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Re: 2026 offseason/free agency/draft

By Smirt211
10/05/2019 3:14 am
Therefore, I deserved the loss because my ST Blocker TE was pulled from the game and an AI substitute came in allowing Pern to block a FG and win a game he had no right winning? lol It's the sort of thing where you have to watch the game and witness the flow. Pern's awesome but in this game my strats prevailed and it was time for him to job/lose. Any ways, we're in circles and this kind of makes me glad that I go into the lab full tilt. Re-confirms for me.

Re: 2026 offseason/free agency/draft

By slowtospeak
10/05/2019 9:54 am
Do what you need to do. Just don't be sorry, because I'm not. I think you deserved to lose because you didn't play part of the game. You don't need my permission to disagree with that. I'm cheating, but you're cheating too. My cheap tricks only work because you're blaming JDB instead of figuring out what I'm really doing. The other guy is trying too. Everybody else isn't a moron, just because you're brilliant.

Re: 2026 offseason/free agency/draft

By Cjfred68 - League Admin
10/05/2019 10:14 am
This may be a stupid question but what is this punt block exploit everyone is talking about. I guess I vulnerable to it because I havent changed anything to prevent it.

Re: 2026 offseason/free agency/draft

By Smirt211
10/05/2019 10:20 am
Huh? I do over-rides. It's a) get a punter with high end punt timing, which gets rid of the majority of it and b) wedge in your top ST Blockers to the corner spots in which the speedsters invade to hold 'em off just enough. I played the game and my game plan had his beat. A fluke block when I took the precautions and protected myself. We're getting off base here.

Pern isn't the issue. It was a clean game. Champions with GDB....he tried everything in his power to stunt me with punt blocks because his team couldn't beat mine. He went in with ugly intent. It was a pretty ugly game because of it, too.

But I don't debate. I take convos like this and go into the lab and get madder.

BTW I don't have a problem with you punt blocking or trying to for an angle. Much earlier I said if a punt blocker whom is vulnerable or a set-up not even attempting to allay the rush....I could understand that getting dinged here and there. Peep, GDB's ****. It gets consistent pushes in at the punter on every kick and knowing the individual he enjoys every bit of it.


But I'm done because this is when someone slips. When they enter the debate team.

You're an incredible GM. I've got no issues with you!

(See last season's game in Champions between me and whatever GDB's team is. You'll get a feel for it then.)
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Re: 2026 offseason/free agency/draft

By Smirt211
10/05/2019 10:38 am
I'll add something real quick here because I really tried not to get into it. I tried hard.

Here's the issue.

We all put in hard work. It pulls all offensive and defensive plays and the game right off the chess board. Removes the strategy and hard work put in putting an offense into place, putting a defense into place.....working your plays game after game...scouting game after game.

It takes a sh*t on it because someone can put a 96/96 speed DB at a spot with 94 strip ball and run in on your punter every time even if their team has low ranked players and no game plan and etc etc etc....


I really have no desire to get into this.

But I'll be watching because I know how people operate. They'll take this info and try to use it. That's cool. I get knocked out of late round playoff games with this I'll leave the game.



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Re: 2026 offseason/free agency/draft

By Cjfred68 - League Admin
10/05/2019 10:50 am
Ok....I must have been doing something right without knowing it. I dont use over rides so my depth charts must be covering up this exploit for me.


I hope so because using overrides on a phone is almost impossible

Re: 2026 offseason/free agency/draft

By Smirt211
10/05/2019 10:58 am
Here's the line.

I think it's fine to put stuff in place to try and achieve a punt block.

But if you're a) doing it to be a **** (generally speaking) and/or b) you have no shot to win the game but by disrupting the sim engine in creation of punt blocks which steals high profile games in which the GM poured his heart and soul into game planning ALL season long...

yeah, f*ck that.

Glad it hasn't found its way to hurting you, CJ. :)
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Re: 2026 offseason/free agency/draft

By slowtospeak
10/05/2019 12:22 pm
Cjfred68 wrote:
This may be a stupid question but what is this punt block exploit everyone is talking about. I guess I vulnerable to it because I havent changed anything to prevent it.



I'll believe this when I see it. If I ever get a chance to block a punt against you, it probably won't matter.

Re: 2026 offseason/free agency/draft

By slowtospeak
10/05/2019 2:11 pm
This thread contains a pretty good antidote to what I *used* to do:

https://xfl.myfootballnow.com/community/3/6034?page=1

This game contains several examples of what I'm doing *now*:

https://cust21.myfootballnow.com/watch/7494#1337497

No doubt that will change again when people figure it out.

I can never win the moralist argument; just know that I think I am pulling the same kind of cheap stunt that was being done to me. At some point I have to just be content to be misunderstood.

Nobody felt sorry for me when I was getting clobbered. That is one reason I am so crass today. Now that I've found something that works, the same people who used to clobber me are crying foul. They certainly have a right to complain, but what's good for the goose is good for the gander.

Re: 2026 offseason/free agency/draft

By Smirt211
10/05/2019 2:26 pm
No, I feel you on that front. You and I we're both competitive. I get angry too and then that's when you dig in and look for the differentiators and ways to separate yourself from the competition.

I'll check out your links in a second.

Where I'm coming from is I've seen enough of them and watched enough games to know that similar to when someone doesn't have a punter in @ punter or a kicker slotted @ kicker the sim engine feeds off the punt block and it shakes the sim up.

One game plan, offensively and defensively, could be beating another one soundly and then the interrupting code comes into place with the punt block - lets say it generates a quick strike touchdown or an on the doorstep touchdown. Flips the game. It happens once in a game and you say ok, he's allowed to get that off ...it's a part of trading blows and strategy. However, typically...

if it happens on the first punt or early it'll steady stream throughout the game to near close on every one or multiple blocks.

I can respect someone that's looking to slug out with me and try to equalize to an extent.

But the person who doesn't need it and really just wants to do it so he can hit the board and taunt you immediately once the game sims - NO.

The biggest thing to circle back is the punt block really signals the sim engine like a non-kicker and non-punter does and truly makes it VERY difficult for the blocked team to overcome the energy of it.

Update: *laughs* I kept quiet but, yeah, the thread where Tarq told everyone here's how you punt block. *lovely*
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