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 1Allow 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 2Just 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 3New 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.
