I forget what it stands for, but it as to do with AI, where the AI has a brain, and will make change things up, to stop you. So if you continue to run the same play over and over, they will make changes to stop it. Likewise the AI will look for advantages to exploit your weakness, and if you dont make changes, they will continue to exploit you, until you change things up to stop them.
ACE gives the AI the ability to see mismatches and to attack that mismatch. For example, you have a small guard, get switch to a big, the AI will look to get the ball to the big in the post to take advantage of the smaller player.
ACE was also suppose to allow you if you have your calling plays set to auto, you would see more of a variety of plays being called, rather than just the same 1 or 2 over and over again. Unfortunately once again this yr, this dont work as they said it would pre-release.
On another note, I just played a game, and I had to shooting fouls on 3pt attempts, and a charge called in the same game. I about choked on my Copenhagen when I got a 2nd shooting foul on a 3pt attempt,lol.
I had seen a total of 1, since the game released and thru atleast 35 full games played, as I only play on 12 minute qtrs too. It was me drawing the 2 fouls on the 3pt attempts, I have yet to have the CPU draw an on me. With that charge I think I have now seen 5 charging fouls,lol.
This was on pro difficulty too, and with the only changes to the sliders were the fouls sliders I mentioned in the previous post. I also had the speed and acceleration sliders for fast players and slow players with and without ball, set to 80/40 for each of them.
I also had Gameplay speed at 49. I had been playing with 50, and I had tried 48 as I saw some using that gamespeed, but it seem a little to slow to me, but 49 seems about right. You still have some explosiveness to players, but when shooting free throws, the ball dont look like its in slow motion on the shot.
It was probably just a freak thing, and it will probably be another 35 games before I see another foul on 3pt attempt, let alone 2 in the same game, and probably be about that many games before I see another charge too.
In years past blocking fouls always got called, but for some reason, these dont get called hardly at all in 19 either, heck I think I may have seen more charges called than blocking fouls even, Its rare for either to be called in 19.
Is really a shame the devs are ignoring and refusing to fix this lack of fouls issue. The gameplay is so close to being great, but this issue with the lack of fouls is ruining the gameplay.
I have been disappointed over the yrs at times with the devs ignoring and refusing to fix certain issues, but after 5 patches, and the lack of fouls still havent been fixed, this is probably the most disappointed in the devs I have ever been. Its ridiculous this is still a issue, considering all the people who have complained about this. It seems, if it doesn have something to do with online play, and those who play dress up barbie with their MyPlayer, the devs have no interest in fixing anything that has to do with the actual basketball game, which is suppose to be a simulation of the NBA.