NBA 2K15 MyLEAGUE Interview

[Melbournelad]

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As long as it's removable we're good.

How about trades? Do we still have to deal with 4 slots and have to pick any combination of players and picks to make a trade or will players and draft picks finally have their own slots?

Basically can we make a trade of 4 players plus 3 picks to another team or do we just have 4 slots like we've had for the past billion years?

Would we be able to get some clarification on this (and putting protections on draft picks)? And if you guys haven't had time to address this, is there any chance it may be able to be implemented before release or in a patch?

[MarvellousOne]

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Keep in mind the dev's did an incredible (and daunting) task of creating two games last year and truly making the next-gen stand out with NBA 2K14. As Rob mentioned in the MyLEAGUE piece, NBA 2K15 will feature a "robust create a player." And it's DAMN glorious.

This is the year of the fans as I like to say. This year is going to be special.

Not knocking the devs at all just really refreshing to see them interacting like used to do and it's nice what they have been creating thus far. I cannot wait to see what the Create A Player will be like!

[Sundown]

NBA 2K15 MyLEAGUE Interview

It won't hurt if it's automatic, as long as we have the option to take it off if we don't like it.

Also, if the new equipment is on a part of the body where the player normally wears a certain accessory, just make it so that when the injury is done, that the player puts back his normal accessory.

For ex. melo injures his elbow, switches to an elbow pad, injury is gone, he switches back to his normal accessory

Love this attention to detail both in representation and in user interface/flow concern.

I like the idea of having injury accessories show up automatically for that initial WOW factor in roster creator.

Would it make sense to have each injury have a default and editable accessory tied to them in the interface, and to be able to change that injury accessory as an extra layer? It would replace the original accessory in that location only for the duration of the injury and also be customizable. Then when the injury expires, the accessory is also automatically removed. Not sure if it's too late in the game to make interface changes.

Lingering injuries would have the accessory tied to them, and of corse you can change injuries to use no accessory either.

So for example, Curry has lingering low level ankle durability issues -- he's been healthy for two years but he still wears heavy braces on both ankles. It makes sense to me that the accessory is tied logically to the injury concern. Of course, if body part durability and injuries are different things, this example doesn't really work.

There, my GSW man crush. Are you happy Czar? Lol.

[frankwest718]

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I hope face masks are in the game if a player gets a broken nose, that seems like the ultimate excuse for an "injury accessory" and would be awesome

[mrclutch]

Great news all around. Sounds like they have all the basics back in.

[Andarus]

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I hope they fixed the Trade-AI. In 2K14 it was way to easy to trade for good Picks, the AI was not able to valuate the Picks correctly.

[frankwest718]

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I hope they fixed the Trade-AI. In 2K14 it was way to easy to trade for good Picks, the AI was not able to valuate the Picks correctly.

There's a slider to make trades harder. What we really need to be concerned about is that we are constantly limited to 4 trade slots.

Draft picks and players should have different slots. We should be able to trade 4 players plus 4 picks if we want, and not just any combination of 4 pieces to another team

[coltcon]

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Teasing us with this robust create a player. Come on release the details!

[Sundown]

NBA 2K15 MyLEAGUE Interview

Now that teams have their future pick situations accurately represented, can we also trade with pick protections, and are TPEs in the game with teams having their respective TPEs? BAEs? Mini-MLEs? Injured player exceptions? Sign and trades? Cap Holds (this one is big for properly implemented Bird rights)?

How awesome would it be for 2K to be my source for team situations under a fully implemented CBA.

[King_B_Mack]

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Just saying...since we're on the customization topic and listening to the fans. Being able to choose our jerseys in MyCareer along with editing other players in that mode would be fantastic. Just for those of us cursed with observational quirks that make things like incorrect accessories, color inaccuracies and the like stand out, last year was very annoying not being able to personally fix those over sights and not having the accessories change automatically for your own player. I'll leave that there lol

EDIT: Would also be nice to finally see team colors expanded so that we can finally get those correct.

[Sundown]

NBA 2K15 MyLEAGUE Interview

3. Give us a trade meter. Often we are just throwing stuff at the wall just to see what the CPU will and won't accept. This makes trading a tedious process at times, especially when trying to acquire high quality players.

A simple meter system, or "light" system would fix this and hell casual NAND hardcore players complete deals faster.

-red light- no way
-orange light-almost but not quite
Green light-will accept

This system would make trading a breeze and remove the guessing game from the equation.

This is a great idea. Or a trade proposal scale of angry to happy face reflecting how an opposing GM will likely respond. You can gamble to see if a GM will accept a potentially one sided trade and you can try to spam mediocre ones.

However, offer several refused trade proposals in succession or an egregiously bad one (think ESPN trade machine abuses), and your reputation takes a hit around the league that recovers over time that makes it harder to make moves.

Fun thematic meter ideas:

Red icon of an angry face with a hung up phone.

Yellow icon of a phone next to an inexpressive face with a chat bubble. "No deal yet but we're talking."

Green icon of a phone with a happy face.

Rest of your ideas are fantastic too.

[snocone]

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Now that teams have their future pick situations accurately represented, can we also trade with pick protections, and are TPEs in the game with teams having their respective TPEs? BAEs? Mini-MLEs? Injured player exceptions? Sign and trades? Cap Holds (this one is big for properly implemented Bird rights)?

How awesome would it be for 2K to be my source for team situations under a fully implemented CBA.

They're programmers, not lawyers. Don't get your hopes up about it being accurate, ESPN doesn't even seem to understand the CBA half of the time

[seanbarkley]

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EDIT: Would also be nice to finally see team colors expanded so that we can finally get those correct.

+1

Seeing that this is finally the year of the dreams come true maybe we can finally get a menu where we can change team/shoe and sock colors ourselves

[jpshua15]

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+1

Seeing that this is finally the year of the dreams come true maybe we can finally get a menu where we can change team/shoe and sock colors ourselves

This is such a simple addition too ... 2k please see this thanks

[King_B_Mack]

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+1

Seeing that this is finally the year of the dreams come true maybe we can finally get a menu where we can change team/shoe and sock colors ourselves

Not to mention accurate accessory colors. Would be great to finally get the Lakers and other teams' under shirts changing only to white or black because you could set it to Team Color 4 or 5 or something. Or how about finally being able to change headband colors ourselves lol