A great patch would be..

[knowsleyroader]

I really like playing the game on seasoned mode as I think past this the game teams start to offload way too much. So what I end up doing is creating a new team or having to modify the stats of existing teams to make them poorer so I can get a decent challenge.

Rugby 2001 had a great feature where you could decrease or increase a teams stats by a percentage which I think is a great feature. Is there any way a patch could be written that would alter a chosen teams stats by a desired amount ? Maybe it could be added to the team editor. So you pick a team say St Helens and tell the editor how many points you wish to alter the team by and it would take this amount off every player for every stat. So say 1 point or 2 points etc. So a player with 778765 etc would if you chose to modify the team by 1 point would become 667654.

This way you could change how good a team was without the need to alter multiple stats by hand.

Would this be difficult or even possible to do ?

 

[inertia666]

yeah sounds like a good idea, i might include that in the next team editor.

 

[Goleel]

The difficulty levels do that, although its not really ideal, since it changes players speed as well, making the game a bit too easy. Not to toot my own horn, but the 2004 stats patch I made decreased offloads significantly, making the game rather defensively based, too much so for my liking now, but it might be worth a shot if you haven't had a look already.

 

[Jonotallica]

I installed your patch a day after I bought the game about 2 weeks ago. I think you got it almost spot on, maybe its a bit on the defensive side, but it's pretty much on the money. The reason I uninstalled it was I noticed the AI behaved a bit differently.. kicking out on the full more, low scores in competitions etc. And I also wanted to take advantage of ESL teams being there (world club challenge etc). But overall your patch was very good.

About that idea.. I think it's a great idea. It might be hard to for inertia to implement it, but if anyone can do it, he can. Not to toot my horn either, but I'm happy with my patch on Legend difficulty. It's easy for the computer to score but you just have to make sure that they don't break the line, and if they do, make sure they don't get it to there backs. In attack it's a little frustrating because you can make a break, but it doesn't let you score 80m tries like they do. But that's why its called Legend diff. Even if I had the ability to use the program your suggesting, I might not use it. But it's still a great idea because there would be a lot of people who would want to use it and it would allow for alot more stat combinations for tweaking and would be much more effecient.

 

[inertia666]

not to toot my own horn but it's fairly easily to implement :lol:

 

[Jonotallica]

haha, not to toot your horn but that's pretty funny

If it is so easy.. Would it also be possible to add a feature that lets you increase or decrease a value.. lets say offloading.. by 1 point for ALL players on both the players.db and custplayer.db databases?

 

[inertia666]

there's numerous ways you can do it.

in the team editor there is a drop down box to produce randomised stats depending on what you want. either it based completely on random figures or to generate for a forward or back player (therefor the stats should be in proportion to this position).

all that would need to be done is to configure some more choices. it would also be possible to make the program go through every team and deduct 1 or X from a certain stat or all stats.

 

[knowsleyroader]

Think it would be a valued addition to your editor. I know if you got the time to implement it I would use it a whole lot.

Ill keep my fingers crossed.

 

[The Engineers Room]

My patch of the game is the most defensive. Agility for most is 1 and Break tackle is the same. Most forwards have a tackle ability of 10 and backs have the lowest, some with 5. Speed, acceleration, offloads and aggression are also very low.

 

[Timmo]

That would be impossible to score a try!