Powerhouse OD - General Discussion Thread

The only issue I have with them is WR's drop the ball quite a bit as it is, and in the first qtr with these I have had 3 dropped passes already.

I forgot to say I use these, but I play 7 min quarters w/ the Game Speed on Normal.

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The only issue I have with them is WR's drop the ball quite a bit as it is, and in the first qtr with these I have had 3 dropped passes already.

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Ratings matter more, also it will kind of even out towards the end of the game.

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Originally Posted by Oneback

Right now the plan is to go with AA - I'm contemplating Heisman but with the number of user vs user games we'll be playing and the fact all of those will be on AA I'm inclined to stick with AA. As for game speed, I haven't really gotten a chance to play with sliders yet, I've got the next 8 days off from work to figure all of that out however.

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Originally Posted by gschwendt

Actually if you set the OD to Heisman, user vs user games should also play on Heisman.

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Originally Posted by psusnoop

That's how I have thought it worked.

And given the couple of user games on Heisman that G and I ran last night I really think this may be our best option heading forward.

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In years past, the issue wasn't that user games were played on All-American, but that they were played with default slider settings. The sliders had no impact whatsoever on user/user games. If that still rings true this year (and I have no reason to doubt it right now), then the question really becomes which is better for User/User games ... default AA or default Heisman? Because with either one, we can probably find a slider set that would work for CPU games.

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Originally Posted by Oneback

I just played a game with the sliders Escobar posted a page or so back and they weren't bad:

http://www.operationsports.com/forum...n-sliders.html

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Originally Posted by Kingpin32

I've played a few games with those sliders too. Haven't had any complaints with them.

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Looks like Dr. Death has tweaked those sliders here: http://www.thegamingtailgate.com/for...575#post151575

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Originally Posted by Escobar

I forgot to say I use these, but I play 7 min quarters w/ the Game Speed on Normal.

Ratings matter more, also it will kind of even out towards the end of the game.

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Well, McCarron has completely airmailed 4 straight passes with guys wide open. My son was sitting watching and asked who I was throwing to. :D Ball went 15 yards across the field and the very next play had a guy past the defense by 10 yards and he threw it 10 yards through the endzone. :D Don't even get me started on the run blocking for the power run game. :fp:

The OD is up, I am about to send everyone a text with the password - if you do not get a text from me in the next 30 min, please PM me your cell number and I'll text you.

Herschel Walker vs FCS SE
Att: 41
Yards: 799
Rushing TDs: 14
Receptions: 1
Yards: 59
Receiving TDs: 1
Additional yardage: 7 punt returns, 168 yards, 1 TD

Final Score: 105-7

Georgia QB #11 only attempted 3 passes. 1 went to Herschel, 1 went to another player, and 1 hit the ground, intended for Herschel.

I'm posting this here to not sully the primary Impressions thread with these laughable stats.

We should have an AIM blast chat set up for Powerhouse. It is much quicker than posting in here! :D

hehehe,,,herschel aint fooling around

For anybody that hasn't seen PeteyKirch's Dynasty Bugs thread:

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During Off-Season recruiting, Playing Time and Proximity to Home is bugged.

Proximity to Home is set to A+ and it doesn't matter where the school is in relation to the recruit.

Playing time is correctly shown during phone calls, but when you set up an in home visit it's set to D+

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Seems that some are using the existing coaches while others have created their coaches ........

I also created a coach.

I think we should vote for existing or created coaches. I vote for creating....we should earn our rating.

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Originally Posted by Papa LoneStar

I think we should vote for existing or created coaches. I vote for creating....we should earn our rating.

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Well since it looks as though we are restarting yet again, let's vote!

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Originally Posted by Oneback

Well since it looks as though we are restarting yet again, let's vote!

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I vote for create.

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Originally Posted by psuexv

I vote for create.

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Oneback, should I just ignore the current dynasty invite?

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Originally Posted by Escobar

From what I've seen playing randoms online and one friend who always has strip ball on aggressive...gameplanning seems to not be a problem this year. People are penalized for having strip ball on aggressive or big hits on aggressive. I have seen RB's break more tackles as a result of defenders always going for the big hit or strip. Also it's no longer a guaranteed strip for the defense. There is a greater risk to using these than last year, so I'm for allowing them. Take that risk if you want to, especially if your players can't play that style.

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I played a head to ehad game with a guy on my friends list..jump the snap seems toned down a bit as well. They dont jump the snap on every play, but it seems totally random.

For example, on 3rd and long when you want them to jump the snap, they wont. but then on your next 1st and ten, the will lol. Plus varying your snap count helps to counter it from triggering as much. My only problem is that there isnt too much off a offsides penalty risk. I drew the guy who I was playing, offsides, once, and he didnt didnt draw me offsides at all.

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exsiting

Create I guess.

I wouldn't mind creating.

OB I sent you a text message as well but I just wanted to let you know that it looks like I didn't receive an invite. My psn is lazydayz44 in case you didn't have it.

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Originally Posted by razorback44

OB I sent you a text message as well but I just wanted to let you know that it looks like I didn't receive an invite. My psn is lazydayz44 in case you didn't have it.

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I didn't have one last night but u can search it probably powerhouseod1 or 2.

Well it froze up again this morning right?

Yeah, I got a text saying he had to restart it and that we would hold off until we knew what was going on.

:+1: for Create

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Originally Posted by razorback44

OB I sent you a text message as well but I just wanted to let you know that it looks like I didn't receive an invite. My psn is lazydayz44 in case you didn't have it.

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I don't think anyone received an invite last night. He presumed people would be able to find it via search. I had to ask for an invite because I had no clue what to search for :D

Sorry about the confusion - I'm half temped to just have everyone recruit/scout from the internet then we can play our games and do everything else on the console. I'm just afraid it's going to continue to lock up on us. What are your thoughts?

I'm not sure, I'm willing to try anything from another normal attempt to scouting/recruiting from the web. Some people have in years past had issues with the web (its been good for me except for the promises).

Completely understand, that's why I didn't automatically throw that option out there.

The web has been good for me this year. They have fixed the promises bug so that's not a worry. I'd vote for web everything but games.

By NO MEANS would I want you guys to make a decision totally based on my biased opinion, but if our only option for a stable experience is to use the web for everything but playing games, I would be more likely to bow out than continue forward.

I can completely understand why that's being discussed, and my objection is more to the situation itself than to the potential solution. I'd rather not play an OD, if it's that unstable, than to trust the (historically unstable itself) web-based solution. But that's partly due to the amount of stuff I like to do within the dynasty, and I would hate to be constantly on guard for freezes if it's truly that unstable.

As far as everything you do in the dynasty, I don't think any of that will change. The only time I've seen a freeze thus far is in recruiting/scouting - these are the only items we'd be using the web for and they just upgraded the web service.

On a brighter note, Escobar and I just played a game online using Heisman, it was quite enjoyable...I'm a strong Heisman lean right now, just need to nail down the sliders for CPU games.

You can't do offseason on the web though right?

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Originally Posted by razorback44

You can't do offseason on the web though right?

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They changed it, so you can do everything including play the game (via supersim) from the web. So you won't have to get on your disc at all. Don't know who would do that tho :dunno:

Is this issue that wide spread that we think it's going to be a fail on the console?

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Originally Posted by psusnoop

Is this issue that wide spread that we think it's going to be a fail on the console?

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It's bad enough that both of you had issues on separate ODs... I'd say until they find the cause and potentially patch it, we run the risk of it happening.

So does it only happen on consoles?