Dynasty - First Round: Mid-Week Practice/Scouting vs. Manually/Dynamic Rivalries

[cdj]

As always, vote for the item you prefer. However, also state how you would like both features implemented into the game and indicate any specific elements you would (or would not) like to see added for each item.


Mid-week Practice Mode/Scouting

This feature would help give users an idea of what to expect in their next game with a mid-week Practice/Scouting Mode. In a basic format, this could create a basic play, situational or scrimmage mode facing off against your team's offense (or defense) as they run plays straight from the other team's playbook. In an advanced mode, this could provide data and statistics of top players and team tendencies to help give a more precise idea of what to expect come Saturday.


Dynamic or Manually Selected Rivalries

In college football, rivalries come and go. In NCAA Football, rivalries are pre-set and cannot be modified. This feature could work in different ways: Manual selection of rivalries could allow users (or OD commissioners) to create new rivalries with CPU teams or users that they already have a history with. Dynamic rivalries could see new rivals added if teams play enough match-ups close in nature or dropped if they do not play for an extended period of time. A common theme from the community is that existing rivalries in NCAA Football would stay locked and not able to be dropped.

[AustinWolv]

Scouting should win this. Especially if it was tied to pre-game gameplanning instead of the Mario Kart power-up BULLSHIT that is in-game gameplanning now.

Actually having to create a gameplan/area to attack is far preferable to rivalry stuff since one is a gameplay ENHANCEMENT, while the other is just a cosmetic nicety.

[illwill10]

Definitely Scouting. I like how they had it in Last Gen Madden where you could practice against plays. I would like to play against 2nd team off/def. If I am facing a good scrambling QB but dont have any scrambling QB, I would to put a WR/RB at QB. It would be great.

[PDuncanOSU]

Scouting should win this. Especially if it was tied to pre-game gameplanning instead of the Mario Kart power-up BULLSHIT that is in-game gameplanning now.

Actually having to create a gameplan/area to attack is far preferable to rivalry stuff since one is a gameplay ENHANCEMENT, while the other is just a cosmetic nicety.
I think that dynamic rivalries would be a good addition, especially if the game atmosphere and commentary better reflected the difference between a rivalry game and any other game.
I agree though, that anything that affects gameplay is more important. Practices would need to have an affect on "non-athletic" atributes to be meaningful. Practicing run plays could give a small boost to run blocking, ball carry vision, and awareness. Pass plays give a small boost to pass blocking, route running, and awareness. Similar ratings boosts could be given for practicing defense as well.
Options could be given to have the user decide what plays to run, then simulate the practice or to run the plays themselves.

[Prowler]

Any benefit offered by scouting would be undone by psychic playcalling for me. Plus I'd get bored running practices and situational scrimmages; I'd much rather just go out and see what I'm up against and make adjustments on the fly.

Meanwhile FBS conferences are playing their own version of musical chairs, new rivalries have to be created similar to the NFL's eight division realignment years back.

[jaymo76]

Dynamic rivalries... I have wanted this for a long time. Back in 11 I had an excellent rivalry with Stanford when I was ASU. However, the game didn't recognize it.

[blkkrptnt819]

I have to go with scouting. That is a huge pet peeve for me. Why is it that I still go into games relatively blind about the tendencies of my opponent?

[bdoughty]

Any benefit offered by scouting would be undone by psychic playcalling for me. Plus I'd get bored running practices and situational scrimmages; I'd much rather just go out and see what I'm up against and make adjustments on the fly.

Meanwhile FBS conferences are playing their own version of musical chairs, new rivalries have to be created similar to the NFL's eight division realignment years back.

:+1:

[michstarfish]

Any benefit offered by scouting would be undone by psychic playcalling for me. Plus I'd get bored running practices and situational scrimmages; I'd much rather just go out and see what I'm up against and make adjustments on the fly.

Meanwhile FBS conferences are playing their own version of musical chairs, new rivalries have to be created similar to the NFL's eight division realignment years back.


:+1: