Rocking Rackets

I recently became interested in watching tennis do to the exploits of Milos Raonic, the phenom out of Canada. Naturally though I wanted to emulate his rise and what better way than through a game. However I found playing tennis to be quite boring as far as video games go. I was about to give up but I stumbled upon Rocking Rackets. This is a simulation of being a tennis agent; you train a few players and register them into tournaments. Following their progress and help shaping it.

As someone you enjoys organisation I took to the game immediately. I developed a strategy I thought could be effective for non-playing members and am now implementing it.

The game has different worlds, servers, that operate on varying speeds. The fastest is 24 game hours being equivalent to 40 minutes in real life. An entire year in the game is then about 10 days in real life. I'm a little impatient and decided this speed suited me best. I signed up on the maximum of two different worlds at this speed.

I have a combined four players, two of which are turning 17 and two turning 16 this year. There are two types of attributes for these players. Ones that are trainable and ones that grow, and fade, naturally as a result of aging. The endowed attributes are strength, speed, mental, endurance, talent and advantage playing in home country. The trainable attributes are skill, serve and doubles.

I went for high strength, speed, mental and talent. Quickly training skill to a reasonable level before I work on serving. I also am playing only on clay courts trying to gain proficiency on the second most numerous court.

I'm trying to build players that will compete for a top 30 spot in their prime, age 25, after which I can retire them to train the second generation of my players.

Also the best part about the game is that playing can take as little as 5 minutes twice a day.