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Originally posted by sjmay
Originally posted by Mofo

Cruise control has just become a crutch for Bort/testers to fall back on and say thats why guys aren't producing

Edit : in blow out games at least

Think about what you just said, edit and all,

You think about it. A level 47 DE can't get a sack on a level 1 OT and people always say blowout game cruise control was on. Well even with cruise control and the DE at 50% normal effectiveness (or whatever it cuts you down to) should still beat the OT every single time.

Originally posted by r8
Besides, what is it really hurting? By the time it kicks in you have the game well in hand. Is it so bad that your level 55 player isn't DESTROYING a level 20 player for the second half of the game?

It hurts your testing, when legitimate problems can be argued away with "The arbitrary thing that kicks in on unknown circumstances makes you suck". It'd be a lot easier to find bugs without junk like this getting in the way.

So I just read a post in the GLB Main Forum:

Originally posted by Mofo
I still don't understand why cruise control is still in the game. Wasn't it put in under the old energy system so guys wouldn't end a game with 30 energy or something? Pointless now except as an excuse why things don't work like they should.

It made a ton of sense, what is the point of cruise control anymore now that energy doesn't carry over from game to game? It seems like an outdated, pointless thing that only hinders the game.

Originally posted by r8
I think Cruise Control was more intended to stop teams from scoring 1000 points on greatly outmatched teams. Isn't scoring 400 points enough?

What does it matter? It wouldn't change much. If anything cruise control is screwing things up right now especially on defense.

Originally posted by r8
Besides, what is it really hurting? By the time it kicks in you have the game well in hand. Is it so bad that your level 55 player isn't DESTROYING a level 20 player for the second half of the game?

It's so bad that defensive players especially DLs are screwed by it while offensive players reap the benefits.

Originally posted by Mofo
Cruise control has just become a crutch for Bort/testers to fall back on and say thats why guys aren't producing

Edit : in blow out games at least

Think about what you just said, edit and all,

Originally posted by TxSteve
my post from another post -


also - is cruise control more powerfully working against D-line?

http://goallineblitz.com/game/game.pl?game_id=473906

a team with mostly QB's - 3 OT's (33ish) 2 Guards and a center - even had a QB starting at Guard

Our QB - 13/13 - 10 TDs - 355 Yards

Our HBs (combined) - 35 rushes - 881 yards - (25 ypc) - 29 TDs - 28 Broken Tackles

Kicker - 65/67 extra points made

Punt Returns - 37 punt returns; 13 TDs

Pancakes - 320

Pass attempts by other team: 179
Interceptions that they threw: 15
Pass Deflections: 112

Sacks by our DE's: 4 (1 with 2; 2 with 1)
Sacks by our DT's: 1


even in massive blow outs - sack numbers are 'realistic' - while every other position goes hog wild.

Silly rabbit, don't you know....Trix are for kids, and sacks aren't for GLB

my post from another post -


also - is cruise control more powerfully working against D-line?

http://goallineblitz.com/game/game.pl?game_id=473906

a team with mostly QB's - 3 OT's (33ish) 2 Guards and a center - even had a QB starting at Guard

Our QB - 13/13 - 10 TDs - 355 Yards

Our HBs (combined) - 35 rushes - 881 yards - (25 ypc) - 29 TDs - 28 Broken Tackles

Kicker - 65/67 extra points made

Punt Returns - 37 punt returns; 13 TDs

Pancakes - 320

Pass attempts by other team: 179
Interceptions that they threw: 15
Pass Deflections: 112

Sacks by our DE's: 4 (1 with 2; 2 with 1)
Sacks by our DT's: 1


even in massive blow outs - sack numbers are 'realistic' - while every other position goes hog wild.

Because there are other factors to getting sacks -

* the O line gets tired
* their morale goes into the crapper because they are getting killed
* have to wait for opportunities where SA's fire (or VA's fire)
* other team has to pass more due to being behind so much
* other team may go to deeper pass routes in an effort to score

those are reasons - just off the top of my head - why the D-line might get sacks later in a game (even if they weren't getting them on the first 2-3 series)

Originally posted by r8
Besides, what is it really hurting? By the time it kicks in you have the game well in hand. Is it so bad that your level 55 player isn't DESTROYING a level 20 player for the second half of the game?

Why does my punt/kick returner continue to put up TD's in the double digits with cruise control, or have HB's averaging 25 YPC then? Cruise control as we have it isn't the least bit logical and heavily drags down defensive players, it needs to be all or nothing.

+1

Brought over from other thread:

Originally posted by panther17
I honestly can't see why people would see a difference from a team losing 100-14 instead of 255-0 except for the fact a d just got screwed into giving up points because of cruise control.

This love for getting the stats to be realistic annoys me. Fuck the stats. I'd rather the sim be more realistic and consistent season to season instead of worrying about getting stats to be NFL like percentage wise.



Originally posted by panther17
And yes I'm for Cruise Control to be removed. When I had a team, it annoyed me to see my DC get slapped in the face when he should of earned a shut out against equal competition that we handled easily. Instead we would give up late touchdown or field goal to ruin it since our players were handicapped by something that shouldn't be around anymore.

I think Cruise Control was more intended to stop teams from scoring 1000 points on greatly outmatched teams. Isn't scoring 400 points enough?