Is there going to be a Association insight?

[haloofduty]

Re: Is there going to be a Association insight?

Lol guess he didn't tweet back?


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No response from him. Bad news?

[DutchMastah7]

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They need to fix the CPU trading, signing AI. I remember last summer they said that it was fixed for 2K11. But as soon as I started playing association, I got ridiculous trade offers, etc. Nothing changed. This needs to be improved.

[Jukeman]

The CPU trading between Itself was fair but the offers to the Hum player was ridiculous (advantage Hum)

Also Melo kept getting sign by the Pacers to play PF in all of my associations...


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[malky]

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No response from him. Bad news?

It's worried me for awhile now when they wouldn't give Steve and them any info on association, so all questions that we asked, we couldn't get answered, seemed strange to me, not to give out any tidbits, but time will tell--- I can wait to ask others about association before I purchase, don't have to have it the first day.

[likegreen]

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if there was no association in 2k i wouldnt buy it. but there's something i think that's severely underrated by not just the game developers but also the people who play the game - playing time for computer controlled teams. almost every active player plays every game (if they're not injured). they need to implement a 7-10 man rotation for every team, depending on their roster and matchups against the opposing team. this is a huge let down imo. i cant believe no one cares about this. role players avg 8-12 minutes, 6th man 18-22.

[haloofduty]

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I hope they at least tweaked a lot of things. I hope we don't get that we are going to focus on association in 2k13. Association is improved but it still has been basically the same thing the last 2-3 years. I don't want to play the same association for another year. That's why we wait for improvements. As someone said in a earlier post franchise mode suppose to be one of the main focuses for every sports game. Unfortunately its not. I'm strictly a association guy so if its not improved I really don't care about buying it.

[edwho]

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I hope they at least tweaked a lot of things. I hope we don't get that we are going to focus on association in 2k13. Association is improved but it still has been basically the same thing the last 2-3 years. I don't want to play the same association for another year. That's why we wait for improvements. As someone said in a earlier post franchise mode suppose to be one of the main focuses for every sports game. Unfortunately its not. I'm strictly a association guy so if its not improved I really don't care about buying it.

Agreed!! I have not been a big fan of the Assoc the last few years...I would like them working more on that mode then new ones...lets get this done better then we can talk about legends...we will see....

[@ Lanc City]

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Agreed!! I have not been a big fan of the Assoc the last few years...I would like them working more on that mode then new ones...lets get this done better then we can talk about legends...we will see....

I haven't been a fan of association for some years. I can't find any reason why 2k ignores the association. I would think most people played it before 2k10, all the additions everyone posted NEED to be made.

[Jukeman]

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Scouting

Should be more rewarding and immersive

-First of all, give us the option to use letter grade overall ratings in Association Mode (Choops has this)

-Add draft combine to the pre-draft workouts. (Draft combine can be use to get a feel for a player while unlocking more projected ratings, basically the same as the old pre-draft workouts but with a realistic atmosphere)

-Keep the existing pre-draft work out feature but limit it to just team work outs where you select 5 prospect to run a 5 v 5 against players on your team.

-Scouts should have a bigger impact on association mode. The better the scouts the more accurate a "projected rating" shall be. (actual ratings shouldn't be revealed until you sign the prospect) As you scout many players throughout the season, you should unlock limited ratings one by one with the more times you scout a player, the more accurate it is (of course poor scouts will have to spend more time with a prospect than a high rated one) We shouldn't be able to see most of a prospect's ratings until we play with them at the combine (of course projected draft stock will give you a idea of who "may" be the best guys in the upcoming draft)

-The Potential and OVR ratings should be hidden until the player is drafted.

-Add Summer League. It doesn't have to be a full blown schedule or anything, heck we can even skip it..Just add it there with a few games so we can test out player thats on our team and even spot some diamonds in the rough who went undrafted...Something similar to ABL in Choops..

Practice and in-season Training

-Should be integrated into one feature. As in previous NBA 2k's, Practice is pretty much irrelevant...There is no point in even using it, you would think that you would have to manage progressive fatigue within association but that feature doest do anything neither except have players jog/walk for 2 sec during a game....Take a book from Choops (again) and use the training system they had in place (don't feel like explaining it for the choops noobs) while integrating practice with it, basically we should have to manage practice time with training time during the season (also off days). Practice should continue to add bonus points to ratings (that actually matter this time) for the upcoming games while also managing fatigue (tired players = bad ratings and risk to injury, so off days should really be important) So with having to manage Game time, Practice time, Training time and Off time throughout a 82 game schedule, the off season is where we shall see drastic rating changes (via progression) because its basically no schedule to worry about...

A Few Key Notes To Piece Everything Together

-In season progression (training, production, Pot = progession)

-Coach ratings should determine how much of a rating boost you get from practice during the games

-Option to set everything to auto for the guys who are not really worried about this stuff

-Like MLB The Show's franchise, every event should be mapped out on a calendar (injuries should now carry on to the next year)

Everything I talked about is basically already in the game, it is just poorly implemented (well I shouldn't use "poorly" because the crew at 2k does a fantastic job with this game)...Lets tighten things up a bit!

[Colts18]

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And please...please...just let us set rotation minutes for every team without having them reset once we actually start an Association. It's so annoying to have the game set every single team's rotations to 40+ minutes per game for the starters, despite having set them differently before starting. Same for other teams once we start the mode, let us customize other teams without having things reset once we change back to our own team. Association should be designed with the main idea of giving the user full options/customization to their hearts desire.

I don't know what the hell was up with that. I think it was just a bug they couldn't fix.

[Gosens6]

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As excited as I am about this game, if there are no improvements to association mode, I will cancel my pre-order.

I remember last year myself and others had to do extensive testing to try and fix some of the bugs in this mode, mainly CPU teams not trading ANY players after the second year.

So let's hope for an offline association, because that's the make or break mode for me

[kenzil]

Re: Is there going to be a Association insight?

As excited as I am about this game, if there are no improvements to association mode, I will cancel my pre-order.

I remember last year myself and others had to do extensive testing to try and fix some of the bugs in this mode, mainly CPU teams not trading ANY players after the second year.

So let's hope for an offline association, because that's the make or break mode for me

Same here...I still have an association going in 2k11.. If there are no major improvements/changes, I will pass on the game this year.

[likegreen]

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im still getting the game even if there's little to no improvements on association. they improved the AI and other things. but i'll get the game a lot slower. i'm in my 2nd year in my association right now. the first one i screwed up the playoff format.

but if there's literally no offline association than im not buying the game. i'll just play it off someone else. association is the reason i still play 2k11

[Pitfighter87]

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As excited as I am about this game, if there are no improvements to association mode, I will cancel my pre-order.

I remember last year myself and others had to do extensive testing to try and fix some of the bugs in this mode, mainly CPU teams not trading ANY players after the second year.

So let's hope for an offline association, because that's the make or break mode for me

Sad to say but i agree.

[raidertiger]

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i would love to see Association have some common sense

-A player should be mad because hes not winning games

-A bench player should be happy because hes on a winning team (look at the player morale of sixth man of the year in association, they always have low morale)

-Small market teams should have a disadvantage. Money isn't enough to attract Chris Paul to minesota.

-Players should be more willing to take less money if it means they have a chance (I'm not saying that we can sign CP3 for 3million to the heat, but like a reasonable price of maybe 12mil)

-And a better distribution of wins. the first place team wins only 56 games (That amount of wins was like 3rd in the East in the NBA). The second place team wins maybe 52 games in association (that amount of wins was like 5th in the west this year in the nba) and last place team in association might only have like 57 losses (which is like 8 less than the last place team this year in the NBA)

All I want.