Slitherine

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The reason I have not bought this game is because I really enjoy the GM aspect of sports games.  Football Manager, Out of The Park etc.  Incorporating this into this game would be fantastic.

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ORIGINAL: rcleslie
It is a bit weird to see a runner go down without actually being hit by someone.

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ORIGINAL: GWsFBAStartOct292006

Could someone explain what David Winter meant by the following?

"- Additional simulation mode. Invisibly run the 3D game and only display a score board. This will allow a closer match between played out 3D games and game that are quickly simulated to play out a selected portion of the schedule."

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ORIGINAL: David Winter

All.

Since before the 2nd official release was published to you, the testers and I have been working on the 3rd release (R3) update. This will include the following;

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New Features:
- Ability to create a 'non draft' league. This was requested by users that wanted to play league/career mode, but not have to draft players.

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- Ability to set the number of rounds in a draft (this is tied to the above). You'll be able to pick the number of rounds you wish your league to have and if this is lower than 110% of your league roster limit, the remainder will be randomly created and added. The reason for the extra 10% is so there are extra players going into training camp. Granted most of these will be training camp fodder, but sometimes you may get lucky.

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- Improved Linebacker and DB use of the [READ] and [KEYON] commands. (not really a new feature but a change to the way an existing one works)

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- A revamped Play Development System.

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Bug Fixes:

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- Testers are already testing new team/player statistical groups and items.

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- As per the release notes of the 2nd official update, I'm in the process if 'de-generalizing' some of the minor rules. In previous releases, many of the minor rules of the game were generalized and used for all three types of game Maximum-Football allowed you to play. I'm removing some of those generalizations. The spirit of Maximum-Football is to allow as much customization as possible, unfortunately for this official release, these minor rules will not be customizable but will be connected to the type of field you are using. Meaning you will not have the option to use Canadian kick off rules on an American field.

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- I have a list of bugs, big and small, that are also being addressed.

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Release Schedule:

Due to the large amount of new development being put into this release, there will be longer intervals between the public beta's than there was for the 2nd update. At this time I have no firm date to give for your first look at these new features. But expect screen shots in the next 10 days (right now it's all backend work with no new interface work done so there is nothing really to see).

Going Forward:

And now, here is your chance to have a big say in what the game looks like going forward. The development list for R3 is already set but R4's is not. Below is a list of features that could be built into R4. I would like people to reply to this thread with votes. I can only build ONE of this list into R4 because each of these will take about 4 man months worth of work.

Listed in no particular order;

- Financial system. Trades, salaries, and other popular GM features.

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- Online H2H play. It's already known this feature will require a broad band connection. For league play, the 'home team' records the stats and outcomes on that users local DB.

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- Additional simulation mode. Invisibly run the 3D game and only display a score board. This will allow a closer match between played out 3D games and game that are quickly simulated to play out a selected portion of the schedule.

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- New 3D engine. Allows for better light effects, rag doll physics allows for better looking tackle animations. Overall, just a better looking game. System specs would probably stay about the same.

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- New interface design.

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Finally.

I certainly understand that the game has some quirks to iron out but I hope people are enjoying the game none the less. Sales for the first weeks of release have been brisk so a sincere thank you to all those that are supporting the project. I hope, with the continued addition of new and exciting features as well as the great support from Matrix, the Maximum-Football community will continue to grow.

Thank you
David A. Winter

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ORIGINAL: GWsFBAStartOct292006

Great feature.

Great feature.

Great idea.

Great idea!!!

Great idea!!!

Great idea!!!

Great idea!!!

Great features-except I will not use Financial Systems (Salary Caps and etc)-what has destroyed real FootBall at every level, long over due!!! Trades into the future and involving draft picks.

Great features, long over due!!! Able to play/H2H exhibition games On-Line, between teams of the same league.

Not going to use it, but a good idea/feature to fair to what others need.

I would rather focus on other features improvements and inclusion, maybe they are also included, but I know this might easier to improve and by dummed down FB Game fans.

Since, I have not play a version since the first, I really cannot commitee on the interface.

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ORIGINAL: Marauders

Keep in mind that this is a game.  There are things that can be done in the real world that are hard to simulate because the AI has to be programmed to consider more options.

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I'd like to see variable patterns for West Coast offense playbooks, but one would have to make sure it didn't break the AI.  On a similar note, I have been pushing for the ability to hand off/pitch to and from any skilled player on the offense in order to allow end around, reverse, and flee flicker plays. The problem is that the defensive AI has to be able to understand what is going on; otherwise it is really AI busting, and that is cheating.

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At this point, it has been agreed by David and the dev team that more things wouldn't be added to this release, because it needs to get out to the public.

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Replacing PDS 1.0 with PDS 2.0 caused a major delay, and that meant that many of the other things that have been fixed have not gone public. That needs to be done. I am sure most everyone agrees on that.

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As always, it is a good idea to keep posting things to the wish list and to express opinions on how much detail one wants in the game. I believe a majority of people interested in Maximum-Football want more detail, but if they want it, they have to let it be known.

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ORIGINAL: garysorrell

I couldnt care less about trading. What I want more than anything else, is:

Realistic sim results
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A 'team GM AI', that is, an AI that would try and build a competitive team.

Madden and even FBpro always sucked at trading anyway, and I rarely traded.
I would rather just have a team AI that tries to build a good team. And it
can be done via good roster management, offseason camp, and free agents.

But that is a part of Simulating what FootBall is?? Professional/Semi-Professional is not Professional/Semi-Professional Football with out it. It is either Youth, High Schoool or CFB.

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ORIGINAL: GWsFBAStartOct292006

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ORIGINAL: garysorrell

I couldnt care less about trading. What I want more than anything else, is:

Realistic sim results
and
A 'team GM AI', that is, an AI that would try and build a competitive team.

Madden and even FBpro always sucked at trading anyway, and I rarely traded.
I would rather just have a team AI that tries to build a good team. And it
can be done via good roster management, offseason camp, and free agents.

But that is a part of Simulating what FootBall is?? Professional/Semi-Professional is not Professional/Semi-Professional Football with out it. It is either Youth, High Schoool or CFB.

My mistake (stupid one for me to make, considering I have coached in both Youth and High School), even in Youth, High School and CFB FootBall Levels one can move inbetween teams, just not through trading:

Youth it is not a loophole just switch.

High School is sort of a loophole and a reasonable allowance (for educational experience) parents move their FootBall Players based families to communities with better High School FootBall Teams or High School Teams with openning at the position their kids play.

CFB players can ask their programs for permission to transfer to another Program, usually the programs require them to transfer to other programs not in their conferences. However, any player that transfer from a NCAA Program to another NCAA Program must sit-out a season, its a illegal action by CFB, especially when CFB Players are 18-years or old. players also can choose another division of CFB and never miss a single game, let alone a season. Doing that is just sick parents , not to mention cheating the idea of competition. I cannot see how the players do not become the biggest BLANKS and uneducated.

By the way, FBP '98 utilities ends their problems with stupid trading by CPU controlled teams; it makes the teams only trade or draft or sign players for positions they do not have enough players for. Bashing FBP '98's trading when it was solved and you truly do not know for sure is not smart. I am telling you that FBP '98's utilities are the best any where in the FB Gaming Industry (light yeras ahead of EAS's communities)!