NBA Live 2006 Wishlist

[Dylan_Castaneda]

Maybe EA could put in the game "21"

[Gameboy]

i dunno if someone has already suggested this but it would be great if live 2006

will include official nba team mascots and will perform at half time some tricks
or they can include teams' cheer dancers like what they did in Madden 2005

I think that would be cool. hehehe

[Dylan_Castaneda]

You guys are always thinking of the best stuff.

[set_rule]

Realistic........

Scanning the board has me thinking......
Forget trying to cram all of these UNREALISTIC wishes....as LIVE purists.. wouldnt it be nice
to have these REALISTIC wishes ........Heres a list from everything REALISTIC i've seen on the board

1.Gameplay has made tremendous strides....but,better post up moves,
improve the fast break,and other bugs that prevent good gameplay etc.
2.When you FOUL out show similar anime from 99 or 01 version when player is heated
at FOUL CALLED! crowd should boo when at Home.. Claps and yells "SIT DOWN" when playing away.
3.Dynasty Mode needs to be tweaked some..starting with Ability to trade future draft picks
Contract Negotiations/Extensions Trading Block/Negotiations with other GM's
4.Every throwback jersey...Better/Larger sneaker collection
5.Team USA (and other olympic teams)..played every 4 years in Dynasty Mode only! real European Teams
National Teams etc.
6.More crowd chants..Better ones!!! Airball Airball...Beat LA. etc.
7.User Profiles...Be able to set team strategies and playbooks in the team management section..Camera Angles etc.
8.STORY-LINE CENTRAL...rumors gossip coaches on hot seat... too bad Stephen A run with ESPN
9. Record every arena announcer in the league
10.Remove the "logo flash" between cut-scenes etc. Replace it with more stat overlays. EA is ridiculously stingy with these things.
When talking about who's the key player in the pregame, why not show his season stats? SOME stats should show up on about 80% of trips the line.
What's his per game average, how many does he have tonight? What's his season FT percentage?
All of these should be shown more often than what college he went to.
11.Courtside commentary: adding a female voice: like Cheryl Miller to do a courtside commentary every once in a while
12.Better Hall Of Fame......Show all records/50 Greatest.. rather see this than play Legends...Legends shouldnt play against Kobe or anyone current
13.Have better increasing/decreasing of ratings when season is over Dynasty Mode only.
14.Make AI smarter and have better decision making on Superstar as opposed to being very accurate down the stretch. Have them look for the open man more,
and they need to catch and shoot more than they currently do..
15.On the real ESPN games should fold up like a tent and stop confusing kids with they version and give EA Sports the rights and permission for they style of PRESENTATION/ANOUNCERS i.e Greg,Stephen,Tim Legler,Bill Walton,Sam Jones,Hubie Brown,and some other cool cats on ESPN..Dont front yall!! we all watch ESPN at some point during the week for sports.Why not do it properly,the NBA is not covered
strictly.....by TNT

[SoLow]

1. Better NBA atmoshere, similar to ESPN 2k5.
2. Of course, more realistic player bodies.....not just the faces.
3 Having players showing emotions when they hit the last second 3 to win the game.
4. Not a biggy, but it would be nice for better crowds. I've been noticing when playing the game, when u make a buzzer beater teh crowd doesnt even stand up and clap..they just sit down and move their arms.
5. THE PDA GETS ON MY NERVES....EA should make an option to turn teh PDA off and just play the dynasty at your own rate. THIS IS A MUST!
6. Make the players on the fast break fill their lanes and cut to the basket at the right time.

2 more posts until i get my 100 post

[ChiBulls2315]

-Better plays

-Even in higher modes (allstar or superstar), players that are bad defenders should still act as bad defenders. It's kind of stupid sometimes when a guy who is supposed to be a bad defender is D-ing your superstar guard up like an all NBA defender and you can't get past him.

-Make inside scoring, more specifically easy dunks, much harder.

-Make long range jumpshooting a bit easier. Not as easy as 03 or anything, but easier than it is.

-Improve the whole FT thing.

-I just played a game where I went up by 1 point with a few seconds left, and the CPU inbounds the ball to take a full court shot instead of calling a timeout to set up a decent shot at half court. Come on now. Enough said.

-When trading, although this make take away the whole PDA thing which I like, I liked it in the older games when you could propose the trades and it would say whether the CPU accepted or not, and then you could press, Yes (do the trade) or No (decline it). When I do trades, I like to see what kind of value my players have first. I can't do that in the recent years.

-Need to incorporate the mid level exception into the game for team's over the cap so they can sign good players like they do in real life, not just minimum players. That's a big one. Low level exception also.

-Have the negotiating player contract's part like Madden's.

-Have restricted free agency like real life. It would be cool to see other teams offer your guy a contract with the ability for you to match it. Might also help if you can't come to terms with the player if he wants more money.

-If a player is having a breakout season, it would be nice if their trade value could be as high as their play on the court dictates, rather than what their rating says. Improved play during the season means immediate improved ratings maybe.

-On the trading players screen, have the salaries and years of the players next to their name so it's easier to calculate salaries since you have to be within 20%. (Maybe they could have a calculater that pops up to add up the salaires) Speaking of that, the trade rule should be within 15% like it is in real life. I know they probably do 20% so it's less frustrating for the kiddies when doing trades, but if it's in the game, it's in the game, right?

-Make CPU teams with big expiring contracts smarter in that they won't trade those huge expiring deals just for a teeny tiny upgrade with that player having more years on his contract. That kind of stuff just doesn't happen in the league but it still does in the game. It's way too easy to dump your bad contracts on the CPU.

-Ability to fire/hire coaches.

-Definately got to bring back the ability to import draft classes from March Madness.

-Have a real training camp.

-In game saves

[Littlejor]

Wishes:

I just wish that gm's can offer a contract extensions to their players

Being able to recieve msgs from players asking for a trade or extension.

Being able to jump when the opponent is inbounding the ball (so that you have a chance to block his site)

More looseball foul like an offensive foul when the screeners move while setting a screen... stuff like that

A temper and clutch rating that will make players commit a T with that temper

Being able to choose to which player you'd want to alley-oop, coz sometimes it goes to other player when i want it to the player that is open

and finally more buttons for the slam dunk competition

[The GOAT]

I think we should have a training camp similar to Madden (except with shooting, stealing, blocking, etc.)

[King_James88]

Make it so that they will have a few secs before the whistle is blowed on inbound passes. That way, we can select the player we want to get the ball to and get ready to make a play. This will prove handy during the stretch after the timeout.

Be able to call a play/at least an off-ball screen during the inbound.

Minor suggestion:
I want the tomahank jam in normal game to have more hangtime (I know, nobody bothers about this )

[ATTENTIONWHORE]

All Top 50 NBA Players in addition to the ones they've got already or have had in previous editions....and also add 2 Millennium All-Star teams, one for East, and one for West.

[Garbad_the_Weak]

First, just a comment to EA sports (who I hope read this ). I have been a big fan since NBA live 96, great games, they get better every year. My suggestions for 2006 are:

FEATURES WISHLIST

-Bring back user stats and user profiles.
-Include ingame stat overlays, in particular during free throws (not just where he went to college, etc)
-Include some way to specify a rotation and how many minutes you want each player to average
-3v3 streetball style mode
-More individualized stadiums, player moves, etc. More emotion from the players (not fights, tecs, etc)

GAMEPLAY WISHLIST

-Make it easier to hit midrange shots
-Fewer blocked shots in the post
-Make the AI cut to the basket more, especially on fast breaks
-On defense, stop giving the AI a speed bonus and make it more reactive instead (if you fast break several times, make the gaurds stop trying to rebound instead of giving them a speed boost)
-In the open court, make the AI stop trying to steal the ball and stay in between you and the basket more (the spin move shakes loose the defender 75%+ of the time)

DYNASTY WISHLIST

-Include the midlevel salary exception
-Do something about how often good players have to sit out a year because no team can afford them
-Show potential on all young players (under 26 or so)
-Allow 3 way trades
-make the AI more reluctant to trade "dynasty" players (3 role players for a star, etc)
-Include a rumor mill, which shows which players are being shopped, who doesn't want to resign, etc
-Make more good players slip to the lower picks, IE, more unpredictability

TEAMS WISHLIST

-Include more classic teams, such as the 1971 lakers, etc
-Bring back jordan
-More 90s stars, such as Ewing, Robinson, etc
-Rate wilt higher, a 96 at least -_-

Thanks, and I look forward to 2006.

[Indy]

1.) be able to see players stats from substitution screen
2.) something i always thought would come but never does, when you have a pending substitution, actually show the player walk over to the scoring table and wait to check in
3.) already been mentioned trade block a must

im sure there are things im forgetting, but over all great great game.

[Littlejor]

save during off-season

[darch]

we should have 2 separate wichlists
gameplay -the most importent
other - much less importent

body types -ea overall its ok only change the kicks size they are just to big and make ankle wider

[The X]

Basically all of my wishes have been covered by everyone else with the exception of one thing in dynasty mode that annoys me:

Power Rankings

geez, if they're gonna do, do it right....a team can lose 5 straight and remain at the top spot, whereas a team wins 5 straight and 9 of 10 and only move up a spot or two....power rankings are suppose to represent the teams how they are performing at present, but also overall.....get them to check ESPN and copy their Power Rankings model.......


apart from that, hopefully dynasty mode gets beefed up again, and cut out gameplay bugs, and improve it across the board....and for the people who have March Madness as well, they probably will want importable rookie classes that are realistically rated to be a feature in Live 2006.....


EDIT: Forgot to mention, draft rookies should all have surnames of current players so the announcer uses audio database to say their names, instead of No. 37 or whatever....same for any created players with same surnames of current players....


cheers
X

[Wormy10]

I have no idea if this has been mentioned but ...
In Madden they have the stats of players for that year and their career
I wish they would have each season's stats for every player, a page of their career stats, and also a list of the records or what not, like the top 25 points leaders etc.

[dasunsrule1]

Here's what I would love to see for NBA Live 2006:

- My boy Amare Stoudemire, or Shawn Marion as the US cover athelete
- COMPLETE Stats! (I miss not seeing my teams ppg average and such! I
miss not seeing all the home standings and road standings. Technical
fouls, maybe flagarant fouls too! I want EVERY stat that there is!
Triple-Doubles, Double-Doubles, etc. Stats on the road and home.)
- Dunk contest online
- Online leagues
- I want to see more about my opponent online
- Dynasty mode revamp (I want to be able to select more than one team in my dynasty mode! My friend and I love playing Madden in the same Dynasty mode, with two different teams. Eliminate Dynasty Points for training players - make it part of the salary cap. Add signing coaches and staff. Simulate faster w/ intervention. I would like to be able to see more boxscores. More complete scouting - who the draftee resembles. Add a Timer for the draft. More realistic names for the cpu created players. Completely revamp the player trading! Ah, it's so frustrating! I want all the facts in front of me when I'm wheeling and dealing; stats, cap space, contract, just make it more user friendly. Add my player contracts up for me that I'm trading. I love how dealing with teams it is more realistic, it takes some time to make trades work. Add a real trading block to see who's on the chop! Where'd the magazines go? I would like those back with in depth previews and team and league news. Use that to replace NBA News, let it deal with trades, signings, rookie previews, offseason news, injuries, player awards - add weekly nba player awards too, unhappy players, coaching news, and interviews. I would really love to see some kind of radio show or something, that would rule! Being able to set prices for everything! Add a more in depth progression mode - I want to be able to pick every detail of the players skills I want to upgrade! Let me practice with free agents, before I sign them. Make free agents that are good, maybe want to play with me for a lower amount if I'm a winner. Just use Madden's Player profile interests' system. I want to play summer leagues - that would rule to develope my lesser players. I want to pick whether I want my players participating in All Star Weekend events - what happens if he got injured or something? Fix the tiebreaker bug in the standings - I've had it where I was tied and won, but it gave it to the other team because of their name was higher in the alphabet; Denver over Phoenix.
AND Import the whole frickin Madden Franchise mode!)
- Bring back the NBA ONLY NEWS AND SCORES Sports ticker in the regular menus
- Make it a simulation! I'm tired of tweaking the gameplay for hours to
get the right feel! (I want to be able to PLAY a 12 minute qtr game out
of the box with realistc gameplay and stats! I want the blocks
lessened, way to many. Steals, too! Make it more of a talent required
to play D! More timing required!)
- Let me save the game in progress so I can finish it later (I really
miss that feature!)
- I want to fastbreak, half court it up, zone it up (Make the AI
players smarter on rebounding, defense, and offense. They still stare
at the ball, and just let players drive to the hoop without a blink! I
want them to get back on D if I make a shot. Let the CPU burn me if I
miss.)
- Maybe add the floor general playcalling
- Stop the AI players from diving for the ball everytime they get a
steal! (It stops their fastbreak, or they fly out of bounds. Make it so
they can decifer when they need to dive and when not. I have had games
go down to the wire, and they stole it from - having a chance to beat
me; yet they fly out of bounds to give it away to me.)
- I want to be rewarded for taking it to the basket hard
- Make the Team styles more realistic (I want my players to be sucking
for air if their playing against the Suns, Wizards, Sonics, Kings,
Mavericks, or the Magic. Make a noticable playing style between teams.)
- I want to argue the refs calls (Make it where IF I tap a button after
a call, bad or good, I can "fill up a meter" before I get a Technical
foul. Make it so I can get "tossed" in games.)
- Add a more realistic momentum to the game (Technical fouls by the
coaches and players, can affect that for good or bad; depending on the
timing in the game.)
- Free Throws (Needs a redo, way to easy!)
- Player cards would be cool!
- Maybe a street "hustler franchise mode", ala ESPN 2k5's mode, or AND1
Mixtape mode
- Player editing screen (More sliders, maybe a "Star power slider -
Makes them more clutch and takes the shots". 2005 is a positional game,
only the scoring comes from certain positions. Ex: the 1, 2, and 3
postions. Make the offense run through best players! Not just
positions.)
- Player lock revamp (I want to lock just one player, not position! If
he get's subbed out, I'm not playing at all until I get subbed back
in.)
- Let the AI adjust to how a player is playing (I want it to learn how
I play during a Dynasty mode!)
- Add a Freestyle Shot. (When I'm in mid-air let me change my shot with
the Analog stick!)
- I miss seeing every statistical RATING for teams (I don't want to see
that a team is "just 90". I want their rebounding, defensive,
offensive, coaching, and player ratings overall. A team can have a
bunch of great players and still suck! I want all of that to affect
gameplay and simulation.)
- I would like a type of team chemistry
- It would be nice to have a hard foul button (Sometimes they just
don't get the idea to stay out of the lane, or the Intentional Foul
isn't working quickly enough. Ex: 1.5 sec on the clock, I would like to
be able to have more than 0.5 on the clock in those type of
situations.)
- Where'd my frickin User Profiles go? (I miss that! Make it like
Madden's I want it to save my stats, settings, and playbook settings.)
- Make three-way deals, ability to throw in cash, and future draft
picks
- Their isn't enough CPU player and team deals
- I would like to be able to resign a contract of players during the
season, if the NBA salary rules allow so. Not just the off-season
- I want a home court advantage! (Something like NCAA maybe)
- The more I use turbo the more quickly I tire (Let me train
conditioning to offset that.)
- Let me make my own identity for my team (Not just a preset fab for a
team.)
- A two man announcing crew, and reporters to talk to coaches and
players during and after the game. Make them find out about injuries,
trades, etc.
- More realistic halftime show would be cool, and intermission breaks
- Cheerleader shows (Maybe like Live 97)
- Return w/ off-ball. It works well.
- More Roster Updates during the season (And adjust player ratings too!
If their not as good, or better than you thought, change it!)
- I want to be able to see boxscores during the playoffs
- Where'd all the cutscene's go in the game?
- The ability to add nicknames to players
- All-time teams: 75-76, 92-93 Suns, etc. (And use real player names!)
- Keep all the NBA Store, Records. Very cool!
- Maybe cool unlockable player or team videos.
- Add more gameplay and settings bars to tweak
- Coaches can be removed during the season, for CPU and Human. (If your fired, then you have to find a new job duriing your dynasty. BUT ONLY MAKE THIS OPTONAL)
- Make a pure GM mode only (All you deal with is everyday affairs)
- The game feels pretty realistic, but maybe tone down the game speed a
bit
- Make platform specific graphics: XBOX should be clearly better than
PS2
- I want to be able to select what type of pass I want to perform
- Make it feel like a finished product this year

[[Q]]

will someone for the love of god please make the free agents less greedy... every year there are plenty of good players that don't get signed (many 60+ overall even a few 70+) I'm always over the cap so I have to settle for overall 54 and below. When Gary Payton retired on me, I needed a point guard and I wanted to sign Maurice Williams (who I've become a fan of) and it angered me that he was only a 57 and was asking for over 2 million a year

I understand there is a "LOWBALLED" field in the dbf, but maybe there should be a second field for a (reasonable) minimum if they don't get signed

[dasunsrule1]

That's why we need a mid and lower-level exception!

[JMHC]

Dynasty mode is better but still has some major problems.

• Players rated in the 60’s and 70’s should never sit on the FA list year after year. Make players sign for the best offer they get, or take a one year deal then look for more money next year.
• The ability to work out extensions during the final year of a players contract so you have some sort of idea if he’s staying or leaving.
• Bring back feature of players not resigning. Some players want more time, some want to win etc.
• Have a lot of the top rookies make bigger rating jumps in their 3rd or 4th years since this seems to be the case in real life.
• Add a rumor mill, if a team is struggling sometimes they might have a fire sale and start all over.
o With this feature add team chemistry ratings so if teams have bad chemistry, they don’t play as good. Or if you have too many stars on your roster some aren’t happy, once again they don’t play as good. Or a bunch of role players performing better than expected because of good chemistry.
o For each player add a potential or work ethic rating, an injury rating, and a coachability rating which could be tied to team chemistry.
o Player unhappiness, wanting improvements to be made before re-singing or demanding trades.
• Add injury plagued players, season ending injuries, injury plagued seasons for teams.
• The ability to hire/fire coaches
• Team owners with different wants. E.g your team owner might want to cut costs, give the gm a budget to work under instead of an unlimited amount.
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• IMPROVE THE PLAYER LOCK FEATURE
o Make it so that you don’t have to do everything all the time.
• MAKE A CAREER MODE!!!!!!!!!
o Ability to create a player and enter him in the draft, go to pre-draft workouts, summerleagues, see which team picks you up.
o Improve the player lock feature to include a CAREER LOCK. Make it so you have to earn minutes. Computer controls substitutions and possible trades.
o In this mode, change the PDA to reflect on players. GMs notify you when you have been traded. Agents interact with you when projecting draft status, negotiating extensions or free agent contracts or trade demands. Coaches inform you of decisions on playing time/starting lineups. Doctors advise you on injury status etc.

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Gameplay
• Make it so that you can challenge a shot without fouling and same for the computer. Too many times when people get beaten they foul from behind. Make its so you can get the real fouls called on collisions and such but not so much the soft calls.
• Its too easy for the computer to block in the post, whether they are good shot blockers or not, reduce this somewhat.
• Once again playerlock is invalid. The computer should still shoot without the user having to press the shoot button.
• Have the defensive awareness rating make some impact. Say if a player has a low rating he is slow to rotate on defence and if a player is good he rotates better or cuts of passes better.
• Add stealing on the fly. Similar to how players catch the ball on the break and keep running, a player stealing the ball sometimes will sprint through a passing lane, intercept the pass and get an easy layup at the end.

[galvatron3000]

Also, let's start a new standard between Simulation and All-Star modes. Let the sim mode account for player momentum and weight, not like ESPN though. Let All-Star play like Sim plays on the current version with sliding and all. ( Pro and starter can remain untouched, I play neither nor do I play the current All-Star Mode)I just want to have a more sim style play when it comes to player movement but if I don't ike the way it is presented I can just go back to good ole tried and true, which will be All-star mode now(Sim for 2006). If I have a tony parker ,who is quick at changing directions on offense, being guarded hard and I run hard to the left then stop and go right, my defender(depending on his defense rating) should be atleast a step behind(which makes the defense adjust) and leave Parker with a step towards the basket(if the defense switches to help then I can force it or dish for the assist). Just a suggestion I think would be good, it would almost be like having two lives in one and one for two styles of players. I think EA can come up with a nice way to implement players weight, size, speed and quickness momentum. If nothing else just get rid of that stupid catch up bug, it is still in the game.


Also, what is really irritating me as of late is that (with seperate shot buttons) when I push the dunk/layup button in the post with a good low post player, they go with this weak layup reversal move that gets blokced or goes out of bounds. Come on man, give me a strong post up move not that garbage, Tim Duncan should have atleast a dozen low post moves. Up and under, baby hook, strong to the basket or get fouled something but not that reversal crap. I hit the button but when that animation comes up it sucks and blocks are way too high and easy to do this year(even on 0). Come on EA let's do it right. I love the game but this s getting frustrating now. Cat-up bug after freestyling a player to his knees is killing the game.

[Kuttan]

Dunno if ppl sugested this....but PLAYER EMOTIONS...especially on the face...in the game they go fo a dunk but they have a stone face...it makes it feel very wierd

[Donte Thomas]

i know they do...lol..it does look kinda weird..that's a good idea

[basilis]

hallo well i want to send my ideas because i dont know where else to send them and if you can send them to people responsible!(do a copy and paste!!
1)the steals to be less from the players and not to steal so easily!
2)by pushing the button pass along with the directional stick to have the opportunity to give straight direct pass and a lob pass
3)
0the fakes to be better and to the stars of each team like tracy makcrady to be effective and outside the 3 point line and not to stel the ball of him so easily
4)to have the double team a little bit better and when the help comes to the big guy not to run with such a great speed!and when you pass the ball outside to the free player the defender who comes to him to be from the yard
5)the introduction to be like nba-live 2004 with real nba players
6)to have injury list so you can put players in their 2 the most and frozen their big contracts
7)to have the opportunity and sign players for a few months contracts from the free agents and with little money!
8)to have the opportunity and change the rosters and from the other teams and play like real nba!
Some extra things I want to add!
9)to have introduction of the 5 players of each team at the beginning of each game
10)to watch when the match ends and you go at the menu the results of the other games down at the buttom of the screen like nba-live2004
11)when you jump and in the air you decide to give pass the player who you give him the pass takes a long time to get hold of the ball.make that time less
12)to play the other team multipule defences inside and during the game
13)in some timeouts to have the chance a little bit of stamina of the players to get it high
14)to make the game more difficult to have a level of that because I play it on the more difficult and I found it easy
thans again

[twolvezfanfoever]

I have another idea.Nothing real special though.Hangin on the rim.If you hold the o button while dunking,you can hang on the rim as long as you hold the button.But if you stay on too long,you will get a technical.