HOW TO STOP CPU "CHEATING" ?!!?!?!?!?!

[Totti10]

I'm playing on All-Star difficulty, last 6 minutes of the game Nuggets (me) vs Pistons (CPU), I'm leading by 16 points - CPU starts draining EVERY shot, gets 80%!!! FG in 4th quarter and wins!!! - is there any way how to stop that s*it? (I'm using realistic sliders from Sliders Forum here on NLSC)

[[lob]-Shy]

foul

[Andreas Dahl]

If you have CPU Assistance you could turn that off as well.
It is a thing that basicly keeps the games from going to one-sided...

[nitro77]

Change the CPU Assistance to "off" and CPU teams won't hit each shot anymore.

[JJT]

that's good to know cuz that would always piss me off as well...
like u can have 4 guys go up to block the shot...hit the man and everything and the shot will go in.... lol

[Andrew]

Turning CPU Assistance off as Andreas suggested does help a little, but the game does have a "comeback code" that challenges you in the final minutes of a game. You can't really let up on All-Star and Superstar difficulty even with a big lead, as the CPU does tend to make those runs. The concept is good, but unfortunately it's a little too aggressive which tends to make it a little unrealistic.

[Metsis]

I've noticed that you can snap a streak with a time-out as well... I don't know if you can in the fourth quarter with the "come back code" working extra hard, but in the first three periods, I've noticed this to work rather well too.

Atleast gets your guys going too... Try taking a time out. It works for me sometimes.

[Ronchie]

Yeah, call a time-out.

[oboeguy]

That's really interesting -- having a timeout to "cool off" the other time, IMO, makes the "cheating" a feature, rather than a bug. Very nice!

OTOH, it would be awesome if they made a *slider* for CPU assistance, instead of an on/off switch, no?

[Andrew]

That might help a little with the aggressiveness of the code, though it is independent from CPU Assistance.

[COOLmac©]

time outs? IMO not really. i called a time out many times during the computer runs. sometimes they cool off sometimes they just continue to whoop my ass. guess it's somewhere in between