HOW TO MAKE MYCAREER, MYPARK, AND PRO AM BETTER

[JJRuelz]

So i've been thinking up ways to make online and offline play better while making everybody happy. And the way I've come up with is that 2k has to separate your mycareer player with your pro am and mypark player. I've felt this way since 2k16, and I still stand by it. I feel that you should upgrade, train, and earn badges for for separate players. But obviously that would create some problems with "people playing badly online just to get a badge" or ect. So I'm going to try to propose somethings to fix this.

1. MyCareer & MyPlayer Online

I personally think it would be way more fun, and way less hassle for 2k, to split MyCareer and MyPark/ProAM. Don't make somebody play a game mode they don't want to play. It creates less hassle for 2k because then the don't have to worry about pleasing both communities at once. Rather separately.

2. A Different way to grind badges.

Instead of a linear way of grinding badges, like you do a certain action multiple times, there should be a certain amount of XP you need to get for a badge, and certain actions you do to get XP.
For Example:
To get hustle rebounder you need 1,500 XP for bronze (or however much is suitable)
But to get XP towards hustle rebounder you do the following.

Boxout +1 XP
Defenive Rebound +2 XP
Offensive Rebound +5 XP

This makes it so that when somebody wants to grind for mid-ranged deadeye, they don't just spam bad shots to get the badge. I also think it would be more pleasing for the MyCareer community, so this way you can get these badges while playing normally.

It would notify us like when you earn VC in game.

ALSO LET US TRACK THE PROGRESS PLEASE!

3. Keep the Archetype System for Online

The archetype system is balanced. Anybody can dominate with any player. I think you should start out as a 65-69 overall, also I'm pretty sure everybody in the 2k community thinks that. But hey that's a stretch I guess.

4. Get Rid of the Archetype System for Offline

For MyCareer, get rid of archetypes. The MyCareer community doesn't like it. Let them be able to earn as many HOF badges as they'd like.

5. No VC for MyCareer

This is a stretch because we all know how 2k loves their money and all. But I still think this would have a chance, because they did this for MyGM. But I think they should just go back to using SP. Also Think they should reward more SP per game. But hey that's me.


I might be missing some things, but for the most part I think I got my point across. What do you guys think?

[EveretteWarren]

Good post.

I understand why you would want archetypes online I feel that it shouldn't. You see how it is this year. Shooting keeps changing. The caps are not really good. But I'll just say it's because it's the first year with it.

While yes, I already know the MyCAREER community wants the archetype system scrapped lol, there's a lot of people in the park/pro-am community who doesn't want it either.

It's not enough. No variety. 80% of people being the same build while the 20% isn't something that as powerful, but is good for them. If they don't enhance the system, I say remove it online and offline. As people suggested before, give us secondary/tertiary archetypes. Would be nice.

[meccs]

I agree on all of it. Most important things are having MyCareer separate from Online and having a different system than VC for it.

I feel like having a few people at 2K play MyCareer intensively would be a start. No one has played this mode for a longer period of time. Everything feels so incoherent and thrown together. From the practice grind where you just fail the drills as fast as possible because it's enough to fill the "doing work" meter to the ability points like "offensive consistency and hands etc" where nothing is explained what they do and how you get them. Even the commentators are just talking nonsense this year, where you have played for 2 minutes and are 1/2 and they start talking about how nothing goes for you tonight. Everything is so poorly executed this year that I think they need a year off to not just throw stuff together and ship it out because "it's good enough". It no longer is.

For all the cringeworthy stuff that happened in 2K16 MyCareer, I actually think it was way better. Stuff you could do was limited to one thing per day but it felt worth doing. You had to plan a bit, especially because of the player connection and the reward they gave you for MyTeam. That was an awesome addition and made sense so people that only play MyCareer could check out MT and have a good team to start with. It felt like a tight package where someone actually thought about what would make it better... what would be a fun thing to do.

[Aliean]

completely agree with everything you posted

[ammar_munes]

3. Keep the Archetype System for Online

The archetype system is balanced. Anybody can dominate with any player. I think you should start out as a 65-69 overall, also I'm pretty sure everybody in the 2k community thinks that. But hey that's a stretch I guess.

4. Get Rid of the Archetype System for Offline

For MyCareer, get rid of archetypes. The MyCareer community doesn't like it. Let them be able to earn as many HOF badges as they'd like.




Great point!

[meccs]

Quote: Originally Posted by ammar_munes

[b] 4. Get Rid of the Archetype System for Offline For MyCareer, get rid of archetypes. The MyCareer community doesn't like it. Let them be able to earn as many HOF badges as they'd like.

There is literally no reason to limit offline like that. I would even be ok with having the archetypes but letting us unlock a second one after the first season or something like that. Or it unlocks for one of the rewards like Rookie of the Year, MVP season or MVP finals or something simpler like just "complete the story". You could keep your main archetype for online and just have the second for offline. That would probably be the best solution if they want to hold on to the archetypes and MyCareer+MyPark being connected as one mode.