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Old 03-21-2024, 05:53 PM   #19
Will Beh
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With regards to the defensive ones, I also agree that the results are a bit too strong. It has been toned down a bit in the upcoming patch for defensive programs. There's also a fix such that the defensive programs can't be abused anymore by switching the player's position back and forth. And in general, the program offered is now that player's primary position, not their current one. This should overall help balance out the defensive programs to make more realistic sense.

It's also true that the scouting reports are unfortunately limited, and it's also a bit unfortunate that in some cases the player's improvements are not quite visible on the default 20 to 80 scale with 5 point increments. We had considered adding the actual number change onto the email you get from the scout when they finish a program, similar to the development reports you get, but didnt really like this because it made it feel too gamey. I completely understand everyone's drive to figure out the actual numbers for all the programs since it's a brand new feature, but in the long-run we want it to feel realistic with some fog-of-war, where changes aren't just numbers like +6, or +3, or whatever. Instead of chasing numbers, we like to consider the changes as actual things the player did, more qualitative than quantitative (which you can see quantitatively in the stats, or the speed at which they develop, etc.). The hope was to still have the change numbers in the scouting reports for people that really wanted to see them, but of course that hasn't been ideal.
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