Seven Franchise Mode UI Changes Needed For Madden NFL 18

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Quote: Originally Posted by Cardot

I am fairly confident that the people who work on the UI are different than the ones who work the gameplay.

They are separate teams. This is correct.

That said, if there's a feature for Franchise or MUT which needs UI work, that feature isn't finished and doesn't get into the game until said UI work is also done. You can't sign a restricted free agent if the game doesn't provide you the user a way to even identify a restricted free agent, for example.

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Quote: Originally Posted by D81SKINS

What happened to seeing a side by side comparison of each teams rankings for the CFM season stats while waiting for the game to start? We also used to have an option to see these side by team rankings in the Schedule, so we could take a quick look at the matchups for the week.

I miss this too. I can't see how they couldn't do what MLB the show does with their loading screens. MLB The Show allows you with a simple press of R1/L1 to toggle through standings, starting lineups, and pitching matchup. Might be more than that but for Madden I imagine you could do the same.

- Active/Inactive(If Madden implements 46 Player Game Day Limit)

- Team Rankings Comparision

- Division Standings

- Playoff Standings

- Positional Matchup (I know they have that whole matchup thing Ridley talks about but save that for commentary and just let us see position breakdowns in loading screens)

[Doogie09]

Agree completely with this. The game log thing irritates me as it was there in 2010 and 2012 (last two I bought) then watered down almost to say, "hey we've still got it, what are you complaining about", but it is almost useless. Career stats too, should show team played for and total the categories on both the Season and Career screens, it cannot be that hard.

Love to see them bring back the roster breakdown screen where one can see counts by postion and it shows active, required, inactive, total etc. They had this in 2009 I believe, then went with the current model which makes it tough to see player counts for your total roster. Ranking back would be great to see too, M2009 last had this.

All they have to do in many cases is go back to prior versions and what we want and they need to do is right there for the taking.......Don't want to sound harsh, but gives me the impression of sloppiness or laziness, which probably isn't fair to the entire Dev/Creative team. Lastl thoughts, injuries. Can we get more, less impactful injuries. Out so many plays, quarters or games. Not always 8 weeks or more. Would be nice to have to manage our rosters more. NHL14 does this well and made it fun making decisions.

[WildVikingFox]

Agreed, I've no clue why they decided to nuke the player stats screens.

Without team(s) and games, in the Career and Season lists respectively, the screens are pretty much worthless

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I have been clamoring for #2,4, and 5 for the longest time but all my suggestions have fallen on deaf ears. I hope this article gets the attention it deserves and prompts the developers to make some changes. I also like #7 and could probably add another 7 ideas on top of these but again, why waste my time when it seems like no one is listening. Great write-up though.

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Quote: Originally Posted by Lexicon

Good article. Very important stuff here. Madden's UI is so obnoxious and counter-intuitive, even compared to its other EA Sports titles. NHL and FIFA both have a similar "box-style" UI, but their's seem more organized, and FIFA puts the headlines right on the first tab. Even though I'm not a big fan of those UI's, either, they at least are a bit easier to deal with. Other than it looking dated, I really don't understand why we can't have an enhanced version of the UI in the PS2/XBOX era games. Menus that are quick to load, the ability to quickly move from user-controlled teams to other user teams, and all that good stuff. I control a 32 team offline franchise, and I'd love to just be able to go into Free Agency or the Depth chart and switch between my teams with R2 or L2 instead of having to click down R3, scroll to the team, then be kicked back out to the front menu, have to go back into the FA screen... it's just so much unnecessary work. I know this isn't a big deal for those who only use one team, but there are many of us who enjoy playing with different teams or don't trust the CPU AI to put teams together. A complete UI overhaul is definitely high on my Madden 18 wishlist.

Couldn't agree more with all of this as I play the game the same way.

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Quote: Originally Posted by DeuceDouglas

This was posted in another thread but the free agency menu is a good example of the huge problems when it comes to UI. Sure there is a lot of information there but it all seems to take up an unnecessary amount of space. On top of that, this is the free agency screen and there aren't attributes anywhere, just overalls. I remember a couple years ago (or maybe even last year) it wasn't even possible to look at attributes while signing free agents. So let's just say you want to pick up a speedy deep threat or a possession receiver in free agency, you basically have to go through every player and look at their player card one-by-one just to potentially find what you're looking for. It makes trying to compare players or look for team fits extremely annoying and overly cumbersome.

Even more importantly, I think, is giving us the ability to see the players stats in FA. I like to base my decisions on performance, as they do irl, not on ratings.

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Quote: Originally Posted by fringeelement

Even more importantly, I think, is giving us the ability to see the players stats in FA. I like to base my decisions on performance, as they do irl, not on ratings.

Agree. It'd be nice if they consolidated all that information into one spot on the player card rather than having to constantly open and close new windows to get to that information.

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Also, I was checking out the OS stream last night when Mill was playing NHL17 and really loved the way their franchise mode was set up. Looks very clean. I've never played it so I can't speak to how fast it is but I really like the way it looks and is laid out. Not perfect but far better than Madden's IMO.