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I have spent a long time developing an updated 'names' file for generated rookies. This file is for 05, but my memory of 06 is that it uses the same original name file.

The file rebalances the frequency of rookie names turning up, and also has 1000+ added names, mostly surnames. I have also tried to address the lack of names in some areas (especially Asia where the names became similar very fast).

In addition to this I have also updated birth town/country files.

Let me know if you would like me to make these available for you.

i think this is very necessary to the dynasty mode.. we don't like to see the same surnames as the seasons progress.. please do the updates

I changed the schedule from 2005-06 to 2008-09. In dynasty mode with the type set to NBA, there are no games on the schedule and the year still starts at 2005-06. I can't advance past that season so changing the birthdates will have to do.

Well the alternative is that we simulate to the 08-09 season in a dynasty, then from that create a roster / schedule and everything. Redistribute that and create a batch file or something so people could still choose their team.

There's more support than I thought for rolling back the birthdates. Putting it to a vote seems like the most democratic thing to do, so I'll create a poll.

I'd prefer not to eliminate Freestyle Superstars as I feel it's something we can work with. I'd rather leave it up to the user to disable FSS if they don't want it, but I suppose we could do a version where that's already done. I'll keep that in mind since it's easy enough to do but I don't think FSS should be eliminated completely by the project.

I have spent a long time developing an updated 'names' file for generated rookies. This file is for 05, but my memory of 06 is that it uses the same original name file.

The file rebalances the frequency of rookie names turning up, and also has 1000+ added names, mostly surnames. I have also tried to address the lack of names in some areas (especially Asia where the names became similar very fast).

In addition to this I have also updated birth town/country files.

Let me know if you would like me to make these available for you.

That definitely sounds interesting. Whatever can be done to enhance the game.

Well the alternative is that we simulate to the 08-09 season in a dynasty, then from that create a roster / schedule and everything. Redistribute that and create a batch file or something so people could still choose their team.

That would be a bit fiddly, but seems doable. It would be great if we could get it to work properly since we could also do a career stats update in addition to getting the right ages without editing birthdates.

Problem with that is we would have to do it for all teams, and do the batch file on 29 rosters, releasing 29 dynasty saves, and people wouldn't get a chance to change their staff or their training camp on the first year. Although you could force a "real" staff if you wanted to patch that in. Not sure how that would turn out in the middle of a dynasty because the DAT save files may reference them. Remember the crashing caused by applying a staff update to a current dynasty?

Lots of little issues with it as you can see.

It should work alright if the simulation is started with a real staff patch, it would just be a matter of setting the contract lengths to run through the 2008/2009 season. But you're right, it's a lot of fiddling around and it would be an inconvenience to include 30 different saves in addition to the regular rosters. Probably still doable but not ideal.

why 30 different saves? isnt changing a team in dynasty just a simple change of 1 value in the teams.dbf?

and this way we could even include the draft by not simulating past the preseason.

Unfortunately not, it can be done but it's extremely glitchy and usually results in a crash at some point.

What will be the basis for the ratings of players, I thinks there's a Rating Machine 2.3 and it was very realistic because it was base on real stats in NBA.com

In rosters of Sir Andrew, I think the THREEPTATT needs to UPDATE, Raja Bell had only 20, I think he shot 40-50% in 3 points.

Thank You.

The ratings will be based on their performance during the 2007/2008 season.

When (approx) will this be done?

As I mentioned in the first place, there is no set date at this time.

Hos is progress coming along with the rosters Andrew?

I'm currently working on ratings for players in the original rosters. I've also removed players who have retired or are unlikely to return from the active rosters and updated various elements such as the stadium names, coaches etc.

Make Carl Landry 6'9!

http://www.nba.com/playerfile/carl_landry/

He'll have to be created first.

Hey Andrew! I just want to say that if you need any old patches for this project please tell me because I have a lot of old patches that I kept since 2006.

I can't think of any old patches I'd need at this time but thanks for the offer.

Hey Andrew! I just want to say that if you need any old patches for this project please tell me because I have a lot of old patches that I kept since 2006.

But if you wanted to reupload them so we can try some of them out it surely wouldnt hurt.

JaoSming- If you are interested in any old patches please name some and I'll search through my database!

I dunno, what do you have?

i got 203 Live 06 patches (collected from september 06 -present)

HOLY CRAP!

can't believe i'm just now finding out about this Andrew, but i am frekkin' STOKED! '06 is my Live of choice so i'm very much looking forward to watching this develop and helping out with feedback when early versions release

hello andrew, any progress??

if you need some help in editing stuff or adding I think i can help

Nothing to report. If I do have a progress report I'll be sure to post it; in the absence of one, you can assume I don't have anything new to say at this time.

im still confused with the fact that you could have saved yourself from all this work by using nba live 08 instead