Warrior General Games

Originally posted by briarbowl
I'm new to the kicking biz with a lvl 1 boomer. I understand why my kickoffs are crap, with a strength of 13, that's to be expected at this point. But FGs do confuse me. I'm 100% with XPs so far and 0-3 on FGs. All my FGs so far were 24 yarders. What are XPs? 20? I wouldn't think 4 yards would make that much of a difference. I could see above 30 or 35 being a consistent problem for low levellers, but below that should be (mostly) automatic no matter what level. Like I said, I'm new to kickers and I have a lot to learn, yet. But if this is a game issue and not a build issue, that would be good to know so that I don't have to fret over how to fix it.

XPs are pretty much a random miss %, I think in general it's harder to kick a field goal than an extra point regardless of distance.

Originally posted by TheGreatPuma
My level 36 missed a 40 yarder, and he was 15/15 from 40-49 last season.


And now he's 0/3 during pre-season from 40-49

XP's are hard-coded to 97%. You will see your guy hit this number [+/- 1%] no matter how you build it.

Interesting. In today's game, he kicked off no less than 56 years and one 66. No field goal attempts but 3/4 XPs. But, in five kickoffs, my kicker made 3 tackles. I like that, but isn't that a bit high or does that simply mean that my team sucks that much? It's a cpu team, btw.

Originally posted by briarbowl
Interesting. In today's game, he kicked off no less than 56 years and one 66. No field goal attempts but 3/4 XPs. But, in five kickoffs, my kicker made 3 tackles. I like that, but isn't that a bit high or does that simply mean that my team sucks that much? It's a cpu team, btw.

Sim Major Changelog (affects following day)
Apr 2, 2010 (mid day upload 5PM)
- Add a minimum kick distance for kickoffs to avoid some short kick antics, and to make low level special teams a bit more exciting

I think they made different high and low level changes. My lvl 17 K was averaging about 47yds per kickoff. So far, he's averaging about 55. Of course, his FGs (the few he's kicked) have been shit. He missed a 24yrd FG last game. I understand 40+ yards are hit and miss at lvl 17, but 24 yards?!

My lvl 17 P ave is up a little over 3yds per punt so far.

I really wonder if Stamina is going to bite Kickers/Punters in the ass this season.

Originally posted by SlashNDash
I think they made different high and low level changes. My lvl 17 K was averaging about 47yds per kickoff. So far, he's averaging about 55. Of course, his FGs (the few he's kicked) have been shit. He missed a 24yrd FG last game. I understand 40+ yards are hit and miss at lvl 17, but 24 yards?!

My lvl 17 P ave is up a little over 3yds per punt so far.

level 17 is nothing... It's like high school football where every field goal is going to be a nail biter.

Originally posted by Billy Corman
I really wonder if Stamina is going to bite Kickers/Punters in the ass this season.

After putting an 8 in distance runner, my kicker's KOs seem to be a bit more consistent. His first 3 games were at ~65, last two at ~71

I'm glad I'm not the only one. I saw that my kicker was kicking 56 yarder kickoffs and hadn't seen that in a while. He missed a 40 yarder a couple scrims ago, but hit two 50+ yarders today. I just moved around some VAs so that he has 5 in distance runner; also has 13 in BB and 37 stamina (all training). Guess I'll see what happens next scrim.

The latest tweek to the sim seemed to give back about 5 yards.

Originally posted by Billy Corman
I really wonder if Stamina is going to bite Kickers/Punters in the ass this season.

I've only got 25, and haven't noticed any dropoff in distance, even in 255-0 blowouts. I have seen a significant drop in kickoff distance, despite changing around some AEQ to add about 10 points to Big Boot. Its a good thing I did, or I'd probably be down to 50 yard kickoffs...