Madden: Editing Player Ratings in Franchise - Need Your Thoughts

[tmac3636]

Quote: Originally Posted by 43M

High priority? Its not like its something that takes the entire team to work on for a long period of time.

Considering the lack of progress Madden has made on NEXT GEN consoles, it would seem apparent it takes the entire team to implement these little additions instead of making strides towards more realism ON THE FIELD.

Quote: Originally Posted by 43M

And depending who you ask, yes, it is.

Depending on who you ask, hand towels are also a priority.

One step forward, 10 steps back.

[43M]

Quote: Originally Posted by tmac3636

Considering the lack of progress Madden has made on NEXT GEN consoles, it would seem apparent it takes the entire team to implement these little additions instead of making strides towards more realism ON THE FIELD. Depending on who you ask, hand towels are also a priority. One step forward, 10 steps back.

Look, I am in no way defending Madden...it should be a much better game than what it is or even aspires to be, but the fact is, this is not a huge addition. The fact that they arent making strides in other areas has little to do with this. This is basically like an on/off switch that needs a little tweaking.

Is it the biggest issue in Madden? Far from it obviously, but even if they dont touch it, on field realism simply isnt going to improve much with the current engine they are working with. Even if they devote every last second to gameplay, there are still going to be things that arent done well, and that has to do with how outdated it is.

[tmac3636]

I know you weren't really defending madden, but the point stands. Like you said, this is going to take tweaking ( the developer even admitted to this) and every day spent tweaking this feature is a day that could have been spend on real PROGRESS.

You say the problems they are running into is because the engine is outdated?????

Have you played any football games on ps2? That engine had better gameplay 8 years ago. Saying "we cant do this because our engine is outdated" is taking the easy way out. Its really sad that the Madden team is resorting to this type of attitude.

Why are the developers of FIFA or the Show not making excuses?

[Claymaker52]

• The user should be allowed to cheese if that is what he wishes to do, offline of coarse.
• Have the ability to edit the potential rating as well, which should take care of the crashing problem. And I'm not just talking about; A, B, C, D, F either. Have a potential atribute, that goes from 0-99, and that number would be that players actual potential. That too would be able to be edited, and you would not be able to make a players overall rating higher then his potential rating.

Those should be reletively simple fixes. And thank you Ian, for taking time out of your busy day to ask for advice from the community, on potential new features.

[Figment]

I think it would be smart if you did like many other games are doing and made a program capable of reading and editing the roster files.

I know it's not a sports game but with the Fallout games they released the "GECK" program that constantly allows you to mod the game with relative ease.

Not asking for much, just a program that would allow you to edit any alpha or numeric feature about the game, especially the player potential. You guys have to have something already I don't believe you do it all with a controller, just release a more constricted version of this program that works with the roster file off of a USB device or something on PC.

Or at least make the coding easier to read so that someone else can do this program.

(Note: I just bought MLB 11: The Show, and I can edit every attribute of any player in and out of franchise mode.)

Edit: All of this is for OFFLINE franchise mode, would be bad for an online franchise to be able to edit players I think.

[carnalnirvana]

i think this should be in the game, more options to customize gameplay is always a good thing

[tmac3636]

Quote: Originally Posted by CPL_6492

I think it would be smart if you did like many other games are doing and made a program capable of reading and editing the roster files. I know it's not a sports game but with the Fallout games they released the "GECK" program that constantly allows you to mod the game with relative ease. Not asking for much, just a program that would allow you to edit any alpha or numeric feature about the game, especially the player potential. You guys have to have something already I don't believe you do it all with a controller, just release a more constricted version of this program that works with the roster file off of a USB device or something on PC. Or at least make the coding easier to read so that someone else can do this program. (Note: I just bought MLB 11: The Show, and I can edit every attribute of any player in and out of franchise mode.) Edit: All of this is for OFFLINE franchise mode, would be bad for an online franchise to be able to edit players I think.

This functionality is awesome for games.

But then again, The Show is at least 10 years ahead of Madden.