by wolfbeard on Tue Jan 07, 2014 4:59 am
Just wanted to stop in and tell you that I've been following this mod for several weeks and really appreciate the quality work you are putting out.
Question on ratings: Based on the ratings you have thus far, it seems that the intention is not to have them correlate with NBA players ratings, (to illustrate, let's say you have a college player with an 85 rating, that would mean he is already good enough to be an all star in the NBA,) but to have them stand alone as a separate game.
I can see logic in doing it either way, (correlating skills to NBA or having them relative to just how good they are in college) and have no complaints with however you want to do it. The reason I bring this up is that I foresee using this mod in conjunction with association mode. Once Vlad adds draft class editing, it wouldn't be too challenging for anyone familiar with Reditor to add draft class players, (pierrelban's fictional draft classes, for instance) and remove graduating seniors or players entering the draft at season's end. This would of course be a little work at the end of each season, but would make Association mode insanely deep and give great context while playing this NCAA mod. Of course, for that to work, you would need relative ratings, so that a college player rated a 60 would be a 60 in the NBA. To me, it also seems the NCAA game would feel more authentic if the average college player was less athletic and skilled than the average professional.
Either way, it won't be too difficult to globally change the ratings however you guys decide to do it. Thanks again for the great work.