Online leagues 2k15, The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

[silverskier]

Re: Online leagues 2k15, The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

So custom rosters worked for you eventually? And you were able to start the lg. What about saving your settings outside of the league in the nba today options menu? Wouldn't those settings save in your lg games? Try that and let me know your results. It is good news that invites and custom rosters are working though. Still waiting on my league to fill up before reporting my official results. We are at 26 of 30 having joined. We will probably have to use the extra xb1 profiles workaround to fill the remaining spots and then give those accounts to the user's at a later date.

We are going to start our league with custom rosters and probably playbooks not far away I suppose. I'll tell you about it as soon as I can

[amedawg00]

Re: Online leagues 2k15, The Good, The Bad, The Ugly



Well..its been a long time coming fellas..but we got our SSBA preseason league off the ground. We had 26 of 30 owners accept invites and join the league. There were a few users having trouble accepting their invites or were away for the weekend, so we created XB1 profiles to fill the rest of the spots. I can confirm the XB1 profiles can be setup to be completely unique and different from your main XB1 profile. Below is an example of creating a dummy profile for filling the Nets. You can later give this profile out to a different user in the event that a user is asked to leave and a replacement is needed. Who would have thought that a little known feature of being able to create multiple xb1 profiles with dummy emails and passwords would end up salvaging what little redeeming qualities that 2k leagues offer to the online community. As long as the infrastructure is there to play 12 min HOF sim head to head games, we will gladly settle for this. Finally, we can enjoy this gem of a game. By the way, myself and other league members are confirming that the games are running buttery smooth with little to no input lag. No disconnections reported thus far. This is our preseason league, so I will use it to report subsequent findings now that games are being played within the barebones OL.

[thedream2k13]

Re: Online leagues 2k15, The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

This upcoming patch better address some of the issues because as of know online leagues is the most screwed up game mode in 2k15. This mode was clearly ignored during development in favor of the "my" modes

[amedawg00]

Re: Online leagues 2k15, The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

This upcoming patch better address some of the issues because as of know online leagues is the most screwed up game mode in 2k15. This mode was clearly ignored during development in favor of the "my" modes

It's truly sad that 2k couldn't even arrange the standings in conferences or divisions in this mode. Having members quit in the final seconds of a gm when the game is not in doubt, just to get the games and stats to register, should hopefully be addressed in the patch. The designs for this mode are truly amateurish, but the on court gameplay is sublime; especially on hof sim. Unlike offline, those settings actually yield the most realistic gameplay and balance.

[lvnba]

Re: Online leagues 2k15, The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

What are the average on PPG you are having?

[amedawg00]

Re: Online leagues 2k15, The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

I really wish you could do more than one season, I always play online association, but can't get into it if it's just one season. There's no point in taking a team you have to develop if the league is just one season.

You can do an online association this year if you use the custom roster feature. Just sim an offline myleague season, note the progressions, regressions, and retirements. You can then use that data to create a custom roster for upload for season 2, 3, etc. of your online league. A dedicated admin could go one step further to account for how the owner of each team actually used their players during the season based on league game stats to tweak the ratings; should there be a wide disparity in the offline myleague progressions in relation to the actual league games stats. This is all incumbent on the stats registering in Online Leagues. Currently, the only way to ensure stats and games register requires the losing team to quit seconds before the game is over if the game is no longer in doubt. Also incumbent upon this working is the custom roster feature, which has been known to glitch the startup of leagues. If anyone has successfully used the custom roster feature to start a league, please post your method. If these issues are addressed, leagues, inspite of its barebones nature in 2k15, can be salvaged.

What are the average on PPG you are having?

So far the games have been low scoring with averages of low to high 80s. As more games are played and league owners familiarize themselves with their teams, the scoring output will undoubtedly increase, inspite of the HOF difficulty. So far, the users that have labbed their teams the most are the outliers scoring in the low to mid 90s. This has been the counter to the users that have been crying about the difficulty of shot release timing on HOF. It's not only mastering shot releases as I've found that if you work for good quality shots, you will be rewarded on any difficulty. Too much BS is allowed with the superstar sim settings, so we're riding with HOF sim for both the preseason and the actual season.

[swimfunk]

Re: Online leagues 2k15, The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

Our league has started however 3 guys still cannot connect to 2k servers (myslef included). It was become a cruel joke as I've been waiting all this time to play in a 2K league and now can't connect to their servers. They tweeted they found the fix and told us to to reboot. We did and have same problem. haha

Since I can't get in the league I have been going off of feedback from the league members who can. We started 0/3 in games registering so we have resorted to the quitting in final seconds in order to make games register. One of our owners hasn't finished a game yet due to d/c. However he played 9 in another league without any issues. We used a custom roster so I'm hopeful this isn't a trend and maybe just a bad couple of days. I will report more once I am able to get in the league (prays to 2k gods).

Overall, it seems like my league owners aren't as hype to play as we normally would. The barebones leagues feel like a let down and I am just not getting the same vibe I normally would. It really sucks that 2K blames the lack of plays on this mode when they put out a mode like this. I mean only the true hardcore 2K heads will stick with it. Hopefully as time passes 2K can fix the games register but it seems like they have bigger fish to fry at the moment.

[amedawg00]

Re: Online leagues 2k15, The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

Our league has started however 3 guys still cannot connect to 2k servers (myslef included). It was become a cruel joke as I've been waiting all this time to play in a 2K league and now can't connect to their servers. They tweeted they found the fix and told us to to reboot. We did and have same problem. haha

Since I can't get in the league I have been going off of feedback from the league members who can. We started 0/3 in games registering so we have resorted to the quitting in final seconds in order to make games register. One of our owners hasn't finished a game yet due to d/c. However he played 9 in another league without any issues. We used a custom roster so I'm hopeful this isn't a trend and maybe just a bad couple of days. I will report more once I am able to get in the league (prays to 2k gods).

Overall, it seems like my league owners aren't as hype to play as we normally would. The barebones leagues feel like a let down and I am just not getting the same vibe I normally would. It really sucks that 2K blames the lack of plays on this mode when they put out a mode like this. I mean only the true hardcore 2K heads will stick with it. Hopefully as time passes 2K can fix the games register but it seems like they have bigger fish to fry at the moment.

Thanks for the feedback swim; especially in regards to the Custom Roster feature working for the most part. We are using the default roster for the preseason league, and things are running smooth for the most part. I really hope the custom roster feature works as advertised because certain team rotations and lineups are screwed up. For example, one owner reported Otto Porter as missing on the Wizards roster. A disconnect here or there but nothing alarming. I just think overall, server stability has been worse for the PS4 than XB1, based on what I've been seeing on the forums. I hope you get your connectivity issues resolved. Are the commish of the league? How did you start the league if you cant connect to the 2k servers?

[swimfunk]

Re: Online leagues 2k15, The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

Thanks for the feedback swim; especially in regards to the Custom Roster feature working for the most part. We are using the default roster, and things are running smooth for the most part. A disconnect here or there but nothing alarming. I just think overall, server stability has been worse for the PS4 than XB1, based on what I've been seeing on the forums. I hope you get your connectivity issues resolved. Are the commish of the league? How did you start the league if you cant connect to the 2k servers?

I didn't want all home games so I had another guy be commish. Thank god, otherwise my league would be stuck and never get started. I joined the league right away and then soon after I was unable to get on. FYI I just logged on the app to get some VC and my balance was at 0 lol. I was over 20K when I last checked.

[amedawg00]

Re: Online leagues 2k15, The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

Wow...so any luck with your bbb complaint? They can get away with nerfing OLs but messing with people's money that they use for VC is not a good look!

[setis]

Re: Online leagues 2k15, The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

Could any dev let us know whether there will be any fix related to the online leagues in the upcoming patch, please? This is beyond ridiculous already..

[ManiacMatt1782]

Re: Online leagues 2k15, The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

Not for 5 years in a row and with all the endless threads discussing what we want in online leagues! Not like the info isn't out there. Just not a priority for them. If vac was a part of online leagues I wonder how much love it would get?

I think they are just trying to find a way to implent VC in them before spending any time to make a true multiseason online league again.

[setis]

Re: Online leagues 2k15, The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

I think they are just trying to find a way to implent VC in them before spending any time to make a true multiseason online league again.

but make them work already, Jez!

[amedawg00]

Re: Online leagues 2k15, The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

but make them work already, Jez!

Man...at this point they could infest the mode with all the VC that they want and most of us could care less. OL/OA heads would gladly trade off VC for a working online association. Hell they could even make the mode a paid DLC for all I care. Just give us a working OA for 2k16....this community has been battered and bruised long enough. We are down to our last remaining die hards as 2k is intent on driving most our community to the fantasy and RPG laden "my" modes.

[amedawg00]

Re: Online leagues 2k15, The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

I didn't want all home games so I had another guy be commish. Thank god, otherwise my league would be stuck and never get started. I joined the league right away and then soon after I was unable to get on. FYI I just logged on the app to get some VC and my balance was at 0 lol. I was over 20K when I last checked.

I set up a test league last night to verify that the league creator gets only home and no away games. I don't know if we overlooked it or if there was a stealth patch but it's been fixed. I did use an 82 gm test and as the creator I had away games. It is a bit confusing because the first week or so were all home games but as I scrolled through the entire schedule, there were plenty of away games as well.