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Postby Al_Jefferson on Wed Oct 18, 2006 4:17 am

I was wondering if it is possible to change nba live measurement . I rather see the height and weight in meters and kilos respectvely.

Of course it´s not that hard to know that 6,7 is 2,00m and 210pounds is around 100 kilos.. still...

Does anybody know?

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Re: Metric System

Postby joejam999 on Wed Oct 18, 2006 4:32 am

Al_Jefferson wrote:Of course it´s not that hard to know that 6,7 is 2,00m and 210pounds is around 100 kilos.. still...


90% of the people on here wouldnt know that.
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Postby Tuomas on Wed Oct 18, 2006 4:36 am

Who are you to say? Probably 90% of europeans know that. Do your homework.
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Re: Metric System

Postby Donatello on Wed Oct 18, 2006 4:45 am

joejam999 wrote:
Al_Jefferson wrote:Of course it´s not that hard to know that 6,7 is 2,00m and 210pounds is around 100 kilos.. still...


90% of the people on here wouldnt know that.


I am one of those 90%. The metric system makes more sense if you learn it, I'm sure, but I have no idea. It just wasn't ever taught to me.
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Postby Tyx on Wed Oct 18, 2006 5:32 am

What's the point? I'm playing Live for a long time and I got used to it.
I don't like feet because I never like a 6"11' C, but I like a 7"0' C.
If it would be centimeters it would be more precise, this way everyone increase their height by an inch( beside garnett and bosh).
I wouldn't mind if there's a C with 211 cm, but it just doesn't feel that good when it's 6"11'.
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Postby chris-3- on Wed Oct 18, 2006 6:03 am

hey Al you could install the german version of the game which i bellive is avalibale with every dvd version no matter where you got it from. that changes the systems but it will also change the menu language to german. commentary and speech in the game by the way stay as they are in english versions. so it's your choice: german words bit meters and kilo or english words but feet and pounds
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Postby debiler on Wed Oct 18, 2006 7:22 am

And don't forget: German is so very gut, ja! :wink:
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Postby mchakko on Wed Oct 18, 2006 8:07 am

I don't think the metric system works as well - centimeters are too small and meters are too big for measuring height. Whereas feet and inches give us nice cutoffs at 5'0", 6'0", and 7'0". it's a more useful range, whereas with metrics the vast majority of people are just between 1 meter and 2 meters...

Same thing with pounds, to a lesser extent.

Besides, it is NBA live, not FIBA live...
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Postby BigKaboom2 on Wed Oct 18, 2006 10:58 am

mchakko wrote:Besides, it is NBA live, not FIBA live...


Ditto.

Possible loophole - I don't know what system Canada uses (silly Raptors).
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Postby maceo24 on Wed Oct 18, 2006 11:14 am

The NBA is an american based association, chances are that all teams under the NBAs jurisdiction will use the american standard. I feel like an idiot though, lol, foriegners know ours, but we as a country were too cocky to learn (or even adapt to) theirs until 15 years ago. And we STILL dont know... God bless the US!
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Postby furbysaur on Wed Oct 18, 2006 12:34 pm

US uses english units while almost the rest of the world uses SI units. if you're having trouble, maybe this will help:

1 inch = 2.54 cm
1 foot = 30.48 cm
1 pound = 0.454 kg or 1 kg = 2.2lb :P

since this is nba live, we should adapt their units of measurement... even though it's stone age units.
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Postby joejam999 on Wed Oct 18, 2006 3:11 pm

Tuomas wrote:Who are you to say? Probably 90% of europeans know that. Do your homework.


I was just thinking most of the people on here might be from the US.
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Postby Voxel on Wed Oct 18, 2006 4:44 pm

i though most of the people on here come from australia, then the phillipines, then probably the US followed closely by canada.
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Postby Tuomas on Wed Oct 18, 2006 7:04 pm

It's something you've been thought. I still find it primitive that we over here are taught them both and some people don't know shit abou the other. IMO metric system is more precise and makes more sense, not measuring by someones feet :lol:
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Postby T-Wave on Wed Oct 18, 2006 9:07 pm

The metric system is more precise. The smallest measurment unit in the metric system(when measuring height) is the cm. The smallest for the other is (inch). As mentioned above, 1cm = 0.39 inches. That means if you had a ruler that had only cm and another that had only inches, and you wanted to measure something(say a string of hair) that was 0.39 inches long, then you would have a precise measurement with the cm-ruler, but you would have a very imprecise one with the inches-ruler. Because you would have to guess whether that thing is 0.39' or 0.41' or 0.38' long... you catch my drift. Generally, the smaller your minimum measurment unit, the more precise it is.
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Postby The X on Wed Oct 18, 2006 9:26 pm

I'm kinda glad it doesn't have metric....I've followed NBA for so long now, that I prefer to see it in feet & pounds....when I tell someone my height, I say I'm 6'2", I don't say I'm 187cm....so despite the metric system being more precise, I'd like to see English measurements....

although I think the point of the post, is that this guy wants a player who is 6'4" & 1/2" being taller in the game than someone who is 6'4"....I think more important than this, is to have player's wingspans in the game....Dwayne Wade might be 6'4", but he's got a big wing span for his size....it would be nice to see NBA Live & NBA 2k series implement wingspans into the game, although I think they need to get the core gameplay down pat first....
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Postby chitovf on Wed Oct 18, 2006 11:08 pm

another wish list for 08, an option to convert height and weight to metric (as some sports pc games do).
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Postby maceo24 on Thu Oct 19, 2006 12:54 am

metric will never show up the the US version.The wingspan is a great idea, though. elton brand is 6-8 with over 7-foot wingspan.
thats erm, 200-something cm. lol
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Postby el badman on Thu Oct 19, 2006 4:40 am

I think more important than this, is to have player's wingspans in the game....Dwayne Wade might be 6'4", but he's got a big wing span for his size....it would be nice to see NBA Live & NBA 2k series implement wingspans into the game, although I think they need to get the core gameplay down pat first....

That's actually a great idea. I remember Oliver Miller of the Suns who wasn't that tall but had the longest freaking arms. Same thing for Brand like maceo24 said.

Regarding the metric system, it is definitely more accurate than the foot/inch system. I mean, even if it doesn't make a huge difference, there is something between 6'6'' and 6'7" for example...It's a difference of 2.54cm, which is quite important when you compare how tall people are...
On the other side, I guess pounds are more accurate than kilos, so well... :roll:
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Postby Tuomas on Thu Oct 19, 2006 5:37 am

I really think the metric system is more natural to modern numbers, since like money it's divided into 10 subnumbers (?) while feet etc. are divided into 12 inches. The number 10 is easier to divide and understand.
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Postby Zoom on Thu Oct 19, 2006 9:18 am

Americans measure in their system and all their pro sports do this in real life... so I don't see why the game would shift to the metric system. Coming where I come from, I never heard of measuring in feet and inches until I started to follow the NBA... still, I'm not fazed by identifying height as say 6 feet instead of 182 cm... its doesn't bother me.
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Postby The X on Thu Oct 19, 2006 8:17 pm

el badman wrote:
I think more important than this, is to have player's wingspans in the game....Dwayne Wade might be 6'4", but he's got a big wing span for his size....it would be nice to see NBA Live & NBA 2k series implement wingspans into the game, although I think they need to get the core gameplay down pat first....

That's actually a great idea.

put it in the Live '08 Wishlist & EA can pay me a royalty when they use it as their main selling point for the game :lol:
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Postby Tuomas on Thu Oct 19, 2006 8:32 pm

Well it's better than anything they implemented in this year's game anyway :mrgreen:
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Postby Jugs on Thu Oct 19, 2006 9:24 pm

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Re: Metric System

Postby funk99 on Thu Oct 19, 2006 10:03 pm

Al_Jefferson wrote:I was wondering if it is possible to change nba live measurement . I rather see the height and weight in meters and kilos respectvely.

Of course it´s not that hard to know that 6,7 is 2,00m and 210pounds is around 100 kilos.. still...

Does anybody know?

Thanks.


For some really weird reason. I had metric units in Live 06
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