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I am slow building a MLB but really wanna go a bit out of the norm. After hunting for a good Force Fumble build to no avail, I have found most swear by speed or strength to get it done.

My idea is to create a HIGH strength and speed MLB with a good vision stat. The downfall is that he will be stuck at a lower agility rating.

Here is a rough outline i would like to see in the build way down the road, but at least it will give everyone the idea.. All with base attributes..

Strength- 80
Speed- 80
Vision- 55
Agility- 50 (Soft cap but only by trainning, no use of SP)
Tackling- 40

My thoughts with slow building my LB is to keep trainning agility and vision, while getting speed and strength to at least 25 before using points to get both up the 3 cap before working on vision to soft cap.

This basically means never using pts on agility and instead just train it up to a decent level. Hopefully leaving a very strong and fast LB to cause havok.

Thoughts?

So far is my build, it is very early yet but 60 pts to spend. I would probably have to slow build for 3 or 4 seasons before getting a killer build.
http://goallineblitz.com/game/player.pl?player_id=942296

i think you should soft cap agility. your build sounds like a good idea.

sounds like its going to suck, imo. he's not going to be able to anywhere with agility that low and all those points in strength are a waste. strength that high still wont be high enough to overpower olineman and you still arent going to cause enough FF's to make any sort of a difference. Speed Agility and Vision...

I hope you play for my opponents...

I think it could be interesting.

He'll probably suck as a player, but it will be good knowledge for the community. Who knows, you may stumble onto something with it.

agility needs to be capped, he is playing close to the line therefore needing ot accelerate to top speed fairly quickly. also helps breaks blocks. IMO strength is a wasted os SPs but maybe youll prove me wrong.

strength being past 25 is failure

putting emphasis on it is sin.

Originally posted by Kayoh
strength being past 25 is failure

putting emphasis on it is sin.

Get back to us when you actually have a linebacker, then wait 4 season till you actually play good competition with him. tell me all about your 25 str then. You have a long way to go. get to it. This is the worst advice I have ever heard.

First to start off, some of you are assholes at best. Thought I would throw that out there...

This is simply an experiment and not trying to "break the bank" with a new MLB build.

Agility will be soft capped but only through trainning and never by adding SP to it.

I am hoping a high speed and high strength creates a larger "momentum" in which will help create more turnovers.

I have 2 LBs already and they are the typical Speed/agility/vision build. Sorry, but this cookie cutter bullshit is annoying and seriously pissing me off. So talk all the trash you guys want..

This is in hopes of creating a somewhat successful MLB that doesnt follow the typical build. If you sheep wanna follow the herd, be my guess. But this is an experiment to help both GLB expand past its cookie cutter ways and to help the LB community in figuring out what really helps force fumbles.

I never said this was supposed to be a HoF build...

I didnt help win 3 GLB championships by following everyone elses lead... and I dont plan on starting now...

To those that gave this build support, thank you. And Ill keep things updated on here in case this actually becomes a decent build.

OH and Kayoh... maybe you should focus more on getting your team to at least .500 before speaking of failure. Cause if anything is a failure its your attempt at running a successful ball club..

Harsh times call for harsh words my friends...

I like the idea but having a bse of 80 speed with 80 strength wont happen unless you talking about slow build til level 50 and 55 vision is not enough 61 should be a minimum for LBs. I like the idea going outside the box. if your set on doing this you should train strength at level 1 and dont sign a team til 30. then sign a team. take strength to 73 while you train speed/agility then speed to 68. then is all about training and softcapping everthing else and going back to speed ot top it off. Its a long process.... GL

Originally posted by UnderDogs
Originally posted by Kayoh

strength being past 25 is failure

putting emphasis on it is sin.

Get back to us when you actually have a linebacker, then wait 4 season till you actually play good competition with him. tell me all about your 25 str then. You have a long way to go. get to it. This is the worst advice I have ever heard.
I'm an owner. Meaning, I absolutely need to what makes a player good at every position, regardless of whether I own one or not.

Originally posted by xxsyrusvb
OH and Kayoh... maybe you should focus more on getting your team to at least .500 before speaking of failure. Cause if anything is a failure its your attempt at running a successful ball club..
Assuming you're talking about the Hustlers, we're a slow build team, and we're also restarting.

Just dropping in to say hi, Sy. Drop me a line about Dirk... playing the middle now and having fun, just wanted to hear what you know about MLBs in gen., experiments aside

Realistically if you slow build and train him right. you can have 80/80/60 by level 32 and still have capped vision.

get speed and str up to 68 natural and agility up to 56 natural. Not too hard. But you'd have to completely ignore tackling and set him out to be a pure forced fumble specialist. you'd have to ignore the minor stats, but it might be worthwhile in the end. Although by the time your guy will be good at what he is built for, everyone will have capped carrying. so it balanced out in the end.

str is overrated I never put a SP into it i got it to 31 through training and worked on agility and spped and put all my equip into tackling for now. my new owner says i should put my 12 equip points into speed though. i also reccomend softcapping speed vision and agility while training confidence and str

Originally posted by xxsyrusvb

Strength- 80
Speed- 80
Vision- 55
Agility- 50 (Soft cap but only by trainning, no use of SP)
Tackling- 40


Thoughts?

So far is my build, it is very early yet but 60 pts to spend. I would probably have to slow build for 3 or 4 seasons before getting a killer build.
http://goallineblitz.com/game/player.pl?player_id=942296

Getting a well built LB to these stats by level 40 would be a miracle much less a well build MLB.

For a well built linebacker I believe catching/jumping/confidence to all be at 30 plus a stamina of ~40. Again why I am never an advocate of slow building. Stamina is neglected. Wow, so a guy gets a dynamo who is crap the entire second half of a game. No thanks. Where do you plan to get all of these skill points from unless you train your majors thus sacrificing valuable training time where your secondary and tertiary attributes need to be brought up. Training majors = seasons 5-10 bringing your 2nd and 3rd tier categories up. SO WHEN EXACTLY ARE YOU EVER PLANNING ON FIELDING A SOLID AND GREAT COMPETITIVE PLAYER WITHOUT SACRIFICING A CATEGORY [/rhetorical]. Too much attention is given to players directed to max stats at early levels rather than build a quality player. Building a more even player {specifically and especially} a LB, requires that your 2nd and 3rd categories are solid. Plus your coordinators don't know dick about how your builds will act cohesively until VOILA. . everybody hits their build goals by their 5th season.

Which LB would you want

88 speed
58 agility
17 jumping/catching/confidence.

84 speed
55 agilty
32 jumping/catching/confidence.

duh

Also having a well built MLB means a significant investment in D-gen which requires you spending another 15 points to get it to 4 or 5. So a MLB will be behind attribute-wise than other LBs.

Also too many of these people are caught up in this siren song of slow building. You do realize that your are ultimately spending $20-35 per player to get him to level 40 and because you slow built you only had a viable and playable player for 2 seasons of that. Ummm. Pretty dumb from a personal economic standpoint also. Why would I play a game where I have to spend money for (example) 4 months before it got to be fun. That is pretty damn asinine to me.

Its the GLB equivalent of being a 30 year old virgin. no thanks.