For all you Association mode guys, that control all 30 teams?

[TwelveozPlaya21]

How do you control the other 29 teams when it comes to like practicing to increase ratings and team morals and stuff? Any helpful tips would be great. I used to control all 30 teams in madden back in the day but the Association mode is so deep..

[Yeah...THAT Guy]

Re: For all you Association mode guys, that control all 30 teams?

I honestly turned Team Chemistry off because I couldn't keep up with trying to keep everybody happy. That, and the fact that guys like Kendrick Perkins were complaining in Boston led me to decide to just get rid of team chemistry so that I wouldn't have to trade guys like Perkins who definitely wouldn't be mad in real life.

I'm doing everything for 2 teams that I've decided to play with; the Bucks and Jazz, and I'm letting the AI do everything except trades and player signings for the other teams.

[escono15]

Re: For all you Association mode guys, that control all 30 teams?

During assoc, can i still turn off team chmstry and player roles?

Its starting to get a lil frustrating bcuz i have Ty Lawson playing 24+minz pgame but is still unhappy. wth?

[Kully]

Re: For all you Association mode guys, that control all 30 teams?

^^^^ Check if you have him in the right role.

Haven't had any problems with morale post-patch personally since it's really easy to figure out what players want. I kept morale on when I controlled all 30, for me it's not that difficult to figure out minutes and roles.

Only reason I stopped is becuase it's really time consuming. Setting practices for all teams, drills, etc. Rather just control one team, although I see the appeal of controlling all 30.

[lkasprzak]

Re: For all you Association mode guys, that control all 30 teams?

I control all 30 teams, but play just with Jazz. I control trades, signings, staff signings, FA period, draft and rotations Yesterday i spent like 4 hours in offseason mode controlling all 30 teams lol

[TwelveozPlaya21]

Re: For all you Association mode guys, that control all 30 teams?

I control all 30 teams, but play just with Jazz. I control trades, signings, staff signings, FA period, draft and rotations Yesterday i spent like 4 hours in offseason mode controlling all 30 teams lol

It's def. takes time, but to me I hate how the CPU AI is, It makes stupid trades that make no sense, the draft AI is prolly bad like it is in Madden, I rather take the time If I am gonna keep with it.

[x_irish6]

Re: For all you Association mode guys, that control all 30 teams?

Quick question: if I was to start an Association controlling all 30 teams, can I set the 29 teams I don't use to AUTO GM responsibilities where they sign & trade as necessary? I just want to be able to come in & veto any trades that bring in a 3rd starting PG to team's rosters.

[Whoman]

Re: For all you Association mode guys, that control all 30 teams?

I don´t controll all 30 as there then are no CPU trades at all, too much to think about and takes the fun out of it, it´s about beating the cpu afterall... I just turn off trades between the start of the regular season and about 2 weeks before the trade deadline (which greately reduces meaningless or panic-mode trades), have "override" activated and if a trade feels idiotic i juggle around some 2nd round picks and reverse it in a 3 way trade. Problem solved.

[dorismary]

Re: For all you Association mode guys, that control all 30 teams?

Question If I control all teams in a season mode can I do all transactions to keep rosters like real time nba season?
Also are there still nba legends ?

I just cant take the NBA live boost crud anymore , 4th quarter and Playoff boost are a joke and AI is weak at best at crunch time .

[Siddo4ty4]

Re: For all you Association mode guys, that control all 30 teams?

Question If I control all teams in a season mode can I do all transactions to keep rosters like real time nba season?
Also are there still nba legends ?

I just cant take the NBA live boost crud anymore , 4th quarter and Playoff boost are a joke and AI is weak at best at crunch time .

Yes, if you control all 30 teams you have an option to manually do all GM and staff duties by yourself to keep up with "Real NBA."

[qpc123]

Re: For all you Association mode guys, that control all 30 teams?

Don't forget that you can also just control one team, turn CPU trades off, and then if you want to immitate real life you can quit your job GM of your team, and lets say take over the Warriors, trade Jackson to the Bobcats, quit the Warriors job and go back to your original team. This lets you control in season player movement(for realism sake) but the CPU is controlling all the other stuff. I think I might opt for this since the player management can be tedious.

[pavon420]

Re: For all you Association mode guys, that control all 30 teams?

Don't forget that you can also just control one team, turn CPU trades off, and then if you want to immitate real life you can quit your job GM of your team, and lets say take over the Warriors, trade Jackson to the Bobcats, quit the Warriors job and go back to your original team. This lets you control in season player movement(for realism sake) but the CPU is controlling all the other stuff. I think I might opt for this since the player management can be tedious.

I tried both season and acc. mode but I think this will only work in acco. mode and not in the season mode. and btw free angency in season mode is missing so wth is 2k doing to their season mode this year?! =( too much to ask for the free angency and easy access to trades and releasing players whhhhaaaa!

[tutking]

Re: For all you Association mode guys, that control all 30 teams?

Don't forget that you can also just control one team, turn CPU trades off, and then if you want to immitate real life you can quit your job GM of your team, and lets say take over the Warriors, trade Jackson to the Bobcats, quit the Warriors job and go back to your original team. This lets you control in season player movement(for realism sake) but the CPU is controlling all the other stuff. I think I might opt for this since the player management can be tedious.

This could work but one problem is that you would loose the stats/streaks/ or any of the season achievement points that you can use for the training camps in the summer.

What I do is set control to all 30 teams but turn on most of the cpu automated tasks and turn them back off/on as needed. (i.e. switch the computer trading to on during the weeks before the deadline)