Originally posted by Jaked08
How would making him more balanced now hurt him as compared to boosting up one att at a time?
Meaning, if I just start placing all of my points into speed to get it to a 80, all my other stats are equal and I start with the next most important whether it be agility or vision?
The best explanation I can give you is this (and please know I am not nearly as knowledgeable on this as some others are).
The way the dot build engine is currently set up, it's like trying to run up a hill that continually gets steeper. At first you can make decent headway, but with each level passed it gets harder and harder to make gains. Since each dot has a primary skill, secondary skill, and so on... then, because that skill (the primary) is THE most important, then it becomes imperative that you get that skill as far up the mountain as you can EARLY in the dots career because you will not be able to do so later as well as you can now. Which means that your dot will fall behind those that build their primary up to the max. That "falling behind" situation doesn't seem like much now because. even though you're building 'balanced-style', your dot(s) are still fairly even with the other dots around you at lower levels. Once you hit higher levels (like 30-to-40), then you'll start to really see the difference between your dot(s) and others of equal level. By the time you get to level 70 and above, your dot simply will not preform good enough to be rosterable by virtually all team owners... simply because it can't compete against the other dots. I know this because, as I said, I did this at first when I started GLB. When I got to level 35, I couldn't get anyone to contract my dots because they just weren't good enough... so I got a little pissed and signed with a CPU team just to show them they were wrong. I retired those dots after that season because I learned... they were not wrong. I'm just trying to save you some flex because you never get all of the flex you spend back once you invest it into a dot.