Nichols got the 3 sacks for a milestone, therefore, with the injury I can cool him off now.

Got a grinder now. After playing Armored Giraffe elsewhere and with the pugnacious Blondie present in this league I'll submit that if you had 31 battlers like them and me/you dependent on perspective - yeah - the engine would be as boring as f***. LOL :)

GG we threw the kitchen sink at you.

It worked! I’m not looking forward to our rematch.

Good game Houston - guess neither one of us felt like holding onto the ball very much!

GG Igo! That was intense.

GG KC

I figured it out. I -believe- JDB extended the block-on-block protection to the wings now on the punt returns, therefore, no punt blocks any more. The previous patch which took weight at the line in account...etc.

I'd still hope it views a non-punter at the position as disrespect to the engine and will change up the dynamic to allow the 95 speed CB to turnstile crush the non-punter punting.

Personally, I'm happy the punt block exploit is gone! I saw no value in it and made the sim results stupid with it being overpowered.

It was something that completely destroyed the concept of the game and made the game results look ridiculous.


I think everyone loses focus when extreme exploits exist and this turns from a football sim into a "I know how to beat the code" type game.

I've never liked playing WR at RB because it doesn't make sense. I used FL Hitch as part of my offense but it was part of a whole offensive gameplan and not the sole focus. 4.5 was broken to a certain extent but custom rules made it playable for all. 4.6 is completely broken and no amount of rules can fix it.

If JDB had simply made some minor changes to 4.5....it would have been a much better game.

CHANGE 1

Allow anyone to play anywhere but if a player was underweight for his position (i.e. 191 pound WR at RB/237 pound LB at DL etc) then triple his chance to be injured.

CHANGE 2

Just like you can only chose 30 plays on offense and 20 plays on defense...he needed to create a minimum required to 20 on offense and 15 on defense. Along with these minimums, he needed to institute a rule breaker that forced teams to use all the plays even if rules forced just a couple to be overused.

CHANGE 3

New player creation needed rules to set minimum speeds by position. WRs and CBs should all have a minimum speed of 70.....period. Aging players could drop below 70 which means they no longer are fast enough to play their positions but I fail to see the benefit of creating DBs and WRs with sub 70 speed. If every playmaker on offense and defense were 70 speed or higher then secondary attributes would become more important and the empty 96 speed player would lose his value. What scouting department is gonna waste time watching film on DBs or WRs who run a 5.0 40???

3 simply to make changes in the code that completely fixes 4.5 and makes the game competitive for all. No more 8 pass play offenses and no more 1 defensive play defenses. You could still play undersized players anywhere but you risk losing them for the season and speed is still important but other attributes have more value since every WR and DB would have at least 70 speed.

Maybe we should just find a code writer and develop our own sim game.

Or just buy MFN outright and fix it