help defence calculations (please). Is SB the only skill checked?

I'm on a phone on a train, with signal in and out, which is why I'm writing multiple posts. Apologies for that.

Last edited by Elmacca at 1/28/2015 1:54:41 PM

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267318.26 in reply to 267318.1
Date: 1/28/2015 1:57:06 PM
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When will we have all the substitution patterns working well? Huge effort to destroy blank lineup, but we don't see any to fix the broken ones.

From: BB-Marin

To: _Az_
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267318.27 in reply to 267318.20
Date: 1/28/2015 2:06:15 PM
TrenseRI
III.2
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Second Team:
ChiLeaders
When I was searching a top french player, I was competing against team which had a balance of +10, +20 and +50M in their transfert list. Once they recruit a top player at a decent price, they put him in the trade market again until they find someone ready to pay +20-50% of the price they brought it.

So I'm curious to know what your think about it. Will you take care of this or you consider it's acceptable ?
What is actually wrong here? Any team has the right to buy and sell players. Is it OK if they profit? Yes, if it's not daytrading. Especially if they receive additional training. Maybe I missed your point here, please explain if I did.


Is there plan to add an official position to NT staff ? And give them some "power" too. At least an assistant or someone of sort.
No, sorry.

1. - it's quite frustrating, when your team operates in a country with a large user base, to have to be at the very top in order to do any meaningful international games. Have you, or would you consider a lower level type of BBB league ? Say one for D2, one for D3, etc ?
2. - how did you settle on the game engine of BB come about ? Was it more from enjoying basketball and did you have originally a style of play you wanted to promote, or is it all based on finding programing solutions that would make the end result balanced ?
3. - last thing, did anything player do surprise you and can you give examples ?
4. - well, maybe something else: dolphin on my iOS phone has never let me access live games. Could you have a tech page set up to explain how that would work ?
1. No, we haven't considered it.
2. I'm not sure I understand the question, but I'll try and give an answer. I guess the programming solutions are based on some statistical numbers we are trying to achieve (in order to make a better copy of the real life basketball game), but sometimes we just want to do something fun and exciting and do that. There's no rule.
3. Yes, and no. It would take too much time
4. We found that it works nicely on Android so I figured that it must work on iOS too. I remember, though, some users reporting other browsers with flash support working on iOS, but I cannot recall which exactly. Maybe someone will chime in and help us. Once they do, I'll add that to the list of them on the bugs page. I have opened a thread there (267338.1) where we can then discuss the good and bad experiences on these OS-es and devices.

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267318.29 in reply to 267318.23
Date: 1/28/2015 2:10:54 PM
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@Elmacca: I have the same question as you and we both created a thread about it in the past. I would also like to hear what BB-Marin about this issue.

Another one: this season you implemented the BLU prevention code, which was the best way to create a good rotation between your players during a game, and I think it was one of the things that were really cool when you were watching the live game and the coach was doing a lot of substitutions as you can see in real life basketball game, instead of only switch the inicial 5 for the backup 5. The question is: are there any plans to implement a new sub system that would allow a better rotation of the team in important games??

Ps: I deleted my last message because I addressed it to Elmacca instead of BB-Marin.

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