v1.08 released...

[jonnyboy261]

hey anyone see the lakers-suns game 4!!
u oughta think about raising Smush Parkers defensive awareness and steal and u never no he might become an outside stopper
he had a clutch steal from nash and played great defense on tim thomas and big guys posting up on him on switches. well i think its was good de
anyway jus consider it cuz that ending was a great one especially the steal and score to force overtime!

[Hoopwrecker3]

Can't change it in a bit!

[Andrew]

I don't give huge boosts based on one game. But I will review his ratings in case they can come up a bit considering the year he's had, in addition to his latest performance.

[BigKaboom2]

I recently tried to start a new Dynasty with the 1.08 rosters, and for some strange reason it tends to crash to the desktop without an error message at random around the fourth or fifth round of the fantasy draft (I've lost a lot of good draft picks attempting to duplicate this ) . I tried reinstalling, figuring that would do it - but no luck.

I just wanted to confirm that this doesn't affect other people using the same rosters. I'm quite sure it's not a hardware problem, so any help/quick testing would be appreciated.

[Pera]

I really don't know what could be the problem but I can see I can start a dynasty with no problem.Maybe you should try starting a dynasty without a fantasy draft,see if that works.Do you have installed any other patches?

[BigKaboom2]

I do have a few patches, but they're all of the variety that go in the sgsm folder - I didn't replace anything in any other folders.

Works fine without a fantasy draft - just tried it again with one and it crashed in the fourth round as I was scrolling down the list of players...very weird.

Maybe I'll try the default rosters just to narrow down the cause.

EDIT: Forgot to mention I'm using the 0506Uninjured roster and not the NLSC0506, if that might make a difference.

[BigKaboom2]

I just used the default rosters and it crashed in the same manner, though it seems to crash after a specific amount of time instead of at a certain round. I drafted players a lot faster and took six or seven before it crashed this time. I think I'll just reinstall again and not add anything except Andrew's rosters.

[Pera]

That should probably work,because sometimes its a big issue what patches do you have installed .

[BigKaboom2]

Wow - reinstalled it with no patches and now it works fine. I swear it must have been some art file in the sgsm folder that was doing it, but that doesn't make much sense. I'm very careful about what patches I install and where they end up, and I really didn't think any of them had the potential to introduce a weird bug like that.

Anyway, thanks for your help, Pera .

[Pera]

Well nice to hear that you got it fixed .Patches often cause bugs so you have to be careful.One advice:make sure you backup your original files when you install patches,because a backup can save you the time of uninstall/reinstall when i patch doesn't work .No problem happy to help you.

[Andrew]

That's the good thing about CustomArt, it's easier to pinpoint and get rid of a problematic art file. Importing into the .vivs has its advantages but it does mean replacing the file and possibly reinstalling a bunch of other patches if a bad file gets in there.

[yosifun]

Hi Andrew,
I did't mean to upset your in any way in my topic, the suggestions I made are mine only and it's up to you what changes has to be made (if any).
I also didn't mean to imply that you're "completely clueless about basketball", not at all.
I just wanted to know if other people agree with my suggestion, maybe they say something useful about the whole thing.
I really like your patches and I trust you to keep making great patches.
Again, sorry if I posted something or said something offending.
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!

[Andrew]

No harm done, as I said I'll give them another look and there's a couple I might implement. Someone else pointed out Snyder, I wasn't aware I'd given him Highflyer abilities when I increased his ratings.

[BOSS]

Hey Andrew.
Once again great job on the update.
A thing I was wondering is why Chris Paul is scoring like 29.0 ppg. As well as Dwight Howard. I know these kids can score but wow, that is alot for these young gunz.
Maybe check out the primacy for them ?
Thanks again for this kick ass updates.

[Andrew]

The Primacy rating they have in the rosters should not result in scores that high. Remember that injuries can and will mess everything up.

[jonnyboy261]

i dunno if you already know this
but i think peja stojakavic's dunkpack is a little messed up
in my dynasty (with these rosters) he always trys to 2 hand power jam it over 2 defenders or something like that
in real life he barely dunks like a soft 1 hand.
check it out

[Andrew]

No, it's not. If you have a custom AIACT file in place then that could be causing a problem. Otherwise, his DUNKPACK value (5) shouldn't allow him to do that.

[majerle]

Great work Andrew.

But I have two questions.

1. Why has Mourning only a Def Aw. of 78 as a 90's All-Star? He was defensive player of the year in 99 and he was always an inside stopper. That's something I don't understand? Can you take a look at this?

2. Yesterday I saw that Ron Artest has a FT rating of 92, but in this season his FT% was .675. That is a big difference in my opinion. Can you change this in your next update?

[Andrew]

1. Why has Mourning only a Def Aw. of 78 as a 90's All-Star? He was defensive player of the year in 99 and he was always an inside stopper. That's something I don't understand? Can you take a look at this?

Oversight. I don't spend as much time with the Legends so I simply didn't notice it. Easily fixed.

2. Yesterday I saw that Ron Artest has a FT rating of 92, but in this season his FT% was .675. That is a big difference in my opinion. Can you change this in your next update?

Absolutely, thanks for the heads up.

[jonnyboy261]

hey andrew
where can i find the AIACT file and what should i do to it ?
just delete it?
thanks and sorry for being noobish lol

[Andrew]

No, don't delete it. Restore it from the original, which you can find on the NBA Live 06 CD.

[erbs9]

hello andrew
im just new at this forum, and i would thank you for time and giving us avid players the roster updates each year & also accepting other infos/suggestions for the improvement of the line-ups. thanks alot !!!!

based on the current roster patch w/c i got here, i don't know why the LAC can't make to the playoffs, when you play in dyansty mode, i've looked at each player stats and pos and there all good, don't know whats the problem. With such a line-up they should have a decent w/l record but they don't hehehe, they do go even go above .400+

other roster concerns you might consider:
• <DET> C.Billups - a defensive stopper ??, he doesn't ave 1 steal per game yet has a 80+ steal rating

• <DET> T.Prince - as the above mentions RE def awarness

• <DET> R.Wallce - 3pt rating abit low if you see how hi shoots it at a decent rate for a big man.

• <MIL> C.Bell - seems to have a very low overall rating especially on his 3pt rating w/c ave .400+% in 3's

• <CHA> G.Wallce & B.Knight - as the above mentions RE def & stl rating

• <DAL> D.Nowitzki - isn't an 85 overal rating abit low ??

• <MIA> D.Wade - in dynasty mode can't ave over 20ppg weird but has good enough stats to go over it... abit weird

• <PHO> S.Nash - isn't an overall rating of 82 low for a 2-time MVP ??

• <PHO> B.Diaw - i think he needs to be improve more, his doing it all for the suns this season with the absences of key players

• <TOR> M.james - seeing what his avered this season i guess an improvent is needed espcially on his scoring ability skills

i guess thats it, thanks and good day

[elwudl]

hi, because of being new to the forum, I would give you some suggestions:
- look at older threads (many of your issues are being discussed already or have been discussed)
- overall rating doesn't say that much about a players performance. it is calculated by the game automatically if you edit the player inside the game. EA has a weird rating calculation, so it can be that top performers like Nash or Nowitzki have quite low ratings when you compare them to their game on the court
- the fss is a problem in live 06 because it isn't polished and based too much on ratings that are not neccessary in reality, e.g. in real an outside stopper needn't be top in steals, but in live 06 he has to (leads to sometimes unrealistic performances in live 06, thx to EA sports )

I hope I could help you, welcome to the forums!

[Andrew]

Hi erbs9, welcome to the forum.

elwudl has pretty much covered it already. The overall ratings aren't as significant to in-game and simulated performance as the individual ratings. Players that are great defenders but not so great offensively and vice versa do sometimes have lower overall ratings but remain significant players in the game.

Primacy is recalculated at will by the game this year and doesn't work as well or consistently as we'd like. There's nothing we can about that unfortunately so scoring averages don't always pan out properly.

FSS abilities do result in a few discrepencies as well.

[Heiks]

As I started a dynasty with Magic I noticed that DeShawn Stevenson's FT rating is a bit low.

Although he was 55% from the line in 04/05, he improved to 75% in 05/06, so you might consider rising his FT rating from 55 to somewhere in the 70-s.

Cheers.