Defenseman AI

@TTZ_DipsyI'm competitive and hate to lose, but the most fun I've had is playing with a full team of friends whether is 3's or 6's. I'll play drops until I find a suitable club.

I know how bad CPU D can be. I'm not arguing that at all. But I disagree. I'd take cpu D (or as others have said I'd prob just play d and make them a forward if we're being honest) over a base level player. Base level players almost always lose where they are on the ice. Get too aggressive either in the offensive zone, on the forecheck, or as they enter the zone and give up goals. At Least the CPU will make you skate around them (as little of an issue as that is) I'm by no means suggesting these CPU players are competent. They are "good" at a few things and absolutely unforgivingly bad at most things. I still take them over a base level player and that's why we still see lots of players choosing to play 6's with 2 people. Why would you want to play dropin or find human defensemen when the avg base level player has proven to be worse? Ask anyone who plays 6's with 2 people. Or 3's people who refuse to find a third. Most will say they at least know where the cpu will be and they typically place them in the best place. I.e. in front of the net on offense and in front of the net on defense. They snag those loose pucks so often getting rebound goals, getting 1t's making sure the other team can't do the same. A base level player just wouldn't know to even be in that position in my experience. And most of those little things the CPU goes unnoticed or unappreciated. Now if the cpu snag a rebound or picks off a cross crease pass and then gets bumped or a cherry picker calls for it and the other team gets in front of that pass and it gets picked, you will hear those forwards who were cherry picking yell about how awful their CPU was despite them making a potential saved goal and them calling for it at a bad time.

Idk I think we agree with eacjother on most stuff but I'm 100% taking the cpu even if they are bad. I've played with some BAD dropin players.

I do think a potential idea would be more incentives to get a 6 man team (or 4 man team for 3's) and also add more ways to meet free agents and for free agents to meet teams. Having players have a "FA" or which club they're affiliated with while in drops would be nice. Having the players stats all on one player profile would be cool. Same with clubs Having in game club profiles. I could see how defensive minded a player/ club is, how they handle a puck or pass % I could see what mode(s) they tend to play. Or if they're like me and play a lot of diff modes. I like that they allowed clubs to have skaters join their team when searching but most clubs would rather have the CPU still. I think they need to dump dropin and KEEP that quick mode but have quick 6's too. That mode tracks no stats, you can quit if you get trolls, you can play with your club. You can play 3x or 4x as many players in as much time. It's a great mode to find players/ clubs (in my experience) they just need to build on it and show which players are free agents and give incentives for club play.