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Can't be as bad as kingdom hearts, in terms of plot
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Nrrr posted...

Destroy all humans? Are we talking about a game, or the republican party platform? Heyooooo

You do become president in 2 but they don't tell us what party crypto is
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Okay, I'm hyped, legitimately. I loved this game.
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Yeah, not really up his alley. He's a baseball guy through and through
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I mean he's the less effective of the two types of tanks for SBR in that he gets def boost rather than damage reduction, but it is a 130% boost so you aren't going to find much better. Coupling that with the dmg reduction items like icarus/whis I do believe he can tank really well during those turns. Also gets a bit extra assuming you're pairing him on rotation with STR Toppo because toppo gives another 35% boost on top of that, and also allows jiren to hit soooo much harder.

A tip I'd like to share in case it's helpful, esp since you were of the mindset to use AGL Whis to fully heal each battle, I actually found it more helpful to try and end a battle under half health so that when you start the next one, you get UI Goku to transform right from the start if you get him on the starting 3.
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Both DS1 and 2 have remakes for the 3ds I believe. DS1 remake is subtitled "Overclocked" and DS2 remake is subtitled "Record Breaker" But 2 is a sequel, but I guess not a direct sequel to 1? Whatever the term is where it is a new game but it has nothing to do with the previous game. Like the personas mostly Basically both Devil survivor 1 and 2 are separate games that both got remakes for 3DS.

For devil summoner I think you're talking about Soul Hackers, which is a different game subseries than the ones for ps2 which are "Raidou Kuzunoha vs x"
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I mean it is, it's a bonus if you get it, but jiren is a great unit anyway so it's not like you're taking him just for the stun. Just saying that I got I think 2 stuns in my run where I finally won. Not saying it's impossible without but a free turn goes so far if you can get some good damage out of it.
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Certainly possible. Jiren getting his stun proc is also a huge help.
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What team are you using?
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Safer_777 posted...

@Emeraldegg This is to speed up the game thus you can play more matches. I mean if you are good and manage to special summon a lot of monsters in 1 turn and the opponent hasn't anything good to counter you, you deserve to win.

I think there are good and bad points in this stance. I agree that more matches faster is part of what's so appealing with DL. I also agree for the most part with the "if you can't stop the opponent's combo, you deserve to lose." The caveat to me is, did you even have the chance to stop the combo in the first place in a way that determines your skill? Fur hire specifically as an example is a turn 1 full board combo. For starters, you need to do both of the following to stop it:
A) Even be able to go before the opponent which is luck-based
B) Draw a monster negation card in your opening hand, which is luck-based

If you fail to do either of these beyond-your-control things, you end up with an enemy board of:
A 2700 beatstick that can change your attack targets to itself and thus protect the squishier bits via direct attack
A monster that can negate any spell/trap card OR any other type of effect (including monster cards, no man-eater bugging this chick)
A monster that can either destroy any spell/trap card or any monster card, either way opening you up for a OTK

Neither of these things determine your skill, and yet they often times decide the outcome against such decks. In no world should the opening coin flip determine the outcome of a game. Now, if we're talking maybe a combo like this that gets set up in like 4 turns, and you didn't draw what you needed? Hey, luck happens sometimes, maybe take a look at your deck and see how you can tweak it to draw the card you need more often. Deck building is a part of skill, no doubt. But even stuff like destiny heroes or blue eyes doesn't reach the level of stuff like fur hire and its ilk. At least, not when I played.
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My issue with yugioh has always been the no limit on special summoning rule. A lot of the combos revolve around just filling your board with monsters that you'd normally have to tribute summon for, but utilizing special summons just completely bypasses it. It's no fun to play against a fur hire deck in duel links because turn 1 you end up with a full enemy monster zone with a huge beatstick and ways to negate your removal cards, in addition to being able to destroy either 1 of your monsters or spell/traps via effects, all done through special summoning. That's a big gripe with how xyzs and synchros worked to me as well, since those are all done via special summoning, you're only limited by the cards you've got to work with.
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Yeah that sounds like the gist of what I was told.
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I also had asked the discord about this when it was on sale before and what I understood was that it's kind of like a 4x game but later on the game basically becomes an RTS, which is a super turn-off for me.
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MZero11 posted...

Emeraldegg posted...

game disc

Er, cartridge or whatever it is, lol. The last console I owned was a wii u so I forget sometimes we're past discs now, whoops.
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Games becoming work after a certain point is not exclusive to WoW. If a person is tired of playing something to the point where it feels like work, the burden falls on that person to cease the thing that feels like work, not Blizzard. It's not like WoW requires work-like hours to enjoy it, same as any other game.
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If all else fails you could always just sell the game disc only on ebay and then re-purchase the same games with their complete contents
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I was told they introduced link cards as a way of limiting pendulum summons or something.
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Jaden's music is snazzy. Most of the music in the game is great imo.
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Wait xyz is in there now too? Ugh
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Tom Bombadil posted...

it was too super-move-y for me as somebody who only played 64 and game boy color

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It's simpler yeah, but in a good way. It also goes way faster. Great to just pick up and go. Though I stopped playing since they introduced synchros so I fear they'll be ditching the first sentence of that pretty soon.
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It is that game
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inb4 battle royales
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Oh I didn't know food lion was regional, whoops.
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I had to time it right but a local food lion gave me as many as I wanted
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I have faith they'll keep it from being busted, after all they denied pure saiyan fusions the pure saiyans keyword, and likewise for hybrid saiyan fusions.

One funny thing though is that if they do go this route and eventually introduce a SSJ2 category, then transforming goku will have SSJ/2/3 AND realm of gods categories. That's nuts.
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So I started playing again, pulled scargil, so I decided to craft hagatha and some murlocs and go full murloc shaman. It's pretty fun so far! This is my first time playing such a straightforward aggro deck. Went from 20 to 13 with little difficulty so far. I'm sure that won't last long but drawing the nuts on an opening hand is a great feeling.
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Finally beat battlefield clash, and for my efforts I was rewarded with...a dupe TEQ android 16. Man this bro banner has not been good to me.
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I made it to kid buu and lost, but that's because I ran out of usable units, had to waste some on saiyaman and hit. I feel like I can do better now that I know the different gimmicks of this new slate of enemies.
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Super not a fan of the saiyaman fight in ultimate clash. I'm fine with OHKO'ing supers as long as they tell us that's a possibility.
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That's fair, it's just not for me. Not trying to say you shouldn't if you want to.
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Yeah see, that's the thing for me, the grind is not worth the quality of the card. But to each their own, of course.
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The only time I spent effort on the frieza battle was to complete the "Get 100% potential 1st form frieza" mission so I could get the final LR Ginyu dupe from it.
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Jesus **** TWO LRs in one pull!
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Can't say from experience, but he certainly looks good. I'm going to continue to pull on the bro banner though since the banner overall is better.
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This is why callers on radio shows are the worst thing about radio shows
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I did a multi and got the old PHY Piccolo. Dokkaned he gives +70% def boost to allies, is that the highest support boost in the game? That's amazing if so, that such an old unit might actually still be useful somewhat
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Enjoy curbstomping the WT
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+8 blues
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Found out you can indeed change roster minutes and lineups against specific teams in the coaching menu

Something else I found out, there's different year versions of teams, so theoretically, we could both be the hornets. They even have the old logos!
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See the thing to me though is that magic goes on to say that the straw that broke him was not being able to fire walton, who he quotes as saying it was not pelinka, but tim harris, who was moving in on him on that front. So I'm just really confused as to what other way pelinka could be undermining him if the main thing wasn't even his fault by magic's own admission.

I think magic just bit off more than he could chew even with his limited role and won't just attribute his poor run to that.
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ShatteredElysium posted...

I mean if the Lakers agreed beforehand that he could do a part time job and just be like an ambassador figurehead type figure, that is entirely on the Lakers when that is exactly what he did.

It's worth noting that it is extra snakey of Pelinka if he was the source of the leak as he immediately went out to bat for Magic when Le Batard reported it. He categorically denied that was the case and tried to get Le Batard fired / their deal revoked over it (least that's what Le Batard said this morning)

That's true that that's on the lakers, but it also doesn't mean magic has any right to get upset when someone else is rightfully pointing out that he's not at work very often, and honestly he shouldn't be upset if Pelinka felt he could do a better job, assuming that was his only crime. Because as we've clearly seen, magic was not doing a very good job of what the actual job description of a GM should be, regardless of what the arranged deal was.

Like if pelinka was sabotaging him that's one thing, but if what happened was "Magic knows pelinka thinks he could do a better job, despite pelinka not actually doing anything wrong to put that into action" then that's just on magic for being unreasonable. And magic's gripe sounds like that's exactly what it is, that he felt "betrayed" because pelinka thought he could do a better job...despite pelinka not actually trying to force him out at any point or doing anything actually betrayal-like.

Tl;dr I think it's possible that magic "felt" betrayed but pelinka didn't actually betray him.
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ShatteredElysium posted...

Have people heard the Magic Johnson interview? That is some pretty unexpected shit that you don't normally hear from someone who was on the inside, nevermind from smiley charming Magic.

Magic: "Pelinka was the one spreading rumors I wasn't working hard and not coming to work"
Also Magic: "I told Jeanie my other jobs were more lucrative so I checked to be sure it was okay that I'd be in and out"
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Did we really need a second old LSSJ Broly LR?
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Hopefully if str cell gets an EZA it'll buff his super to supreme damage to all enemies, that would go a long way imo.
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2k19 I believe actually does have 2-way contracts from what I understand. There is G-league, so I assume those come with it.

So the luxury tax and the hard cap is the same thing? IE you can go over the soft cap but still not be in the luxury tax? Does being in the luxury tax affect signings in any way, or could you theoretically not give a **** if you had enough money as an owner? Also from what it sounds like, the hard cap isn't actually a hard cap in the true sense of the word unless you use that Bi-Annual exception?
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ShatteredElysium posted...

I know that in NBA 2k17 (or maybe 16) that although they had the potential rating, players could definitely exceed it and then the potential rating would increase to suit. Like I remember Evan Fournier had a potential of like 80-82 or something but after like 5 years in charge he was up to like an 88 in my team.

It was definitely easier for a player with higher potential to increase quickly but a player definitely wasn't hard capped by the potential rating. Any player who got above like a 78 or something also became a whiny little bitch about not being a starter / their minutes unless they had the team player perk. So you basically had to trade players or lose them for nothing

That being said, the disparity in the league did become pretty glaring by like season 5 or so. The AI was also fucking stupid in trades because although they had the star rating assignment for players/picks, how it weighted that was pretty far off base. That potential played into it a lot but the AI continuously offeres ridiculously bad trades no matter how many times you said no. The AI was also terrible at judging what a draft pick was worth so if thats still the case you would have to restrict AI player trades or step in for the AIs behalf (more so in regards to protections)

The good thing about this, although it would take me a hell of a long time to get used to considering my current knowledge level, is that there are actually sliders where you can control how valuable the CPU considers aspects of a trade, even splitting it based on what state the team is in. For example, I can make a 1st rd current year pick EXTREMELY way more valuable to a team branded as "rebuilding," and I can change a separate slider for how a "competing" team would value such a pick, even above or below its default, and I believe you can do this with player archetypes as well. You can also set sliders for how much less valuable picks in the future are. For example, trading for a pick 2 years from now will already be less valuable than trading for that same pick this year, but I can change just how much more or less valuable that pick will be, up to 5 years of picks out. So there's def a lot of customization in how CPU values things. I can also straight up remove CPU trades if I so wish, both to other CPUs and to Users.
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So full disclosure, I have been doing study on how exactly nba financials work so I can better understand things if I ever do this, and I continue to study. There are still many things I haven't quite grasped yet, but hopefully that will change as I study further. As far as the game, I haven't done much specific playtesting, as 2k19 has a bug where it seems cloud saves corrupt files after a period of time (I already experienced this once) and have been more focused on making sure that does not happen without cloud saving before I get into the nitty-gritty of the game itself. Since I've turned off cloud saving, I've loaded the franchise 2 times and no corruption so far 1 season in, so that bodes well. That being said, here are my preliminary findings for your criteria.

1-2) Like I mentioned, early results show I can switch the number of user teams at any time without limitations. During the offseason and midseason both, I was able to access a menu to switch user/ai teams, as well as change what processes were automated for user teams and which were manual (IE if we didn't want to worry about staffing stuff, or scouting, or g-league, etc, as we do in your league, that is an option)

3) I still don't entirely understand how exactly cap in NBA works, between the soft cap, luxury tax, and hard cap (commonly referred to as the apron in research I've done.) The way I understand it, there's a soft cap, then if you're above that you're in luxury tax, then after a certain point you hit the apron? In any case, sadly there is no option to remove the soft cap, or to lower the hard cap to the soft cap (in essence removing the soft cap) but I can raise the soft cap and lower the hard cap so that the space between them is vastly reduced. I will have to do playtesting though, because a big structure of how nba contracts are done seem to be based around using "exceptions" which occur when you're above the soft cap but below the hard cap. No idea yet if making the caps closer together will affect that at all. There is also an option to turn the cap off completely.

4) Potential is a stat in the game unfortunately, but I will be doing playtesting to see how many of the 1st rd picks come away with what potential rating on average, how much it affects progression, and how much player production affects it. Correct me if I'm wrong, but haven't you said in the past that player progression is majorly influenced by how the unit on a team does? IE isn't it possible for a guy to not be good/not play at all, but still get a bump by virtue of the team he's on? I'm not saying that player production doesn't matter at all in such a situation if that's true, but I do think that in it's own way, that system marginalizes player production as well. I think just as a concept, player potential allows for situations where a team can develop a player even in a bad situation, making it easier to come back from the depths. Of course, this all depends on how potential is distributed in the draft. If it's a system where many 1st rounders have at least average potential, and that chance is higher the further up you are, I think that's fine, as opposed to something like "This 5th overall pick has a D potential for no reason other than random chance" Playtesting will uncover exactly how this goes down, but sorry to disappoint you.

5) There is a fantasy draft to start the league option, and I can either randomize it or select the order. I can also simulate the entire draft as you did to start b8nfll.

6) I can turn off autosaves at any time.

7) I haven't delved into the coaching menu at all, but there was an section titled Coach in the menu in the first place, so I have to assume this exists.

8) It's fine? I don't have an issue with it. I haven't run into anything yet where it's been like "Man this is really poorly designed."
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Good news! Preliminary findings suggest I can switch user ai control for any team at any time. However, I did find that the hard cap can't go near the soft cap, so there would still be luxury tax stuff. But at least it's a hard cap!
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ShatteredElysium posted...

I think the big one that most don't offer is the ability to take control of as many franchises as you want and then to be able to resign from them or take control of a new one whenever you want.

An NBA one is going to be a far bigger task than NFL I think (or maybe not considering we have a baseball league one?). Just because of the length of the season and the importance of the draft/scouting. Cap is probably harder to manage too with it not being a hard cap and all the luxury tax nonsense and the such. Trades also because a bigger pain in the ass to line up due to that too.

I also believe what you say about the ai/user swaps to be true, though I haven't found that out yet (I probably will over the next day or so)

I would probably do it on an in-game weekly schedule, rather than having a dedicated session per player game. I believe I am able to see the prospect list even during the season, and it even gives me several different in-game big boards with which we can deduce the overall likely order of the draft list. I could of course put that out for users to see so they can plan ahead.

Also, I have the option of instituting a hard cap if we so desire. I believe I could even set it to be the same as the soft cap, so there wouldn't be any luxury tax nonsense.

Trades from what little I've seen so far are pretty good in that the system assigns a star rating to how valuable a piece is, which makes it at least a little easier at a glance.
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