I think most of us feel that the single fighter linear mode is dead and that boxing survey got me thinking again. It needs to be about having a stable of fighters with their own unique team. This idea could revitalize an otherwise stale career mode in boxing or even some form of UFC/fighter.
As a manager you're looking to sign boxers to your gym. Obviously this can work with existing boxers but the idea is that you're career as a manager will span the lifetime of many fighters. This is also appealing because fighter rights can take a backseat to a deeper sim experience.
You'll control the destiny (to a certain extent) of a number of fighters careers. For the sake of my write up lets say you'll have to ability to sign a dozen or so fighters at any given time.
So rather than 1 fighter you use over and over you'll be training a number of fighters in their given style and put together a trainer and cut man for each fighter. You'll negotiate various options for available cards, undercards and perhaps even work towards putting a few of your fighters together on the same card. You'll be steering the careers of multiple fighters at once.
You'll answer to each fighter with contract negotiations at various points in each fighters career. So you won't be able to neglect your youth for a big time veteran or risk losing fighters to another manager or CPU manager.
CAB could act as a draft class with each new calendar year bringing a group of available amateurs mixed in with randomly generated up and comers. Obviously you won't be selecting fighters every year but carefully picking ones you want to work with over the course of a few years. Might take you 3 years to find that lefty lightweight or you might go through 4-5 Heavyweights that burn out after 10 fights. There's going to be winners and losers. Not everyone is belt worthy.
Ideally you're working to further the career of many fighters and you can fight with each one or simulate the match. The idea is that you're not going to get bored running the same fighter time after time. As fighters retire you'll already have a few still in the gym training or be looking to sign the next 2-3 prospects. A scout could help you determine which fighters you'll be looking to get serious about.
I like the UFC career damage bar idea but it needs to actually mean something. This will determine how long the fighters career will last. As a fighter ages you have to be selective with how frequently you put them on a card in order to extend a fighter's career or you could decide push a hot prospects prime early on but if he takes a slew of beatings early one he could fizzle out before ever reaching his potential.
Once a fighter retires a few years down the road certain HoFer's could potentially have their damage bars revitalized slightly/briefly allowing for a small comeback....say a fight or two or three before being completely washed up.
This could translate online between friends. Multiple gyms bidding for upcoming amateurs and negotiate with your friends to put together the fight cards. Any given gym could manager 10 to a dozen fighters and partnered up with 4 or 5 of your friends this could get pretty deep.
Much better than sticking with one boxer for his entire career and with enough diversity the training mode and fight card negotiations could be filled with options and variety.
So yeah I'm bored and would like to see something different.
As a manager you're looking to sign boxers to your gym. Obviously this can work with existing boxers but the idea is that you're career as a manager will span the lifetime of many fighters. This is also appealing because fighter rights can take a backseat to a deeper sim experience.
You'll control the destiny (to a certain extent) of a number of fighters careers. For the sake of my write up lets say you'll have to ability to sign a dozen or so fighters at any given time.
So rather than 1 fighter you use over and over you'll be training a number of fighters in their given style and put together a trainer and cut man for each fighter. You'll negotiate various options for available cards, undercards and perhaps even work towards putting a few of your fighters together on the same card. You'll be steering the careers of multiple fighters at once.
You'll answer to each fighter with contract negotiations at various points in each fighters career. So you won't be able to neglect your youth for a big time veteran or risk losing fighters to another manager or CPU manager.
CAB could act as a draft class with each new calendar year bringing a group of available amateurs mixed in with randomly generated up and comers. Obviously you won't be selecting fighters every year but carefully picking ones you want to work with over the course of a few years. Might take you 3 years to find that lefty lightweight or you might go through 4-5 Heavyweights that burn out after 10 fights. There's going to be winners and losers. Not everyone is belt worthy.
Ideally you're working to further the career of many fighters and you can fight with each one or simulate the match. The idea is that you're not going to get bored running the same fighter time after time. As fighters retire you'll already have a few still in the gym training or be looking to sign the next 2-3 prospects. A scout could help you determine which fighters you'll be looking to get serious about.
I like the UFC career damage bar idea but it needs to actually mean something. This will determine how long the fighters career will last. As a fighter ages you have to be selective with how frequently you put them on a card in order to extend a fighter's career or you could decide push a hot prospects prime early on but if he takes a slew of beatings early one he could fizzle out before ever reaching his potential.
Once a fighter retires a few years down the road certain HoFer's could potentially have their damage bars revitalized slightly/briefly allowing for a small comeback....say a fight or two or three before being completely washed up.
This could translate online between friends. Multiple gyms bidding for upcoming amateurs and negotiate with your friends to put together the fight cards. Any given gym could manager 10 to a dozen fighters and partnered up with 4 or 5 of your friends this could get pretty deep.
Much better than sticking with one boxer for his entire career and with enough diversity the training mode and fight card negotiations could be filled with options and variety.
So yeah I'm bored and would like to see something different.
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