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Postby Mark. on Sun Jan 06, 2013 5:59 pm

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Time for a 2K13 dynasty from me. Once again using the Orlando Magic. Think it should be a lot more interesting and rewarding with the current state of the squad.
This year I have to give a shoutout Ben (Arcane) for helping me with the banners and templates.
I simply don't have time for doing that these days and would rather invest what time I have in playing the game and updating the dynasty,
I actually think this is what has hindered my most recent attempts at a long running dynasty.
Also thanks to Thierry • for helping me get setup with good Global mods, Jerseys, Courts, Rosters etc (Specific shoutouts for those below)

Chose the Magic once again due to the whole favorite team thing and not really having the motivation to play as anyone else for long.
Also the Magic have an interesting future ahead of them with plenty of flexibility and draft picks (I will be making sure draft picks are reflected as closely as possible).
I will be trying to keep the transactions a realistic as possible, but with some added flavor of my own of course!

Anyway, lets get this started. Hope it lasts longer than my 2K12 attempts!
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Re: "We Will" - Heart & Hustle 2.0

Postby Mark. on Sun Jan 06, 2013 6:00 pm

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GENERAL.
Season Length: 82 Games
♦ Team Chemistry: On
Player Roles: On
♦ Progressive Fatigue: On
Trade Deadline: On
♦ CPU Trades: On
♦ Preseason: On
Injuries: On
♦ Draft Prospect: egodynasty08's
Playoffs: 7-7-7-7

GAMEPLAY.
Level: All Star
♦ Roster: skoadam's (Few Tweaks)
Sliders: The Eccentric Edition
♦ Quarter Length: 12 Mins
Sim Length: 12 Mins
♦ Jerseys: Lillard's - Installing these as I go, so may not always be running them.
Global Mod: The Saints Official
♦ Courts: Verminator's
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Re: "We Will" - Heart & Hustle 2.0

Postby Arcane on Sun Jan 06, 2013 6:04 pm

looking forward to this dynasty
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Re: "We Will" - Heart & Hustle 2.0

Postby Mark. on Sun Jan 06, 2013 6:20 pm

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Re: "We Will" - Heart & Hustle 2.0

Postby Mark. on Sun Jan 06, 2013 6:21 pm

Arcane wrote:looking forward to this dynasty


Haha I bet you are.
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Re: "We Will" - Heart & Hustle 2.0

Postby Valor on Sun Jan 06, 2013 7:14 pm

Good to see you back again Mark, hopefully this one goes long and we can see what you do with this Magic team (Y)
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Postby Mark. on Mon Jan 07, 2013 7:16 am

Valor wrote:Good to see you back again Mark, hopefully this one goes long and we can see what you do with this Magic team (Y)


Cheers mate. Yeap, as you may have noticed I am making a effort to ensure this will be as easy and hassle free for me to keep me going on it. Will be good to have you reading!
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Re: "We Will" - Heart & Hustle 2.0

Postby mp3 on Mon Jan 07, 2013 7:56 am

Good look with this one, Orlando has some nice talent on its roster !
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Postby hova- on Mon Jan 07, 2013 8:01 am

Hey Mark, nice to see you with a new start. Hope you can find the time to get through a season. I mean, it does not have to be fancy at all, why not just post whatever you like to post - the only important thing is that 2k13 is entertaining for you and you have time to play. A few "how is my season going" sentences are sometimes enough to make it interesting.

Good luck (Y)
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Postby Axel The Great on Mon Jan 07, 2013 8:21 am

Nice to see you back on here, Mark. Looks good so far, hopefully you can keep this one going a good long while. :)
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Postby kibaxx7 on Mon Jan 07, 2013 1:59 pm

Good start man, hopefully Vucevic can explode here too!

About the last PM you sent me, I'm working on it, hopefully I'll have a solution soon
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Re: "We Will" - Heart & Hustle 2.0

Postby Mark. on Tue Jan 08, 2013 7:23 am

mp3 wrote:Good look with this one, Orlando has some nice talent on its roster !


Thanks mp3. Yeah I played the season opener last night, really enjoyed playing with the team, still need to find how to get some players going but there is certainly a lot of potential.

hova- wrote:Hey Mark, nice to see you with a new start. Hope you can find the time to get through a season. I mean, it does not have to be fancy at all, why not just post whatever you like to post - the only important thing is that 2k13 is entertaining for you and you have time to play. A few "how is my season going" sentences are sometimes enough to make it interesting.

Good luck (Y)


Thanks for the tips Hova. What I am aiming to do is post a game recap at least once a game month, and then any extra games that I find were particularly monumental. I will then do monthly round ups. I may end up doing weekly reports too once I find how quickly and easily I can get the monthly recaps out.

Axel. wrote:Nice to see you back on here, Mark. Looks good so far, hopefully you can keep this one going a good long while. :)


Thanks Axel. I hope I can too, that is the plan anyway.

Thierry wrote:Good start man, hopefully Vucevic can explode here too!

About the last PM you sent me, I'm working on it, hopefully I'll have a solution soon :wink:


Yeah man, I am a big fan of Vucci-mane. He is probably the least available piece on the team (hell even more so than JJ!) so looking to keep him as a key piece of the team's future.

Thanks for looking into that for me. I messaged you about another issue last night but I figured that out.


Have played the season opener, so game recap for that up tonight all going to plan!
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Re: "We Will" - Heart & Hustle 2.0

Postby Durant35 on Tue Jan 08, 2013 12:29 pm

(Y) Interesting Association. Let's see how you turn this team around. :D
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Re: "We Will" - Heart & Hustle 2.0

Postby Mark. on Tue Jan 08, 2013 12:56 pm

^^ Yeah I am looking forward to turning them around for sure. Kind of itching to get to the off season, but then there is a lot of room for growth internally throughout the season so that should keep me optimistic.
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Re: "We Will" - Heart & Hustle 2.0

Postby Radioman on Tue Jan 08, 2013 6:37 pm

Nice to see another Magic dynasty. I also tried several teams, but somehow i always come back to the Orlando Magic. :lol:

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Postby Eirsej on Tue Jan 08, 2013 9:34 pm

Make Redick an all star! He's been playing pretty well irl. Hopefully he plays better in your assoc. goodluck!
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Re: "We Will" - Heart & Hustle 2.0

Postby JaketheFlake on Tue Jan 08, 2013 11:11 pm

man try this trade http://espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tra ... ds9b(offer some 2n rd or 14 1st roun picks) and then trade jameer for draft picks
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Re: "We Will" - Heart & Hustle 2.0

Postby Mark. on Wed Jan 09, 2013 5:43 am

Radioman, Yeap it's the curse of a Magic fan! I used to never play as the actually, would always use different teams, but over the past few years it is the other way round :lol:

Eirsej, I would be stoked if I could make that happen, problem is, he is playing really poorly in Simmed games... maybe I will make him a 2nd option on offense.

JaketheFlake, That link didn't work mate. Want to try it again?


I had meant to have the first recap up last night, but ended up taking a bit longer sorting out the template (mainly due to my indecisivness :lol:) so will have it up tonight hopefully. Only a few more things left to sort out for it.
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Postby Mark. on Wed Jan 09, 2013 7:00 pm

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Almost forgot, big shout out to Ben/Arcane for doing pretty much all the work on the recap template. Really helping me out this time round, all I have to do is play the games :D
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Re: "We Will" - Heart & Hustle 2.0 | Tip Off!!

Postby Mark. on Wed Jan 09, 2013 7:06 pm

What do you think guys? This will be roughly what I roll with for any games that I recap fully. Got a few questions though...

I was going to provide full box-scores but couldn't think of a quick easy way to do it. Any recommendations? I was thinking of making a simple excel spreadsheet to type them into on my laptop while I have the game up on my desktop.

Also, what is the max image size again? This one is 900px wide and I noticed it got shrunk a tiny bit once posted.

Finally. Apologies for the pictures, I totally forgot about taking anything meaningful during the game.
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Postby mp3 on Wed Jan 09, 2013 7:20 pm

Love the presentation man, if your after boxscores operation sports has a table gen.

Nice job starting with a bang!
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Re: "We Will" - Heart & Hustle 2.0 | G1 Tip Off!!

Postby dare on Wed Jan 09, 2013 9:07 pm

Nice presentation, for the boxscores how about you link an image to it to compliment your template.
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Re: "We Will" - Heart & Hustle 2.0 | G1 Tip Off!!

Postby Larvae on Wed Jan 09, 2013 11:23 pm

Looking forward to this. (Y)
Hope to see my man Vucevic doing his thang. (Y)
Good Luck man :mrgreen:
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Re: "We Will" - Heart & Hustle 2.0 | G1 Tip Off!!

Postby JaketheFlake on Thu Jan 10, 2013 12:30 am

oh sorry
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Re: "We Will" - Heart & Hustle 2.0 | G1 Tip Off!!

Postby Valor on Thu Jan 10, 2013 2:39 pm

damn that looks awesome man, I guess I could do with lesser gloss cause it's harder to read but looking good! (Y) Nice win!
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