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Re: 2038 season/good game thread

By Cjfred68 - League Admin
2/16/2022 1:34 am
You know you got lucky when your LT is 1 of the offensive players of the week!

45 pass blocks
48 run blocks
0 sacks or tackles allowed!!!

The power & glory of version 4.6!!!!

Gg Smirt and Captain Defender away!!!!!

Re: 2038 season/good game thread

By Smirt211
2/16/2022 1:43 am
We're 50/50 - you didn't get lucky. You locked down one area, which I saw coming by laying a trap but outside the trap you smothered the running from that set. I found the attendance odd from out the gate and I got turnover'd like crazy. I was sitting here praying my trap would come up again lol for the quick strike otherwise we were shut down. I wrote down a note or two + need to alter a bit. Love the ones who cry and just want it handed to them without doing the work!

We've got the Pern/me rivalry going from Anarchy. Every year him and I would do battle in the deep playoffs. He held me away from the title for like 5 straight seasons.

ah, ****, at least I don't have to do title game drama game planning, my mind needs the rest :)

Re: 2038 season/good game thread

By Waitwut
2/16/2022 11:22 am
Cjfred68 wrote:
I've given serious thought to raising some capital and buying MFN from JDB outright.

I honestly think he is sitting on a goldmine. With the emerging global market for football plus the ridiculous level of popularity in the U.S.

If the code can be tighten up and an App was made available for Apple and Android phones...this sim would explode, it's perfect for mobile gaming and with an interface designed for mobile....the sky's the limit!!!!

I would Grandfather everyone currently an owner in with a free lifetime membership plus would invite them to become monitors and League administrators.

With the mobile version, you can join 1 league for free and then you could have different tier paid leagues that offered cash prizes for the title winner. There is so much you could do to grow the game while improving it!


Buy low. Curious how to value MFN in current state, mostly intellectual capital with bones. All could be recreated. Might be more worth it to redevelop into a stand alone app versus trying to copy/paste from current state. Of course a starting point would be nice.

Re: 2038 season/good game thread

By Smirt211
2/16/2022 11:28 am
It's a mess right now.

I almost quit this morning based on my other game results in this batch. To protect the game from people leaning on offensive plays, JDB put in trigger mechanisms that if you set them off - once you trip wired it - YOU WILL NOT have another productive down on offense throughout the game.

A batch or two ago I took an L to an AWOL GM with no submitted game plan because I came out the gate with FB Dives to decimate their going into the game DEAD DT corp. I had set up a later passing barrage to piggyback off the strategy. Bash the line early, clown late.

Mmm, this current batch - I was like f*** the Man OLB Flat Zone and my man had it vs. improper sets - MAJOR ADVANTAGE ALERT - it let me bash him up on an initial drive and then stalled. Once it stalled - boom - gates came down and I got shut out. Yeah, right....


Re: 2038 season/good game thread

By Claymore
2/16/2022 12:11 pm
Good Game Tampa Fireballs
Hope to meet up again soon

Re: 2038 season/good game thread

By Blondie1977
2/16/2022 2:00 pm
Smirt211 wrote:
It's a mess right now.

I almost quit this morning based on my other game results in this batch. To protect the game from people leaning on offensive plays, JDB put in trigger mechanisms that if you set them off - once you trip wired it - YOU WILL NOT have another productive down on offense throughout the game.

A batch or two ago I took an L to an AWOL GM with no submitted game plan because I came out the gate with FB Dives to decimate their going into the game DEAD DT corp. I had set up a later passing barrage to piggyback off the strategy. Bash the line early, clown late.

Mmm, this current batch - I was like f*** the Man OLB Flat Zone and my man had it vs. improper sets - MAJOR ADVANTAGE ALERT - it let me bash him up on an initial drive and then stalled. Once it stalled - boom - gates came down and I got shut out. Yeah, right....




This is a perfect summation of the problems with 4.6.

Re: 2038 season/good game thread

By Smirt211
2/17/2022 12:40 pm
...and the problem is JDB peers in quietly and adjusts - tightening up the game more and more to where there's no room for anything. Soon he'll check mate himself and his way into removing all excitement from the game. I've figured it out but I believe he's already working on the adjustments to my success. I have to see how the next batch of games go, however, if you constantly remove any way through the sim - any way of beating it - we're very close to no one being able to stand out and it all playing the same way in one zone.

You have to play one way to have success but I'm also doing a moving target on a couple of things to keep the engine off my tail.

He watches and moves in silence. I'll divide up the post and remark on things I've seen up to now, a few without screwing up my game.
Last edited at 2/17/2022 12:48 pm

Re: 2038 season/good game thread

By Smirt211
2/17/2022 12:48 pm
The Punt Block is dead except the non-punter at the position. If you were poised to nail a vulnerable punter it now has the two defending wing players back pedal and cinch in a barrier block, trapping off the lanes.

FG Block - I used to get the top 4 to race out in a space invaders line towards the kicker and hopefully mess with the frequency; jamming it. Now you don't see that rush coming from the 95 speedsters out in the open.

AI - he has arranged it to cheese ball as much on defense as possible. Cheese ball = you can't get red bars. (i.e. the AI will fling the Man OLB Flat Zone at you a lot....)

FB Dive appearance. You can thank me for it being in the AI's repertoire. LOL

There's other stuff I know when I come across it.

Oh, that conference final/final thing where a dominating GM gets jobbed - I don't think it's in place any more. It got usurped by the trigger mechanisms and traps laid in the current version with how you run your offense. Fall out of line and get zapped. Hence, that 16-0 and JOB code deep in the playoffs is out but the engine is very difficult to navigate on O, overall.


Re: 2038 season/good game thread

By Cjfred68 - League Admin
2/17/2022 5:06 pm
Good luck tonight Claymore!

Obviously I'm gameplanning to win but if I lose tonight, I will be equally as happy for you.

You have build a great team and won consistently across the seasons. You have a great defense with some great players and you are more then deserving.

Let's hope for a good/close game won or lost on the final play.

CJ

Re: 2038 season/good game thread

By Claymore
2/17/2022 9:00 pm
I imagine it will be a replay of the 1st game this season when we played.

I already feel it's a win just to get to the finals. I am not good enough to compete against yourself and Smirt

Hopefully the Aces can make it a game. Best Of Luck.