**Official NBA 2k18 Wish List Thread**

[isdatyt]

Re: NBA 2k18 Wish List

Comparable aesthetic tools to art team. There is no reason why I shouldn't be able to select Alan Crabbe's hairstyle for a CAP or KD's body type. Give CAPs tattoos or googles. That solves the issue of having to add more styles, just let them be copy pasted.

That'd solve issues like the ones I run into every year when trying to create young Shaq every year because that Magic team is my favorite historic team but it's just Laker Shaq in a blue jersey.

Remove limits on CAPs or at least increase them. I should be able to make a player as tall as the tallest player ever and as short as the shortest one.

Please!!! Let us give our created teams an alternate jersey. And (nitpick) give us the ability to do court designs that are ingrained in the wood (Nuggets, Bucks, Pels)

And lastly, better options/sliders for the CAP system. Every facial combination should be possible in the CAP system. I remember this guy on YouTube could create anybody on the planet if the CAP system was good enough to handle his abilities. I want that. No more picking from a list of eyes or lips, let us control that ourselves. Skin tone as well, a simple slider from darkest, Sudanese type skin tone, to Albino skin. Lip colors as well No more defined options. This way we can make the distinction between a super light black guy and a white guy. Ben Simmons & Klay are fair skinned but they are mixed and they have "black" features.

[rkocjay]

Re: NBA 2k18 Wish List

Carry over saves for Mygm/League thats my number one want

[JeanRinaldo]

Re: NBA 2k18 Wish List

MyGm/ MyLeague
-Draft Combine
(Spot-Up Shooting, On The Move Shooting, Off The Dribble Shooting, Lane Agility Drill, Shuttle Run)

-Summer League
(Orlando, Utah, Las Vegas)

-Training Camp

- D-League
All 22 Teams

- All-Star weekend
( Rising Stars Challenge, Skills Challenge, Three-Point Contest, Slam Dunk,NBA All-Star Game)

-Normal NBA Draft

[JeanRinaldo]

Re: NBA 2k18 Wish List

My Career
- Colleges
More Colleges

-Draft Combine
(Spot-Up Shooting, On The Move Shooting, Off The Dribble Shooting, Lane Agility Drill, Shuttle Run)

-Summer League
(Orlando, Utah, Las Vegas)

-Training Camp

- D-League
All 22 Teams

- All-Star weekend
( Rising Stars Challenge, Skills Challenge, Three-Point Contest, Slam Dunk,NBA All-Star Game)

-Normal NBA Draft

[ayeeDeee]

Re: NBA 2k18 Wish List

player body language, for walking around, running, minor nuances in body movement, posture; just the way players carry themselves on the court

Its the next step for really individualizing the players beyond model build, executable animations and tenancies, cause right now all the players move the same with varying levels of emotion, and you get a lot of movements and animations from players that you would never see do those things.

[iFnotWhyNoT]

Re: NBA 2k18 Wish List

Please add this...

Multiple Layup Packages

Too many times my cutter or the person driving will use a layup animation that either looks terrible or shouldn't be used. For example i have a big rolling after a screen and he catches and does a finger roll where his hands are literally touching the top of the backboard. I would have preferred a quick drop type of layup where he catches and drops it in. Just like dunk packages where you can choose simple "one handed of two feet" type of dunks, id like that to be applied to layups as well.

[Comduklakis]

Re: NBA 2k18 Wish List

Same wish list as years past: Tons of improvements to rosters, myleague, and defense.

The presentation is amazing this year. The game looks great.

But year after year nothing changes in myleague on core issues. We get expansion modes but they still haven't fixed issues with rotations, trade logic, free agent signing logic, poor generated draft classes, terrible contract numbers, and teams stockpiling talent at the same position.

So my top desires for next year

1. improved defense by my teammates. Make them smarter, make them stop picking up guys they shouldn't, leaving the paint exposeed. Make them smarter in transition.

2. Slow down the closeout speed for defenders on open shooters

3. Offer more options for users to set rotations (e.g. different lineups such as small ball, big, end of game, blowout, etc.). Work on the AI to understand how to implement proper rotations with guys who play multiple positions. That seems to be the biggest issue. The AI struggles to figure out how to play a Tobias Harris type the correct numbr of minutes by alternating at the 3 and 4 in different lineups.

4. Improved rosters. Focus on tendencies.

5. Improved generated draft classes. Again, focus on tendencies. Only PGs seem to have open man tendencies above 20. It results in a league with everyone but PGs with sub 1.0 assist averages. Focus on shot tendency. Too many talented guys with a ridiculously low shot tendency. Yes, I can edit this, but I shouldn't have to. Focus on creating draft classes with different types of players that fit today's game. Right now we get too many plodding giants, not enough stretch 4s, too many PGs that can't shoot the 3, not enough superstars, and WAAAAAY too many top talents over the age of 20. Reality in today's basketbal world is the lottery is full of 19 and 20 year olds now, and not 22 year olds.

6. Continue to try and figure out how to get a larger spread in records for myleague teams. Not enough teams winning 15-25 games, not enough winning over 55. Everyone bunches in the middle.

7. Put some work in on contracts. Make them realistic. Too many guys signing for too little, and yet we have free agents who hold out for giant contracts when they don't have a job mid year.

8. Have each team set to different stages of team building. Teams could have labels such as "rebuilding" or "title contender." Trades should reflect this. Teams that are rebuilding and stuck with large salaries should move those salaries and trade for picks. Right now we see way too many one for one swaps of guys with similar overall ratings, with little regard to fit for a team, and often the trades are position for same position. Most NBA trades aren't like that.

9. offer the D league. Provide a place to stash 2nd rounders or get guys playing time. Even if it's "text based" and not playable, it would add realism to the game and offer a chance for young players to progress

10. Work on progression/regression. Right now it's too uniform. Hit a certain age, you start losing points in all your attributes. Not realistic. In fact most players gain in IQ areas as they lose physical skills. They learn to play smarter to compensate for losses in physical areas. At the same time I'd prefer to see some guys stay at a high level until they are 36 or so and others fall apart at 30. It's how it works IRL. A player should NEVER lose IQ area points as they age.

[rwntrl]

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I wish 2K would pay attention to the gripes of MyGM and MyLeague players.

[wrestlinggod1]

Re: NBA 2k18 Wish List

Here are some random thoughts I've had while playing 2K17 or while playing. Things like more fluidity, ball detection, spacing and things of that sort are a given, so they won't be on this list.

Assistant coach cut scene being limited to mycareer or during a break in action, kind of like those inside the mic sessions. Hearing the commentary cut off to listen to an assistant coach give generic tips is an immersion killer for me. There's no need to hear the coach talk several times a game. I have a feeling people can live without the same tips over and over.

Sometimes while playing with autosubs on, the player that was supposed to check in the game can't come in because the person they're coming in for is at the line. In real life, the player will wait at the scorers table. In 2k, the player goes back to the bench and that substitution is canceled. I would like to see the player stay at the scorers table and wait to check-in.

I would like to replays during timeouts or in deadball situations, instead of them happening right after the play.

It'd be cool to see players wearing different styles of warmups if they've already seen action in the game. Live did a great job with the player towels, team shooting shirts, etc. as opposed to having players just sitting on the bench with their jerseys.

Another thing that would be cool is if when a player has a slight injury, we can see them icing down the spot or see them getting worked on while on the bench. Or if when they go to the bench due to injury but it's unknown how severe it is, we can catch a glimpse of them walking back to the locker room right before it's announced that they're out for the game. I don't mean a cut scene, just them leaving in the background while the game is being played.

[Junior Moe]

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I was hoping for Davez to do another MyLeague/MyGM wishlist thread again this year as my "wishlist" is focused there as its all I really play. Anyway...

Halftime: Add more content to the halftime show. Whatever happened to Sekou Smith, Rick Fox and Lang Whitaker? Do they appear anywhere in the game outside of twitter feed? Just make it like it was with Damon Bruce and call it a day. Actually, just bring back Damon Bruce. Save Shaq and the crew for big rivalry games and playoffs and stuff. They still need to be improved, however.

CAP: Please, please add tats for caps. Give us everything available to our MyCareer player to use in CAP. Improve the CAP faces. The CAPs still look off when next to a real 2K made player. So, just add thousands of generic though real looking faces like you encounter in MyCareer in college. Mash players faces and head models together, I don't care. We just need better faces.

Presentation: I dont know what happened but there are hardly any stat banners. I saw one pregame one time since I had the game where it showed Brook Lopez's stats. I want to see more of that. There's nothing when player is at the free throw line. That is useful in the closing minutes of a close game where I want to know the likelihood a player X missing one or both these free throws. Advertise upcoming games and matchups. I've seen commercials for MyTeam or whatever give me one for my MyLeague games or even just the MyCareer commercials featuring star players in MyLeague.

I really like 2K17 but I'm starting to subscribe to the theory of less is more. Master what we have. Iron out the bugs with and explain ACE better; make it more user friendly. I want to dive more into it and have that chess match but It's hard to understand and even harder to navigate. Simplify things.

[Jordanmike6]

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2. Slow down the closeout speed for defenders on open shooters

you didn't understand, the court is too small
Watch those 2 pictures the difference is finally huge!!!





The width of the paint is impacted too; watch on the real picture, between the chin of the Bulls and the paint there is the space for a long shoes, but not on the 2k photo!
this is not a legend, this is the truth!

[ffaacc03]

Re: NBA 2k18 Wish List

Roster:

• GLOBAL EDITING.
• Anything on a slider at the least should be editable in the quick edit screen. That means things like peak age start/end, jersey numbers, attributes, tendencies, hot spots, even sig shots (without display obviously)
• Introduce Tertiary positions. LeBron, Ben Simmons, Antetokounmpo, Paul George etc all play multiple positions. Perhaps have a option for "Position oN Defense". Ben Simmons and Antetokounmpo might guard PF and SF respectively but will be the PG for offense
• Advanced Rotations outside of MyLeague
• Ability to create coaches using CAP, and/or change existing coaches names
• CHANGE THE AGE OF HISTORICAL PLAYERS
• Release/add directly to Euroleague rather than trading

Free Agency:

• If there's no reason other that to make it more condensed for casuals, then don't cull the Free Agent pool every year. In real life, some players leave the NBA, play overseas, and come back after honing their craft or after trying out for a team. Alan Anderson, P.J. Tucker, Yi Jianlian are few that come to recent mind. But in 2K17, they've removed every free agent that did not play in 2015-16. I STRONGLY think that the Free Agent pool should be quite large, and ideally keep hold of free agents from the last 4-5 years.
  
• This might seem like a lot of players, and yes, it is. But for MyLeague die-hards, this is an extra level of variety and authenticity. When we enter a new MyLeague, let us Choose our free agent pool. Bring up a screen with check boxes - by default everyone is selected, but you can deselect any free agents you don't want to appear in the FA pool.
  
• For casuals, or those maybe only doing a single season, the option to have the CPU pick the 100 most recent FAs will be available.
  
• To add, do not have players "retired" by having them vanish after inactivity.
  
• Elton Brand retired last year, and came out of retirement to play halfway through 15-16. Things happen, situations arise.
  
• If players "retire" or leave the FA pool due to inactivity, have them fall into a different menu, and as GM, be able to convince them to join the NBA again.
  
• Larry Sanders is no longer available in the game, but in real life he is getting closer to wanting a shot at the NBA again - I can't replicate this anymore.

MyLeague:

• Allow us to pick what players, upon retirement will become coaches. Or have a badge/option in Edit Player that ties to the tendency of them becoming a coach. You have a vague "Hall of Fame score" which has guys like KG, Ray Allen and Vince Carter become coaches, but also Luke Ridnour? We've had role players like Tyronn Lue, Luke Walton, Brian Scalabrine become assistant coaches, some moving to HC - how low on the HOF Score are they?
  
• Player retirements: Yes players will retire, but players don't retire in real life without first discussing this with the team. We need to be able to defer their retirements by more than one season. The game has a tendency of having guys retire well before 36 years old. You will never get a KG, Andre Miller, Vincer Carter etc with a young player.
  
• If no fully-fledged D-League or Euroleague integration, then PLEASE having it text-based"
  There is currently no good use of the Euroleague teams. They have vague contract details sure, but imagine if you could track Euro free agents, and sign some as they come off contract like in real life.
  Just this offseason, Malcolm Delaney, Mindaugas Kuzminskas, Tomas Satoransky and Dario Saric have been signed from Euroleague teams.
  
• Make use of a text-base D-League to track free agents. Attributes are fine, but I can get a better idea of the production of a Free Agent is there was some draft-type scouting available. Have the D-League be a text-based simulation for the purpose of giving some substance to a certain amount of free agents.
  
• Like in real life, it is so imperative that if young players can't get on the court, that they get meaningful minutes in the D-League. Previously when 2K had the D-League, your players never actually developed - it was a way just to get 2 free roster spots.
  
• If you place a player in your D-League affiliate, they will generally get a starting job and big minutes - this is going to affect their development - or at the least, keep them at a level that would otherwise stagnate if left at the end of the bench.
  
• They can also get simulated injuries and fatigue from D-League minutes. If a player if fatigued, he may get called back up to the team - and put on the bench, but attend conditioning trainings etc.

• Let US pick All-Star reserves, let the CPU give us recommendations - we are the coach after all.
  
• Change the location of All-Star each year - randomly generate the arena - it surely wouldn't be hard to mock up an all star court for all 30 arenas. After the current year official one - just have a generic All-Star logo for the 30 teams, that changes color each year based on the hosting team's colors.
  
• Or better yet, allow us to create that years All-Star logo, dornas, courts. Make it so you can change the all-star logo every year, or re-use it if you wish.
  
• Better stat tracking from the roster. If I "Start Today", Games Started MUST be included, otherwise it adversely effects the 6th Man Award. Historical season averages for all players on the roster who have played in the NBA - Players added to the roster often have their stats and career highs vacant. If Rudy Fernandez is on Real Madrid, I still want to see what he averaged in the NBA.

Create-a-Player

• Let us scan for CAPs. Ideally, we could upload pictures to morph to a CAPs face - if that's too advanced then 2K needs to at least have face scans for CAP
• Overhaul CAP - PLEASE use WWE's CAW engine. Keep all the NBA 2K hair, but add ALL the WWE Hair and appropriate features.
• For body and facial features, sliders are cumbersome - you MUST have grid displays
• Have a bookmark/favourites for often used features - no more looking for "Eyebrows 17"

Great post above, a few more unorganized things to try and implement ...

- Enable editing chemestry values for teams at any point during a season/main mode, specially if that has some effect in gameplay or in simmed stats, I suspect it should alliviate the critics for teams under producing or over producing in respect of IRL ... if it currently doesnt has any effect, please make it so and editable.

- Enable editing the stances of each team (rebuilding, contending, pretending, standing pat, going sideways, etc) so we have a say on how the AI/CPU does trades (going after franchise players, veterans, upgrade at a position, after role players, after picks, budget relief, etc) ... how they do signing of FAs (going after specific roles/skills, best overall, best potential, satisfying a roster need, etc) ... how it handles rotations (giving mins to rookies instead of veterans, etc) ... and how it does drafting (going after best overall, or after best potential, best of a given position, just addressing roster need, trades or sells the pick, etc) ... this should reduce the bad critics of the AI logic for those situations as it would allow the user to set guides on its actions on those given circunstances and make teams fit oir views ... should ultimately reduce focus on enhancing the AI since it would be user dependant ... of course, any further improvement on these logics would be appreciated.

- Have Coaches grades incide a bit more in Team Offensive Efficiency and Team Defensive Efficiency (simmed stats wise, like teams PPG scored and PPG allowed), as well as on ranking the teams O & D within the main mode/initial season rankings.

- Implement Create a Staff. Please let us create Coaches, Assistants, GMs and Owners, from names, grades, badges, face and body ... or ... at least let us edit all of that for any staff member of a team, make them totally editable and so we could choose among existing faces and bodies.

- Enable switching of Players / Staff body types. So we, users, can make them fit our perceptions of which one suits better for any player/staff, this should surely reduce the amount of complaints on this manner as it would be player dependant ... of course, any engrossing the amount of existing types would be appreciated.

- Implement a Player tendency to walk the ball up, at least for those with play initiator or relate it to coaches pace.

- Reimplement at least partially, POE, for teams oncourt actions (looking at you: pace).

- Expand the quick edit menu to also show body types, meassures, hotspots, hotzones, badges and personal info, besides tendencies and ratings.

- Extend the incidence level of the bumping/physicality/force field, lively animations sliders reduction/increase.

- Reintroduce/Integrate, even if only simtext based, but totally editable, the Euro & DLeagues ... the NBA is moving toward expanding the latest and fully embracing it and making it as its minor league.

[Baebae32]

Re: NBA 2k18 Wish List

First step rating is much needed

[mexxelektrik]

Re: NBA 2k18 Wish List

just my 2cents:


Gameplay/General improvements:

-fix unintended double teams initiated by my AI teammates just because the guarded offensive players cross lines or are very close to each other (without any noticeable reason the AI often gets "stuck" trying to defend my guy ("A") although it was supposed to just run by him and trail his own man ("B") while I'm also still guarding "A")

-make plays start way faster after they got called

-insert sounds for players yelling "and-one!" after a (missed) foulcall on an successful shot attempt

-give us the possibility to adjust the 2k camera setting in a way that makes it possible to see all of our players in halfcourt all the time (really annoying when you can't use icon passes cause there are two of your players out of sight and you don't know which one is in what position)

-let us decide from which opposing player the help should come from on defense first with a seperate option


MyTeam:

-make playbooks in MyTeam customizable and give us the ability to assign certain plays to certain players (like in a usual PNO game for example)

-bring back the option to search for attributes in the auctionhouse

-give us the chance to check on challenges (and their status) in-game (sometimes I forget what the task was that has been shown at the start of the game)

[jax01]

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Mycareer + Proam + MyGM combined. Sick.

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