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New MyGM features
- Action Points
- Score and leaderboards
- Skills, featuring a skill tree and an updated leveling structure
- Completely new task system
- Revamped relationships
- Sponsorships and branding
Action Points: Limited amount of actions per day (in-game of course) to force players make decisions instead of making everything all the time. Basically a representation of limited time you have per day with some caveats like banking it.
They're to be adjusted per difficulty, higher difficulties having less APs.
New UI:
Score and leaderboards: MyGM is now global and by playing you will compete with others on leaderboards. Higher diffculty means longer scoring period (and less AP as already mentioned). Easy: 5 years, Medium: 10 years, Hard: 15 years before score locks up - you can continue playing, you just won't earn score anymore.
Unsurprisingly score is earned by actions like... winning the games. But also having your players get awards.
Leaderboards UI:
Leveling: Each save starts at Lvl 1, you earn XP by primarily winning and completing random tasks. They expect that you'll get to Lvl during each playthrough (assuming playthrough here means end of the scoring period).
Each level will also improve your AP per day and increase the amount you can bank to next day.
Skill Tree: With leveling there will be skill tree with several branches.
Leadership, Diplomacy, Insight, Finance and Facilities.
You will be able to respec the tree once a month.
Skill Tree UI:
Revamped relationships: You will be able to build relationships with all players, the team staff, the owner (called governor in the blog) and opposing GMs. For example head coach will keep the game day strategy locked down until you build sufficient relationship with him. And you have to keep it high enough too.
Revamped Goals and Tasks: Is the major way of improving relationships. Previously you got tasks and goals from the owner, now you can get goals and tasks from not only them, but also all staff members and players. Not everything is going to be good for the team so you might have to decline or fail some on purpose and deal with the consequences.
General sentiment seems to be allowing new players to have somewhat guided version of MyLeague instead of having the learn the Australian way, throwing them in a pool and then throwing a crocodile after them (Andrew can confirm).
Some extra info for MyLeague:
Staff Card: Similar to player and team cards, now with staff. it's not anything groundbreaking, just having info in one spot.
Revised Morale and Team Chemistry: Somewhat carries over from the MyGM, but as an example having players with big differences in work ethics will make an impact on team.
New Personality Badges for Max Players:
- Media Ringmaster - Prefer big markets with media attention.
- Warm Weather Fan - Look for warm destinations like Miami, LA, etc.
- Finance Savvy - They try to get most money out of contracts, factoring in state taxes etc.
History and Records: Shows players on team history essentially. Portraits or renders. You can see how the teams changed over the years.
Improved Draft Class Authenticity to the Current NBA: Tweaks to draft class generator to make it produce more realistic draft classes. Apparently they ran a lot of simulations for that.
Improved Player DNA: Mostly improvements to GUI.
LT/RT to speed up scrolling: Quality of life change, LT RT will allow you to adjust sliders faster. Or when editing players.
Option to Force Winners: After simming you can set winners to craft situations. Like getting one team to playoffs or forcing Game 7 in Finals.
And finally some credits:
Special thanks to the franchise team led by Dave Z: Tim, Leftos, John, Ash, Yu, Brad, Vlad, Michael, Jeff and of course special guest star Erick ‘SimBaller’ Boenisch. Everyone worked hard to deliver something special, and we hope that you’re as pumped for 2K20 as we are.