i think fan base was the name of the recruiting pitch last year. how its been changed, other than its name, i dont know.Originally Posted by JeffHCross
i think fan base was the name of the recruiting pitch last year. how its been changed, other than its name, i dont know.
I would like, instead of having to pick which pitch to pitch one at a time while recruiting, let me pick all the pitches at once and then complete the phone call. For example: If I want to spend 30 minutes on a recruit, instead of having to pick 1 topic, wait to see what his response is, wait for the pitch selection screen to show up again, and then repeat 2 more times. Let me pick all 3 topics: Playing Time, Coach Prestige, Prox to Home, and then show me what the score was for each pitch. Dont know how hard it would be to keep the compare pitch/hard sell/find prosp rating option with this
Good idea. Anyway to cut corners to speed up the calling process. The same should be done for scouting. Depending on the time allotted, you pick whichever skills you want to evaluate all at once.
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I'd be even happier if it gave you an option either way. Sometimes I know all six pitches I want to use. Sometimes I don't. So I wouldn't mind being able to pick up to 6 at a time, but still having the option for one at a time.
Keeping the Find/Compare/Sell option would be pretty easy ... it could be something like this.
Pick your six pitches:
Pitch 1 (select with left stick) -- right stick left/right -- Select Find/Sell/Compare (select with left stick)
etc etc
The harder part, in my head, is how to keep the selection of all the promises / weeks for visits in a mechanic that looked like that. I've probably oversimplified it too much.
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I dont follow, if they had "schedule visit" available, then that becomes one of your pitches and instead of the find/sell/compare scroll, change the scroll to wk 8, 11, 12 or whatever weeks the recruit is available for home games.
i like the current model right now, but i understand your point. this would save a buttload of time.
Possibly. I just couldn't think of how to do it without it becoming overly cumbersome. But maybe you've got the right idea.
Oooh! After you scroll through the pitches with the left stick, the next option could be "Promise", and then you could scroll through all the available promises with the right-stick (like you scrolled through the available options for the pitches with the right stick). Something like that.
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I like the idea of a JUCO filter.
Another thing that occurred in years past but doesn't now is that I'd like for there to be the occasional 1-2 star who was as good or better then a 4-5 star. I think it was NCAA 2010 where I had a 2 star athlete who ended up coming in with 98 speed and became a 94 ovr Heisman winner as a senior. Recent history has shown us that there are great players who were 1-2 stars as well as walkons. To be honest, if you had a more dynamic in season progression i.e. if your FR running back wins the Heisman, he's going to jump in the offseason. Conversely, if you're preseason AA junior MLB who is 93 overall has a disappointing year or your upperclassman QB throws too many ints, his OVR drops.
In terms of scouting, allow more time in season.
10 hours of recruiting time should be divided up as you see fit. If I want to send all my coaches and spend all my time on the elite tailback that's going to complete my championship team, let me pursue him. I also wish there would be a more dynamic range for incoming recruits...i.e. no cap on the max that a FR is (seems like 82 is the highest I've seen one) but with more guys sitting at 65-70. It seems that almost all decent 4-5 stars are 76-80 and there are few guys that are so elite that bidding wars occur. There is little downside to just going for the next tier of 4 stars as opposed to just going for all 5 stars.
Here's a question and maybe I just don't quite understand how things work. But in regards to disconnects when playing user games in ODs. Why can't the session be held open and the user that got booted be able to rejoin the game?
With all of the Multi-user games like COD, BF3 you can join mid match and are right in the action. I'm assuming it has to do with the fact that in NCAA it's more of a peer connection where those others you are playing off of a specified server, but is it possible to keep the session open and be able to reconnect?
It's possible but wouldn't be the simplest thing in the world. You're absolutely right that the primary difference is the P2P architecture of the NCAA multiplayer versus a server-based system.
That said, that would be awesome.
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This would be really nice, I do enjoy the recruiting aspect but there is room to make it much less redundant each week too.
When you're creating a new Dynasty, I would like to see "Roster" added to the list of main items. It can be difficult to remember to go load the roster you want to use. I imagine there are some out there that wouldn't figure it out -- or they just luck into it by only having one roster on their system.
It's compounded by the fact that it seems overly complicated to get a different roster to auto-load as your "default". Loading it and then saving your profile doesn't seem to work anymore.
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They should add some scouting hours to the Bowl Week. Most coaching staffs are splitting time between the bowl and recruiting at that point.
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unless they brought in underclassmen at that point, i dont think additional scouting time at that point would get used a whole lot as most people would already have everyone on their recruiting board already scouted.
Yeah, scouting wouldn't be a big deal. I'm in week 11 of my current season, and even with 31 people on my board (half signed, half not signed), I added three new players to my board this week just so I could use up the remaining two hours and 10 minutes of scouting that I had left over. Now call time, I could go for some more. I always have to go on a mad dash like a bat out of hell come week 1 of off-season recruiting as I usually have anywhere from 5-10 scholarships still sitting there waiting for players to commit. A number of seasons now I've gone into week 5 of the off-season, only then getting the last couple players to finally commit to me. I would mind even say just 5 hours during the bowl season to do some minor recruiting and try to get a couple players to sign then, take some of the burden off from the off-season recruiting.
decommitments are an absolute must. imagine all the fun the offseason recruiting periods would become in trying to sway recruits at the last moment (especially the week 5 visit).
Last edited by baseballplyrmvp; 01-18-2013 at 10:04 AM.
Yeah, offseason recruiting is stale now that they got rid of the "new" recruits. Pretty much a waste of 5 weeks.
100% scouted? I sure as hell don't. Gonna need three weeks into the off-season to get them all. Plus I just found two more targets this week.
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i guess this would depend on how many position players you're going after. i dont target that many athletes. going into week 1 of the offseason recruiting of the tgt360 od, i had 23 of my 24 players fully scouted. the one who wasnt was at 70%.
Damn! I've got every single player (out of currently 30, with a couple dropped midway through the season) 100% scouted in my current season, and even added three in week 10 just so I could use up my 2:40 of scouting time left over. By week 12, all three of those are 100% scouted. Granted, I don't have and haven't added a single Athlete in my current season, but even with 4 or 5 Athletes last season, I still had everyone on my board (34 players at one time mid-season) 100% scouted before the bowl games.
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