Wolverine Studios Releases DDS: College Basketball 2

[Izulde]

Wolverine Studios is proud to announce the release of Draft Day Sports: College Basketball 2! You can purchase DDS:CB2 from our webstore for $34.95 and then after your purchase go to the DDS:CB2 homepage and download the files. All those who participated in FirstAccess should also download and install the full version of the game. One word of caution - if you have modded files please move them out of your directory first before the install since the install will overwrite everything.

Here's what's been added this year to the best college basketball game on the market....

New - Totally redone GUI allowing for full screen play and a host of data widgets to let you follow all the details of your association
New! - Assistant Coach Mode allows you to start off your coaching career as an assistant coach, performing tasks to help your team win while building up your reputation while you work toward your goal of becoming a head coach
New! - A brand new fictional league setting allows you to setup your collegiate game world in a system of promotion and relegation. The conference lines are completely redrawn creating superconferences and your goal is to work your way to the top conference and bring home the national championship.
New - "GameView" mode gives you another way to watch and coach your games
New - The DII challenge allows you to take one of five fictional schools who are trying to qualify for DI status. Can you recruit enough talent and win enough games against the big boys to belong as a DI member?
New! - Four additional teams added to the main post season tournament to field the tournament with four play in games plus an all new 16 team third postseason tournament added as well
New! - Progressive injury healing, lockable rotations, new game modifiers, assistant coach career tracking and much, much more!

If you want to learn more about each of those new features visit our page http://www.wolverinestudios.com/ddscb2p2.html to do so.

[MizzouRah]

Awesome.. forgot I bought this awhile back during beta. Can't wait to get into college bball fever!

[kingfc22]

Cool. Can't wait to see what people have to say.

[dawgfan]

Yep, curious to hear reviews. Hard for me to imagine I'd like this better than FBCB2, but competition is good.

[Galaril]

Yep, curious to hear reviews. Hard for me to imagine I'd like this better than FBCB2, but competition is good.

Seriously? FBCB likeFOF was a great game back in 2003.

[lungs]

Seriously? FBCB likeFOF was a great game back in 2003.

I've liked them both... FBCB is great when I want to plow through a few seasons quickly while DDSCB (I haven't played the newest yet) was more of a slower paced sim for me.

[dawgfan]

Seriously? FBCB likeFOF was a great game back in 2003.
Old doesn't automatically equal bad. And I don't know if you've played the latest patches of FBCB2, but it's awesome.

[Scoobz0202]

Seriously? FBCB likeFOF was a great game back in 2003.

Have you played the newest? I really feel it has almost the perfect blend of depth and simplicity....

[Young Drachma]

The D2 mode intrigues me slightly, but not enough to spend $35 for the game. FBCB2 gets the job done for me no question. This game does have a slicker interface, but the first time I hit a RTE would be enough to keep me out.

[dawgfan]

The D2 mode intrigues me slightly, but not enough to spend $35 for the game. FBCB2 gets the job done for me no question. This game does have a slicker interface, but the first time I hit a RTE would be enough to keep me out.
To be fair, you get RTE's from time to time in FBCB2 also, though Brian is very quick at releasing updates to address those issues.

Brian's fantastic customer service is one of the reasons I'm a huge FBCB fan.

[sovereignstar v2]

Seriously? FBCB likeFOF was a great game back in 2003.

Some people like runtime errors. Other people play FOF and FBCB.

[cubboyroy1826]

I will definitely give the demo a whirl and see how things look from there. I am going to pickup a new college basketball game this year for sure just not sure which one.

[Scoobz0202]

Has anybody downloaded the demo? I tried installing it to give it a spin and the layout is all out of whack for me. Check boxes do not line up at all.. that kind of thing. So out of whack it's unplayable for me. Is it just me?

System Specs:

Windows 7 64 bit
i5 2500K
8 gb ram
radeon hd 6950 2gb

24 inch monitor at 1920x1080

[Gary Gorski]

Has anybody downloaded the demo? I tried installing it to give it a spin and the layout is all out of whack for me. Check boxes do not line up at all.. that kind of thing. So out of whack it's unplayable for me. Is it just me?

System Specs:

Windows 7 64 bit
i5 2500K
8 gb ram
radeon hd 6950 2gb

24 inch monitor at 1920x1080

Is your DPI set to "normal"? That usually seems to be the cause of this.

[Scoobz0202]

Is your DPI set to "normal"? That usually seems to be the cause of this.

Not able to check right now, but I'm sure that's it. My DPI is not the default. Thanks.

[Gary Gorski]

Some people like runtime errors. Other people play FOF and FBCB.

Look through the DDSPB2 thread here - very stable as has been DDSCB2 all through the public testing period. The forums were open to the public from day one to follow the progress of the game. DDSPB2 was the first game I did in .NET and now DDSCB2 has followed and it has increased the stability.

I can't say there won't be a RTE but obviously if there are things wrong I'll patch them up in short order and like I said anything that has been brought up over the beta period was fixed.

As for the comment I don't really see the point. If you don't like me or my games that's fine but why bother to comment? There's few enough people left who play these games - why try to drive them away?

[DaddyTorgo]

Look through the DDSPB2 thread here - very stable as has been DDSCB2 all through the public testing period. The forums were open to the public from day one to follow the progress of the game. DDSPB2 was the first game I did in .NET and now DDSCB2 has followed and it has increased the stability.

I can't say there won't be a RTE but obviously if there are things wrong I'll patch them up in short order and like I said anything that has been brought up over the beta period was fixed.

As for the comment I don't really see the point. If you don't like me or my games that's fine but why bother to comment? There's few enough people left who play these games - why try to drive them away?

Sov's forgetting that he's not supposed to be a douche anymore is all I suspect.

[Mota]

Hey Gary, congrats on the release! I bought the game a long time ago but have been waiting for the official release to get into it, look forward to taking my Gators to glory!

[mauchow]

Hey Gary, congrats on the release! I bought the game a long time ago but have been waiting for the official release to get into it, look forward to taking my Gators to glory!

Ditto..

Gonna bring the lappy to work and play at work over the next few weeks. I'll probably start up a dynasty, too.

[Passacaglia]

New! - Assistant Coach Mode allows you to start off your coaching career as an assistant coach, performing tasks to help your team win while building up your reputation while you work toward your goal of becoming a head coach
New! - A brand new fictional league setting allows you to setup your collegiate game world in a system of promotion and relegation. The conference lines are completely redrawn creating superconferences and your goal is to work your way to the top conference and bring home the national championship.
New - The DII challenge allows you to take one of five fictional schools who are trying to qualify for DI status. Can you recruit enough talent and win enough games against the big boys to belong as a DI member?

These all sound awesome.

[Balldog]

I messed around with the demo this evening and for the most part I don't see a whole lot different than the original other than it was more stable and the features listed.

I find that recruiting is just cumbersome and redundant. The recruits respond with the exact same messages as the usual. Also when calling recruits the they still hang up too quickly and you are not able to see the feedback just like the original.

I also had a NBA locker room with Akron, every week players were getting into physical altercations with each other. Then when I'd try to have a conversation with a player and ask them to stop fighting they would all tell me to basically f-ck off. I think this area needs some fine tuning.

This game has a lot of positives too, I think it just boils down to what are you looking for. FBCB to me is simple yet immersive while DDSCB2 is more complex and immersive. DDSCB does a better job of presenting the world to you while FBCB makes you work for it but you can get into the games in a matter of minutes.

[MizzouRah]

Some people like runtime errors. Other people play FOF and FBCB.

This IS NOT a thread about FBCB vs DDSCB, keep these comments to yourself please.

Sheesh.. Gary comes on here to announce his new release and we get comments like these. :rolleyes:

[Mizzou B-ball fan]

Thanks for the announcement, Gary! I'll load the new update tonight and get started on a dynasty!

[Gary Gorski]

I messed around with the demo this evening and for the most part I don't see a whole lot different than the original other than it was more stable and the features listed.

A totally redone GUI, three brand new ways to play the game (asst. coach, promotion/relegation, DII challenge), new additions ("GameView" mode, third post season tourney) and improvements made to most of the other facets of the game isn't "a whole lot different"?

I find that recruiting is just cumbersome and redundant. The recruits respond with the exact same messages as the usual. Also when calling recruits the they still hang up too quickly and you are not able to see the feedback just like the original.

I disagree that its cumbersome and redundant - it's deep with some recruiting features other games don't have. You can find out if players fit your team's style, you have potential influence of parents, you have to dig to find what is important to the recruit...its so much more than "Player X has rating Y in scoring so recruit him".

Now as for the same message or a recruit hanging up too quickly...obviously you weren't part of the beta and that wasn't brought up but that's something that can be fixed/changed and doesn't really seem like a reason to dismiss the game.

I also had a NBA locker room with Akron, every week players were getting into physical altercations with each other. Then when I'd try to have a conversation with a player and ask them to stop fighting they would all tell me to basically f-ck off. I think this area needs some fine tuning.

Well just because it happened to you doesn't mean its either not possible or needs fine tuning. It's actually meant to have that as a possibility. I realize it sucks as the coach but if you are the coach and that is your team then you need to do what you need to do...even if that means giving a good player the boot because he's ruining the team and to me that is realistic.

This game has a lot of positives too, I think it just boils down to what are you looking for. FBCB to me is simple yet immersive while DDSCB2 is more complex and immersive. DDSCB does a better job of presenting the world to you while FBCB makes you work for it but you can get into the games in a matter of minutes.

I appreciate the acknowledgement that there are positives to the game and I agree the games are very different. I'm glad that you point out the complexity and immersiveness of DDSCB2 - its definitely meant to have more to the game world as I try to take my games more down the path of FM. The games are meant to be more than put the players with the best ratings out there and generate some numbers.

[sovereignstar v2]

This IS NOT a thread about FBCB vs DDSCB, keep these comments to yourself please.

Sheesh.. Gary comes on here to announce his new release and we get comments like these. :rolleyes:

Go play some more Football Mogul. Nice touch in quoting me and not Galaril douche.

[MizzouRah]

Go play some more Football Mogul. Nice touch in quoting me and not Galaril douche.

:lol:

v2 sucks.. maybe you can make a v3?

[Balldog]

What is "GameView" mode? I went to watch a game and it didn't appear to be any different than the original but maybe I am missing something.

[jbergey22]

Awesome. Congrats on the release.

[Gary Gorski]

What is "GameView" mode? I went to watch a game and it didn't appear to be any different than the original but maybe I am missing something.

Its a different presentation of the game. Same coaching options etc but a different way to view the information.

[Balldog]

I just started another game, this time with NC Central just to see if I got the same kind of mischief.

Week 1:
Mike Brown had one or two minor conflicts this week. Nothing to be overly concerned about though.

Week 2:
Michael Tebbs had one or two minor conflicts this week. Nothing to be overly concerned about though.

Kyle Roland had one or two minor conflicts this week. Nothing to be overly concerned about though.

Tarrell Hallbauer spent too much time talking junk and picking petty fights rather than playing ball. Hopefully this isn't an ongoing occurance.

Week 3:
Mike Yarbrough had one or two minor conflicts this week. Nothing to be overly concerned about though.

Michael Tebbs spent too much time talking junk and picking petty fights rather than playing ball. Hopefully this isn't an ongoing occurance.

Earl Floyd had one or two minor conflicts this week. Nothing to be overly concerned about though.

Tarrell Hallbauer spent too much time talking junk and picking petty fights rather than playing ball. Hopefully this isn't an ongoing occurance.

Week 4:
Mike Yarbrough had one or two minor conflicts this week. Nothing to be overly concerned about though.

Michael Tebbs had one or two minor conflicts this week. Nothing to be overly concerned about though.

Kyle Roland had one or two minor conflicts this week. Nothing to be overly concerned about though.

Earl Floyd spent too much time talking junk and picking petty fights rather than playing ball. Hopefully this isn't an ongoing occurance.

Tarrell Hallbauer was just a complete nuisance this week. He had more players want to punch him in the face than good plays. You might want to have a talk with him because he might be a chemistry killer.

Week 5:
Tyrone Gordon had one or two minor conflicts this week. Nothing to be overly concerned about though.

Mike Yarbrough spent too much time talking junk and picking petty fights rather than playing ball. Hopefully this isn't an ongoing occurance.

Michael Tebbs had one or two minor conflicts this week. Nothing to be overly concerned about though.

Kyle Roland was a primary source of problem this week. It seems like anytime there was too much trash talking going on he was right there in the middle of it. Better keep an eye on him and make sure it doesn't develop further.

Earl Floyd spent too much time talking junk and picking petty fights rather than playing ball. Hopefully this isn't an ongoing occurance.

Tarrell Hallbauer spent too much time talking junk and picking petty fights rather than playing ball. Hopefully this isn't an ongoing occurance.

Mike Brown was a primary source of problem this week. It seems like anytime there was too much trash talking going on he was right there in the middle of it. Better keep an eye on him and make sure it doesn't develop further.



That is six players getting into conflicts before the season even starts, maybe I am just having bad luck. I like the idea of the feature but its a little over the top to me.

This isn't women's basketball :)

[Balldog]

Its a different presentation of the game. Same coaching options etc but a different way to view the information.

I saw this last night, I like the new GameView quite a bit. A very nice addition.

[Gary Gorski]

That is six players getting into conflicts before the season even starts, maybe I am just having bad luck. I like the idea of the feature but its a little over the top to me.

This isn't women's basketball :)

When you get the weekly incident report its meant to be a recap of an entire week so when it says "Mike Brown had one or two minor conflicts this week. Nothing to be overly concerned about though." there's two things happening.

First is the game is trying to give you a clue that Mike Brown either has a potentially disruptive personality or that Mike Brown's personality clashes with another player on your team.

Second is that its trying to represent that over the course of a week of practice of competitive, college age kids that the player had some kind of incident and by incident I don't mean he punched another kid out - it could be he gave a hard foul in practice, did a little pushing when a play got too heated, called one of his teammates a bitch...any number of little things like that.

In looking at it from your feedback I think what I need to do is perhaps make the explanations more detailed in the game. I can see where you read the same thing a dozen times and think "whoa this is way over the top" when its really just an over simplification on my part of what I was trying to represent.

The intent of the whole thing is to a) give your players some personality rather than just being numbers and b) to give you some clues as to who's personalities are clashing and why that may be. If you see one guy who seems to get in trouble all the time then its probably a fairly safe bet he's just got a cancerous personality but if its two guys who only seem to fight with each other you know its some type of personal conflict there.

Do me this favor at least - let me try and make the area a bit more specific and release an update (which will be workable with the demo) before you decide one way or the other on the game. I appreciate the feedback and as always if there's something I can do to improve the game I'm always willing to listen.

[DaddyTorgo]

When you get the weekly incident report its meant to be a recap of an entire week so when it says "Mike Brown had one or two minor conflicts this week. Nothing to be overly concerned about though." there's two things happening.

First is the game is trying to give you a clue that Mike Brown either has a potentially disruptive personality or that Mike Brown's personality clashes with another player on your team.

Second is that its trying to represent that over the course of a week of practice of competitive, college age kids that the player had some kind of incident and by incident I don't mean he punched another kid out - it could be he gave a hard foul in practice, did a little pushing when a play got too heated, called one of his teammates a bitch...any number of little things like that.

In looking at it from your feedback I think what I need to do is perhaps make the explanations more detailed in the game. I can see where you read the same thing a dozen times and think "whoa this is way over the top" when its really just an over simplification on my part of what I was trying to represent.

The intent of the whole thing is to a) give your players some personality rather than just being numbers and b) to give you some clues as to who's personalities are clashing and why that may be. If you see one guy who seems to get in trouble all the time then its probably a fairly safe bet he's just got a cancerous personality but if its two guys who only seem to fight with each other you know its some type of personal conflict there.

Do me this favor at least - let me try and make the area a bit more specific and release an update (which will be workable with the demo) before you decide one way or the other on the game. I appreciate the feedback and as always if there's something I can do to improve the game I'm always willing to listen.

Ohhh...total misunderstanding on my part on past versions of the game too on this. More detail on this would be good...yeah. I always overreact in DDSPB2 and what-not to these type of things too.

[Mizzou B-ball fan]

Ohhh...total misunderstanding on my part on past versions of the game too on this. More detail on this would be good...yeah. I always overreact in DDSPB2 and what-not to these type of things too.

+1

[DaddyTorgo]

I <3 Gary Gorski's responsiveness to customers BTW.

[markprior22]

I downloaded and looked at the demo last night and was pretty impressed. Kinda strapped for cash right now but I imagine I'll buy this game at some point.

[MizzouRah]

Gary, I posted a few questions over at your forums under technical support.

One of them was, I'm noticing the redraw of the screen fairly slow when clicking on different parts of the game, anyone else noticing that?

[Gary Gorski]

Posted answers to your questions - will definitely check out anything based on your responses and feedback

[jbergey22]

I will probably buy this very soon.

I was just wondering if you had updated the game engine at all. I mean the stats were always fine in your games but the results didnt always seem "realistic."

Too many 30+ point games and very few 10- point games.

Also, in DDCB1 the scores were too high when watching or coaching the games. They seemed ok on the sim engine though so Im not sure if its two different engines or why that would be.

[Gary Gorski]

On the subject of the "weekly incidents" - do you all like a format like this better?

Chris Moore and Larry Sykes kept taking cheap shots at each other during a scrimmage

Shamar Tatum and Jaron Kennard slacked off at practice because they were too busy messing around with each other

Jaron Kennard and Chris Wright slacked off at practice because they were too busy messing around with each other

Chris Moore took a hard foul from Tim Smith and got up and shoved him back

Chris Moore and Shamar Tatum spent all practice trying to one up each other

Kareem Harper shoved Chris Wright after a play and went to retaliate but the team broke it up

Chris Moore and Chris Wright slacked off at practice because they were too busy messing around with each other

Its just something I put together and needs to have more added to it so that there are more options but is this a) more appealing to read and follow and b) give you a better idea of who seems to be involved in each problem so you can attack the issue better?

[jbergey22]

On the subject of the "weekly incidents" - do you all like a format like this better?



Its just something I put together and needs to have more added to it so that there are more options but is this a) more appealing to read and follow and b) give you a better idea of who seems to be involved in each problem so you can attack the issue better?

IMO this would be a better feature if it only gave us emails on important stuff or when we needed to do something about the problem.

When you are trying to fast sim through a season and you get these emails every week it becomes really annoying.

I cant remember right now. Is their an option to have the assistant coach deal with team chemistry issues? That might be a solution for fast simmers.

But to answer your question. Yes I like that much better.

[Gary Gorski]

Just to follow up that post this is a reason I really like this feature so much. Chris Moore seems to be involved in a number of problems - well sure enough his personality rating is barely even on the bar graph...BUT he's a 7-1 304 lb Freshman center. Do I take the chance of trying to "fix" his personality (or possibly make it worse) or do I boot the kid for the sake of the rest of the team. Can you boot a 7-1 300 lb freshman center???

I think decisions like this add a whole extra dimension to the game.

[jbergey22]

Just to follow up that post this is a reason I really like this feature so much. Chris Moore seems to be involved in a number of problems - well sure enough his personality rating is barely even on the bar graph...BUT he's a 7-1 304 lb Freshman center. Do I take the chance of trying to "fix" his personality (or possibly make it worse) or do I boot the kid for the sake of the rest of the team. Can you boot a 7-1 300 lb freshman center???

I think decisions like this add a whole extra dimension to the game.


In a college game you dont really boot kids unless they do some really bad things. I mean you could always bench the kid or suspend him but they'd have to be huge assholes to get kicked off the team. I tend to think in the college game chemistry problems arent as big of an issue as in the professional game.

You may get your freshman asshole every once in awhile but I dont think this is extremely common in college. Most of these kids are just trying to adapt and not trying to create enemies this early in life.

[Gary Gorski]

In a college game you dont really boot kids unless they do some really bad things. I mean you could always bench the kid or suspend him but they have to be huge assholes to get kicked off the team. I tend to think in the college game chemistry problems arent as big of an issue as in the professional game.

You may get your freshman asshole every once in awhile but I dont think this is extremely common in college. Most of these kids are just trying to adapt and not trying to create enemies this early in life.

But as I said - this isn't necessarily that the kid is a complete asshole that nobody could ever stand the sight of...but I coach high school basketball and even there I always have something "chemistry" related. Maybe the kid is just a spoiled brat or he dated one of the other kids sisters or two of them liked the same girl or whatever...there's chemistry involved in college basketball for sure and I think more of in a way that personalities clash because they're kids adjusting to becoming adults and dealing with just problems of being kids as opposed to the pro level where chemistry seems to be more about being familiar with your teammates and reacting in a put off manner to those around you that haven't matured and figured out how to act like a professional/adult.

[jbergey22]

But as I said - this isn't necessarily that the kid is a complete asshole that nobody could ever stand the sight of...but I coach high school basketball and even there I always have something "chemistry" related. Maybe the kid is just a spoiled brat or he dated one of the other kids sisters or two of them liked the same girl or whatever...there's chemistry involved in college basketball for sure and I think more of in a way that personalities clash because they're kids adjusting to becoming adults and dealing with just problems of being kids as opposed to the pro level where chemistry seems to be more about being familiar with your teammates and reacting in a put off manner to those around you that haven't matured and figured out how to act like a professional/adult.

I like the feature Gary however Im not sure if we are given enough options on how to deal with it/fix it. Sure if you are NC or Duke just kick the kid of the team as you have plenty of other options however if you are coaching Ball St you surely arent going to want to boot your only 3 star player off the team. The only fix that I know of is to kick the kid off the team. A lot of times winning will cure chemistry issues or perhaps the kids father decided to have a talk with him and he will no longer be an issue. I just dont like that kicking a kid off the team or dealing with it are really the only two solutions.

[MizzouRah]

Posted answers to your questions - will definitely check out anything based on your responses and feedback

Thank you Gary.. I like the new text format for player issues very much.

[Gary Gorski]

I like the feature Gary however Im not sure if we are given enough options on how to deal with it/fix it. Sure if you are NC or Duke just kick the kid of the team as you have plenty of other options however if you are coaching Ball St you surely arent going to want to boot your only 3 star player off the team. The only fix that I know of is to kick the kid off the team. A lot of times winning will cure chemistry issues or perhaps the kids father decided to have a talk with him and he will no longer be an issue. I just dont like that kicking a kid off the team or dealing with it are really the only two solutions.

Kicking him off isn't the only way to deal with it - your best bet is using the phone feature to call him. You can ask him to change his attitude or you can even suspend him to give him a chance to cool off a bit and see if his attitude changes.

One other option too is to talk to the other people involved in the incidents too - if you have a team of really high personality guys and just the one disruptive guy he's going to do a lot less damage than if he's got other guys around who are problem players too.

Booting the player is really a last resort in dealing with the problem. It may be worth it even to keep him and his bad attitude and disruptive behavior if you're still winning.

[MizzouRah]

I love the fact I can start out as a 3rd assistance coach at Mizzou. Only thing the HC lets me do is run practices. :)

I passed up some low tier schools HC jobs so I can start at the bottom with Mizzou. ONE DAY I WILL COACH THERE!

[Mizzou B-ball fan]

I love the fact I can start out as a 3rd assistance coach at Mizzou. Only thing the HC lets me do is run practices. :)

I passed up some low tier schools HC jobs so I can start at the bottom with Mizzou. ONE DAY I WILL COACH THERE!

I did the same. My job is to recruit.

[Dutch]

Awesome.. forgot I bought this awhile back during beta. Can't wait to get into college bball fever!

Same here. I'll give it a whirl tonight.

[Mizzou B-ball fan]

Got the following error when trying to load a save game.......

See the end of this message for details on invoking
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[Gary Gorski]

Shoot me the files - I need the .cbb file and the files in the folder with your league name. Just zip them and email to [email protected]. I will look into it right away. Not sure why there would be a negative number somewhere but I should be able to fix it quickly

[Dutch]

Got the same issue when trying to load an association for the first time. I sent my file in as well.

Thanks.

[Mizzou B-ball fan]

Shoot me the files - I need the .cbb file and the files in the folder with your league name. Just zip them and email to [email protected]. I will look into it right away. Not sure why there would be a negative number somewhere but I should be able to fix it quickly

Sent.

[Dutch]

Hmmm, looks like it might be standard Windows 7 strict permissions issues. When I "Run As Administrator" it starts up without errors.

Fix action:
Go to your DDSCB2 folder. Find DDSCB2.exe-->Properties-->Compatability-->Privilege Level-->check "Run As Administrator".

[Gary Gorski]

I was just coming to post that Mizzou's file opened up just fine for me. Thanks for the confirmation Mike.

[mauchow]

I had a point in the off-season - hiring staff - where it never left the stage. It just kept simming a day over and over. I let it run for a half hour to see if it would end eventually.. nope.

[Gary Gorski]

Did your team have an open coaching spot? Obviously someone did so if you have the files I'd like to take a look and see who isn't filling their coaching vacancy and why. Im sure its a quick and easy fix

[MizzouRah]

I did the same. My job is to recruit.

Let me know how you do, coach. :)

[MizzouRah]

Hmmm, looks like it might be standard Windows 7 strict permissions issues. When I "Run As Administrator" it starts up without errors.

Fix action:
Go to your DDSCB2 folder. Find DDSCB2.exe-->Properties-->Compatability-->Privilege Level-->check "Run As Administrator".

Make sure you always right click on any game install exe and select run as administrator.. saves a lot of hassels I've found out. :)

[jbergey22]

Purchased a few minutes ago. This game is pretty to look at. The widgets are great. Impressive beginning.

[jbergey22]

Probably being a bit picky here but...

Full Screen mode, when I open my roster and click on a player. It kind of drags in opening the player card up and it kind of makes the screen look goofy for a couple of seconds while its doing it.

I would assume my flash is UTD and everything so....Is this is how it is suppose to be or do I need to download something else?

I guess what I am saying is the transition from regular coaching office screen to popping up the player card isnt smooth. However if I just use the arrows to scroll through the players it works fine.

[gstelmack]

Make sure you always right click on any game install exe and select run as administrator.. saves a lot of hassels I've found out. :)

Sigh.

[MizzouRah]

Probably being a bit picky here but...

Full Screen mode, when I open my roster and click on a player. It kind of drags in opening the player card up and it kind of makes the screen look goofy for a couple of seconds while its doing it.

I would assume my flash is UTD and everything so....Is this is how it is suppose to be or do I need to download something else?

I guess what I am saying is the transition from regular coaching office screen to popping up the player card isnt smooth. However if I just use the arrows to scroll through the players it works fine.

Yeah, I've seen this a bit myself when clicking various things.. it's like the screen is drawing the windows and take a few seconds to get where it needs to go.

[MrBug708]

I love the fact I can start out as a 3rd assistance coach at Mizzou. Only thing the HC lets me do is run practices. :)

I passed up some low tier schools HC jobs so I can start at the bottom with Mizzou. ONE DAY I WILL COACH THERE!

It will be interesting to see if you can get promoted from within. IIRC correctly, I dont think any text games really offer that ability. FM has it once in a while, but not as much as you would think

[MizzouRah]

It will be interesting to see if you can get promoted from within. IIRC correctly, I dont think any text games really offer that ability. FM has it once in a while, but not as much as you would think

Agreed.. should be interesting to see where this leads me.

[Gary Gorski]

It will be interesting to see if you can get promoted from within. IIRC correctly, I dont think any text games really offer that ability. FM has it once in a while, but not as much as you would think

The game is setup to do this (both with a human assistant and an AI one) but its not done automatically - if the HC can find a better candidate than you he'll hire that guy as opposed to simply promoting from within.

[jbergey22]

Yeah, I've seen this a bit myself when clicking various things.. it's like the screen is drawing the windows and take a few seconds to get where it needs to go.


Ok good its not my computer treating the program like a virus or something.

Anything you could do about this Gary?

[Gary Gorski]

I'm taking a look at it - it's happening because of the full screen GUI now but I'm researching ways I can lessen it or get rid of it

[jbergey22]

I'm taking a look at it - it's happening because of the full screen GUI now but I'm researching ways I can lessen it or get rid of it

Ok, Thank you.

[Gary Gorski]

I might have a solution - I will try to get it out in the first update but it is a fair amount of work because I'll have to edit every screen in the game. Keep your fingers crossed it works :)

[MizzouRah]

I might have a solution - I will try to get it out in the first update but it is a fair amount of work because I'll have to edit every screen in the game. Keep your fingers crossed it works :)

Thank you Gary.

[vex]

When starting as an assistant, is there a way to know what my primary responsibility is before I accept the position?

And does my assignment stay the same from one year to next? How are the assignments chosen, it random or does the HC look at the assistants abilities? Thanks

[Gary Gorski]

Its done based on abilities but your abilities also sort of dictate the position offered. Most of the time 1st assistant is going to be recruiting, 2nd will be scouting and 3rd will be practice

[Gary Gorski]

Spent time with the screen drawing thing last night and it should be much improved for the first update. Got one or two other tweaks I want to make still and then will roll it out.

[MizzouRah]

Spent time with the screen drawing thing last night and it should be much improved for the first update. Got one or two other tweaks I want to make still and then will roll it out.

Awesome, looking forward to the update!

For now, I'll continue to wash the players jerseys and get the HC coffee. :D

[Galaril]

Anyone playing this? I guess in game sound is broke and there is no mod yet to add real team names,logos ,courts etc. So maybe I should take back what I said about FBCB 2;)

[Gary Gorski]

The sound will be fixed in the first update which should be released in a beta state tomorrow. As for the mod...all the same logos and courts etc can be reused from DDSCB. There are new teams of course and it shouldn't be too hard for someone to mod the real names - there was one that was being worked on during beta and I think the user just needs to tweak a couple things

[Galaril]

The sound will be fixed in the first update which should be released in a beta state tomorrow. As for the mod...all the same logos and courts etc can be reused from DDSCB. There are new teams of course and it shouldn't be too hard for someone to mod the real names - there was one that was being worked on during beta and I think the user just needs to tweak a couple things

Thanks Gary.

[MizzouRah]

The sound will be fixed in the first update which should be released in a beta state tomorrow. As for the mod...all the same logos and courts etc can be reused from DDSCB. There are new teams of course and it shouldn't be too hard for someone to mod the real names - there was one that was being worked on during beta and I think the user just needs to tweak a couple things

Thank you Gary.

[cody8200]

Gary,

Will the demo be updated to have the new updates when they are released? Sound and the full screen redraw thing?

Thanks.

[Gary Gorski]

Yeah the demo is the same thing as the full game but just stops at a certain point. I'm putting together 1.1 now so all you will have to do is download it and overwrite the .exe and you're good to go

[Gary Gorski]

The beta of 1.1 is available in our forums now - hopefully all the issues concerned will be fixed. Further work will continue on any other issues or adding in user suggestions.

[MizzouRah]

The beta of 1.1 is available in our forums now - hopefully all the issues concerned will be fixed. Further work will continue on any other issues or adding in user suggestions.

Thanks Gary.. now I need some time to play. ;)

[Tim Tellean]

1.1.1 Fixes (note 1.1.1 is the exe located in a zip file - just replace your DDSCB2.exe file with the one in the zip. It is NOT an "installer" to do the update)
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- Fixed error with box scores not showing
- Fixed in game sounds
- Fixed problem when changing rival resulting in multiple games (will only be fixed if you have not changed rivals. If you have you can fix this problem by going through the other teams and seeing which ones have you as their rival and changing their rival to none - that's assuming the schedule has not been generated for that season)
- Fixed crash looking at rosters as commissioner

[Gary Gorski]

Thanks Tim - was just going to post this myself. The box score thing came about as a result of the 1.1 work on screen redraws so if anyone else notices anything like that let me know so I can fix it up.

[Tim Tellean]

Gary posted this at Wolverine. He says 1.2 is coming shortly and here is a partial list of the fixes.

- crash sorting OVR on transfer screen
- fixed 2D screen so court will scroll on smaller screens so side stat box can stay visible
- fixed bug where almanac page doesn't change the display of champions
- fixed bug where recruits hang up and you can't see final response
- fixed the overall speed of loading many of the screens
- added button to recruit page based on suggestion so that you can set any filters first and then sort
- fixed initial default roster file to reset proper rivalry games

[Gary Gorski]

The 1.2 patch will also include fixing of hotkeys on recruit call screen and fixing an error in the promotion/relegation system.

Once that is released (hopefully today) 1.3 will be focusing more on adding suggestions into the game so at the very least take the demo for a spin and if there's something you don't like now would be a good time to suggest changes.

[Danny]

The 1.2 patch will also include fixing of hotkeys on recruit call screen and fixing an error in the promotion/relegation system.

Once that is released (hopefully today) 1.3 will be focusing more on adding suggestions into the game so at the very least take the demo for a spin and if there's something you don't like now would be a good time to suggest changes.

here it is, post 2555555

[Gary Gorski]

1.2 is now available

[MizzouRah]

1.2 is now available


Thank you Gary.

[jbergey22]

Giving a little bump with college basketball season starting up next week.