Playoffs/skills..thoughts

[Steve 1,920]

Here comes that last of the season. I hope the playoffs are more exciting than the season has been. I know Seattle seems to do well in the playoffs and we will make it. I think that was the only goal we had during the season was to be a playoff team. I didn't think we were going to have any issues with making the playoffs despite the much more competitive teams we are playing against. Let's see if our playoff mojo is intact.

 

On with the thorn in my side all season. I will admit there was an issue that was being exploited with the skill system we had. Something had to be changed, I agree with that part. What has become clear to me now is that the value of a single TPE is very low. Now that my player has skills in the 80's, it has become clear that it takes a boat load of TPE to get one skill level. This has kind of turned me off a bit as it seems to be too convoluted of a system. This is only my opinion and I haven't had any debates about my thoughts but I would have thought that just making the starting passing skill set to 65 would have fixed the exploit, maybe. Or move the “Sliders” to make skills have more or less impact. That might be too obviously easy and I am sure there was a reason for going this route. I am personally not impressed with it. Seems like when you will finally get enough TPE to get some skills higher, you will enter into your regression. Oh well, life in the VHL.

[Beketov 9,025]

9 minutes ago, Steve said:

Or move the “Sliders” to make skills have more or less impact.

That doesn't exist. All we could have done slider wise is affected goal scoring or assists on a league wide slider but that would have affected everyone exactly the same, we tried it. So meta players were still better, they were just scoring less, but everyone else moved down as well.

 

11 minutes ago, Steve said:

I would have thought that just making the starting passing skill set to 65 would have fixed the exploit, maybe

This was also tested and did have some effect but was found to be less impactful and fixed only the meta problem, and not as drastically as the hybrid attributes did. So effectively it fixed 1 thing instead of 3 or 4 and not as well which made it less of a desirable choice. It was considered and tested though.

 

12 minutes ago, Steve said:

Seems like when you will finally get enough TPE to get some skills higher, you will enter into your regression. Oh well, life in the VHL.

Keep in mind everyone else does too though. Similar to the sliders point above, everyone is affected evenly. So the numbers may not say 99 anymore but they don't for anyone really so everyone is affected an even amount. The amin difference now is being smarter with your TPE instead of just "more = better"