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Where I differ with you, perhaps, is the notion that things must be ever changing in order to keep people interesting.

I am not asking for an ever changing game. Leaks need to be plugged so the fun factor remains high or at least the events that frustrate the people playing this game should be removed.

I had a player that shot 50% behind the arc, 40% 2 pointers and 10% FTs - thats simply stupid and frustrating, the justifications for such players were even dumber. There are simple solutions to solve that issue and now we get cross-training, nobody asked for it and nobody knows what it will do. Why do we even have a suggestions forum then? Seems to me that this is the garbage can of BB

Insert Knecht's typical ranting about how the game was, is, and always will be horrible forever and ever

To provide a counterpoint from Knecht's vitriol about realism:

From a game design standpoint, a FT skill makes perfect sense. It allows inside and outside oriented players to both increase their abilities on the line without penalizing either type of player. Without the skill a pure center would by necessity need to get their JS and JR up in order to shoot FTs more effectively which is obviously less effective than continued training in traditional big man skills.

As well, it offers an extra option during low game training weeks other than GS and Stamina training. If FTs were taken away, Stamina would be the premier training option for increasing your team's output. However, Stamina can go too high as well which causes difficult to manage minutes in regards to GS, so it needs to be balanced in a training regimen. At the moment a team that's good to go on Stamina and GS for a low game week can still improve their team. There would have to be something else implemented if FTs were taken out in order to not frustrate a well managed team's owner during these weeks.

Personally, I'm happy with the skill. It does what it says, it's an elegant solution to the difference in IS/JS/JR in regards to FTs, and it provides a valuable increase to team performance during off training weeks. Can't ask for much more than that.

Alright folks. Let's settle down and get this back on target or I'm going to have to, um, do something! And don't make me have to write the story about the time that I once did something!

I'd love it if somebody could pull in some NBA stats that tracks 3pt% with FT%. I bet there's some correlation there and could help make the point about the FT skill needing a little bit of a reality check.

Since I think that guards are commonly better FT shooters than inside player, the FT problem has an easy fix (and it has being mention many times already): Make FT a secondary training for JS and/or JR (1 pop every three weeks) without removing the FT as a team training.

Presto

one pop every three weeks is perhaps too much, yet this could be a fix. Anyhoo, when i started the post, i wasn't asking for a major fix, just don't want to see 0/1000, or 8/100, and that even a guy three left hands(a righty, of course) should shoot at least 30%. I mean, even if you get a random guy of the streets, he's gonna go more than 10% from the line.

And most of the suggestions made would solve this issue, but nothing happens and sooner or later this game will fall apart because so many users quit because of the stagnancy we have for many seasons now.

Nobody in this entire game complains more than you do. You're always talking about how so many users are going to quit because of this change or that change, but for some reason you're still here. Irony?

I guess you really tried hard but couldnt do better. Next time.

very true about the close games comment.

If you don't want players missing all free throws then train them. Nothing should be changed in regard to Free Throws.

Agree.. if you don't want to see 0/1000 or 10/5000... train a bit of FT. Just 2 weeks will bring players from 0% FT to 30% FT. It's not like nothing can be done about it...