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[BigAntStudios]

There will be a 0.99a update today to move the Height/Weight into the visual data.

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thanks for the heads up - i hadn't spotted that.
i will finish doing the likenesses i planned to do as i am in the middle of that then go back to the skills and attributes.

have you flagged that up to Ross? it seems a big oversight.

Whatever do you mean?

Skills and attributes are very subjective. There is an equalisation strategy in place so that as long as the players are relatively ranked within a team then they will match up against other teams well. eg. some peoples' five is someone else's six etc.. that won't matter as long as it is consistent within a team.

 

[blockerdave]

Whatever do you mean?

Just that it would surprise me to have the default players with real world counterpart stats and random skills/attributes. As you say it's very subjective and i am not surprised in the least that someone might argue and say player x is better off the back foot than player y but you have him worse... But that's very different to random attributes...

Also as i said elsewhere without knowing the gameplay/stats interaction Its hard to know what's what. But really was just looking for guidance as to whether to worry about just changing player likenesses or to do skills/attributes as well.

Tbf though - as with likenesses i have no idea what 99% of the players play like, or look like so i am not too bothered as i will likely only be changing the ones i do know something about

 

[isrararrafi]

There will be a 0.99a update today to move the Height/Weight into the visual data.

Will it be a typical 6pm release?

A little bit off topic, for the mods/admins, is there a forum in pc regarding exchanging games with other members?

 

[BigAntStudios]

Will it be a typical 6pm release?

We are trying to replicate the issue of a default team disappearing, once we have done that and fixed it then we will be shipping the patch straight away.

(Unless you guys find another bug )

 

[isrararrafi]

We are trying to replicate the issue of a default team disappearing, once we have done that and fixed it then we will be shipping the patch straight away.

(Unless you guys find another bug )

Ok. So i just tried recreating it myself. Was videotaping the whole thing to realize after 2 minutes it did not disappear this time. But i swear it did the last time. After un-linking the team the default team did not show up. Incidentally i did do a fresh install of it (deleted the save files of it too), and this was the first time i tried recreating this issue after the initial occurrence with the older install.

If BD wants....i can upload the video on youtube.

 

[BigAntStudios]

We're hammering it in QA - hopefully we can make it happen.

 

[isrararrafi]

Ross, a bit off topic. How much do you guys know about the Gaikai service of ps4. Will that natively support any ps3 games on a ps4 console or does the developers themselves need to do anything extra? Same with streaming the game directly to vita. Does ps4 do all the work or do the developers need to support streaming? Did sony make it mandatory to support it? I understand if you do not know or are not at liberty to say so.

 

[BigAntStudios]

Ross, a bit off topic. How much do you guys know about the Gaikai service of ps4. Will that natively support any ps3 games on a ps4 console or does the developers themselves need to do anything extra? Same with streaming the game directly to vita. Does ps4 do all the work or do the developers need to support streaming? Did sony make it mandatory to support it? I understand if you do not know or are not at liberty to say so.

I can't talk publicly about the service sorry.

As an aside, Dave Perry, the guy behind Gaikai, started at the same time in the industry as I did, both of us writing books on programming for Interface Publications, me here in Melbourne him in Ireland.

 

[Biggs]

Oh ok, great, we've got a lot of work ahead, good luck

Not really, best thing to do is assign certain people here responsibilities for particular teams and just work through the players in those teams. As long as we're not duplicating work (ie, two people working on one team) then it's fine. Should take less than a couple of weeks.

 

[isrararrafi]

Yah....good luck with organizing that biggs.

Personal opinion...although this is very inefficient...people like working on their own created players rather than others'. i have offered people to do the stats for my created players but no one volunteered

 

[BigAntStudios]

It's the personal view of skills that's going to be interesting

 

[isrararrafi]

True....i have already thought of how i will rate the players skills and will follow that systematically.

 

[Crossy333]

I don't know if this has been said by anyone, as someone who probably won't spend as much time in the creator as some. I would like to say a big thank you to all those who are dedicating hours into creating players and teams.

It will certainly make the entire game better for everybody. It's just a shame that many of the general public won't realise exactly how much work some of you guys will put into getting it right.

Keep it up guys!

 

[BigAntStudios]

Yes, best art department Big Ant has ever had

 

[isrararrafi]

I don't know if this has been said by anyone, as someone who probably won't spend as much time in the creator as some. I would like to say a big thank you to all those who are dedicating hours into creating players and teams.

It will certainly make the entire game better for everybody. It's just a shame that many of the general public won't realise exactly how much work some of you guys will put into getting it right.

Keep it up guys!

Thank you. You can always show your appreciation through some PayPal donations.

What?? I have a large student loan to pay off...