My DDS Game Evaluation

[Portland Blazers]

I downloaded the game and been using the three day trial to run through a season and off season and here is my evaluation of it.

It is a good game with alot of new and expanded features.It is tricky to figure out how to do everything but once you do it gets pretty interesting.I ran the game from single player mode because with a 3 day trial it wasn't worth trying to set up a multi-player league.I like the game and it has good possibilities but it also still has problems.
I couldn't run alot of functions from the commissioner mode.I got alot of errors and got booted numerous times losing data and having to redo it from where I left off.I need to run in commissioner mode to be able to run the league properly.There are a couple patches out but because I haven't bought the game yet.they won't install.
The player mod is real with players that we have in this league included.The ratings system and scouting reports are different.They are more realistic as there aren't as many 5 ball players as we have.The fantasy draft pool sucks.I can use the draft files I have for future drafts which is good.
The offseason is basically the same with one exception...there is an actual summer league that plays actual games.And an actual developmental league that you can assign players to and get players from.

There are guys working on writing programs that would allow TPB leagues to transfer their league files from TPB to DDS and continue the league with out major changes..but they aren't ready yet.

I think that in the near future I would like to transfer the league over to the new game but I want to give the develpoers some time to work out all the bugs before I do that.Its frustrating as hell not being able to access stuff I need and getting booted all the time.

For now this league will not switch over to the new game.Tpb is not broken and there is no rush to change it.In a couple months I will re - evaluate the situation and when they fix the problems we can consider switching over.This leaves the league with 2 options for the offseason.

1.Continue the league with no restart and all teams keeping their same rosters
or
2.Restart the league in the offseason with a new player draft and give every team the chance to start fresh.

I am going to create a poll for this.Please vote and share your opinions there
thank you
your Commish
Bill

[celticsgm]

Sounds Good

[LakersGM]

Gary's working on alot of fixes and has Official Patch 1.1 released. I'd say wait a bit til he works out all the issues and then consider moving over. It really is a great game with alot of great new features. Just need to wait til he works out all the bugs.

[WashingtonGM]

I agree with waiting another season before switching over, but I would suggest that if we stick with TPB for next season (season 4), that we don't start over, since we'll be doing that when we adopt DDSPB anyway.... and two league reboots back-to-back would not make much sense...