Fixes and wishlist..

Cochlea wrote:

If we're going to talk about fixing franchise mode, fix #1 would be to fix the draft! We have a 32-owner franchise league that's pretty well-run and organized. We set up for our first offseason draft, and a lot of people did pre-rankings for the NFL Draft (which was a painstaking process; I did them for myself as well). Well, the draft started, and the EA draft engine completely ignored the prerankings!
This led to, no joke, 130+ reply-to-all emails about what to do about the situation, including the commish resigning (later un-resigning). One of the worst email cluster****s I've ever seen. The end result was that we did the draft entirely by email, then one of the owners with a lot of free time on his hands volunteered to assign all the players manually through adds and drops.

I agree with that. Its hard in a 14 team league.

Anyone notice the tiebreakers in franchise? We had 2 user teams 14-2 in the same division. One of the teams only loses were to the other 14-2 team. The team that lost lost twice to the other got the bye??? Plus they reseed after round 1. So the 14-2 team that had the wildcard had a home game in the AFC championship vs the number 2. Not that big of deal but still.

Militant X 1 wrote:

fixes.....

1. Flacco's speed rating needs to be higher
2. Flacco's all around accuracy needs to be way higher
3. Flacco's release needs to be quicker
4. Ray Rice doesn't fumble nearly as much in real life as he does on madden...FIX IT!
5. Ravens CBs speed, awareness and press ratings need to go up....FIX IT!

i'll add more later.

~Mili

Flacco got that Tim Tebow windup

nitka wrote:

Anyone notice the tiebreakers in franchise? We had 2 user teams 14-2 in the same division. One of the teams only loses were to the other 14-2 team. The team that lost lost twice to the other got the bye??? Plus they reseed after round 1. So the 14-2 team that had the wildcard had a home game in the AFC championship vs the number 2. Not that big of deal but still.

Yeah... Someone looked into it and discovered the tiebreaker is alphabetical! EA really rushed to get the Franchise mode out the door...

^ thats actually kinda funny

Cochlea wrote:

nitka wrote:

Anyone notice the tiebreakers in franchise? We had 2 user teams 14-2 in the same division. One of the teams only loses were to the other 14-2 team. The team that lost lost twice to the other got the bye??? Plus they reseed after round 1. So the 14-2 team that had the wildcard had a home game in the AFC championship vs the number 2. Not that big of deal but still.

Yeah... Someone looked into it and discovered the tiebreaker is alphabetical! EA really rushed to get the Franchise mode out the door...

Alphabetical? Are you kidding me, LOL. In our league we all thought it was Points For, LOL. This season everyone is trying to run up the scores.

The 2 teams that were tied were the Browns and the Steerles and the Browns got the bye, WOW. So much for me winning a tie breaker I own the Vikings, LOL.

nitka wrote:

Online franchise mode has been one of the best additions.

-Make it like a fantasy football tracker or make it so you can go in others games and watch at a sideline stands camera view.

That would be awesome, you would be able to scout your opponent during franchise mode, i would love for this to be added

haha, alphabetical

Definitely need a score tracker for games currently going..

yea would make it much more realistic. Wouldnt it be crazy if there was fantasy football for Madden Franchises. But the Fantasy football draft was before the Madden draft, may be some problems with this but if you have a honest bunch of guys it would be fun

wangtangkiki wrote:

Definitely need a score tracker for games currently going..

It wasn't the greatest thing in the world but what happened to Madden 09 gamecast??

madden 08 gamecast was 99 tuff...madden 09's was ok

I would also love for Madden to work on the Sideline, its just a bunch of number 0 nitendo looking people. Wouldnt it be great to get a pick and be running down the sideline and see your teams sideline cheering u on running around all excited. I think this would be a nice edition.

jordanl95 wrote:

I would also love for Madden to work on the Sideline, its just a bunch of number 0 nitendo looking people. Wouldnt it be great to get a pick and be running down the sideline and see your teams sideline cheering u on running around all excited. I think this would be a nice edition.

So true. it would be nice to actually be able to see your subs on the sideline

ea needs to fix it so that when some one online...disconnects or quits....we AUTOMATICALLY get the win without having to play the entire game!

~Mili

Militant X 1 wrote:

ea needs to fix it so that when some one online...disconnects or quits....we AUTOMATICALLY get the win without having to play the etire game!

~Mili

I'd love for this to happen, but i think some people who are crazy about being #1 would find a way to abuse this, but i guess people will find away to abuse anything these days.

ok heres the list
1. make rc take skill with left stick and make it easier to make a play on the ball on the rc with the corner
2. fix the flats, nuff said
3. Oline-Dline interaction needs lots of work
4. tone down off tackle
5. tone down the 689 hook route
6. No more auto dropback

Militant X 1 wrote:

ea needs to fix it so that when some one online...disconnects or quits....we AUTOMATICALLY get the win without having to play the entire game!

~Mili

DC glitchers would love that...lol

I say that they should still make u play the CPU. but if you are up by 10+ on the CPU you have the ability to grant mercy....And if you dont get up by 10 pts then tuff luck your playing the rest of the game son...lol

Militant X 1 wrote:

ea needs to fix it so that when some one online...disconnects or quits....we AUTOMATICALLY get the win without having to play the entire game!

~Mili

cant do that either, cause if u remember on ps2 it used to be like that but all people would do is free win even faster

for example: i play u, u quit after the 1st play. i get the win, repeat over and over all day. smh. people had records of 200-0 on the 1st day madden came out. lol

-tone down off-tackle
-fix flats
-take away right stick rc
-TAKE AWAY HOLDING TRIANGLE TO CATCH THE BALL
-take away turbo blitzing
-tone done qb draw
-bring back vision cone
-make the swat button more effective against rc
-tone down clown route

-My ultimate wishlist would be for madden to be cross platform playable. PS3 vs 360-

Cochlea wrote:

ubert123 wrote:

you should be able to change the song in the menus by pressing a certain button

Sorry if I'm telling you something you already know, but while you can't toggle the current song with a button, you can choose the overall playlist for the menu screen. For instance, if you don't like a certain song, you can prevent it from ever playing. There's also extra songs that aren't enabled by default, like the NFL Films background songs (which are what I chose as my only options).

Don't remember exactly how to do it off the top of my head, but should be easy enough to figure out by browsing through the menus.

yeah i know that but i want to be able to switch to the next one too

thats the ONLY thing ncaa has on madden. you can sim the rest of the game after your opponent quits

ubert123 wrote:

Cochlea wrote:

ubert123 wrote:

you should be able to change the song in the menus by pressing a certain button

Sorry if I'm telling you something you already know, but while you can't toggle the current song with a button, you can choose the overall playlist for the menu screen. For instance, if you don't like a certain song, you can prevent it from ever playing. There's also extra songs that aren't enabled by default, like the NFL Films background songs (which are what I chose as my only options).

Don't remember exactly how to do it off the top of my head, but should be easy enough to figure out by browsing through the menus.

yeah i know that but i want to be able to switch to the next one too

What Microsft needs to do is let you listen to Last fm while u play games