TechDaddy wrote:MAN”… Live 08 plays so much better!!! Now I’m truly getting my money worth.
Yeah it does but I've recieved a few complaints in regards to dynasty play for those who enjoy playing multiple season's.
So although the ratings I first installed improves the overall game play aspect it improves teams like Atlanta and Charlotte right away.
Keep in mind my attentions weren't to make the entire league stronger but to make the players smarter on both sides of the court and improve the rebounding to take away the issues with the ball hitting the floor way too often.
While the file does solve most of those issues the side effect to that is the teams overall ratings will go up substantially. I blame EA for this because their default ratings hurt the game play more than it helps it. They have a system setup that requires you train players in order for their passing, rebounding and defense to improve. While the thought process by EA is good they don't realize if they don't include enough sliders like team specific sliders the game right out box won't be as good because of the lower ratings in terms of rebounding, defense and passing.
The reason why you'll see guy's constantly moving on the field is because they all had their Off The Awareness ratings increased. What that does is improve a players IQ when the ball is away from him. You'll see more Big's look to set picks and roll to the basket and you'll see more perimeter players look to come off the screens better or sneak back door on your defense.
Defensively they rotate better and collapse the paint more. They adjust quicker to tendencies used by the human player.
That was all the good things about the file......but unfortunatley I'll have to go in and modify it by dropping some ratings back down to seperate the teams overall ratings. This will bring back some of the problems that existed before the file but the teams will be re-rated individually or based on key players.
My goal will now be to keep teams like San Antonio and Houston much better defensively than the Suns or Warriors. What I'll do is seperate defenders like Shawn Marion and Raja Bell from the rest of their teammates.
I'll go back in and utilize the ratings to force teams to play their own style more often. That means while the Suns and Warriors will dropped defensively they'll be increased in ratings like fast break anticipation and 3-pt shooting likely hood. It doesn't effect their actual shooting ratings it just increases the likely hood that those teams will shoot more 3's and look to run more often than other teams.
I'll take teams like San Antonio, Houston, Detroit and Miami and turn them into pure half court teams that play with a slower tempo.
I apologize to those who who didn't want all teams improved for purpose of dynasty play and I'll go back and modify teams and individuals based on playing styles.
I'm not adjusting any shooting ratings, shot blocking ratings or rebouding ratings that were assigned. It'll take a few more days to straighten every thing out.
As for the question about free-agents what I'll do is sign players to a team adjust their ratings and then release them back to the free-agent pool to solve that problem. I can't do anything about the incoming rookies unfortunately.
