Dynasty Mode

[Ataraxia]

All i want is a great dynasty mode...the graphics are already enuff for me even though the new screenshots show that they stepping it up like 5 levels more
free agency should be improved....rookie scouting should be improved and of course i think they should do the trade block thingy ESPN Basketball had....so it gives us a chance to see more possible deals...other than offering all the time...

i dunno maybe this posts seems more of a wish than an issue

Peace
NJ

[Andrew]

I'm sure that pretty much everyone would like a more in-depth Dynasty Mode. I'm fairly optimistic about NBA Live 2005's Dynasty Mode.

[Ataraxia]

EA sports tends to hypen up the LIVE series....hehe....at least lets hope they actually get all there stuff right this time....cant wait to play with the Bobcats as well

Peace
NJ

[DipSetVC]

I'd love to have something similar to what EA's Madden 2005 will have in its dynasty mode. Players from your team actually tell you their feelings and demand trades and stuff like that, so that'd be nice to have in '05, before another 92 overall Kwame Brown walks away from me for nothing .

[Gripni]

I'd love to have something similar to what EA's Madden 2005 will have in its dynasty mode. Players from your team actually tell you their feelings and demand trades and stuff like that, so that'd be nice to have in '05, before another 92 overall Kwame Brown walks away from me for nothing .

Agreed. I want to know what my players want from the GM. If they leave I want to know why. In 2003 KG left me after 2 straight MVP/NBA Championships and a max contract at 99 overall. Why would he do that?

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[Metsis]

I've been preaching for some sort of a feed back cycle to the Live series for a long time...

I wouldn't even have to be anything too dramatic or nice or fully laden with cut scenes etc.

My final thought on this is that you need a meter for player happiness. Then a way to have a conference with the player to find out about what he's happy and unhappy about or just a line of text that tells you his biggest concern or the thing that he's most happy about.

This would be nice if there was a coach feedback too. So your coach could tell you that he doesn't like this guy or likes that guy etc. Add to it the ability to hire/fire your coach, and you have a whole new ball game... A step closer to the real thing... Like if your coach doesn't like your star player and your star player doesn't like the coach, which would you fire/trade? And if the coach is liked by everyone else? Or if the coach wasn't too liked???

This would add an element which would possibly encourage people from picking up all the best players etc. This would steer a player away from creating teams full of superstars.

Also adding some sort of a maximum cap to go with the cap space would be welcome as well. If you aren't doing too good in the league your salary maximum would decrease a little and vice versa. So you would be looking to rebuild as you need players with lower contracts etc. To fit into your max cap...

These three relatively small changes would bring the Dynasty mode back to life and make playing the dynasty so much more intresting... And rewarding as it would be harder to build a championship team and the process would include all these other elements other then picking up the players with the highest ratings.

Also a welcome addition would be a veteran element... So the old guys wouldn't get useless as fast as they get now... I find my over 33 year old guys making room for young rookies at almost every turn... I really would like to see a 40 year old Reggie Miller and Gary Payton etc. still making an impact on the team by other means than actually playing good. Maybe the players of the veterans position would advance faster as they get guidance from someone who's been around the block and especially in areas where the veteran was good at (like Reggie Millers students would probably increase three point shooting, Paytons pupils would increase stealing, Rodmans pupils would probably increase Rebounding, Pippens pupils would increase passing and all around effort etc.) or something! I hate how all the old guys need to be dumped in order to get your team into contention for a title.

I'll end my rant here...

[Eon Blue Apocalypse]

I think it would be cool if you can give individual players assignments, like you can tell your 3-point shooters to stay around the corners, or float around the 3pt line or tell your guards to cut and drive the ball etc.
You can even have separate assignments for O when they have the ball and when they are off the ball. So along with their AI, they have specific things they are told to do.

[Andrew]

Aside from the frontend/GM point of view, I'm hoping that the gameplay in Dynasty Mode reflects a real NBA season, with players going on streaks and occasionally struggling. Injuries were improved in NBA Live 2004 which does force you to make adjustments, but players not performing up to standard would keep the game challenging for much longer.

It's probably more noticeable if you have a big man who is a top scorer, but sometimes it's just too easy to get a player's average. Variation of the CPU opponents' performance would be great, too. Sometimes the go to guy isn't feeling it, so playing a team the same way every time won't necessarily work. Most importantly, the rest of the team would have to try to step up, otherwise it won't be challenging at all.

[Colin]

I've had lots of times where Michael Redd and Desmond Mason couldn't hit open 15 footers for me. Especially Redd, the guys been streaky as hell for me, two games ago he set my franchise record with 31 points, next game took the same shots, 3 for 15, 9 points. I've had games where players are unstoppable and games where they don't make lay-ups. I've had Tim Thomas missing dunks and pulling up for 25 foot threes the next game. And making them. The streakiness even made me loose to Sacremento.

[Andrew]

I have experienced that before, but I'm not sure how much of it is psychological or simply a difficult matchup. Development of player streaks and perhaps an indication from within the game would be great. I'd just like to see more variation game to game, so that each matchup might present a different challenge, even if you're facing the same team.

Game-to-game adjustments would be great too. I thought I saw this in the Finals during my Bulls Dynasty when I was facing the Kings. I had gone up 3-0 with the Kings going to Peja most of the way, In Game 4 they went to C-Webb in the first quarter and I was back on my heels, struggling to keep up with their new offensive plan. Unfortunately they went back to Peja the rest of the way and I managed to win easily using the strategies I had decided upon in the first three games.

I think that would certainly crank up the difficulty in the playoffs, and would be providing a realistic challenge rather than the CPU being able to hit every shot.

[NYK20]

For the offseason, I really hope they add a mid-level exception and the $1.6 million exception for teams over the cap limit. I constantly find quality players left as free agents because no team has enough money to sign them.

And instead of having a fixed amount of money to offer a player, u can have a starting amount that you want to offer and then specify the amount of years, and then u can make a percentage that the amount of money would increase after each year.

It's like in Season Ticket Basketball and Fastbreak Basketball, if anyone's ever played it.

[Andrew]

I agree. The ability to vary contract size and length as well as negotiating with free agents would make Dynasty Mode much more challenging, and fun.

[Fresh8]

Well...I was thinking

Wat do u guys think of when u say Dynasty Mode

I think of more of a manging game...thats wat i want