What It Is: Currency earned by performing well in drills, scrimmages, or System-triggered moments.
Use: Spent on attributes, badges, tactics, or shop items (like boosts or unlocks).
Narrative Role: Tracks Marcello's momentum and mastery. Low SP = depleted or resting arc. High SP = upgrade window.
🤝 Trust Meters
Measures: Relationship strength with key characters.
Scale (Narrative):
Frozen: Hostile or disengaged
Cold: Distrust
Neutral: Baseline
Warm: Positive but tentative
Strong: Confident, possibly advocate status
Examples:
LeBron James: Strong (6) → On-court chemistry and off-court respect growing.
Ricky Davis: Frozen (-5) → Narrative tension. Expect confrontation or fallout.
Coaching Staff: Strong (6) → Likely to be given more responsibility or role trials.
🛡️ Badges
Progress-based abilities earned through repeated performance.
On-Ball Hound (6/10) → Defensive badge; at 10/10 may unlock a reactive boost like "Lockstep" or "Pick Trigger."
Floater Fade (5/10) → Named tactic badge. Precision finish move.
Communication Vision (Active) → Unlocked badge that boosts system trust and positional reads during team sets.
Playbook Familiarity (5/10) → Grows through set execution; governs chemistry and unlocks system tactics (like Horns Delay).
⚙️ Attributes
Core player qualities. Each level improves related in-world performance.
Speed: 3 → Quickness in transition, recovery, and traps.
Midrange Shot: 4 → Accuracy from elbow and baseline.
Defensive Read: 2 → Recognition of actions like curls, flares, and pick rolls.
🔓 System Notes
Tactic Slot Unlocked: Horns Delay Leader → A leadership-based tactical role; earned by crossing thresholds in playbook and midrange execution.
Execution Tier I Activated → A milestone marker in set performance. Unlocks passive bonuses like "Ball Control +1" and a hidden "Team Chemistry Modifier."